The Truth
To All forum members,
As some of you may or may not know... Gaz "AV1" Aston has been rumbled!
Thought under the circumstances i'd provide a bit of clarity as not all that you've seen or heard is clear
and given that i can sense understandably that some of you are more than pissed off i'd like the
opportunity to put my side across. (Not that i deserve to, but non the less...)
Firstly the truths :
My name is Gavin I live in Solihull, though Birmingham raised. I'm 36 years old. I am married to a lady called Hayley and I do have 2 children! I am self employed!
For the most part, what you got on the forum was a truthful representation of me as a person, my ideals, my morals, my opinions my taste in girls etc.
The Lies:
My wife knows nothing about my time on the forum, nor would she be ok with it! Hence my persona on here!
To be doubly sure my Mrs wouldn't get wind of my forum activities i picked a dubious name so as not to be obvious that i was frequenting a "wank forum" so picked the suibtably vague "astonv1" though as i started to use the chatbox people enquired as to my name so i altered my own slightly to "Gaz"!
You could call it a little white lie that spiralled out of control. As mentioned above, I feel that overall I gave a true representation of myself but it was off the forum that things got out of hand!
It started with me setting up a facebook page. I did not want everyone to know what I looked like but as i got to be good friends (In a forum sense) with some of the people on the forum and the girls etc i knew that i needed a face to go with the name.
I chose the face of an old friend of mine (His name is Gary) i used to work with him briefly and the ideal opportunity arose when he posted up a few pics of a works day out (at the races in Ascot if memory serves) where amongst the pictures he posed with a gorgeous ethnic looking girl (her name is Debbie though i didnt know that at the time) and i realised i had my "Perfect couple" so to speak, they were/are work colleagues.....I set up a facebook account for her too under the name 'Hayley' .....That page was closed when it got reported!
Anytime he posted any pics upon his facebook wall that involved her then i would just nick the pic off his wall till I saw a suitable time to post them on 'Gaz Aston's' fb wall or twitter account and as i say apart from the pics, my status updates and tweets were, for the most part, including the birth of my two kids, stuff that was going on in my life for real! I guess my forum persona began to echo that of my old friend through his pictures etc.
This is where things get confusing if it isnt hard enough to understand already.
Some of you have been made aware of the fact that I posted a doctored pic of the wedding...
Well that was Debbie getting married to her now husband. Gary was a guest at the wedding and yes i doctored one of the pictures from that day to make it look like an old wedding pic! Not my proudest moment. I felt awful after posting that pic (genuinely) but the lying had got out of control!
Anyway when i realised that i'd been rumbled i did bolt...I de-activated my FB account and my Twitter, Ive even changed my phone number for those few of you that had my number and have been trying to call or text etc! I havent posted on here and wont post again..I've asked that my account be closed but as you can tell its still going!
No excuses! Its a bad thing i've done and i'll live with the consequences!
My regret is that ultimately I have brought 3 innocent people into my lie and i just hope for their sakes that this doesnt get back to them, though given the gusto that the person/persons have shown in breaking this news via twitter and facebook etc I would not be surprised if they have already been informed in one way or another!
I also regret that the people that i had grown close to (In a forum sense) will now look at our "friendships" as being ones based on a huge lie. I apologise wholeheartedly to those people who trusted me the most for my betrayal. Its not something i'm proud of, nor do i think i deserve any kind of thanks for apologising! In this situation I dont think i'd be so quick to understand if it was someone else that had been found out in this way!
To the guy who broke the news on twitter (he is obviously someone I've pissed off on here) and i dont think its just because of the lie, that being said, you dont realise how grateful i am that you broke the story, its been a great weight lifted off my shoulders believe it or not...I can now engross myself in real life and start to put this sorry episode behind me, you've done me a favour,even if that wasn't your intention..
I know there was a few people (eg Rammy) who may have refused to believe the story when it broke, i have to say sorry to them, as i know they may have got un-necessary stick as a result. Sorry!!!
I would just like to mention the capping award this year, i hope the prize gets donated to someone deserving, thankyou for all the votes but im sure you would all rather that go to someone else!
Anyway, this will be my last post (for real this time) apologies to everyone that ive hurt, offended, you wont be seeing me again on ANY social media and certainly not on here!
Regards
Gavin
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