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WHEN Sean Fry first met Rebecca Gray on a dating app – he felt the sparks fly instantly.

But the now 38-year-old revealed the sick facade she put on to swindle him out of almost £10,000.

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Sean was at first besotted with the mum-of-one, and after their sixth date she revealed she had liver cancer, and was expected to live for just six more months.

But in reality, Rebecca had no diagnosis of cancer and was instead trying to squeeze as much money as she could out of Sean.

Now he reveals to Channel 4 how he missed the warning signs.

After chatting on Tinder, Rebecca, who went by the name Arrow, revealed she was living in a van with her six-month-old and the repair instantly hit it off.

They decided to meet by the ocean, with her baby Sarah in tow and Sean recalls: “She was confident, charismatic. She was a writer. I hadn’t met anyone like her before.”

Sean’s mum recalls how he was so excited to meet someone on his wavelength, claiming he was ready to settle down and start a family.

As the pair got closer, Rebecca revealed that her ex-partner and Sarah’s dad, who lived in the UK, was abusive, hence changing her name to Arrow so he couldn’t find her – but it was yet another lie.

It wasn’t long after that Rebecca revealed she had cancer and was expected to live just six more months.

Sean said: “The way I saw Arrow was that she was just a fighter. And she would carry on.

“She would say how grateful she was to have me in her life., And we can’t believe that we found you.

“I did really care for her and Sarah as well. And just wanted to do what I could to make their lives a little bit better.”

Once they moved in together, Sean noticed that her bouts of illness were up and down – some days she was fine while others would see her curled on the floor in pain and throwing up.

He added that financially, she always had something in the pipeline but failed to ever get a job – leaving him paying for her and her daughter.

Despite being the protective partner most women dream of, Rebecca hadn’t quite had her fill.

She was still on Tinder and had begun a relationship with another man, Steve, who remained anonymous.

Like Sean, she told him how she had terminal cancer

Rebecca did everything she could to make her illness seem legit – pulling out strands of hair so it looked like she was going through chemotherapy.

Sean had seen some of the messages between Rebecca and this man, but she brushed it off saying he was just a male friend.

In the meantime, she let Sean know she was pregnant with his child, leaving Sean over the moon.

Just a few months later Rebecca claimed to have had a miscarriage while camping with her daughter, leaving Sean devastated.

The reality was that Rebecca was never pregnant in the first place and was in fact with her other boyfriend while she was away.

Rebecca was also claiming to go to court with Sarah’s dad – with Sean footing the bill for lawyer fees.

The financial support he gave the mum increased, leading him to take on a second job as an Uber driver in the evenings.

Then she asked Sean to come and help decorate her Steve’s house while he was in Scotland.

Of course, she didn’t tell Steve it was Sean helping and paying for the decorations – so he paid Rebecca over £3,000 which she stashed away for herself.

It became very clear that everything was a lie.

Sean Fry

Once the renovations were complete, Sean left the house, but panicked the next day when he hadn’t heard from Rebecca.

He decided to make his way back round, when he bumped into Steve, making his way upstairs Sean caught Rebecca in his bed.

Sean left and ended the relationship there, but Steve did a little more detective work by going through her phone, realising she had lied about everything.

“We chatted for hours and we just became a couple of detectives trying to piece this story together,” Sean said.

“Once we started talking, there was no doubt about what was going on. Steve had a photo in the van on the trip across the Nullarbor. I had almost the exact same photo in the van with her and Sarah on the way over to Adelaide.”

“It became very clear that everything was a lie.”

The pair soon realised they were both paying for Rebecca’s living expenses and they weren’t the only ones fooled by her lies.

Her ex-partner was not abusive he had supported her through her cancer diagnosis too.

It was only when he began questioning doctors meetings that Rebecca decided to run away and move to Australia.

Despite the case going to court, with both men providing evidence to detectives, Rebecca was spared jail and given a suspended sentence.

While Rebecca may not have faced justice, her daughter Sarah was finally given back to her dad.

Sean said: “The sentence that she got doesn’t even reflect what she, you know, did financially. And financially was the absolute least of it.”

PRINCE Andrew is “hung up on image and grandeur” and is “allowing himself to be humiliated”, claims royal pro.

According to esteemed royal commentator Jennie Bond, the real reason the disgraced Duke of York, 64, has not left Royal Lodge is because he cares so much about his “status”. 

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The challenges Andrew has faced over the past five years have been well-documented – with his apparent determination to stay at his Royal Lodge home in Windsor being the latest bone of contention. 

In line with King Charles‘ plans to downsize the monarchy, Prince Andrew was offered a move from his mansion to the slightly smaller Frogmore Cottage, which was recently refurbished by Prince Harry, 40, and Meghan Markle, 43.

