THE Circle’s crafty catfish Busayo was exposed last night – during a face-to-face meeting with Ella that left viewers reeling.
The 24-year-old Londoner had been pretending to be a floppy-haired white man called Josh – but ended up leaving the show last night after getting ‘blocked’ by the other players.
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However, before leaving she got to choose one player to visit and decided to go and see a disbelieving Ella.
Staggered that she’d been lied to all this time, she yelped: “Oh my God. Who the f*** are you?”
One viewer tweeted: “BEST reaction to a visit EVER!!” while another called it “the highlight of this season”.
Players on The Circle can compete as themselves or an alter-ego, communicating via an internet chat service they have in the block of flats they all live in.
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After taking a moment to compose herself, 24-year-old Ella told her visitor: “You’re amazing” before they hugged.
Explaining herself, Busayo said: “Obviously, I’m a catfish. I’m not Josh. In my experience, as a black woman, people address me differently and have different perceptions of me.
“Even with my work stuff or how I project myself, it’s always something like ‘you’re aggressive’ or ‘too confident’. That’s what I’ve come across sometimes.
“I thought: ‘Let me see what it would be like to be Josh.’ I’m honestly so glad that it didn’t work.
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Ella replied: “It breaks my heart that you did it – but I get where you’re coming from.”
Departing, Busayo said: “Who can say they were a middle-class white man for the week?”
With just three days to go until The Circle’s finale and the £100,000 that comes with it, the gameplay is hotting up.
Only Ella, Georgina, Jan, Paddy, Sammie, Tim and Woody now remain in the competition.
