Gay Social Media Darlings Nicky Champa And Pierre Boo Announce Their Split
Nicky Champa and Pierre Boo have announced the end of their marriage. The couple were known across social media for their idealised relationship but behind the screen, things began to feel artificial.
With love and respect
The couple had one of those cute-meet stories where they were both auditioning for a role and locked eyes across the room. “I found a best friend. A lover. Someone to hold me accountable and inevitably force me to grow. We’ve had extreme highs and low lows,” says Champa. The couple began making content together and built a significant following on their socials.
Nicky and Pierre had been together for six years and got married in August 2022. After almost a year of marriage, they are announcing the end of their relationship as a couple. “With social media, it’s a bit complicated. Our relationship became a brand,” Champa says in an exclusive interview with Out. “I want to say I have nothing but love and respect for this person. I spent my entire twenties with this person. I grew up with this person. He’s a very special person and will always remain that way for me.”
There is an age gap between the couple with Nicky being 27 and Pierre being 36. Combined with the pressures that social media added to the relationship, Champa theorises that these reasons marked out the end of their journey together, reports Out.
“It was almost like I felt trapped within an ideology of what we’ve become,” he says. “I can only speak for myself. I lost myself in this relationship, incredibly. I sacrificed a lot for this relationship. I dedicated myself to this relationship and the brand that we were building. I think that at this stage in my life, I had to choose me and pick me first. And I think [Pierre] had to do the same, and that’s the direction we’re heading in.”
On social media they were perfect, but as with all things on social media the reality was more complicated. “I think that for a long time I was kind of shadowed by the brand that we created and I didn’t have the platform or space to be myself. That’s what my focus will be going forward,” says Champa. Through the loss of their relationship, there’s an important lesson about seeing social media figures as human beings and a reminder that not everything you see online is as perfect in real life.
