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Clean Up Day

Gotta do a little house cleaning of the posts today. It will be a work in progress! *gathers cleaning supplies* I have my little helpers! 🐾🪣🧼🧹

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Interesting perspective from someone who did it.

Chloe Burrows from Love Island fakes a romantic relationship to see what happens to famous couples when they share their relationship with the press x

Financial benefits of a PR relationship x

Full documentary is on YouTube under "I Faked A Relationship | UNTOLD from April 2024 (it's blocked in my country).

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PR Solutions...📷 📸

A publicists work is never done! We make it easy to plan your clients next paportunity, pap walk, papiversary or papsmear! Everything you need to set it up in one stop!

Transport.🚲🛴

Concierge and travel arrangements. 💻📇✈️🛥🏝

Event wear! 👠👛

Street wear! 👖👕👟🧢

Assorted accessories. 👓🕶👜👛⌚️

Miscellaneous hand props. 🛍📷

Fabricate your story and publicity with PR Solutions. We are mindful of your NDA's. 📄🖊🎭🖼🎨

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I Love This Photo

Seriously, It's giving vampire vibes! 💜

Be still my dark heart... literally! 💜

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Absurd But Cute

If Bridgerton peeps were cat lovers!

If Lady Danbury had cats...

If The Queen had cats instead of Pomeranians...

If Hyacinth had cats...

If Lady Featherington had cats...

Sorry Newton and Royal pom! Every dog has his day, but not today!

Best friends! 💙🐈‍⬛🐾#parody

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Almost Summer

Bring on the fun!

Things may not always be as they seem.

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Some of Nicola's Looks & Bags

Because I LOVE bags! Just for easy fun!

Kate Spade & TOD'S

I love the pickleball tote, lol. Mulberry crossbody and Fendi Peekaboo. Plus, I love her big hair!

Black Dior Journey Bag. Loewe coat and Mulberry bag. The beret is so cute on her!

Bags, both Kate Spade.

Again, the Loewe coat. Not sure about the large white bag. The small white bag is Versace.

Can't see it it, but I think Nic's bag on the left is a Dior Bobby crossbody bag. Her sister has a Dior Jaquard Oblique print 'Boston bag'. On the right, Kate Spade.

On left, Dior everything. Lady Dior bag. Right...not sure, but I love pink and green on her!

These clothes are a mystery to me, including the pink clutch. But I love the mint green Chanel Flap.

Her little Miu Miu bag. Mmm, not sure about one on right. Cute dress though!

I love the straw bag. I think it's Ralph Lauren. I love these dresses as well. ❤️

There is so much online for some of her fashions. I don't love everything she wears, but I do like a lot of it. But I think she's cute in a ball cap and tshirt too. She has 'influenced' me in some of my jewelry choices, and also in buying a phone strap. So practical.

She likes cream and white bags, and also red. She likes Miu Miu quite a lot. I have only ever seen her with two different Chanel bags on the high end. But never with Louis Vuitton or Hèrmes. This white Bottega bag is the one she posed with in front of the Coughlan pub a couple of weeks ago. 🤍

💖🤍💝👜🛍👠👡👟👛👑🧢🕶💄

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Everything's Oh So Quiet

Enjoy it.

...until the next round of ick. 🍃🌱🌿

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These Awesome Guys From Brighton...

Sorry, no Lukola in this one. But these dudes...I love them! They just got together and formed a dance group! This is way more fun than watching bathroom twerks!

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Spot The Difference

🧐🔎

One of these things is not like the other. *WeHo = West Hollywood.

Sisters...sisters...there were never such devoted sisters. 🎶🎵

*All images are AI generated fiction and for entertainment purposes only. Everything is strictly alleged and not based on truths or facts.

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Cutest Thing Ever!

If I posted this before, then at least I'm consistent.

How are they so friggen cute? 🕺💃

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Totally non-Lukola. But interesting nonetheless!

Btw....Speaking of "PR Relationships In Hollywood", this woman spills some teaaaaa........ 👀

She's saying it's actually more common than we think 👀

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The School With The 94% Acceptance Rate

Someone was in Class of 2022

Noted (meaning 'working') Alumni...

🤷‍♀️

*Everything is alleged and my opinion only.

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I See Where This Is Going...

Run boy!

Ruuuuuuun!

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Of Course...Pink!

☘️🍀💞💝💖💞🍀☘️

I wonder if ponies are welcome?

🥰💞

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The Cost of Going Underground

What happens when connection becomes the thing that must be hidden?

This was always going to be the most difficult post to write. Not because there isn’t evidence to support it — but because so much of the story we’re telling here exists in the space where public narrative ends and private truth begins.

When I say Luke and Nicola went underground, I don’t mean they disappeared. In fact, they’ve been visible: promoting work, attending events, walking carpets, giving interviews. Nicola’s public presence, in particular, has never been stronger. But visibility isn’t the same as connection — and that’s what disappeared. The light, the warmth, the resonance. The shared gaze. The background smiles. The moments that made us believe.

This post is about what it’s cost them to keep that part hidden.

Nicola’s Cost: Dimming Her Light

There’s a contradiction at the heart of Nicola’s public image right now: she’s everywhere, and yet she feels more remote than ever. TV Choice Awards (won), SAG and BAFTA nominated, awards for personal achievements and advocacy endeavours, centre-stage as a featured speaker, brand ambassador partnerships with Kate Spade, Neutrogena, and Olaplex, and appearances as an invited guest at Gucci and Dior fashion shows — and yet the story around her is… quieter. Less electric. More muted.

