Originally Posted by
jivingmissdaisy:
“Morning everyone - Sandy, I hope you have managed to get some sleep!
Some positives here that they can stay on good terms:
Gio has only removed the 'relationship' photos, he has left the Strictly ones, there were only a few anyway including the rumba singing (saved it just in case!) plus the one where they are within a group of friends. I don't think he is trying to hurt Georgia, but he is a bloke after all and probably felt humiliated having them there, now that they have officially split.
Despite the deleted photos, he is still following Georgia on social media, significant as he doesn't follow many people.
They have many mutual friends who will hopefully support both of them.
Relationships are all about compromise....but sometimes in a compromise no one ends up happy. If that's what they were facing - and the statement suggests that - then they have probably done the right thing (for now), painful as it is
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Daiisy, I love this post as it sums up exactly how I am feeling this morning!!
I woke up with a heavy heart, realising yesterday wasn't a bad dream after all but I still hope something can be salvaged from this, though not the full relationship, at least for the time being!!
I don't know if too much can be read into Gio deleting the relationship photos, he is as you say a proud, passionate Italian man & it probably doesn't fit in with that to have loved up photos of someone you are no longer in a relationship with!! I don't know the 'etiquette' of Italian/Sicilian men about such things!! I sincerely hope it wasn't done to deliberately hurt this little lady he has invested so much of the last 12 months in as that really would be heartbreaking for both of them!!
Also Georgia's 'gutted' tweets don't suggest anything like an acrimonious split to me & she had absolutely no need to say she "still loves him very very much" if that was the case!!
Perhaps it was Georgia who could see a future where they drifted apart whereas Gio, as men do, was pushing it out of his mind & just enjoying living in the moment, so she was the one who sat him down & forced that dreaded 'crossroads/where do we go from here' talk with BaT & Strictly both now looming large, when he wasn't quite ready for it!!
I don't know, just trying to make sense of it like the rest of you but like you say
Daisy they have some very good mutual friends in Jo, Janette, Aljaz etc who very clearly adore both Gio and Georgia & if there is any way to get them talking & settle any differences to remain close friends then they will find it!!
Apologies to
Sandy & others who want them to reunite but if there's a big enough problem between them to cause this then I am dubious if getting back together straight away wouldn't just be 'papering over cracks!'
My best hope is exactly what the original statement says, an amicable split where they can both appreciate the fantastic 8 months they have had together but realise, for now, they need to be apart to each realise their own hopes & dreams, where both still care & support each other's successes & feel they can be what they were to each other during those three intense months of Strictly last year!!
For me their relationship deserves that, though I know it's very idealistic, & if at some time in the future when dreams have been achieved, they still feel that bond then yes, rekindle the romance into lifelong commitment!!
Originally Posted by Sandy_Andrews:
“The range responses to Georgia's 'gutted' tweet show there is still a huge difference in male and female attitudes !
Most of us women have tweeted sympathy and support plus several have said they will get back together etc etc
The guys have tweeted all sorts of things including several invitations out to various fast food restaurants, helpful comments like 'bloody Italians' and 'he was punching well above his weight, is he insane' and one chap who seems to think she is talking about a football match.
I really don't know how we were lucky enough to get NDD, Christopher and
Brian in here but they are shining examples to the rest of mankind.
... and collaw some days when he isn't going on about donkeys !”
Oh
Sandy, it's very lovely of you to say so but as I've said many times I can be as neanderthal as the rest much of the time but for some reason this sweet young lady with her gorgeous appealing eyes, wonderful warm smile & inner beauty seems to transform me into some sort of romantic poet who can string words together I would never have dreamed of using in 'real life!!'
I find Georgia, right from the start has stirred emotions in me I didn't even know existed, some of which I like & some of which bring unwanted complications to my previously simple brain!!

To summarise I love Georgia & have loved her relationship with Gio but I never EVER want to get this emotionally involved with a 'fantasy' person/couple again if I'm honest!!