The woman who became a viral sensation after uttering some now very iconic words has finally revealed the identity of her boyfriend ‘Pookie’.

Haliey Welch, otherwise known as the ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, took over the internet after being interviewed on the streets of Nashville back in June.

YouTubers Tim and Dee TV spoke to dozens of women on the street, but it was Haliey who stole the show.

The Nashville native and her friend were chatting to Dee about the best way to ‘make a man go crazy every time’, when her mate flawlessly set Haliey up for the slam dunk.

“This is for her. You know how to answer this, you got it,” she said.

And that’s when Haliey responded: “You gotta give ’em that ‘Hawk Tuah’ and spit on that thang!”

And the rest is history.

After becoming the most talked-about person on social media, she started her own podcast Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch.

With nearly 190,000 subscribers, fans across the world have been tuning into her episodes on a weekly basis.

Recently though, Haliey has teased details about her love interest, a mystery guy called ‘Pookie’ who she famously shouted out in the viral video.

Well, on a 12 November episode, she finally introduced her boyfriend, whose real name is Kelby Blackwell.

Meet ‘Pookie’ (YouTube/Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch)

In the description, he is described as ‘Haliey’s three year situationship turned boyfriend’.

Incredibly, one of the pair’s first encounters was in a car parked in Walmart where they ‘yapped for three hours’, whilst Haliey’s cousin was hiding underneath a blanket in the vehicle.

Explaining the circumstances of their relationship, Kelby said: “So last year I was actually in a relationship for right around two and a half years.

“Nobody knows that of course because Haliey did not bring that up so everybody just thinks I’m a sorry sack of s**t.

“We broke up, I think, last March and it was just kind of like a dirty breakup.

“So the last couple months after that before I started actually like considering Haliey I was more working on myself and working on like being able to bring her what she needed for herself to where I didn’t want to bring the hurt on to her.”

He completely dismissed the rumblings that he only decided to become official with Haliey when she became famous.

“You can believe what you want at the end of the day, I mean I know what I feel in my heart and that I love Haliey so like that’s just that,” he said.

When looking for the perfect partner, a huge amount of people will start off on dating apps and go from there.

Of course, there’s plenty of apps to choose from but Tinder seems to be the most popular one, though one woman reckons she’s found an even better spot.

While it’s possibly a little bit too late to find a date to bring home for Christmas, unless of course your relationships develop at the kind of speed that would make a festive rom-com jealous, looking for your perfect partner is definitely worth your time.

But then, where to go to find ‘the one’? Do you want to bond over a mutual hobby, spark up a conversation in a bar or swipe through 100 faces until you finally meet your match?

According to one woman, the right place is Facebook, or more specifically a group on Facebook called the Dull Men’s Club.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Danielle Goodyear explained that she met boyfriend James Warburton on the intentionally boring group and couldn’t be happier.

The Dull Men’s Club is a group where people share normal, boring and relatively mundane things which are nonetheless fascinating.

While we might browse the internet in search of things that will blow our proverbial socks off, sometimes it’s nice to detox with a group that Danielle says is satisfying ‘like neatly organised sock drawers’.

She reckons that people enjoy the dull things in life more as they get older and noticed that James was a regular poster on the group, where he talks about things like the colour of the light on his kettle.

Spotting that he’d made a post about a woman accidentally adding him on Facebook before saying her finger had slipped, Danielle thought she had to get in on this and added James.

Facebook/James Warburton

It wasn’t long before they started chatting and met up for a date. James had joined the group in May this year and by September was meeting up with Danielle.

Beyond a use for dating, James reckons the Dull Men’s Club is also ‘genuinely a safe place’ on the internet and is better than Google for finding out the answer to things.

If you have a question there’s a legion of dull men who’ve been waiting their whole lives to unleash the bit of niche trivia you need.

Seriously, this place is amazing, there are people chatting about whether there’s a step on their stairs they won’t stand on.

Elsewhere, some bloke has pointed out that the distance between Mount Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti is so far that Toto’s song ‘Africa’ doesn’t really make sense, and another guy has been showing off his first ever double yolk egg.

A woman on TikTok has revealed the shocking moment she learnt her boyfriend was pretending to be an FBI agent.

Most people are guilty of over-hyping themselves on dating profiles and first dates. Naturally you want to put the best version of yourself forward rather than reveal your worst habits too early on in the dating process.

However there is a fine line between selling the best version of yourself and straight up lying, with one woman left horrified to discover the man she was dating wasn’t who he said he was.

