{"id":160514,"date":"2022-07-17T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160514"},"modified":"2022-07-17T07:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T07:03:18","slug":"brit-and-his-ukrainian-refugee-lover-surviving-with-nowt-after-he-lost-his-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/brit-and-his-ukrainian-refugee-lover-surviving-with-nowt-after-he-lost-his-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit and his Ukrainian refugee lover ‘surviving with nowt’ after he lost his job"},"content":{"rendered":"

A love-struck Romeo who fell for a Ukrainian refugee and left his long-term girlfriend says the pair are "surviving with nowt" \u2013 after he lost his job because of the furore around his new relationship.<\/p>\n

Blonde Ukrainian stunner Sofiia Karkadym, 22, arrived at Tony and Lorna Garnett's household in Bradford, West Yorkshire, two months ago after fleeing the city of Lviv, which was under attack from Putin's troops.<\/p>\n

Tony collected her from Manchester Airport on May 4 after organising the arrangement for months with Tony, which Lorna opposed. <\/p>\n

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Ten days later, Tony and the Ukrainian stunner had eloped, and fast forward to present day and the Bradford native has lost his job because of the media circus around the relationship. <\/p>\n

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Tony told the Daily Star: "I\u2019ve been trying to get by and survive with Sofiia with nowt. <\/p>\n

"I want to show people that I\u2019m not a scrounger for government benefits, I know what is right. <\/p>\n

"I used to have a very successful business. I\u2019ve dedicated myself to it, some weeks I put over 80 hours a week into it. <\/p>\n

"As of now, she\u2019s my priority. She needs my care."<\/p>\n

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Tony said that he ran a security firm that had NHS contracts that he subsequently lost because of journalists and paparazzi showing up at his place of work, worrying health service officials. <\/p>\n

He said: "Now and again I\u2019m sending door staff to pubs and clubs but I\u2019ve gone from earning nearly 2k a week to earning jack s*** because of media turning up to where my door staff are and trying to get my number because I locked my social media profiles.<\/p>\n

"NHS said that because I\u2019m now apparently a \u2018public figure\u2019 in the public eye they class it as a risk for me to be at any of these places.<\/p>\n

"I\u2019m not a public figure, I\u2019m just an outspoken individual."<\/p>\n

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That was in April, and Tony said they paid him until the end of the month before he needed to find new ways to make money. <\/p>\n

"I\u2019ve lived off what I\u2019ve been paid by newspapers. I\u2019ve maxed credit cards out, I\u2019ve been helped out by family members," he added.<\/p>\n

He can't even put furniture in the rental property he now lives in with Sofiia, he said. <\/p>\n

However, Tony is looking to move into "music or comedy" and even released a song based on his relationship with Sofiia, called 'Ukraine to UK Rain'.<\/p>\n

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