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Former So Solid Crew rapper, MC Harvey has revealed he was tricked by a "calculated and meticulous" hoaxer pretending to be Cheryl Cole as he believed to be having a "communication relationship" with the singer.
In an interview with Now, Harvey said that he had emails from the Girls Aloud singer that proved they were seeing each other.
However, the magazine have had to issue an apology as the news that the emails were from a hoaxer came to light.
Cheryl firmly denied the rumours and responded by taking legal action against the magazine whilst Harvey has said he is "mortified" and "devastated".
Now have issued a formal apology to Cheryl in their February 19 issue and they have agreed to pay damages and legal costs to the singer after discovering that the emails sent to Harvey were "not genuine" and were actually from a hoaxer.
The statement reads: "In an article last February we said that Cheryl Cole had had a secret romantic relationship with Michael Harvey Jr, aka MC Harvey, formerly of the group So Solid Crew.
"When Cheryl went to Twitter to deny this we published a second article saying we'd seen emails that evidenced there had been a relationship. Although we had seen several hundred emails, written over a six-month period, apparently between Cheryl, her mother and Michael, we are now satisfied that the emails from Cheryl and her mother are not genuine.
MC Harvey was tricked into thinking he was emailing Cheryl Cole
The statement continues, "They appear to be the work of a calculated and meticulous hoaxer masquerading as Cheryl who went to great lengths to deceive MC Harvey. The hoaxer's motives remain unknown but what has become clear is that there was never any relationship between Cheryl and Michael and we were wrong not to accept Cheryl's denial.
"We're sorry, Cheryl, for any embarrassment and upset we have caused you. We have agreed to pay Cheryl damages and her legal costs."
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