[Matt]

They're best known as the limelight-hungry couple who shot to fame when they appeared on Big Brother back in 2008.

But Lisa Appleton and Mario Marconi have now called time on their marriage and eight-and-a-half-year romance once and for all.

Claiming they had been 'unhappy for a while', Lisa explained the final straw in the pair's union came when they were duped by convicted conman Selva Carmichael into being followed by cameras for six months to film a fake reality show.

The 45-year-old brunette explained Carmichael - dubbed 'The Silver Fox' - 'destroyed' her two-year marriage to Mario, 47, with his lies after they filmed a for 18 hours a day for a documentary which they believed would make them stars.

Lisa said of the split: 'Towards the end we just hated each other - Carmichael tore our lives apart and destroyed our relationship.

'Mario and I were unhappy for a while - our whole world fell apart around us when we got conned.'

But it would seem Lisa and Mario - real name Shaun Astbury - are extremely quick movers, with both of them already shacking up with new partners, despite calling time on their marriage just three weeks ago.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ves-apart.html

[King Gizzard]

can't believe this is newspaper worthy news

[Locke.]

Poor Mario

[Smithy]

Claiming they had been 'unhappy for a while', Lisa explained the final straw in the pair's union came when they were duped by convicted conman Selva Carmichael into being followed by cameras for six months to film a fake reality show.

how ****ing dumb do you have to be

[the truth]

i preferred her to him, but theyre pretty mindless the pair of them

[MeMyselfAndI]

Poor Lisa.
Would of won BB had she stayed against Sara, got the best reception of all of BB9

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

This is really strange reading about this because, I'm watching BB9 at the moment, that's a real shame they have split up, as much as I didn't like Mario, i hate to see someone's marriage break up.

[Gstar]

Sad news

[Omah]

Haha ..... what a couple of schmucks .....

[Jordan.]

Sad news, atleast Mario still has his custard creams.

50% end in divorce. No great surprise when anyone gets divorced these days.

[Me. I Am Salman]

quite sad how that **** who conned them ruined such a long relationship

[Marcus.]

awww but they were sweet

[reece(:]

I liked them but that's what you get for being fame desperate.

Originally Posted by Salman!

quite sad how that **** who conned them ruined such a long relationship

If your relationship is strong enough, then you'd easily get through that.

[Tregard]

What kind of guy follows people around for 6 months pretending to film them?!

[Petershaw1984]

such a shame. but theyve both moved on quick

[matty0boy]

Originally Posted by reece(:

I liked them but that's what you get for being fame desperate.

Exactly what i was thinking!

[Shaun]

Aaaaaww I dunno why I find this sad LOL. They were amazing HMs.

[King Gizzard]

They were horrible when they joined in with the Jen crew vs B Block so I like neither

[Black Dagger]

Wasn't Mario in the B-block most of the time? I remember he went to the bedroom with Mo after he got spat-at... I remember he had an issue with Kat at one point when he was all 'GROW UP' after comforting her 3 days before... but nothing against the likes of Darnell, Rex etc... maybe I'm wrong.

[Shaun]

he was evicted before B-Block really became a thing

[King Gizzard]

Well I think it momentarily stopped when that happened cause nearly everyone condemned the spitting but most times they bitched with the Jen group horrible is probably too strong but they were affiliated with that lot

Don't think I have hated a group more than that lot. They were probably popular on here

#BBlockForLife

[Black Dagger]

Bex, Jennifer, Luke, Sylvia, Dale are amongst my most disliked house-mates (do like Luke on BOTS though)... loved them all going after each other.

Rex/Rachel >

[King Gizzard]

Bex and Luke were horrible..and the way Stu and Dale would do anything Jen said

you can argue those kind of groups make BB but they had no redeeming qualities at all and when it's the whole house vs 3-4 HM's it's even worse