A MAN has sparked outrage after revealing he cleared the shelves in TK Maxx to resell products for a profit.

‘Entrepreneur’ Tom took to social media to share his money-making plans.

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Post under the username, @tomfbahe filmed a TikTok of himself walking around TK Maxx and loading a basket full of discounted items.

Before picking up the items, Tom scanned them with an app called BuyBotGo, which tells him how much the items are selling for on Amazon and how many times they have been sold this month.

He mainly picked up children’s toys, for example a Playmobil set he bought for £14.99, which he said he would make a £5 profit from selling on Amazon.

After piling his cart high, Tom left the store loaded with bags of produce.

He said he would make about £50 profit if he sold the products.

“Not bad for 15 minutes of work,” he said.

Tom, who said he is on a ‘journey of wealth’, revealed he will resell the products through Amazon FBA.

Amazon FBA is a service that online sellers can use, where Amazon takes care of the storage, packaging and shipping of your products.

All Tom has to do is send the products from Amazon and wait for the money to flow in.

In a second video, Tom revealed he quit his 9-5 after discovering he could make £3,000 profit a month by selling just 10 products for £10 on Amazon every day.

Tom’s money-making scheme has sparked outrage online, with some people labeling him as selfish.

TikTok users rushed to the comments section of the video to share their thoughts.

One person said: “How about leaving it there for struggling mums instead of charging them more than double?”

Another person added: “This is unethical.

“These bargains can really help struggling parents care for their children.”

A third person said: “Stop buying baby products.”

However, some people supported Tom’s business plans.

One person said, “Business is business.”

Another person said: ‘First come, first served, if parents are having such a hard time maybe you should get there first.

“They can’t be that desperate if they don’t care.”

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Blue’s Clues star Steve Burns has been praised for fans ‘checking in’ with them following the docuseries Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids, in which Drake Bell detailed his childhood sexual abuse.

Drake & Josh star Bell, 37, identified himself as the minor who harassed dialogue coach Brian Peck on the Investigation Discovery series.

Registered sex offender Peck, 63, served 16 months in prison from 2004 to 2005 after being arrested on 11 charges – including sodomy, lewd acts on a child aged 14 or 15 by a person 10 years older, and oral copulation through anesthesia or controlled substances.

Burns, 50, who was the original host of the Nickelodeon children’s television show Blue’s Clues from 1996 to 2002, took to TikTok this week in a video saying, “Hey, I’m checking in.” Tell me, what’s going on?’

Burns — who was not referenced in the docuseries, then sat silently nodding as if listening to someone — as fans praised him for his empathy.

One wrote: “Thanks for being one of the GOOD parts of Nickelodeon, Steve,” while another typed: “Steve checking up on the now grown children he left behind is another full circle moment.”

Others wrote, “After the Nickelodeon thing, we need our Steve now more than ever,” “I feel like he knew the Nickelodeon fans needed this after the documentary came out. And this is the best answer: how are you? Are you OK?’

“Not that I’m sitting in bed in tears at almost 3am because Steve from Blues Clues shows up on my fyp and asks what’s going on? The only thing we have left is purely from our childhood.’

The four-part docuseries from Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz describes Brian as “one of the cogs in the Dan Schneider machine,” as the Nickelodeon executive producer oversaw the crew accused of abuse, sexism, racism and inappropriate behavior on the set.

“That was probably the darkest part of my career,” the 58-year-old Emmy nominee — who left Nickelodeon in 2018 — admitted in a 19-minute DanWarp YouTube video on Tuesday.

‘Waiting the last two nights has been very difficult. I am confronted with my past behavior, some of which is shameful and which I regret. I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology.”

Brian was also an associate of canceled director Bryan Singer, who infamously hosted Hollywood parties full of underage boys, and his career ended in 2019 after he faced a slew of sexual abuse allegations.

Sadly, Bell continued the cycle of abuse by pleading guilty to ‘attempted endangerment’ in 2021 [of] children and distributing material harmful to young people.’

