Calum Best has admitted that he was catfished.
The reality star is set to appear on Celebs go Dating and hopes to have better luck than his previous endeavours in finding love.
Calum revealed that he was previously fooled into thinking he was meeting a girl after speaking to her online, but she turned out to be lying about who she was.
“I was Catfished once. Once stupidly of me, when Instagram and Twitter first started coming around, there was this girl and she got in touch with me and I was so keen and so into it and I thought I can get in touch with girls so easily,” he explained to The Mirror.
“She was like. ‘I’m staying at a hotel down the road from you’, so I went along and didn’t know if I should go and knock on the door but I went and knocked on the door and it was a completely different person to who it was.
The model admitted that he left the situation as soon as he could.
“But they invited me in and I didn’t want to be rude so I stepped in and I was going around thinking, ‘Where am I?’ Finally I just had to say after a few minutes that I was going downstairs to make a phone call and I just did a f**king runner.”
“But how cheeky is that, ‘This is me, this is me’, then you go and meet them and it’s a different person. Do you think I’m going to walk in and not know it’s not you?”
The 36-year-old admitted he would be open to settling down now, but hasn’t found the right person just yet.
“I think it’s to do with my own stuff,” he explained.
“There’s a lot of turmoil I dealt with growing up, whether it’s being my dad’s son, which I’m very proud of but the weird things that come with that, self love if that makes sense and kind of figuring out how to love yourself before you can love anyone else.”
He insisted: “It all sounds kind of deep, but it’s all legit.
