{"id":52349,"date":"2025-08-08T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52349\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:28:09","slug":"humiliated-michelle-bridges-admits-she-was-stood-up-on-her-first-date-in-five-years-as-she-shares-mortifying-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52349\/","title":{"rendered":"Humiliated Michelle Bridges admits she was stood up on her first date in FIVE years as she shares mortifying ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/michelle-bridges\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d2c2a700-7416-11f0-8ca9-871c39b6a9de\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michelle Bridges<\/a> has been left humiliated after being stood up on her first date in five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The celebrity fitness trainer, 54, who has been living the single life following her split from\u00a0Steve &#8216;Commando&#8217; Willis in 2020, recalled the mortifying experience in an Instagram Story post on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Sharing for my single ladies,&#8217; the mother-of-one wrote alongside a photo of herself in the car on the way home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I went on a first date tonight. The FIRST date I&#8217;ve had in 5.5 years. (I looked frickin&#8217; hot btw). And I got stood up,&#8217; she continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Met someone who said &#8216;you look lost, can I help you?&#8217; (So sweet and very handsome). We sat for 2 hours and chatted and laughed. He&#8217;s like way too young but at this point who cares!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;What a start??!!? Who does that???&#8217; the frustrated fitness guru lamented, before noting that the tale was: &#8216;Great content!!!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b62861c65c9520ea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101028585-14982047-Michelle_Bridges_54_pictured_revealed_to_Instagram_on_Thursday_t-a-20_17546316929.jpeg\" height=\"1129\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Michelle Bridges, 54, (pictured) revealed to Instagram on Thursday that she'd been stood up on her first date in five years\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Michelle Bridges, 54, (pictured) revealed to Instagram on Thursday that she&#8217;d been stood up on her first date in five years\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It comes two months after Michelle\u00a0revealed that she has not been in a relationship since her high-profile split from Steve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The admission came when Michelle was commenting on a post from influencer <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/abbie-chatfield\/index.html\" id=\"mol-5e8e2e60-36a7-11f0-91bd-1d6b784a67d1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abbie Chatfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In it, Abbie was telling followers not to waste their time with men who &#8216;feel threatened&#8217; by women recognising the patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If they are threatened, you are signing yourself up for time wasted trying to make yourself smaller for HIS comfort,&#8217; Abbie captioned her video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;You would rather NOT be picked than be picked by a man who sees you as less than.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jumping into the comments, Michelle revealed that she was enjoying her years of singledom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;5yrs of being with me. Best years of my life,&#8217; Michelle wrote, accompanied with a love heart emoji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The comment resonated with Abbie&#8217;s followers, with many replying in support of the fitness maven.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e664f36284ba3b5f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/98631153-14737483-The_fitness_guru_and_her_former_Biggest_Loser_co_star_48_split_b-a-36_174787604681.jpeg\" height=\"1406\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The celebrity fitness trainer, 54, who has been living the single life following her split from Steve 'Commando' Willis in 2020. (Pictured together in 2019)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The celebrity fitness trainer, 54, who has been living the single life following her split from Steve &#8216;Commando&#8217; Willis in 2020. (Pictured together in 2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8ea6e3c1e9ec87c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101028893-14982047-_Met_someone_who_said_you_look_lost_can_I_help_you_So_sweet_and_-a-18_17546316929.jpeg\" height=\"707\" width=\"634\" alt=\"'Met someone who said 'you look lost, can I help you?' (So sweet and very handsome). We sat for 2 hours and chatted and laughed. He's like way too young but at this point who cares!' she mused\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">&#8216;Met someone who said &#8216;you look lost, can I help you?&#8217; (So sweet and very handsome). We sat for 2 hours and chatted and laughed. He&#8217;s like way too young but at this point who cares!&#8217; she mused<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Same here, high five,&#8217; one responded, while another jumped in with a similar: &#8216;This is everything.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A third added: &#8216;Yes!! 8 years for me&#8230;and I can&#8217;t wait for 8 more!!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was a sentiment Michelle echoed to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/michelle-bridges-partner\/\">Who<\/a> magazine in 2024, admitting that a relationship was not on her radar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I just feel very independent and I really like it, and no, I&#8217;m not looking for love. At all. I haven&#8217;t been able to date in four and a half years. I&#8217;m good with that,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I feel empowered by being independent. It&#8217;s the longest I&#8217;ve been on my own, and I don&#8217;t plan on changing that any time soon.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Michelle and Steve debuted their romance on the red carpet in May 2013, shortly after announcing splits from their respective partners at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They welcomed their son Axel in December 2015 and later announced their split in 2020, the same year Michelle was convicted for drink driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Michelle blew 0.086 when she was pulled over in her Range Rover with Axel in the car at about 11.25am on Australia Day 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3316909bc3a9787d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/98631163-14982047-Michelle_and_Steve_welcomed_their_son_Axel_right_in_December_201-a-21_175463169350.jpeg\" height=\"795\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Michelle and Steve welcomed their son Axel (right) in December 2015 and later announced their split in 2020\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Michelle and Steve welcomed their son Axel (right) in December 2015 and later announced their split in 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u00a0In 2021, the former Biggest Loser star told <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/health-and-wellness\/a-pretty-dark-place-fitness-titan-michelle-bridges-on-the-hardest-time-of-her-life-20210305-p5785m.html\">Good Weekend<\/a> magazine she suffered her fair share of &#8216;dark&#8217; days following her split from Steve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I felt very alone,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;To be honest, it was the hardest time of my life, ever, leading up to what happened. I felt like I was in a fog, and I didn&#8217;t know what was happening.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Bridges has been left humiliated after being stood up on her first date in five years.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10422,64,63,100,134,43846,2017],"class_list":["post-52349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abbie-chatfield","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-michelle-bridges","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}