The Every Day Is Christmas With You singer was sentenced to two years of probation and 200 hours of community service after a 19-year-old woman accused him of grooming her for ages 12 to 15 and sexually assaulting her during his 2017 Cleveland concert .

Drake — who was charged with drunken driving in 2010 and 2016 — said he only took the plea deal to end the scandal quickly, claiming he didn’t know her age and denying he ever sent her sexual photos or engaged in sexual activity had undertaken.

Bell also denied all allegations of verbal and physical abuse in 2020 from his ex-girlfriend Melissa Lingafelt, who also accused him on TikTok of “having inappropriate conversations with underage girls online.”

“I took responsibility for that, you know, I did what was asked of me, but the media got their hands on so much disinformation and it absolutely destroyed me,” The Masked Singer Mexico contestant said on Quiet On Set .

“And I started to lose our control. If I had continued on that path, that very likely could have been the end of my story.”

Drake’s wife of four years — Janet Von Schmeling — filed for divorce from him on April 20, and she appears to have primary custody of their toddler son Jeremy Drake Bell.

On July 16, Bell announced via X that he was starting to write a book called I Found A Way, adding, “You will finally know my true story.”

The terminal illness sufferer: Carrie Jade Williams 

Carrie Jade Williams is an English woman in her 30s who claimed to have Huntington’s disease, a rare and terminal neurological condition.

She arrived in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, in 2019 rather out of the blue and soon befriended a woman whose daughter had died. 

She first made headlines when she won the Bodley Head Financial Times literary award in 2020 – a prestigious essay competition with a £1,000 prize. 

Her compelling and emotional essay called: ‘My brain is in a battle it will lose’ told the story of her diagnosis with Huntington’s and how she could no longer write or hold a pen. The essay was said to have been written using assistive technology.

After winning the prize and having the essay published in a national newspaper, Carrie garnered a huge platform and everyone wanted to interview the terminally ill chemical engineer-turned star writer. 

She began hosting virtual writing workshops during the pandemic and told those who had joined that she would help them get bursaries of up to £10,000 to kick-start their literary careers. Carrie claimed the money was coming from a literary app she was set to launch.

But as time went on, the app never launched and the group attendees never saw any money. Growing suspicious of Carrie, people began to question her and after months of stringing them along, Carrie said she was going to the US for life-saving surgery and soon ghosted the group completely. 

Yet she continued to build on her platform following the win, and made YouTube videos detailing her horror diagnosis. Her story captured the public’s heart.

But in 2022, high on her success as an online disability activist, Carrie told a lie that would eventually unravel her lies. She posted a TikTok calling out Airbnb for allegedly siding with guests who had complained about having to use her accessible doorbell.

‘I know able-ism exists, and I’ve experienced it,’ she said in a teary video.  

Carrie claimed the guests, who had stayed at her home, were so ‘traumatised by being around her as a disabled person’ they had complained to Airbnb – and that Airbnb had instructed her to refund them as a result.

The video went viral as people were horrified by the overt display of able-ism and Carrie soon posted a follow-up video – where she claimed the guests were now suing her for 450,000 euros for the trauma caused. They also allegedly slapped her with a list of 13 bizarre demands to cope with the trauma, including an emotional support animal and 25 adult colouring books a year for the remainder of their lives.

However on October 5, 2022, someone on Reddit posted links to articles about a convicted fraudster – who they claimed was Carrie. 

Carrie issued a statement saying this was in fact her sister who had struggled with mental health problems and that it was defamatory for anyone to link the pair. 

This led journalist Kat to investigate the story and over the course of two months, she uncovered the truth. Carrie Jade did not exist. 

The autism expert: Rebecca Fitzgerald 

In 2017, 29-year-old au pair and ‘autism therapist’ Rebecca Fitzgerald moved to Fermoy, a town near Cork, Ireland.

She lived and worked with a local family and formed relationships with parents in the community, advertising herself as a qualified autism therapist who could ‘teach non-speaking autistic kids to talk in just two months’. 

