MARRIED At First Sight star Georges Berthonneau was “just on the show for fame” according to ex Peggy Lawrence.
The couple announced their split on Valentine’s Day and things quickly turned sour between the pair online.
Peggy, 33, claimed that it was Georges decision to split but she believed he was cheating on her.
Georges totally denied her allegation and maintained that he was faithful throughout.
But now she’s hit out at her ex, claiming that he used her and the show to “get a blue tick”.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Peggy said: “He said at the top table to my sister on our wedding day, that I’m here for the blue tick, and why sister asked me,
“What’s a blue tick?” I was Peggy in the middle, and I went, not on my wedding day. And that day I thought, what is he here for?” she said.
The single star also said that Georges doesn’t have a ‘proper job’ and that she always paid for everything.
“Georges doesn’t have a job, and he didn’t have a job on the show, and he doesn’t have a job now, so I don’t know why he said he got all this money to pay for me, because I paid for absolutely everything! I work hard,” she said.
The former Technology Risk Partner pointed out that he was a gamer, but “doesn’t get a lot of money from that”.
When she was asked how she was feeling since the breakup, she said that she’s “learned a lot”.
“I am very resilient, but I feel like I’ve learnt so much about what I need in a man and more about myself. I just feel a lot more confident, and the show is the best thing I’ve ever done,” she said.
When she was asked about where the pair stand currently, she said: “I blocked him the day he told the press I was a manipulator, yet that evening he was asking all the cast how I was to check up on me because I’d blocked him.
“He sent me Valentine’s gifts the day before, so if I was such a nasty person, why would you do that?”
Speaking about their break up on Valentine’s Day, Peggy previously said: “George ended things with me on the 30th January so for him to come out and say he was blindsided by my Instagram post is a load of rubbish.
“I wasn’t going to say anything about what he put me through but enough is enough and everyone deserves to know the truth.
“I never wanted to do a story about our relationship. I wanted to remain dignified but after he made up all that rubbish about me, I just want everyone to know the truth. I was heartbroken.”
Georges denied being unfaithful, with a source close to him saying he didn’t split with Peggy and “she just presumed”.
Peggy claimed she first thought he was cheating in December of last year when he took his ex girlfriend to an event – and pretended she was a boy.
Shortly afterwards he took her to Winter Wonderland, but it was when he went to a Christmas party without Peggy, that she started to grow really suspicious.
She explained: “Every time I’m out he tells me ‘you must message me when you’re home.’ This night he never messaged me to say he was back at the hotel.
“I said ‘shall I meet you at the hotel’ and he was like, no, no, no I won’t be back until late’. He messaged me the next morning apologising that he didn’t message me.
“He denied spending the night with her. I was crying my eyes out.
“At this point I didn’t know it was his ex-girlfriend!”
