Made in Chelsea returned to our screens a few weeks ago and a whole host of drama awaited the cast as they settled back into the SW4 life after a tumultuous time in Bali.
As chaos ensued between pretty much everybody, we were also introduced to a few new faces who are ready to jump headfirst into the dramz.
One newcomer is David 'Temps' Templer who is no stranger to reality TV having starred on dating show Written in the Stars.
You may also recognise Temps as he is BFFs with everyones favourite Chelsea charmer Miles Nazaire, the duo having been pals for years and it was Miles who managed to score Temps a part on MIC.
As Miles' best bud, Temps knows the reality TV star better than most and while chatting exclusively to heat the newcomer offered up some thoughts on how his pal is perceived on MIC.
We asked Temps who he believed was misrepresented on the show and the TikTok star confessed, "I think it is a true representation but I think Miles. As his friend there is so much more to him than this guy who dates girls in Chelsea."
This isn't the first time comments have been made about Miles and the way his Chelsea clips are edited to make him seem like a cheating/charming/lying scoundrel.
Temps continued, "I am hoping that comes across this season because he is such a caring person. It’s not all about dating girls but I think the nature of the show he has dated a lot of girls and when it doesn’t work out, he looks like the bad guy."
Miles has previously addressed the way he is perceived on the show when the subject came up on an episode of Playtime Podcast, that Miles co-hosts with Love Island 2022 contestant Charles Radnedge.
Fellow MIC star Emily Blackwell was a guest on the podcast and had some thoughts on Miles and his flirty ways especially around the whole Ella May Ding fiasco.
We'll be frank: Emily is the down-to-earth, cutting, honest, female voice Playtime podcast so desperately needs, and as such it's easily the best episode yet; she elevates it from just two privileged playground playboys from Chelsea playing a game of in-joke ping-pong and we thank her for that. We also eternally thank her for keeping bestie Miles in line on and off camera – which, to our delight, is the main topic of conversation this week.
It's the shade-throwing for us. Here's one of our favourite exchanges between Miles and Emily during episode 5:
Miles: "I'm on a show where you're constantly getting a lot of attention and (to Charlie) you know how it feels now, as well..."
Emily: "It's just too easy for you, isn't it?"
Miles: "No, I don't want to say it like that because it sounds really f*cking disgusting. I just get a lot of attention. You get a lot of attention, and I have been, for a while..."
Emily: "Shagging."
Honestly, a MIC producer could never.
During the episode of the podcast, the trio went into detail about how the Ella MIC storyline affected Miles and how some of the resulting recent social media attention has led him and Charlie to declare Miles – yes, Miles – as "misrepresented" on the show.
Miles told his listeners, "I was really upset the last two weeks because I've been getting a lot of backlash, a lot of hate.
"It's really affected me and normally it doesn't – I've been on the show for five years now and I've always got hate, but this one really kind of affected me. And then I watched the show – I didn't actually watch this series, but I thought I must watch it because I'm getting all these comments about me. And I watched it and I was like, 'That's really not how it went down'."
Misrepresentation is a big deal when talking about the ins and outs and ethics of a reality show; especially if you're a heat journalist, so let's just say our ears pricked up at this point.
Charlie then piped in, adding, "I think you got misrepresented in the situation on Made in Chelsea. You got a bad edit."
Miles then continued, spouting, "Yeah, they cut a lot of my words and I get it, I feel like they wanted to favour Ella a little bit more, and also certain things got taken way out of context. For example, like, the message with Yaz. I was like, 'Oh my God'; it was like one simple message between a friend and myself that got blown out of proportion."
Spoiler alert if you haven't listened already, the whole thing then turns into a classic game of he said/she said between the Playtime podcast boys and the Sit With Us girls (Ella's podcast), which is a little too playground culture for our liking. Luckily, Emily clearly felt the same way and concluded the conversation by stating, "I think what people need to remember is that there is a lot that can happen that can only be squeezed into a one hour episode. A lot of what we say and what actually happens gets cut down."
Here's to Emily Blackwell, the most patient woman in television, and here's to Miles for his choice friendships – what's cute here, if (for the right or the wrong reasons) you can really see that Charlie and Emily have his back to the end of the Earth, which is quite nice to see in the rather artificial world of reality telly.