Parents in the local area described her as kind, empathetic and the ‘perfect person’ and she was soon invited into their homes to help their children. Rebecca began working at Fermoy’s kids community centre and school.

It is not possible to reverse non-speaking autism in two months, Rebecca had no qualifications and she was not a child therapist. 

Julie Lee, a mother in her 50s originally from Johannesburg and a taxi driver who often drove Rebecca from house to house, clocked that she was a fraud. 

Rebecca would have no money when arriving at the houses of these families, Julie said, and yet when she picked her up she would have hundreds of pounds. ‘That’s how I knew what she was doing.’

During the drives, Rebecca told Julie she was opening a clinic for children and families and tried to recruit Julie to work there, before asking for a copy of her passport and money. Having recruited other people in the area, one woman even quit her job as an au pair to work for Rebecca.

‘That’s when I realised it was a scam,’ Julie said. ‘An unqualified person doing that, then looking for passport copies, then money.’ 

People at the school started to ask questions about the qualifications of their child’s new therapist. The school headteacher contacted the Garda [police] but they never followed up. 

Julie also reported Rebecca, and the Garda told her they had a thick folder on Rebecca, and had been keeping track of her.

Officers were sent to Rebecca’s home and shortly after, she disappeared.

The speech therapist: Lucy Fitzwilliam

A year earlier, in 2016, bright and bushy tailed Lucy Fitzwilliam, 28, moved to County Geery, Ireland. 

She introduced herself to the locals as a speech and language therapist who also ran a domestic violence refuge and quickly became a beloved member of the community.

Lucy met Lynn, not her real name for anonymity, a single parent and domestic abuse survivor whose youngest daughter has Rett syndrome, a genetic neurological disorder that affects the way the brain develops. Lucy offered to be her carer.

Lynn declined the offer but Lucy was persistent and instead said she could do art therapy with Lynn’s oldest daughter Sofia, eight, who had witnessed her father’s abuse.

The family became close with Lucy, and after months of ‘therapy’ she offered them a trip to Lapland. This was apparently being organised by the church who were covering half the cost. 

Lucy said she needed a £500 deposit to secure the trip – which would be raising money for the domestic abuse refuge she claimed to run. The community rallied and Lynn’s mother made up 400-500 euros worth of food packages for the refuge.

As the Lapland trip drew nearer, Lynn said she had been trying to find a specialist nurse to care for her youngest daughter. It was at this point Lucy said she would take Sofia to Lapland alone and Lynn and her youngest could join them later once care was organised.

All Lucy needed was Sofia’s passport and birth certificate, Lynn said.

‘She had zoned in on my Sofia and I still to this day believe she looked for a signature from me so she could bring Sofia herself to Lapland.’ 

Suspicions in the community escalated when one of Lynn’s friends, a woman called Pauline whose son is autistic, said Lucy had also tried to convince her to hand over her son’s passport. 

Lucy was reported to the Garda for trying to scam families in the community out of money and passports, but she was let go without charge. She packed up and left County Geery that same night. 

The au pair: Lucy Hart

Two years before there was Lucy Fitzwilliam, there was a 26-year-old woman called Lucy Hart.

Bonnie, not her real name for anonymity, a woman in her 40s from Tullamore, had been looking an au pair to help look after her children.

She came across Lucy on an au pair website in 2014. Lucy said she was experienced in childcare and following a quick video call, Bonnie hired her.   

‘She was so convincing, and really lovely in the interview we had,’ said Bonnie. 

Bonnie and her children ‘loved’ Lucy and she quickly became part of the family – regaling them with her interesting stories about her previous au pair jobs and her own family. Lucy said she was adopted and that her mother Jane Hart lived in the United States. She said her mother was the ‘main supplier for sandpaper for B&Q’.

In a video for the ALS ice bucket challenge, Lucy nominated her mother ‘Jane’ and Bonnie’s children poured the water over her head. 

