The oven gloves are off!
After their bitter split, Paul Hollywood, 53, and his 24-year-old ex trade blows online in an extraordinary (and very public) war of words
THEIR fledgling romance spectacularly broke down when he asked her to sign a controversial gagging order.
Now Paul Hollywood and Summer Monteys- Fullam have had an extraordinary public war of words as the barmaid claimed she felt ‘ betrayed’ and ‘pressurised’ into signing the document.
Miss Monteys-Fullam, 24, launched a scathing attack on her 53-year- old former lover, accusing him of controlling behaviour that included becoming ‘furious’ and shouting at her whenever she was photographed in public.
She claimed the Great British Bake Off star was constantly paranoid about her involvement with the Press, even though she showed him nothing but loyalty during their time together.
Hollywood was the first to post a statement on his Instagram account yesterday to say that his silence, until now, should not be interpreted as ‘weakness’. He suggested that his ex-girlfriend had been selling stories and ‘courting the paps [paparazzi]’.
Clearly incensed by his allegations, Miss Monteys-Fullam hit back in her own statement. She said the accusations of a man she once lovingly nicknamed ‘Cake Cake’ were ‘baseless and ridiculous’.
His claims that she courted the paparazzi were not new to her as Hollywood had levelled them at her ‘from day one’. He even went as far as to tell her ‘never to be photographed and to either drive at speed, lose or confront them with hostility’, she claimed.
‘This made situations very tense and stressful and upsetting, resulting in the most unfavourable pics at times.’
When she was photographed, Miss Monteys-Fullam said that Hollywood ‘would be furious and shout at me and blame me’. After she began to accept the photographers as part of their lives, she said Hollywood ‘took that as a sign that I was working with them’.
Hollywood urged his followers to take what they read ‘with a pinch of salt and read between the lines’ and not be ‘duped into believing what’s out there from a person making money selling stories’. He added that ‘there’s always two sides to a story’ and claimed that he doesn’t ‘play those games’.
But Miss Monteys-Fullam maintained that it was not her that leaked the story about the non- disclosure agreement, and claimed that she ‘felt so betrayed by the NDA, particularly with how much pressure Paul and his lawyers put me under to sign it’ that she confided in friends and showed them the document. She said that it was through showing the document to her ‘horrified’ friends that it ended up in the public domain.
Being asked to sign ‘a life- changing document knowing I didn’t have full understanding of ’ left her feeling betrayed as she had ‘clearly demonstrated loyalty to Paul’.
Miss Monteys-Fullam said she felt as if she had been ‘thrown under the bus’ by her ex-lover and was pleased that the story had been published ‘to warn other women about the horrendous implications these documents have’.
The barmaid has now moved back into her mother’s home in Kent.
Last month Hollywood’s marriage to his wife Alexandra, 55, ended when she was granted a divorce on the grounds of the Bake Off star’s adultery.
‘He would shout and blame me’