And, after claims that Queen Elizabeth II was also considering following a similar path as King Charles on having her second son move out of Royal Lodge, a royal expert has questioned why the Duke is “allowing himself to be so humiliated”. 

Speaking exclusively to OK!, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond asks: “I wonder why he is allowing himself to be so humiliated?”

She adds: “He could live at Frogmore, which has enough room for Fergie and the rest of the family to visit when they want. 

“It is close to the castle and it would give him the chance to calm down relations with his brother, so what is stopping him? Status. 

“He is hung up on image and grandeur.”

Prince Andrew’s home, Royal Lodge, is a £30million 19th century listed Windsor pad that he shares with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.

It was where the late Queen Elizabeth spent part of her childhood and boasts 40 hectares of woodland and lawns, eight cottages, and lodgings for security personnel.

But Andrew, who moved into Royal Lodge, the former home of the Queen Mother, in 2004 – has refused to move, after taking on a lease that lasts until 2078.

While Royal Lodge has a rich and fascinating history, much of which is tied to the life of The Queen Mother, recent pictures highlighted the home’s state of disrepair, something which Jennie says will have made the late monarch consider other possibilities. 

Jennie continues: “I think the late Queen probably realised that it didn’t look good to have a disgraced Prince living in a mansion for a peppercorn rent. 

“Andrew was very much in awe of his mother and would have obeyed her if she had put her foot down and asked him to leave. 

“Charles’s big squeeze on his brother has been a long time coming and his patience has run out.

“It is interesting that the Queen was apparently of a like mind.”

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Reflecting on how the ongoing debate looks to the public after Prince Andrew‘s very public fall from grace, Jennie claims: “This is not just money, it is how it looks: an idle and disgraced Duke swanning around on his horse, watching aircraft taking off or landing on a big screen and driving his Range Rover about his sizeable estate with no visible means of income except what his mother, and now his big brother, choose to give him. It’s not a good image.”

It has been reported that the plan was to have the Duke move from Royal Lodge and relocate a short distance away to Frogmore Cottage, which was vacated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after they gave it a £2.4 million renovation.

Inside Prince Andrew's 'crumbling' Royal Lodge

THE disgraced Duke of York resides at the £30million Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire - at least for now.

King Charles has redoubled his efforts to evict the Duke – with insiders branding the stand-off the “siege of Royal Lodge“.

Despite his divorce from Sarah Ferguson in 1996, Prince Andrew lives with his ex-wife at the countryside estate. 

Prince Andrew‘s royal residence, with its eye-catching white exterior, boasts 30 rooms with plenty of space for entertaining, plus seven bedrooms spread across the two topmost floors.

The Duke of York is said to spend all day “watching TV in a dark room” like a prisoner at his “crumbling” home.

Royal Lodge is said to “need extensive repairs”, thought to be about £400,000 a year.

The monarch is said to be becoming increasingly frustrated at Andrew’s refusal to care for the colossal mansion.

Andrew is said to have promised King Charles he would take care of its expensive repairs – despite having no apparent source of income.

Jennie says: “Charles has given him plenty of time and a very generous option to move into Frogmore cottage which is within the security cordon and has recently had an expensive makeover.

“Yes, that‘s just the cost of the renovation, far far more than most people dream of having in their entire lifetime. And yet he seems to think it is beneath him.

“What’s the answer? Earn his living – but the reputation of the monarchy is at stake and Andrew has shown profound lack of judgement, at the very least, over his friendship with the convicted late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 

“Can he be trusted to show any judgement over the kind of work he might undertake to provide an income?”

This is not just money, it is how it looks: an idle and disgraced Duke swanning around on his horse…It’s not a good image

Jennie Bond

It’s no wonder eyebrows are being raised over how Andrew can afford his upkeep, given he was stripped of his status after becoming embroiled in a scandal due to his association with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

He was accused of sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre and handed over millions to settle the case against him – although he has always vehemently protested his innocence and insisted he never even met her.

'There is no way back for Prince Andrew', claims PR guru

PRINCE Andrew’s reputation is damaged beyond repair and he will never be able to engineer a return to public life, according to one of Britain’s top PR gurus.

Brand and culture expert Nick Ede, who runs East of Eden PR agency, called the shamed royal “deluded” for thinking he could ever return to royal duties and urged him to give up and ‘enjoy his life’ in exile.

It follows the release of Scoop – a Netflix movie based on the 2019 interview he gave to Newsnight.

Nick said: “There is no way back for him. 

“I think you know this perpetual idea that he could still be back. Nobody cares. He hasn’t got fans. 

