Liv Purvis

[Walkthehemline]

Reading that article, you would never known she had ever been married. She makes it sound like she found the house with the help of her mum and moved in there alone. She talks about redecorating the front room, which happened soon after they announced their split, if I recall, and she's made it into a much more feminine space. This seems like the obvious space to mention her marriage split - but it seems like she doesn't want to mention it at all and has possibly also asked the journalist to omit any mention. Maybe this is her way of dealing with the split, but it does feel like Joe has been somewhat erased from her life, and makes me think that there's more to their split than simply 'growing apart.'

The above is not meant to be critical of her - it's just an observation. I know she likes to keep things private.

I felt the same as you and wondered that about the split. She had this frame above the bed which used to include a set of photobooth photos of the two of them. The same frame is there but replaced with her and Arlo doing photobooth photos instead. It's cute but made me a bit sad for her.

Clearly she is reclaiming the house as her territory - and fair play to her for doing so.

 

[tatty400]

She’s playful with her sense of style which I like, but she definitely gets it wrong sometimes. Agree, recently I’ve been thinking WTF

 

[ANiceEgg]

He has also deleted/archived his post of Liv for Valentine’s Day

I hope they are both doing well. A divorce/separation is horrible for anyone let alone them two who have been together since they were in their late teens right?

Yes I noticed that, and he’s changed his profile pic from the one of them both on their wedding day to one of just him. I’m so sad for them! Did not see it coming (until reading the speculation on here)

 

[Cobbles]

I wonder if they’ve blocked each other as Liv had liked Joe’s most recent post of his sister and her husband, but it’s not saying she’s liked it anymore.

 

[bugeyeboo]

I had a glance at his insta and the thing that struck me the most was the one when their son was born. Liv and Arlo stayed in hospital and he wrote that his two hour visits were keeping him going and I was like….keep YOU going? Nothing about his wife. Or even son. It was about him! Red flag for sure.

 

[Shutterbug99]

i notice hardly any mention of maggie anymore, i wonder if joe has her

I was wondering about Maggie too. I can't see Liv letting her go. Maybe they will share custody depending on what their living arrangements are. I think Liv is still in their house but I wonder if that will remain the case or if she'll have to sell.

 

[ECH]

Well you all called it! Sad for her but hopefully she’s doing okay. I do wonder what happened, they seemed fine in spring on their California trip? Foul play on his part perhaps?

I actually wonder if they were almost holding it together until the California trip, and when that had happened and they didn't have much left to look forward to together it kind of fell apart.

 

[timefortea82]

Seeing those sorts of freebies when people literally cannot afford heating or food makes me feel uneasy. This isn't an attack at Liv personally, I understand it's her job. If I were an influencer I would feel so uncomfortable having to advertise all the things I got for free while knowing so many of my followers who helped me get to where I was are struggling.

I would LOVE to see them donating more of their freebies to charities or followers, or even a one off of them letting one of their followers enjoy one of the experiences they get for free. It would still be good publicity for the brand too - I would be more likely to support a company that did that.

Instead, we get influencers selling their free gifts for profit on vinted and hinting on stories for more free stuff. (Not aimed at Liv just influencers in general).

Couldn’t agree more.

It’s a major case of ‘read the room’. I’d much rather see at least one of them use their platform for good - raffle off the freebie for a charity, the ‘gifter’ still gets a bit of publicity and the influencer doesn’t look like a greedy, materialistic parasite.

 

[Roseannanna]

I think they’ve definitely separated. She didn’t mention his birthday and his family posted video montages and she’s not in any of the clips, just arlo and family members. She mentioned him so much that’s it’s very obvious now she’s not. She talks about dinner for her and arlo, and I do think she drops the odd intentional hint here and there. Hope they’re both doing ok! As someone else said, they’d been together since GCSEs, that’s a long time! Lots of growing up between then and now. I believe she’s a bridesmaid in his sisters wedding, which would have been arranged before they broke up I imagine, so it’s good they’re staying on good terms for arlo. But I think now it’s quite obvious they’ve separated. Perhaps she’ll mention it, perhaps she’ll just assume we’ve all guessed.

I am glad she gets on well with Joe’s family but as a follower of almost 10 years it’s like a griefing process. They have been together for ever ! It’s sad how it has ended but You either grow together or grow apart. It must be really difficult.

 

[ECH]

One thing that's making me think there is trouble in paradise is she never used to credit whoever took photos of her on her blog, presumably because it was Joe. However, her last few posts have credits on them to a different photographer.

 

[slugella]

The deleting of socials was what made me think it too!

Why though? Because he could hide it by just not mentioning/posting about them? Not saying you're wrong just curious on why you think this.

I'm so nosey I want to know what happened though she of course doesn't owe it to her followers to go into it. I do hope she is OK, like others have said she seems to have a great support network who will help her through.

 

[clueless]

Agreed. She's so naturally beautiful, I'm sure she's a photographer's dream!

 

[catpotlan]

I am happy for her if she is dating too ( according to her blog post for the first time ever ).

 

[PineappleQueen19]

I have read that statistically speaking, the most likely time for a man to cheat is when his partner is pregnant or has a baby

No indication that’s what’s happened here but it’s a cliché for a reason.

I also believe many people have doubts about their relationship but don’t feel they have enough of a reason to break up so go on to get engaged and then married. Happens a lot around the given ‘settling down’ age of a community (28-29 for my social circle). Sunk cost fallacy if you have been together for a while by that point, with one person keen to hit the next milestone. Then the pressure of a baby blows it wide open.

 

[TGreece76]

I am so sick of every single Mum influencer parading around in an Artipoppe baby carrier. Like clones. I have ever seen a non influencer wear one, they seem to be made for vain Insta Mums only.

 

[clueless]

Liv is the only influencer I pay any attention to nowadays. She is still able to capture some of that charm from the OG blogger days, which I have a bit of nostalgia for.

I used to watch her youtube when she was active there and I agree with another poster here about Joe’s vibe being off. In many of the videos it’s obvious Liv is a people pleaser and generally puts a positive spin on things, whereas Joe was huffy, attention seeking, and seemed to make passive condescending remarks to liv all the time and dim her light a bit. I remember thinking she deserved a lot better at the time.

But then again youtube was only a small snippet into their life and may not have painted much of a picture. Although, it did strike me odd that Joe would present himself in such a way in front of the camera - made me wonder if that’s how he came across when being somewhat self-aware I wouldn’t like to be around him IRL.

BIB: I thought the same. I remember him being like that in some videos, and I can't remember what exactly it was now, but I recall Liv showing a IG Story video of their Christmas Day (in lockdown) and he made a barbed comment/joke with a jibe towards her which took me aback a bit, I thought it was quite nasty.

 

[Cobbles]

Clicked on a link to a cardigan (amongst about 10 other links to items of clothing) she posted the other day on Stories as I thought it was really cute. £333!!

 

[ECH]

Idk if anyone caught it but yesterday she posted a pic of Arlo (he was sat on the grass somewhere) and Joe posted the same pic on his stories, so it seems all is well for them.

 

[slugella]

I think Liv is one of the more tolerable influencers but she goes sooo hard on the "I'm so uncool tho, listen to my dad jokes" sort of image I'm assuming in an effort to be relatable but it is getting a bit old lol. She did it in a story again a week or so ago in the ad she did with Carrie for triumph and in the IG story it was talking about the underwear and I can't remember exactly but was something along the lines of "well they're not as supportive about my dad jokes but neither is Carrie tbh!" I remember being like what that doesn't even make any sense lol.

 

[uola]

Liv could be dating or even have bf herself, we know fuck all about her personal life