WHEN Gaz Beadle and Emma McVey announced their split in 2023, their fans were shocked.
Geordie Shore lothario Gaz had always described the model, who he had two children with, as his ‘rock’. But, just months after she underwent heart surgery, Gaz announced their eight-year relationship was over. Now, insiders tell us tension has been bubbling behind the scenes.
Things are said to have reached boiling point after Gaz announced he was expecting a baby with his new girlfriend, Maia, 13 years his junior.
Our insider says: “Gaz and Emma have both moved on and are in happy, loving relationships with new people.
“But fans have noticed there is a level of competitiveness between them, and they seem to be trying to outdo each other.
“Emma got engaged, and then Gary announced he was having a baby. It was a huge shock and very eye-opening.
“She feels like she has a very small group of loyal friends, and exactly who they are has become very clear since her split from Gary.”
It’s certainly not the first time Emma has been blindsided by Gaz – she was shocked when he announced they had split during a Q&A with fans.
He casually revealed they had split three weeks prior and insisted there was no bad blood between the couple, who share kids Chester, eight, and Primrose, six.
Sources said Emma felt it was ‘unfair’ and was keen to announce it to her own followers herself.
She didn’t shy away from how hard the breakup was, in contrast to Gaz’s laissez-faire attitude.
In a heartbreaking post, she told her followers: “It’s been really hard for me and the kids to be separated. There’s been a lot of crying on FaceTime, which really breaks my heart.
“I’ve been numb and focusing on my children while still trying to work. I’ve honestly not known what to say. I’m hoping this will get easier in time.
“Sending so much love to anyone going through something similar, and thank you so much to everyone who has been checking in on me.”
If Gary took them to the park, the next week Emma took them to a theme park
Our insider
And when she moved on with a new man and a fan accused her of being unfaithful, she shot back with a jibe that appeared to be aimed at Gary: “I was unfaithful? What with someone I met 7 months after my separation? No darlin, you clearly have NO IDEA who was unfaithful.”
Our insider continued: “There was tension from the get-go but they masked it pretty well. They both doted on their kids whenever they had them, but fans noticed how they often posted competing snaps. If Gary took them to the park, the next week Emma took them to a theme park.”
Cheating allegations
Emma and Gaz first started dating in 2016, but just a year later, they called time on their relationship, with Emma accusing Gaz of cheating and dumping her by text.
She ranted: “When he’s been filming Geordie Shore, he decided to send me a TEXT ending things, telling me to move my stuff out of OUR home that I furnished and paid for without explanation.
“After begging me to go to Australia with him and making me leave my career, I still find out he still managed to cheat on me throughout our relationship and continually lie.”
But the pair reconciled, and in 2017, they announced they were having a baby. Their son Chester was born in January 2018, and their second child, a daughter named Primrose, was born in December 2019.
Gary popped the question while she was pregnant with baby number two – the whole thing was filmed.
They tied the knot in 2021 in front of 90 guests and their kids in Cheshire.
Bedding 1000 women
Gary appeared to be a very different man – his wild Geordie Shore days were well in the past.
He once boasted about sleeping with over 1000 women – his tumultuous relationship with Charlotte Crosby was well documented – but after quitting the show in 2017, he turned his life around.
He told us previously: “My life couldn’t be more different.
“My DM’s have changed dramatically, I can tell you that. It’s gone from mum’s wanting to shag me to mums and dads talking about colic, acid reflux, nappies, and bath toys.
“I had ten-years of partying and doing whatever I wanted. I was so used to life being all about me then I had a baby and quickly realised life wasn’t about me anymore.”
It wasn’t an easy time for any of them, as Emma suffered a series of debilitating health issues
The model, who once dated Towie’s Mario Falcone, had no idea she’d been born with three holes in her heart until a monitor was fitted following her second pregnancy.
She’d suffered years of seizures, exhaustion and fainting episodes – but while the diagnosis was illuminating, medics were cautious about operating because Emma is also battling ulcerative colitis.
The condition, which affects roughly one in 420 in the UK, causes ulcers and inflammation in the digestive tract.
The steroid treatment used to treat it can lead to bone loss and breakage, which doctors warned could stop Emma’s bones from fusing back together.
I thought, ‘I’m going to get put to sleep and I’m not coming back out’.
Emma,
Around Christmas time of 2023, her tricuspid valve – the valve between the two right chambers of the heart – further deteriorated, and the decision was made to proceed with the op in spite of the risks.
She later said: “I knew in surgery I’d be connected to a heart machine that would be keeping me alive while my heart was stopped, and I kept thinking, ‘They’re not going to be able to start my heart again’.
“I thought, ‘I’m going to get put to sleep, and I’m not coming back out’.”
It was a life-changing experience for all the family, and made their split even more surprising.
It wasn’t long until they both moved on, though. Emma started dating electrician James Staszewsky, and he became a huge part of her life and that of the kids as they set up home.
Gary had a brief romance with pro golf star Charley Hull, before falling for student Maia.
In what some felt was a dig at influencer Emma, Gary gushed about Maia: “I like how she’s got a normal job. Like, she got in at 8 o’clock this morning after leaving at half past 7 last night… 13 hours. She’s doing it again tonight, it’s inspirational.
“It almost brings me down a peg and I think that’s why I’m getting more normal and normal.
“I just love to pop to the pub for a bit of food and a walk with the dog, cutting the grass, like, I’ve become quite a normal boring person.”
The romances both came under fire and in a very surprising move they joined forces once again in order to issue a lengthy statement in which they addressed their marriage ending and the attention their new romances had gained.
‘One team’
Gaz hit back to insist they are “really good friends” and that they are both “happy and happy for one another” despite being in “new relationships”.
He added: “Both of us are in new relationships and we all get along well, and we can say we are so proud of ourselves to be able to all stay as one team.”
We’re told it was a brief period of calm for all parties involved but it wasn’t long that changed.
Gaz’s baby news was said to be one of those moments that rocked the boat.
Only a couple of years ago, Gaz had told The Sun he wouldn’t be having more kids, he said: “Two is hard enough. I think if you asked us before we may have said three but that was before we realised how hard it is.
“If we had two boys or two girls, then maybe it would be different but we have one of each, which is perfect.”
A baby bombshell
In a post last week, Gary told fans that nursing graduate Maia, 24, was pregnant.
He told fans: He wrote: “We’ve been keeping a little secret…
“Baby Beadle, you are so loved already.”
He recently returned to Geordie Shore after eight years away, though in a far cry from his wild days on the show he did it all sober.
He insisted that Maia won’t be joining the show because she has her own career, but with a baby on the way that could all change.
Friends are hoping it might put a stop to the one-upman ship.
They tell the Sun: “Everyone knows having a baby changes everything.
“They both have their happy ever afters now and can concentrate on that, and of course, the kids they share.
“There is room for them both to enjoy the limelight, without having to compete.”
