Kym Marsh on her 'Catfish' nightmare: 'Someone stole my identity and pretended to be me for 10 years!'

KYM MARSH TALKS ABOUT 'CATFISHING' AS PART OF THE LATEST LOOSE WOMEN UNDERCOVER

Andrea and Linda investigated Catfishing in the latest Loose Women Undercover and was joined by Kym Marsh.

Coronation Street's Kym exclusively shared her own experiences of 'Catfishing'.

'I knew there were fake profiles of me on social media – to a certain extent you expect it a little bit,' Kym explained. 'But this one particular day I came home to a bunch of flowers on the doorstep of my home with a card that said, "Sorry you couldn’t make the date, hope you’re better soon" with kisses and no name. And obviously my boyfriend was a bit like, "What’s this about?'"

'The police did find out who it was, they contacted the guy and he thought he’d been having a relationship with me for the last ten years,' Kym added.

'He said that originally they’d been talking over social media and then this person [the catfish] had been texting and stuff as well and claiming to be me. They wouldn’t give me that information [whether the catfish was a woman]. It was really creepy… to have somebody at your home.'

Of the length of deception, Kym admitted: '[That] in itself is quite odd, why haven’t you questioned why we’ve not met for ten years? It’s a bit of a strange relationship.'

Her own daughter Emilie has also suffered online fake profiles and Kym said: 'It’s dangerous. Really dangerous.'

Private investigator Rebecca Jane, The Lady Detective, is calling for Catfishing - which sees a ‘catfish’ use someone else’s identity online - be made illegal also joined the show with model Matt Peacock, whose image was used by a catfish to source private images and videos of women.

'It’s such a huge problem, we need the law to change to get them to pay attention to us. If we don’t do something about it now, what is the future for our children?' Rebecca told us.

'There’s two victims to all of this. Our lives are online these days. We do date online, we come across a fake profile and just go, ‘Oh it’s a fake profile’, but we shouldn’t be accepting it, because like I say, there’s two victims - the person that’s had their identity stolen and the person that’s been conned, manipulated and basically whatever else,' Rebecca added. 'You think it’s a victimless crime, but it’s not.'

Rebecca is working with Stockport MP Ann Coffey to get the law changed.

Watch the video to see Kym talk about her personal experience of catfishing...