A man claims to have flown over to the UK from Spain and back for two separate first dates in the space of one month, only to find himself ghosted and left alone at the airport on both occasions.
David Stevenson, 32, had high hopes ahead of the first date, having had nightly phone chats with the woman 'for months' on end.
However, when he returned to the UK from Spain to meet her in person a month ago, he says she 'went silent', leaving him filled with 'pure disappointment.'
However, this setback didn't put determined David off trying again, and, after chatting with another woman, he flew back a second time this week.
Sadly, yet again, it wasn't meant to be. When David landed at Bristol airport, she canceled on him, claiming to have come down with Covid and admitting it was "really bad timing." He doesn't believe her.
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In footage uploaded to TikTok, David could be seen sitting glumly by himself in Bristol Airport, with a follow-up video revealing he'd been left disappointed yet again.
David, who starred in series 11 of The Apprentice back in 2015, said: "I'd flown over a month previously and I'd met up with this girl. I'd already met her and been on a couple of dates with her. I was over for about two weeks.
"Everything was great and I'd flown back to Spain. It's hard to date living in Spain so I'm willing to put the effort in. We'd been talking every day and this time I flew back to England with the [plan] to meet back up with her and I got nothing back.
"The moment I got back in England, she went silent. I landed back on British soil and nothing. It's purely disappointment. You're spending so many hours of your life invested in this person - from phone calls, messages. Everything.
"There's only 24 hours in a day and you're giving up hours of your day for this person, and then to put yourself out there in a position of vulnerability and to be dropped, it's not a nice feeling at all."
Recalling the second disastrous date, David, who is originally from Nottingham, said: "I messaged her in the morning to say I was flying over and had just got to the airport. I got nothing. I still jumped on the plane.
"By the time I'd come off the plane, that video started blowing up a little bit and I think she may have seen it. She messaged me to say she had covid, it was really bad timing and she was so sorry. I absolutely don't believe her.
"If you've got covid, you'd message me the day before saying 'David, I'm really sorry but I'm ill'. You don't' ignore someone for a day. I think it's an easy cop-out but I'm old enough and wise enough to read between the lines."
However, not all is lost, and the former reality star says there's "still a chance for romance" this weekend, and he's since boasted about having been "inundated" with sympathetic messages from other single women.
According to David: "What's interesting is a girl, about two hours, replied to one of my TikTok stories. She works in a bar in Exeter and has invited me down tomorrow to throw a party with loads of single women. It's random - but why not?
"I'm going home first thing Monday morning. I still have chance for some romance this weekend. I've kept it as an open book. It's not necessarily that romance will happen, but I'm all for meeting people, making new connections with people while I'm here.
"Yesterday, someone reached out to me and said they were in Bristol city centre when I was and asked if I want to meet for a drink, so I met her for two hours."
He added: "The reactions been pretty immense if I'm honest. I won't lie, I'm being inundated with messages. I'm not sure everybody's for me but I've had a lot of messages."
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