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News anchor caught ‘cheating’ on Big Brother star girlfriend when naked woman walks through video call on live TV
A SPANISH news anchor was “caught cheating” on his Big Brother star girlfriend when a semi-naked woman walked through his live video call.
Alfonso Merlos was speaking to a host on the Estado de Alarma channel on YouTube when the incident occurred.
As he talks, a partially clothed women walks by in the far background without him noticing.
But eagle-eyed viewers spotted her – and spotted that she wasn’t his girlfriend, former Big brother star Marta López.
She was later identified as fellow journalist Alexia Rivas, according to .
Telemadrid and Trece presenter Merlos remained silent for days despite a media storm and a whirlwind of accusations of cheating.
'CHEAT' CLAIMS
Eventually he appeared to apologise to his ex-girlfriend for any hurt caused, during an appearance on The Ana Rosa show.
He said: “If you think that my attitude has not been correct or that there are things that I have not done well, I have no problem asking for forgiveness, although my goal was not to harm someone else.”
But he insisted he and Lopez were no longer together at the time of the video.
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And Rivas reportedly .
She told Socialité: “I didn't get into a relationship, he told me he was single. We have been [seeing each other] three weeks.”
But in a further twist, Lopez insisted the couple were together at the time, branding the whole saga “unpleasant” and “shameful”.