Lucy soon opened up to Bonnie about her love life, saying she was dating a man in the UK who had two children from a previous relationship. 

Bonnie also received an insight into Lucy’s tragic past, as she told her that her previous fiance Liam had had motor neuron disease and killed himself by hanging. Lucy said she had found him.

The pair’s friendship grew but things changed during Christmas in 2014 – when Lucy accused Bonnie’s children of stealing her money and engagement ring. Bonnie did not believe her children would do such a thing and the relationship began to break down. 

Bonnie went back over many of Lucy’s elaborate stories and found they did not add up, so one day challenged her au pair as she launched into yet another tale. Kind and smiley Lucy was quickly replaced with an angry woman who accused Bonnie of attacking her and stormed out of the room. 

Things remained tense until one day in January when Lucy said she was going on a writing retreat and disappeared. 

After a few weeks, Bonnie accepted Lucy was not coming back and went into the room she had been staying in. In the wardrobe she found piles of documents and one truly chilling letter that made her ‘blood run cold’.

Among shopping lists and legal documents was a statement about visitation rights for Lucy’s child – a child whose name matched the one she claimed was her boyfriend’s from another relationship. More chilling still, Bonnie came across a statement.

The statement read: ‘I stand shoulder to shoulder with the coroner and I did not murder my daughter. I pray she is at peace.’

Her real identity: Samantha Cookes

Behind all of the aliases is a real woman – Samantha Cookes. 

Born in 1988, Samantha grew up in Gloucestershire, before moving to Shropshire with her mother and her new husband after her parents divorced. 

Samantha had a reputation for being a liar, her friend from school said. Her lies included her mother having cancer and her being pregnant and miscarrying.

Aged 18, Samantha was dating a boy called Liam. She went as far as to set up a website to plan their ‘wedding’. There was no wedding. 

The pair split up some time later and aged 20, Samantha started a degree in Occupational Therapy at York University.

However, Samantha later discovered she was pregnant and left university in her first year, returning home to Shropshire. She gave birth to a daughter called Martha in 2008.

Tragically, just four months later, Martha died. 

A five-month inquest found Martha had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) – a result which appeared to vindicate Samantha, who seemed to have taken the inquest as an accusation.

It was at this point Samantha made the statement later found by Bonnie in Tullamore six years later. 

‘I stand shoulder to shoulder with the coroner, and I did not murder my daughter,’ it read. ‘I pray she is at peace.’ 

Samantha did not return to university as she chose not to fill out criminal records check forms. 

Two years later in 2010, Samantha started a relationship with a man, whose identity is not being revealed to protect him and his family. The pair had a child. 

The same year, 23-year-old Samantha offered her services as a surrogate on Facebook. 

After making contact with a couple about being their surrogate, Samantha passed on the contact of a woman called Claudia, who had previously used her as a surrogate. Claudia gave the excited couple a glowing review of Samantha.

Having never met her face to face, the couple gave Samantha £1,200 out of their savings to cover the cost of the insemination kit, legal fees and other expenses. 

Sadly the baby never came, and as both Samantha and Claudia avoided the couple’s messages, they realised they had been duped. The police were contacted and a 23-year-old woman was arrested at her home in Shropshire.

The case came to trial in 2011 and Samantha pleaded guilty to fraud. She received a suspended sentence of 9 months’ imprisonment and a fine of £1890 to be paid to the couple.

But what the trial also revealed was that Samantha and Claudia were the same person. Claudia did not exist.

A year later, Samantha gave birth to a second child with the man she had been dating but due to mental health problems, the father was given sole custody. In 2013 she became pregnant with her third child with the same man. 

Determined not to lose custody of this unborn child, Samantha fled to Ireland in the winter of 2013. She gave birth in January 2014.

However, a neighbour reported her to Irish social services and the child was taken into care. After appearing at Irish family court, the father was again given custody and the baby was transported back to the UK. 

Samantha had permanently lost custody of her third child by August 2014. 

