When Ray and George found themselves alone washing the dishes, the Bromancers took the opportunity to have a little man-chat that unearthed the shocking truth about George’s feelings for Layla.
“Sometimes I feel like… with the hooking up thing…” George stammered, apropos of nothing but clearly keen to express some difficult feelings.
“Hooking up with Layla?” Ray clarified.
“Yeah, it’s just, I don’t know. It’s just annoying that you can’t, like, do anything,” George complained, possibly thinking of the physical nature of their relationship.
“You’re locked down and you can’t say certain things?” Ray tried to put words to George’s struggle for articulation.
“Yeah!” George confirmed. “It’s just weird. Like… I don’t know, I just find it weird.”
“When you first came in you were one of the boys, you could say whatever you wanted, and there was no reaction, everyone would just laugh it off,” Ray explained to his friend, citing how George's anecdotes about past girlfriends and former flings are now met with silence, “[Layla’s] a bit sensitive about it.”
“Yeah… I dunno,” a hesitant George murmured.
"Which is odd. I mean she obviously really digs you.”
Here George had less trouble making the situation clear in a shock statement that could leave Layla reeling: “I think we’re starting to cool off a bit.”
“Really?” exclaimed a clearly stunned Ray.
“Yeah. I think because I just wanted to… I dunno, because you just can’t progress.”
“You mean like, what’s the next step?” Ray queried.
"Yeah! We’ve been kissing, let’s say, in the first week, but now it’s just like…”
“Is it getting old?” Ray joked, but George was serious when he confirmed with a loud, “Yeah!”
Ray couldn’t hide his surprise, laughing and exclaiming, “Wow!”
“I think it’s me, eh?” George speculated.
“True?” Ray was further shocked. “Man, that’s because your heart’s not in it. Her heart’s in it.”
“I don’t think her heart’s in it,” George countered.
Ray was all sympathy, saying he would feel the same way in George’s situation – he wouldn’t be able to put his whole heart into a romance in the House because of lingering feelings for another girl on the outside.
“Yeah so it’s, uh… It’s a weird feeling,” George summarised.
“It’s human nature,” Ray concluded, just as Bradley walked in and asked, “What is?” His impertinent query was met with a change of subject and the matter was quickly dropped quicker than the dirty dishwater let out.
Does this surprising revelation spell the end of George and Layla (and end weeks of trouble trying to come up with a portmanteau for the pair: Gayla? Georla? Layge?)? If George’s heart’s not in it and he’s sure she feels the same, it seems a hopeless business.
But just because George says something is so doesn’t mean it is. Stay tuned to find out if Layla’s feelings on the subject are just as George appraises, or if there’s going to be some sparks of fury when the plucky Brit finds out her prospects in the millionaire are plummeting daily. Could be time to sell, sell, sell!