It didn’t start that way. Nicola came out of the World Tour radiating joy — glowing, grounded, triumphant. Big Mood was launched in the spring and her depiction of Maggie was critically acclaimed, she gained massive industry credibility, started and released new projects. But then something shifted. The narrative around her became less about her, and more about who she was seen with — or wasn’t. First it was/wasn't Luke, then Jake... whose presence lingered like background noise from August until it got suddenly loud in April, first as Nicola’s plus-one at the BAFTA-TV Nominee's Party, then again at Canneseries. It marked a shift. Not in Nicola’s visibility, but in how much of the story was being told through adjacency. A rumble became a roar. And while Nicola has always protected her private life, what made this feel different was just how much attention the background was getting. Not because of her, but in place of her. Canneseries, where she was honoured with the Konbini Commitment Award, barely made a ripple. The focus had shifted away from Nicola herself, and onto who she was, or wasn’t, seen beside.

And the Claddagh? For months, it was her quiet declaration. Then, during award season, it vanished (we know she doesn't wear it to events, but it's missed). Not forever — just from view. Just like the story we believe in.

Nicola has never liked sharing her private life. The fandom once learned that she lived with a partner for two years — a boyfriend the public never knew about. That’s how private she is. Which is why the whispers, the Jake narratives, the adjacent baiting — has felt so contradictory. So unlike her.

But maybe that’s the point. Maybe the real cost for Nicola hasn’t been image. It’s been agency. Instead of living the private life she prefers, she's being buried under speculation and playing along with a narrative that isn't hers.

If her goal is protection — of herself, of her child, of her relationship — then maybe the cost isn’t one she minds paying.

Luke’s Cost: The Reputational Hit

If Nicola’s cost is felt in the silence behind the narrative performance, Luke’s is etched into public perception.

I’ve talked before about the Bad Boyfriend Optics — about how Luke has, in two distinct stretches — from mid-June through July 2024, and again from January 30th to now — appeared beside a woman he won’t publicly claim, performing coldness so convincingly it’s made even longtime fans question who he really is. But that coldness, that calculated distance? It hasn’t clarified. It's confused. It's hurt. And it's invited something darker: backlash.

The Lukola fandom loves Luke, and wants the best for him. We remember the man we saw during the World Tour: vibrant, joyful, connected. We want him celebrated for his work in Season 3, seen for his talent, and paired with opportunities that allow him to shine. And yes, we want to see him with Nicola — not just because of the chemistry, but because of how present, proud, and luminous he seems by her side.

That’s why the optics of this past year have been so difficult to reconcile. Because the man we’re seeing now — stiff beside someone he’s never claimed, disconnected from the warmth that once defined him — doesn’t look like the Luke we remember. That absence, compounded by silence, has created a narrative vacuum. One that Luke has never filled with clarity, and so the worst assumptions take root.

This isn’t about suspicion. It’s about confusion. About the ache of wanting to understand why someone so loved, so admired, would let a version of himself take hold that feels so far from the truth.

The question that always gets asked is: “Why does he take the hit?”

I don’t know.

And yet… he did it anyway. To my mind, that’s the story. That’s the mystery.

Because there is no easy explanation for what we’ve witnessed. Not one that satisfies both logic and compassion. So instead of asking what’s so bad that he’d allow it, maybe we ask: what’s so precious that he’d endure it? What kind of love — or responsibility — makes a man let the world misunderstand him, and say nothing to stop it?

The Weight of Performance

If this past year has been a strategy, then it’s been one built on restraint. A performance of separation so well-rehearsed, it sometimes threatened to become the only reality. And that’s what it’s cost the fandom: clarity, trust, and to some extent, hope.

But maybe the point of camouflage was never to convince us. Maybe it was designed for people outside this corner of the internet — for the press, for the tabloids, for the algorithms. Maybe it was a smokescreen meant to disappear once it had done its job.

And that’s the tension we hold now: wanting the performance to end, but understanding why it might have been necessary.

The reappearance of Antonia hasn’t helped. It's reignited old narratives, invited new backlash, and made the optics worse. If this was damage control, it backfired. If it was obligation, the price may be too high. And if it was strategy — well, it cost Luke more than it ever protected.

What If the Cost Was Worth It?

There are those who say the long game isn’t worth it. That the fallout — professionally and emotionally — is too severe. That what’s been lost — credibility, goodwill, momentum — might never be fully regained.

But maybe that’s because we’re still in it. Because what we’re watching now is a story that hasn’t finished unfolding. Maybe the strategy isn’t failing — maybe it’s just incomplete.

What feels monumental to us in the moment may later prove to be just one chapter in a longer story. We don’t know what plans are quietly being laid, what projects are in motion, or what decisions are being made behind the scenes. We’re not privy to their timeline — professionally or personally. Luke and Nicola may already see this moment as a temporary holding space, not a defining one. A pause between acts. An interval before emergence.

Maybe this is the blip, not the legacy.

And maybe, once the contract ends and the noise subsides, they’ll get to write a different ending. One that doesn’t need to hide behind silence, performance, or camouflage. One that lets them step forward, not as a scandal or a mystery, but as something simple and real.

Because the love never disappeared. It just went underground. And one day, I believe it will rise.

Aaniin Xxx

Postscript: Where We Go From Here

This is the final entry in the Optics Series — at least, officially. But as long as the optics are shifting, the stories tangled, and the questions still humming beneath the surface, there’s always more to explore. I’ve loved the process of reflecting on what’s visible, what’s hidden, and what might be real. So while this is the end of a specific arc, don’t be surprised if more posts appear in the future — tracing new connections, testing old theories, and continuing the work of witnessing whatever rises next.

Thanks for walking this far with me.

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Snapchat Event 2025

Last week at SoHo Farmhouse *cough*

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She looks amazing!