A month later she had changed her name to Lucy Hart and was working for Bonnie as an au pair. In January 2015, she left Bonnie’s home. 

In 2016, Samantha moved to County Geery and became Lucy Fitzwilliam and in 2017, Rebecca Fitzgerald arrived in Fermoy. 

When Samantha arrived in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, in 2019, she became someone else – Carrie Jade Williams.

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Published: 4:31 PM EDT, March 21, 2024 | Updated: 4:54 PM EDT, March 21, 2024

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s supporter Christopher Bouzy has doubled down on a bizarre conspiracy theory about the Princess of Wales, claiming that she hasn’t been seen in public since Christmas Day.

The Tech CEO, 48, from New York, who appeared in the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary, took to X, formerly Twitter, to share his doubts about the recent sighting of Kate Middleton and Prince William shopping at a farm shop in Windsor.

‘Serious question: Has any reporter taken the time to go to Windsor Farm and ask the staff if William and Kate were there over the weekend? Besides the man who was paid for the video, has anyone else gone on the record about seeing William and Kate at the farm?,’ he wrote.

He added in a second tweet: ‘So, let me see if I understand this correctly. Kate’s video is one of the biggest stories of 2024, and not a single person who works at the farm/store has gone on the record about seeing William and Kate? So, just some random guy is the primary source of the story? Sounds legit.’

Earlier this week, he shared a compilation of clips of the royal couple walking to compare it to their recent sighting at the Windsor Farm Shop on Saturday. 

He claims the clips show that the video of two people walking in Windsor isn’t the royal couple, joining a chorus of outlandish conspiracy theorists online.

‘I’ve compiled a few older videos of William and Kate walking together, as well as the recent video from Windsor Farm. Take a look and decide for yourself if it’s Kate or not. In my opinion, we still haven’t seen Kate in public,’ he wrote on X.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief when they saw ‘happy, relaxed and healthy’ Kate smiling as she briskly walked away from the store holding onto a full shopping bag on Saturday.

But others on social media have continued to push crazed claims – including that the woman in the video was not the royal but in fact a body double. 

Mr Bouzy appeared in Harry and Meghan’s Netflix doc after his company BotSentinel issued a report saying the couple was on the receiving end of millions of trolls.

But Mr Bouzy, who previously tweeted that he thought that the Prince and Princess of Wales were ageing in ‘banana years’, has been accused of being a troll himself over a series of nasty posts.

In April 2023, he said the portrait released to mark what would have been Queen Elizabeth’s 97th birthday was photoshopped.

The image, which shows the late monarch posing with eight of her 12 great-grandchildren and two of her grandchidren at Balmoral, was taken just weeks before her death by the Princess of Wales.

This week, global picture agency Getty Images said the heartwarming image was ‘digitally enhanced at source’ having undertaken a review following the recent fallout from the Princess of Wales editing a Mother’s Day photo of herself with her three children.

He described the photograph as ‘beautiful’ on X.

Calling on people to ‘stop criticising’ snap, he added: ‘Yes, they Photoshopped it, and so what? It isn’t easy to get the perfect photo with 10 children. It appears they took multiple shots and then edited the photo to make it perfect. I would’ve done the same.’

In a later tweet about the snap, which was shared on the official social media accounts of The Prince and Princess of Wales, he wrote: ‘You can literally see where two sides of the sofa were spliced together, and there are pixels on the face that were not properly edited.

‘As I stated in my original tweet, I don’t see anything wrong with it. But to claim it’s not Photoshopped is false. It’s been edited.’

He also added: ‘Also, the Queen was probably exhausted and didn’t want to sit through a long photoshoot.’

The late monarch appeared in her element with Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, James, Earl of Wessex, Lena Tindall, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Isla Phillips, Prince Louis, Mia Tindall, Lucas Tindall and Savannah Phillips.

Mr Bouzy’s claims come as the shopper who filmed the royal’s first public appearance since undergoing abdominal surgery has slammed cruel conspiracy theory trolls as ‘delusional’.

