This is how I interpret their relationship...
Personally I don't think he has thrown her out or broken up with her or anything like that. I think she genuinely is close with her family and was desperate to see them as soon as she could.
In terms of the relationship looking bad over lockdown - I think they're just very different in terms of how private they are. Emily wants attention for every tiny thing she can possibly milk. Whereas James only seems to want public attention for his music. Probably partly an age thing and partly personality type.
I think actually their relationship is fairly stable etc.
BUT, I don't think they're madly in love either. I think they get on well enough but they're not amazing together or anything.
James works hard and music is his number one priority and he doesn't give Emily as much attention or fuss as she'd like. This upsets Emily but James barely notices because he's so different and so much older that it wouldn't even have occured to him that Emily desperately wants to brag to her audience. For example, on her birthday James was probably working from home and couldn't spend the entire day fussing over Emily. He thought that having cake and singing to her in the evening was enough. Which realistically it is - the majority of older adults would just low-key celebrate their birthday in the evenings and chill. But being a youtuber who wants to vlog the whole day and show off "relationship goals", this was a let down to Emily and makes him look bad on her vlog.
I think Emily would be much happier with someone like Jake who is also into social media and makes Emily look adored. But she likes being with James because he's famous and linked to Mcfly, which makes her feel important. So she's always a bit sad and torn because she can't dump a member of Busted but he doesn't make her happy and he's oblivious to "relationship goals" etc.
I don't know why James is with Emily though... Maybe it's simply that she's beautiful and acts like a housewife which makes his life easy because all he wants to do is music.
Personally I don't think he has thrown her out or broken up with her or anything like that. I think she genuinely is close with her family and was desperate to see them as soon as she could.
In terms of the relationship looking bad over lockdown - I think they're just very different in terms of how private they are. Emily wants attention for every tiny thing she can possibly milk. Whereas James only seems to want public attention for his music. Probably partly an age thing and partly personality type.
I think actually their relationship is fairly stable etc.
BUT, I don't think they're madly in love either. I think they get on well enough but they're not amazing together or anything.
James works hard and music is his number one priority and he doesn't give Emily as much attention or fuss as she'd like. This upsets Emily but James barely notices because he's so different and so much older that it wouldn't even have occured to him that Emily desperately wants to brag to her audience. For example, on her birthday James was probably working from home and couldn't spend the entire day fussing over Emily. He thought that having cake and singing to her in the evening was enough. Which realistically it is - the majority of older adults would just low-key celebrate their birthday in the evenings and chill. But being a youtuber who wants to vlog the whole day and show off "relationship goals", this was a let down to Emily and makes him look bad on her vlog.
I think Emily would be much happier with someone like Jake who is also into social media and makes Emily look adored. But she likes being with James because he's famous and linked to Mcfly, which makes her feel important. So she's always a bit sad and torn because she can't dump a member of Busted but he doesn't make her happy and he's oblivious to "relationship goals" etc.
I don't know why James is with Emily though... Maybe it's simply that she's beautiful and acts like a housewife which makes his life easy because all he wants to do is music.