To be honest, the more Neil's so-called friends keep popping up to try to 'put our minds at rest' and convince us that everything is black and white the more it convinces me that it is not!.

First we had sausage who seemed quite eager to convince us that Michelle and Neil were together, at which point it hadn't really been doubted anyway, then when discussion on the subject had finally died down along comes pinkie (intentionally or not I don't know) to stir things up again!
It just makes me question why genuine friends of Neil/Michelle would feel the need to post on a forum to confirm things that Michelle herself has already told us in magazine interviews months ago!