Nelson Silva, 40, said he saw the Princess of Wales ‘with his own eyes’ on Saturday as she popped down to her local farm shop.

BBC sports reporter Sonja McLaughlan appeared to be amongst those fuelling the bizarre suggestion when she told her followers on X that it was ‘obviously not Kate’ in the clip. In a now deleted tweet, she even suggested the heir to the throne could have been replaced by an actor. 

Speaking for the first time since he encountered the Princess of Wales in the meat section of the farm shop, Mr Silva told the Sun: ‘I’m not so much shocked that these comments have continued, I’m just confused how exactly they can continue.

‘This is a video clearly showing her and William. I saw them with my own eyes. It was a completely relaxed situation.

‘What more do you need to lay off her? I thought after this was released they’d go quiet. But these people are so invested in the drama now.’ 

The father, who ran into the royals around lunchtime on Saturday at the Windsor Farm Shop, believed releasing the footage would put an abrupt end to the wild rumours surrounding Kate’s health but fears it did the opposite.

After the clip emerged people suggested Kate was too tall in the video for it to be her, while another crazy theory claimed the footage had been recorded in December because ‘Christmas decorations’ were in the background.

In under 24 hours the rumours about body doubles gained more than 12 millions views on X and more than 11 million on TikTok. 

The Windsor local said he was ‘shocked’ and ‘confused’ as to why the conspiracy theories have continued. He said he saw the future King and Queen with his own eyes and ‘it was a completely relaxed situation’. 

‘Even famous people are guilty,’ Mr Silva added. ‘People with a large platform online — they can’t admit they are wrong now because they look so delusional.’ 

He called for those pushing claims online to ‘lay off’ the Princess and stop plugging their baseless ‘rumours and lies’.

The father, who lives in the town with his wife and daughter, had recorded the couple to send back to his family Portugal.

He first saw Will and Kate inside the store, where they had been ‘talking to staff and laughing’, before watching them walk back into some fields to head towards their home Adelaide Cottage.

Kate’s weekend appearance marked the first time she had been seen out and about in public since undergoing planned abdominal surgery in January.

Despite Kensington Palace setting out a clear timeline for the Princess’ recovery – with her return to the public spotlight expected after the Easter Holidays conclude – online trolls have sparked bizarre theories. 

Baseless and hurtful conspiracy theories being spread about her online included that she is dead, has been replaced by a body double or the Wales’ marriage is in trouble. 

One royal source told the Telegraph: ‘Finally everyone can calm down’.

Yet BBC freelance reporter Ms McLaughlan came under fire for appearing to fan the flames of conspiracy theorists. 

Ms McLaughlan wrote: ‘Disturbing that newspapers like The Times are reporting this as fact. Headline ‘Kate seen in public for the first time’ when it’s clearly not her. As someone has said. Could be a couple of lookalikes making mischief.’ 

Commenting on a video which compared the Princess in the footage to other past photos of herself, she added: ‘It’s so obviously not Kate. Some newspaper are reporting it as fact. But it’s not her. No conspiracy theorist but all very odd.’

The BBC declined to comment on the matter.

The body double claims led Britain’s ‘most realistic’ Kate Middleton lookalike to shut down the ‘crazy’ conspiracy theories that it is her in the farm shop video instead of the real Princess of Wales. 

Heidi Agan, 43, who has made an income from impersonating the royal for more than a decade, said she ‘100 per cent’ believes it is Kate and William in the footage.

‘There has obviously been some speculation about whether it was Kate and William in that footage and stills,’ she told The Mirror.

‘In fact, my own social media has gone crazy as people think it is me, but I know it is not. I was at work at the time so I know that is not me. I 100 per cent believe that it is Kate Middleton and William in that video.’

‘So she is alive, and we can be sure about it. It has all gone too far now,’ she added.

A relationship expert has said that people who are attracted to their coworkers are often not in love with them, but rather have “office glasses.”

Similar to beer glasses – used to refer to the effect alcohol has on a person’s visual perception – work glasses are for when you’re attracted to someone just because they’re your co-worker.

