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Topics: Louis Theroux, Documentaries, Netflix, TV And Film
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Louis Theroux, Documentaries, Netflix, TV And Film
Myron Gaines has provided an update on his relationship with his girlfriend, Angie, following the couple's appearance on Louis Theroux's latest documentary, Inside the Manosphere.
Having landed on Netflix on Wednesday (11 March), the 90-minute film sees the award-winning documentarian meeting with a number of controversial influencers, famed among their social media followers for their inflammatory views on masculinity.
Andrew Tate was once hailed as the 'king of toxic masculinity' before later being hit with criminal and civil legal proceedings in several of countries over alleged sexual assault and human trafficking offences. He denies the accusations.
His arrest seemingly failed to dissuade others from stepping into his position, however, with many using websites, blogs and podcasts as a means of promoting belief systems that often stand accused of radicalising young men and permitting the harassment and degradation of women.
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One of them is Myron Gaines.
Real name Amrou Fudl, the American hosts a podcast titled Fresh and Fit, through which he broadcasts highly offensive views about women, Jewish people, overweight or 'unattractive' individuals, transgender and queer people, and what he calls 'ghetto black women and Shaniquas' on a weekly basis.
During a 'dating advice' segment called 'Red Pill Wednesday', the 36-year-old once famously declared: "I dictate when I want to put d**k in you, b***h, and you dictate when the sandwiches come by my dictation."
He's also penned a book, called Why Women Deserve Less.
It wasn't so much Gaines' podcast that sparked intrigue in Theroux, however, but his relationship.
Though the influencer confirmed he's in a long-term relationship with a woman named Angie, it didn't take him long to discuss his 'rotation' of other women.
"I do want multiple wives," he confessed.
Angie then emerged, with the presenter asking for her take on their 'one-sided monogamous relationship' - whereby Angie remained committed solely to Gaines.
"The women that he sleeps with, he's just going to be with them for like, a night," she explained.
As Theroux's interrogation continued, however, Angie's true feelings appeared to emerge.
"I don't know how that will work," she replied after being asked about the prospect of being one of Gaines' multiple wives.
Hilariously, the documentary ends by revealing: "Myron and Angie have broken up."
Gaines has since confirmed that the epilogue is true, telling his podcast listeners in an update: "This s**t is on me, bro. Like, it's not on her whatsoever."
He went on to claim: "We haven't been together for a minute, and she wants a family. I can't give that to her right now."
The update seemed to amuse a number of social media users, one of whom jibed: "BRO im watching now. I cannot stop laughing. This doc made him look dumb af."
Another noted: "That why they are not together anymore. You can see she’s uncomfortable. Glad she escaped."
Theroux himself addressed the 'paradox' in the manosphere, claiming that 'many of them are performing their horrificness'.
Touching on Angie and Myron's relationship, he told Wired: "You see someone like Myron Gaines, and he says horrific, abhorrent things about women, and then you see him with his girlfriend, and you're like, OK, so it's not really real, he's actually relatively tender with his girlfriend, or she seems quite nice, and it feels like, oh, you're just performing your alphaness, you know?
"And that's kind of, in a weird way, quite heartening, not altogether surprising, either."
Gaines wasn't the only influencer to open up about their relationship in the Netflix doc, as 40-year-old social media personality Justin Waller also spoke of his 'one-sided monogamy'.