Patrick Hong, who quickly emerged as the villain on Love Triangle thanks to his abrasive ways – has been accused of buying his IG followers.
The reality star’s Instagram mysteriously rose by over 130,000 followers over a 30 day period. Furthermore, he only had around 4,000 followers two days before the Stan show’s last episode.
Interestingly, all of the contestants from the Love Triangle season have less than 6,000 followers – which makes Patrick’s follower count of 139,000 even more of a stark contrast.
A co-star, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that they believe Patrick has bought his followers.
“Two days before the last episode he had only 4,000 followers… two days later his account starts climbing by 10,000 and 20,000 yet nobody was commenting or liking his videos,” they told the publication.
‘If they were real followers his new girlfriend would have also gained followers, yet she’s still only around 1500.’
‘The sad reason why Patrick’s buying follower is because he needs constant validation from people because he was really insecure about himself,’ they added.
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The co-star said that Patrick had plans to come out of the reality show to work full time as an influencer.
“He was quick to boost about having a blue tick. He was desperate to make it as an influencer after seeing how quick people on other shows like MAFS were able to make a living after going on a show and it just didn’t happen.”
They added, “He only wants to pretend and prove that he’s some hot shot online coach because he’s got a blue tick now. He had a personal Instagram account that he was going to use for the show but then ”deleted” it and used the only one he had which was his business account…How convenient.”
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