Molly, from London, spoke on her podcast 2 Girls 1 Puppy about liking people you work with – and warned people not to fall into the trap.

She wondered if there was something “in the water coolers” or if the “fluorescent lighting” made colleagues more attractive.

‘You’ve heard of beer glasses, but let’s talk about office glasses. [There’s] One person in the office who you would never look twice at if you met under normal circumstances,” she said on TikTok.

‘But for some reason they’re a sex bomb in the office, they’re everything you’ve ever wanted in a partner and more.

“Maybe it’s just the fact that you have to spend 38 hours a week with that person.”

Dipti Tait, a relationship therapist from the Cotswolds, told MailOnline that in some cases colleagues who spend more time together than with their partners or families feel more connected as a result.

“When individuals spend a lot of time together in a professional environment, the brain undergoes a fascinating process of neurochemical bonding,” she said.

‘Just as oxytocin promotes connection and trust in romantic relationships, the brain releases this ‘bonding hormone’ during collaborative tasks and moments of shared achievement at work.

‘Through repeated exposure and shared experiences, the brain begins to associate positive feelings and rewards with the coworker’s presence.

‘This can overturn first impressions and preferences, leading to renewed attraction.

‘Spending many hours together undeniably plays a role. The brain’s familiarity bias sets in, where repeated exposure to a stimulus – in this case a colleague – produces comfort and sometimes attraction.’

Dipti said workplace relationships carry inherent risks, including “potential conflicts of interest,” adding that attraction in a professional setting can cause awkwardness.

She added that anyone experiencing “office glasses” should prioritize professionalism and clear communication.

“When feelings are mutual, setting boundaries and considering possible consequences becomes imperative,” the relationship expert added.

“Seek support from trusted confidantes or, if necessary, professional guidance to navigate the complexities of workplace romance with finesse.”

But TikTokker Molly warned listeners about romantic relationships with coworkers, saying it’s not worth the stress.

She said, “The next time you have drinks at the office on a Thursday evening, [and are] down a few glasses of cheap wine, and you start to think to yourself [that] Jack from the technology development team could be the love of my life, I’m begging you, I’m begging you, just take 30 seconds and step back and think to yourself, “If I saw him on the street, would I really like it? Or is it just the work glasses?”

“I promise it feels like a sexy affair at the time, but it’s not worth the anxiety.”

Users watched the video, which has almost 200,000 views, to share their thoughts.

One wrote: ‘No one falls in love faster than two married colleagues.’

Another wrote: “I always remind myself that he’s your coworker and you’re bored.”

A third said: ‘I met my partner at work, been together for 21 years and let me tell you, it was office glasses.’

A third commented: ‘From someone who has had two work relationships (both sitting at the same desk), you don’t need that heat in your life, mates. I left a trail of carnage. ‘

Experts have warned of a trend where people on social media are trying to renew their sofas with paint.

The trend is trending on TikTok and Instagram reels with over 29.7 million views as creative fans try to save money with their DIY projects.

Videos filmed by TikTokers in the UK show them splashing multiple layers of paint onto their sofas before scrubbing and sanding to achieve an even finish.

But while sofa makeovers may look good at first, experts have warned that they will soon become ‘dry, uneven and crusty’, and people risk ruining an ‘expensive canvas’.

Molly Mackinder, 25, who lives in Essex, shared her sofa makeover in a videoas she changed it from light blue to cream.

Molly mixed four parts water with one part chalk, before spraying the fabric with water and painting on the mixture. She went over it with a sanding sponge to work the paint in and added additional layers before going over it again with sandpaper.

The DIYer said she was ‘happy’ with how it turned out, but admitted the makeover had left it ‘patchy in places’.

She wrote on her TikTok account @mackingahouseahome: ‘Painting a sofa?!! I’m glad I did it because it saved me the purchase of a new couch and I’m happy with how it turned out… but I probably wouldn’t do it again.

