The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - The Most Shocking Bachelor Moments of 2025 - #3

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

We’ve made it to the 3rd most shocking moment of Bachelor Nation for 2025! This one proves you never know who you can trust… but we won’t make you listen to 25 parts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The number three most shocking moment this year was the Danish deception. Anyaka was on Colton season of The Bachelor back in 2019, and that's where we first met her. But this year, she went viral in November 2025 when she started to share her story in what she titled The Danish Deception on TikTok. It was very much in the same vein as Risa Tisa's viral TikTok story, Who the F Did I Marry? That came out a year earlier. Through her 25-part saga, Onieka details how she fell in love with a Danish man while vacationing in Croatia.

It becomes kind of a whirlwind romance. Everything is very fast. And kind of early on, there are some signs that maybe she should have looked into, but this man tells her he's from royal lineage and she hears him tell someone he's a former Olympic athlete in handball. Now, she never really looks into any of these things and kind of just takes them for face value.

I think she ends up regretting that. But yeah, I think most people would do a quick Google search and kind of look into those things, but alas, she did not. there were so many shocking twists in this story, but one early on is a dinner date that they have on Yaka ends up falling, hitting her head, and having seizures. And this is all within very early stages of them getting to know each other. But it's in this scary moment that he tells he loves her for the first time because she's already told him she loves him. And this is probably a big moment for them as a couple because she's really building trust. Even we're not going to get

into it, but like, why is she having seizures? She's never had seizures before. This whole moment in the story was very scary and crazy to listen back to. But not long after this experience is when money starts to come into this conversation. He starts saying he needs money, but when she offers, he won't accept, but eventually he gives into her loaning him $6,000 and he says, this will be the last time. Spoiler, it's not. Throughout the multi-part TikTok series, Anyaka shares that the asks for money become more and more frequent, but to her, they always seem legit. So he claims to her that he owns apartment complex and other places back in Denmark. And he'll say, like, something broke at the apartment complex he owns and he can't fix it because his assets are tied up in something

else. And, you know, Anyaka has a background in real estate, but obviously real estate laws are different, dependent on the country. So she takes a lot of what he says at face value. And especially in these early stages of their relationship, she doesn't push back and she doesn't look into these things. So, you know, she's just very trusting in what he's saying because to her, they're in love, you know, why would he have any reason to lie to her about something like this, you know? And plus, she thinks that he is very successful in what he does because early on in their relationship, she meets him in Monaco and they go to a network. event and she meets a lot of people that, you know, have worked with him and like him.

And Monaco is extremely expensive and he's paying for everything and they're going out and doing nice things. So she has no reason early on to believe that he's anything other than successful at what he does. So she, of course, just thinks, you know, like he said, he's got assets tied up in something else. This is a quick loan. She's going to lend it to him. And Everything's going to be good. But another bomb kind of gets dropped in this series from Oneyika is that they weren't just engaged to be married. Like she would have a lot of her followers believed online

because that's all she had kind of publicly posted. They were actually married. So that was pretty shocking because, again, her followers only believe she had been engaged. They ended up having a courthouse wedding in the United States and basically didn't tell anyone. So, Onyika is from a very traditional Nigerian family and they hadn't even met him or anything, this man. His name is Martin. She does not refer to him by his name throughout the entire TikTok series, but because they had

been a very public couple and shared a lot of TikToks and been on social media together, you know everybody knows that his name is martin or at least that's what he said his name was when they were together so so her family did not know she and martin were married um because of their traditional values um but she wanted to have them get married so that they could start the immigration process with him so um so they have this courthouse wedding with the intention that they will someday have this big wedding and everybody will be involved and she'll have a traditional Nigerian wedding and she'll also have a traditional kind of what they call a white dress wedding, which is the more Americanized wedding. So that's the plan. But even after they get

married, the money requests don't stop. And not long after they marry, the IRS calls Martin and says he owes $318,000 in taxes. He also says that his debtor, owes like millions, which shocking. Again, this is kind of where you would think some alarm bells are going off, right? Onyika already is under the impression that he's of royal lineage. Why, you know, if he's in royal lineage, is he needing, you know, help from his wife to loan money and his dad won't loan him the money? It's all very fishy, but, you know, as an outsider listening to this, this is when I would say most people's antennas would start to go up, but on Yakas does not. New Year's Resolution. Own how you show up online. It's easy with a domain and matching email

