Love Cheats review – one romance scam is so hideous that a woman takes it to parliament — SkimNews
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- Love Cheats series 2 is a true-crime show about romance fraud, opening with the case of DJ Liv Nervo, who secretly recorded her partner Matthew confronting him about a 'triple life' he led despite being genuinely wealthy.
- Liv Nervo has since become an activist against reproductive coercion, working with the Good Law Project, and Labour MP Natalie Fleet raised her case in parliament, naming her directly.
- Ben Millin was convicted of fraud after Avon and Somerset police described his scheme as 'a massive web of lies and deceit' targeting multiple women, including Exeter's Fiona Mulkerrins-Dixon, with fabricated stories of a dead father, a sister who never existed, and a fatal heart condition.
- Millin was sentenced to 34 months in prison but served just five; fellow victim Michelle, swindled by the same man who conned Natalie, is still repaying more than £6,000 of debt after having some written off.
- The series uses AI-generated visuals that the reviewer flags as 'uncanny valley face renderings' and Lego-like homes, part of a wider 2026 trend in true-crime production.
- Victims frame the show as both catharsis and warning: Fiona says the betrayal will 'sit with me for ever,' while Natalie asks, 'How do you trust people? How do you let people in? How do you move on?'
Why it matters: The series elevates romance fraud beyond financial crime into questions of reproductive coercion serious enough to reach UK parliamentary debate, while its other cases — like Ben Millin, who served just five months of a 34-month sentence — show how lightly courts punish prolific scammers who inflict lasting psychological and financial harm on multiple victims.
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