“It took SO much paint and took forever waiting for the fabric to dry between each coat!”

Meanwhile, Emma Carberry, from Glasgow, who runs interior design company Form And Balance, said she turned to the sofa painting trend because she wanted a ‘sumptuous sofa’ but only had a second-hand one to work with.

She transformed her gray coach using a deep olive green and said a ‘little TLC’ had made it look ‘iconic’ while saving ‘a fortune in soft furnishing costs’.

While people in the comments were clearly convinced – praising the makeovers as ‘stunning’ and ‘so good!’, experts have warned those at home not to rush out to get out their own brushes.

Michael Rolland of The Paint Shed warned that painting is not a ‘simple hack’ and said: ‘DIY sofa painting is all the rage on TikTok with viral videos showing a fun, simple, eco-friendly and affordable way to redesign your furniture.

‘However, this could be one of those trends where what you see is usually not what you get. The only easy thing about painting a sofa is that it’s easy to make big mistakes, which can lead to unnecessary costs.

‘People expect their painted sofas to look like real quality pieces, but that is not the case with this trend. Fabric paint, even the good stuff, is unlikely to cover up any wear or imperfections.

‘It’s even less likely to feel like the material of a brand new piece of furniture. Preventing paint from becoming dry, uneven and crusty is much more difficult than Tiktokers show.

“A sofa is a very expensive canvas that you can ruin, and this is almost inevitable without experience or expertise.”

If you still want to update your sofa, Michael advised that there are easier and more cost-effective ways to breathe new life into it.

Less risky options include sewing a removable cover, purchasing a slipcover, or investing in quality pillows.

TWO fearless lovebirds love hitting the gym together but revealed they work out completely naked because it “burns more calories”.

Vagner O Fera, 34, and his wife Bella Mantovani, 31, pay for privileged access to the local public gym and don’t care if people say it’s dirty.

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The pair from São Paulo, Brazil, claim that training naked helps to optimize results, having lost almost four stone since they started.

To guarantee their privacy and respect fellow athletes, they reserve time to have the space for themselves.

Vagner says he feels free when he’s not wearing clothes because he’s more motivated and stimulated for an intense workout.

Exercising naked has also strengthened their bond and improved their relationship, Vagner and Bella said.

It is a form of intimacy and complicity that goes beyond the conventional. I don’t want another life

Bella Mantovani

The polyamorous duo, who share a page on OnlyFans, also like to spice up their sex life by taking walks together – with Vagner on the leash.

They previously placed an ad in the middle of Times Square to promote “free love.”

Bella, who has 155,000 Instagram followers, said: “It’s a form of intimacy and complicity that goes beyond the conventional.

“I don’t want another life.”

VIRAL SEXY WORKOUT

Their so-called ‘liberating’ experience was shared on her Instagram, with 86,000 views and more than 500 likes.

In the clip you see the pair working out using the treadmill and weights – completely naked.

Users have flocked to the comments section to share their reactions.

One wrote: “Not exactly, I had to take off the tennis shoes!”

Another user added: “I’m invited.”

Someone else replied: “Oh no, no one deserves a sweaty butt.”

“I do,” a fourth person added.

‘UNHYGIENIC’ GYM OUTFIT

It comes after a woman was reprimanded at the gym for her ‘unhygienic’ outfit choice when she decided to exercise wearing mostly body paint.

Natalie Reynolds spent five hours painting jeans and a top on hair as part of a social experiment to get people’s reaction.

Within minutes of arriving at the gym, the influencer was confronted by a man.

He said to her, “If you have no clothes on, you need to get out of here, ma’am.”

Natalie objected, saying she was wearing clothes, but the gym-goer said he “worked in the entertainment industry enough to know” she wasn’t wearing enough.

The man also told her that she was filming in the gym and told her not to do that.

Her clip has since sparked mixed opinions on social media, with some people thinking Natalie was wrong.

One user wrote: “Painted pants are not real pants.”

“That guy was 100 percent right,” another added.

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