New! Magazine – 19 August 2019

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P

aul Hollywood’s split from

his 24-year-old girlfriend

Summer Monteys-Fullam

took a nasty turn last

week when they became

embroiled in a bitter war of

words on social media.

Firing the first

shot, The Great

British Bake

Off star, 53,

accused

Summer

of “making

money selling

stories and

courting the paps”

after she walked out

on him following her

refusal to sign a non-disclosure

agreement [NDA] banning her

from discussing their two-year

relationship in public.

Furious with his claims,

Summer branded the allegations

“ridiculous” and “false”, and

accused him of leaving her feeling

“betrayed” and “humiliated”.

She then twisted the knife by

liking a string of fan comments

on Instagram that slated her ex,

including one that claimed she’d

been “wasting her time with an

old guy” and another that said

she’d escaped a “controlling

relationship”. Eek!

And while it’s no

surprise Paul’s

request for

Summer to sign

an NDA went

down like a lead

balloon with the

former barmaid,

PR expert and

co-owner of Borne

Media, Denise

Palmer-Davies, has told

new! this is common practice

for many celebrities.

“A non-disclosure agreement

essentially acts as a platform

for individuals to keep their

personal and private life just that,

and is performed with a mutual

obligation between two parties,”

explained Denise.

And Denise believes Paul has

good reason to be cautious after

his messy split from his wife of 19

years, Alexandra, in November

2017, was played out in public.

“Paul has been the subject of

numerous tabloid headlines over

the past few years, most of which

have been negative,” she says.

“His on-screen persona is a

clean-cut, wholesome family man,

therefore the headlines have

been damaging to him, his

family and, of course, the

Paul Hollywood brand.

He would have been

advised to put an

NDA in place for any

future relationships

to protect himself

from further

negative publicity.

He isn’t the first

celebrity to do this and

nor will he be the last.”

However, relationship

expert Judi James

sympathises with

Summer and thinks

a request to sign an

NDA would signal the end for

most relationships.

“You hear it all the time – if you

haven’t got trust in a relationship

you haven’t got a relationship –

and that should be trust about

everything,” explained Judi.

“Summer might have seen

the NDA as Paul telling her

by default that he doesn’t trust

her, therefore he’s making the

relationship void.”

And according to Judi,

receiving a request to

sign an NDA can be

just as damaging to

a relationship as

being unfaithful.

“In a way it’s

almost like cheating

on someone. Once

the damage is done

you might be able

to resculpt the

relationship, but it’s

always going to be

hanging around like

a nasty smell.”

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NEWSFLASH

Summer and Paul

in happier times

With his

ex-wife

Alexandra

Summer

‘Paul has

betrayed me’

As things turn toxic between the former

couple, we reveal how it all went wrong

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