“There’s nobody out there who’s going ‘We want to see Prince Andrew’, not one single person. I think he has to realise that. But I think it’s going to take a long, long time for him to actually understand. It’s very deluded.

“In my opinion, the best thing that he could do is just enjoy his life. He’s got gorgeous daughters. He has a great relationship with Fergie, he has a lovely house. 

“Just live a quiet life.”

Reflecting on the interview five years ago – the fallout of which saw Andrew step back from royal duties “for the foreseeable future” – Nick compared the fallout to Frost vs Nixon and said he would have urged him not to do it.

He said: “If I had been advising him, I would say, go quiet, be quiet, just go to ground. You know you’re a prince. Enjoy the life that you lead, but do not open this can of worms, because that’s what it is.

“There was no admission that a relationship with somebody like Epstein was terribly toxic. There was no idea that there were loads of victims of trafficking whose lives were completely ruined by Epstein. He didn’t seem to think that the association he had with that man was anything but positive. 

“I think his worst gaffe was obviously being in that interview and agreeing to it in the first place, for not realising that he’s actually going to be interviewed by a very, very good journalist who is going to ask him questions which he might not like.

“But I think what this has done is really shown how archaic Prince Andrew is in his opinions and thoughts.

“Read the room. He’s never read a room at all.”

Andrew appeared on BBC current affairs show Newsnight for a now infamous interview with Emily Maitlis in November 2019.

While Andrew initially believed his BBC interview had gone ‘quite well’, millions of TV viewers thought otherwise.

Following a massive backlash, the Duke announced he would ‘step back from public duties’. 

Andrew said in his statement: “It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family’s work and the valuable work going on in the many organisations and charities that I am proud to support.

“Therefore, I have asked Her Majesty if I may step back from public duties for the foreseeable future, and she has given her permission.”

Now, Andrew is now said to live a rather reclusive existence – spending his days playing golf, riding and watching television behind the walls of his estate – the refuge he is said to be desperate to hang on to.

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A MAN who was walked over 10,000 miles through National Parks and walking routes in the UK has revealed one pretty Yorkshire village holidaymakers should visit.

Reeth is a stunning old mining village with some of the best panoramic views in the country and several great pubs.

JOHN MILLEN

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John Millen, 58, is a guide for Walkers’ Britain – a company that’s been organising hiking expeditions in the UK and Europe since the 1970s, and he’s walked more than 10,000 miles throughout the Great British Countryside.

The professional hiker has walked the Coast to Coast Path – a 193-mile walking route from St Bees in the Lake District to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire – more than 20 times.

Speaking exclusively to Sun Travel about the best villages he’s seen on his hikes, John said: “Villages in the Yorkshire Dales are really, really pretty.

“Places like Reeth and Cowden in Upper Swaledale are very pretty and very remote.”

Just 11 miles separates the two Yorkshire villages that are both part of the Coast to Coast Path.

Reeth is known for its history of lead mining, with the tiny village once producing 10 per cent of the country’s lead, but nowadays the village is home to just 700 residents.

John said: “Reeth is an old lead mining village with a big green that’s lined with several pubs.

“As you walk through the village, you can almost imagine the lead miners spending their wages in one of the pubs and starting brawls.

“Despite the mining history, it’s still very, very, attractive with stone cottages and countryside views.

“You’ve got a couple of pubs to choose from like The Black Bull, and the Buck.

“They’re quite nice pubs on the green, each with a sense of history and good ales on draft”.

JOHN MILLEN

Dating back to the 17th century, The Black Bull is Reeth’s oldest surviving Inn.

Visitors to the old-school boozer can expect to find roaring fires and other period features.

Not only can holidaymakers also get their fill of local bitter, they can book to stay at the historic pub from £50 per night per room.

The Buck is another one of John’s pub recommendations in Reeth.

Located at the top of the village, the Buck has rooms from £80 per night.

And it’s not just John who has praised Reeth in recent years, with local author Ella Pontefract describing the Yorkshire village as “a little country in itself” because it’s surrounded by rolling fields and moorland.

Thanks to its position on a plateau above the River Swale the village has panoramic views of the Yorkshire hills and moors.

Visitors who want to learn more about the history of the village should visit Swaledale Museum.

And those with a sweet tooth can head for a spot of afternoon tea at Ivy Cottage – a three-star B&B that overlooks the village green.

Reeth is an hour’s drive from Middlesbrough, and it’s an 80-minute drive from York.

The English village is 63 miles from Robin’s Hood Bay, which marks the end of the Coast to Coast Path.

Meanwhile, you can sip pints while watching dolphins and whales from the pub garden in this UK seaside town.

And this beach town also has dolphins, as well as sea glass.

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