Posted on 06/02/2011 12:11:04 PM PDT by woofie
The self-confessed 'ugly' couple who got engaged through Britain's first dating agency for the 'aesthetically challenged' have split up. Tom Clifford and Janine Walker, who shared a mutual love of junk food and TV dinners, parted company last month following a whirlwind online romance.
The couple hit the headlines last October after meeting on www.theuglybugball.com.
They became engaged after only four dates and less than a month after joining the site.
Mr Clifford, 37, and Miss Walker, 32, were originally planning a winter wedding near their respective homes in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, but postponed the date and have now separated. Friends believe Mr Clifford - a carpet fitter who has a 'face that makes children cry' - may have got cold feet.
Jessie Bridge, 31, who has known Miss Walker since childhood, said: 'All I'll say is that Janine and Tom have very definitely broken up. 'It wouldn't be right for me to divulge information about the split, but I will say that Tom has been acting edgy about wedding plans for some time.
'Objectively-speaking, it may well be that the thought of marriage pushed him over the edge.'
Mr Clifford, who has been single since 1998, spotted Miss Walker on the site in August 2010.
His first email to her read: 'Dear Janine, Just seen your beautiful face on The Ugly Bug Ball and would love to meet up. You live near me, so this shouldn't be a problem.
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Same here. Fat, but not ugly. I was expecting something like Waxman or Wasserman...
Which one is Tom?
It’s people like this that make me look good, and I appreciate it.
Big deal. You want ugly? Go to Wal-Mart on a hot day.
First glance I thought it was two women!
Either that or they should be given their own sitcom.
The next household god and goddess.
Huh.........I was expecting something like Waxman, but these two don’t look ugly to me. Goodness, what makes people think so poorly of themselves that they join a website for ugly people?
You beat me to it!
(You have those Waxman nightmares too, where he’s chasing you thru a fog, begging for a kiss?).
*shiver*
That looks like a woman on the left...and the one on the right is wearing a very cheap wig.....
And Nancy Pelosi, with the Michael Jackson nose.
Now, they should go to the buguglyball.com site.
Weiner ain't much pretty, either.
“Big deal. You want ugly? Go to Wal-Mart on a hot day.”
or try a hot muggy 2 AM when the STRANGE come out.
eek, git the shotgun Ma
Laz would hit it.
If these two consider themselves to be ugly, they both need to get mirrors that didn’t start out in a fun house.
Ugly, no. Not by a long stretch.
I was expecting them to be uglier. They’re kind of unattractive, but not trolls living under a bridge.
ping
Looks like the fat guy from ‘Lost’ just cell-divisioned into a man and a woman.
I’ve been on FR too long. The only thing I could think of when I read the title was... Lazamataz.
My guess is that they tried to have sex, and it wouldn’t reach.
Where the heck is Laz anyway?
Haven’t noticed him posting since his ‘doomsday’ post.
He’s not ugly, he’s just Welsh and very overweight. She could be ok if she changed her hairstyle.
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