Opening up in a viral post on TikTok, Jenna explained that she had taken the plunge onto dating apps in order to find love back in 2021 – however her match didn’t quite go as expected.

“I dated an FBI agent for six months, or did I,” she said in the viral post from 2022, before going on to reveal the date told her about his ‘job’ within the first five minutes of their first date after matching on Hinge.

However he would later use his job as the ‘perfect alibi’ in to get out of questions, as well as keeping his life very secretive.

She even revealed that he accused her of texting her ex and claiming that the ‘FBI’ had found this out for him.

Now Jenna has since reflected on the whole relationship and how she discovered he was lying to her in an episode of The Dating Detectives, with the content creator discussing her experience with host private investigator Mackenzie Fultz.

But something about the man’s claims didn’t add up. (Cover Images)

“Something felt wrong, so I started investigating. That’s when I understood that my emotions had utterly blinded me,” she recalled, before explaining that a friend working in the US Intelligence sector had found no record of him on FBI databases.

“My ex was not in the FBI,” she continued. “In fact, he had never even been through FBI training. There was absolutely nothing in his background connected to the FBI whatsoever.”

Jenna then went on to add that the man hadn’t conned her out of money or asked to stay with her during the relationship, explaining that he’d simply lied for ‘the thrill of it’.

She continued: “He was always super secretive, yet I clearly remember seeing an FBI resume and cover letter on his desktop, almost as if he wanted me to see it. He had no social media or friends I could meet.

“He claimed all his friends were away on deployments with the military,” Jenna added, revealing the podcast host had told her the ex had ‘zero job history’ other than previously serving in the military.

Jenna would go on to learn that she wasn’t the only woman who he’d lied to, adding that she’d later connected with a woman from Florida whose experience sounded very similar to hers.

“Turns out it was him,” she added.

A US Marine has revealed the sinister reason why women have often reached out to his wife and claimed that he is cheating on her.

It’s a story found in many people’s nightmares. You fall in love with the person of your dreams, get married and begin building your life together – only to receive an earth-shattering message claiming that your significant other is cheating.

The scenario is not uncommon one, and is something which happened to Reilly Dunlap, 36, the wife of US Marine officer Kagan Dunlap, however, everything was not as it seemed.

Fortunately for Reilly, her husband of four years hadn’t been doing the dirty on her with dozens of random women around the world—in fact, there would be something much more sinister at play.

It would turn out the dashing 37-year-old’s photos had been used online by various scammers looking to woo women in order to take advantage of them.

Revealing that the scheme had been happening to him since 2015, Kagan explained how the scammer’s actions had left him feeling ‘disgusted’ as devastated women from all over the world have reached out to his wife and mother.

“I’ve had women from all over the planet. All over Europe, Canada, America, Australia, women from everywhere say they’ve had people try to scam them,” he explained.

“I’ve had women call me out of the blue over the past 10 years that somehow randomly managed to get my phone number because they did a Google reverse image search and found out who I really was.

Kagan has been forced to be ‘brutally honest’ with his wife, Riley, over what’s happening (Kennedy)

“There are probably thousands and thousands of fake accounts of me all over the place both on social media and on dating apps. It’s pretty insane.”

According to the content creator, these scammers use AI technology to mimic his voice to have conversations with these women. He also believes that those in the military are at a particular risk because scammers can use their deployment to spin a sob story to get money from their victims.

“I’m not unique or special in that sense, there’s people all over the world that are falling prey to this or being impacted by this.” he said. “I can’t really express an accurate level of disgust for the damage that these people are doing to people, especially using something as sacred as romance to steal essentially, and con people.”

Kagan went on to explain that while the vast majority of the women reaching out were ‘non-threatening, non-aggressive’ and simply trying to work out what had happened to them, he and his family had experienced several uncomfortable situations.

Kagan urges anyone in internet relationships to ‘vet’ the person with a live video call (Kennedy)

“Sometimes there’s women out there that are extremely aggressive about it and they are so dead set on believing what these impersonation accounts are telling them that they accuse my wife of lying and not telling them the truth,” he continued.

“Disgusted is probably a good term for how it makes me feel especially when folks reach out to my family and my wife.

“I have been brutally honest about everything in our relationship together to make sure she understood.”

Kagan then went on to share his advice to anyone who believes they may be falling for a love scammer, urging people to vet internet romances with a video call.

“If a person cannot do a video call with you, a live video call with you, and they give you any sort of excuse that they can’t do it then that’s an automatic red flag,” he added.

“There is nowhere on the planet that you can’t do a video call. If they’re messaging you from somewhere then they can do a video call with you.”