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There's a lot of chatter at this time about, you know, his assets are being frozen and still on Yaika loans him money because now at this point he is her husband and she's in love and very much invested in him and their future. So it's around this time that they go back to Denmark for the holidays and another bomb gets dropped on Yaka by one of her husband's friends. And it's this friend who reveals to her that her husband Martin has had a gambling addiction in the past and has had some enemies that people that he owed a lot of money to. And this is the moment where alarm bells start to really go off on Yaka. Her friend around this time hires a private investigator. They do a check on her husband. And this is when they find out that the Olympic athlete claims of royal

lineage, they're a lie. But he has no criminal background. So there is a little bit of relief there. After this, they kind of get on a good path. Anyika says he starts to go to gambler's support groups. They start to plan their wedding. Yeah, not going to lie. Planning the wedding seems like a really strange decision to be making, you know, one when he's not been repaying, like, money that he owes. He's got assets tied up overseas. So he says his assets are frozen by the IRS. It would not be the time that I think you start planning your wedding. So yeah, very strange decision. I still, after watching this multi-series part, don't really understand why she did that other than I think that maybe she was obviously excited. You know, at this point they had had a very public

engagement. He'd given her a really nice ring. And her family, very traditional Nigerian, had welcomed him in with open arms and really enjoyed getting to know him at this point. So I think it was just probably my guess would be a lot of excitement. Every young woman dreams about getting married. And I'm sure this was no different for her. So I think she was probably just swept up in this whole fantasy, even though behind the scenes, she knew that there were a lot of struggles that they were going through. But again, not long into this planning, Anyaka catches him lying when she sees him looking at gambling sites on his phone. But, I mean, there's a lot of back and forth about this. Obviously, this is a 25-part series

that I'm condensing. Eventually, in another shocking moment, he is the one. who calls off the wedding. I think this was pretty crazy. I remember watching this whole series over the course of a couple of days. And I remember thinking, that's not what I thought was going to happen. I really thought Anyaka was going to wake up at some moment and be like, I'm better than this. I deserve better than this. And she was going to leave him. So I was pretty shocked when I got to the part where he actually leaves her. He calls off the wedding. I mean, he does it because she's confronting him about money and gambling and these kinds of things, but it was kind of shocking to know that he actually was the one who leaves her. And Anyaka finally at this point has to

not only tell her friends and family that they're breaking up, but she's also kind of got a reveal to them that they were already married. So this is now more complicated. And she's obviously very scared that her, you know, traditional family is going to be very upset. with her, but, you know, they are there for her. They're supportive and they help her get through this. But, you know, there's another shocking twist, of course, in this story. And it's when she starts to tell her friends and family that, you know, they are breaking up. They were actually married. He has a gambling problem. That's when she finds out that he'd not only been taking and swindling money from her throughout their entire relationship, he'd actually been going behind her back

and taking and swindling money under false pretenses from her friends and family. Even from her parents, from her, you know, sister is really, really bad. And this was very sad to watch this portion of the story. On Jacob breaks down. She's extremely sad even retelling this. She feels an immense amount of guilt for bringing this. man into their lives. And of course, um, these friends and family will never get their money back. Um, so that is extremely sad. He often lied to them and in onyika's words would say things like,

you know, I want to buy onyika this purse, um, for her birthday. It's a surprise. Don't tell her, but my money is tied up overseas and my properties. Can you loan me the money so I can get it? At one point he was saying he was going to buy her. her a sports car of some sense and like to not tell her he said he was going to be buying property like land for them a way for them to start their married life so not to tell her and you know all of her friends and family believed him at face value and did not tell her what was happening behind her back eventually uh through this onyika finds support and you know does move forward with the divorce proceedings. Their divorce was finalized in November of 2025, which is why she

decided to start her TikTok series. And in another shocking twist, since she has shared her story and it's gone viral, she has found that her ex was in Tulum and he was still swindling women as recent as the week before her story went viral. So this story is definitely a shocking story. And I suggest if you have time this holiday season, go back, watch the 25 parts to get a real full grasp of how much money, how much lying was going on. It will definitely keep you hooked for a good amount of time. But that is why the Danish deception comes in as our number three most shocking moment of 2025. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHeart Radio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. That business idea you've been sitting on this new year.

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please visit gentlemen's cuthuburn.com. Please enjoy responsibly. I'm investigative journalist Melissa Jeltson. Listen, my new podcast, What Happened in Nashville, tells the story of an IVF clinic's catastrophic collapse and the patients who banded together in the chaos that followed. It doesn't matter how much I fight. It doesn't matter how much I cry over all of this. It doesn't matter how much justice we get. None of it's going to get me pregnant.

Listen to what happened in Nashville on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know he has a reputation, but it's going to catch up. to him. Gabe Ortiz is a cop. His brother Larry, a mystery Gabe didn't want to solve until it was too late. He was the head of this gang. You're going to push that line for the cause. Took us under his wing and showed us the game, as they call it. When Larry's killed, Gabe must untangle a dangerous past, one that could destroy everything he thought he knew. Listen to the brothers Ortiz on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Who would you call if the unthinkable happens? My sister was shot 22 times. A police officer, right? But what do you do when the monster is the man in blue? This dude is the devil. He'll hurt you. This is the story of a detective who thought he was above the law until we came together to take him down. I said, you're going to see my face to the day that you die.

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