Influencer, 21, defends her romance with 16-year-old amateur boxer after she was branded 'insane' over the age gap - as she insists their relationship is 'legal' despite furious backlash

A societal media influencer has defended her determination to prosecute a romanticist narration pinch a 16-year-old boy aft group branded her 'insane'.

Tasha Newcombe, 21, from Kent, precocious became romantically progressive pinch 16-year-old Marko Vituk, from Maidstone, pinch nan caller mates each sharing nan news connected their societal media accounts.

However, since nan brace made their narration official, they person received a watercourse of backlash from viewers who deliberation their narration is 'insane' owed to nan 5 twelvemonth property spread betwixt them.

In consequence to nan ongoing controversy, nan 21-year-old precocious took to TikTok to springiness further specifications of nan relationship, insisting that she was initially unsure astir pursing Mark, who is of GCSE age, but that they had a 'healthy, happy and loving relationship'.

Tasha, who useful arsenic a statement rep, says has 'done societal media for six years', and now boasts 263.3K connected TikTok pinch 10 cardinal likes for her glamorous, statement oriented videos.

She described her narration of 3 months pinch Marko arsenic 'legal' contempt nan galore viewers opposing it. 

Though 16-year-old is still of schoolhouse property and not presently legally capable to portion aliases drive, he has besides made a sanction for himself arsenic an online influencer.

Alongside his schoolhouse commitments, Marko besides boxes and recently started a YouTube podcast called, Empowerred, which describes itself arsenic 'A Podcast That Is Taking Over The Net'.

Speaking successful a 5 infinitesimal agelong video which now has astir 2 cardinal views, Tasha took to nan app to explicate her broadside of things, telling her 'haters' that she wouldn't 'stand' for trolling.

She started nan video by saying: 'The logic I'm making this video coming is evidently to talk astir my relationship.

'I americium successful a narration pinch personification who's 5 years younger than maine and I cognize a batch of group are gonna person their opinions connected that and rather rightly so, you're allowed to person your opinions, that's your free will.

'I've seen a batch of comments and videos from bullies saying "you cognize what you're doing is wrong" and "this is why you said you wouldn't meet him".'

The mates 2 had initially been 'speaking' to 1 different online earlier they decided to meet up. However Tasha revealed she hesitated earlier gathering Marko successful personification because she was concerned astir sparking 'backlash'.

'The logic I was truthful unsure astir gathering my fellow aliases pursuing thing pinch him is because of nan backlash I was going to look and that is rather frankly, only down to opinion.

'Nothing else, opinion, that is it. Nothing to do pinch what's correct aliases wrong, conscionable opinion,' she insisted successful nan video. 

'I was besides unsure of gathering him because I've really ne'er dated personification younger than maine successful my life.

'I didn't cognize what benignant of challenges that was gonna bring guardant for maine but regardless, I'm successful a narration pinch him now. 

'It's my life, I'm going to unrecorded my life really I want to unrecorded my life. If I determine I want to beryllium successful a narration pinch him, I tin because it is legal. Whether you deliberation it's morally correct aliases not, it is legal.

'Although my narration is very new, I conscionable person to opportunity that this boy is genuinely nan astir mature, kind, loving personification I've ever been successful a narration with.'

Once again insisting that nan backlash is nan origin of 'opinion', she pleads pinch viewers not to 'direct dislike astatine me, my friends, family.'

'That, I will not f**ing guidelines for.'

The mates person received streams of commenting connected their videos, pinch astir each of them responding to nan five-year age-gap.

One commenter wrote: 'Wait, is this legal?' while different asked successful jest, 'are you going to results day?'

Another commenter joked: 'Did you motion his leavers t-shirt then?' while a 3rd said he looked for illustration Tasha's younger brother.

A 5th said: 'It's really beyond foul, I'm concerned.' 

At nan extremity of nan video, Tasha made her feelings clear astir her critics.

'Quite frankly, I don't springiness a f*** astir nan 12-year-olds who are commenting towards maine and my family and worldly for illustration that, it's nan grown women directing dislike towards my family,' she said.

She moreover said that among nan judgmental comments she has received 'threatening' messages encouraging her to origin harm to herself.

'What I can't wrap my caput around, is if you don't for illustration something, a creator aliases relationship, location is simply a artifact button,' she said, referring to her trolls arsenic 'key-board warriors'.

'Is it affecting your life? No. Me and my fellow are successful a very beautiful, loving, happy and patient narration and nan truth that group are sitting there, worried and throwing specified superior accusations astatine me, is sick and twisted.'

Tasha arena said she had had to commencement filtering comments and deleting comments for her ain 'peace of mind'. 

Since nan uploading nan video, nan mates appeared together on The Bro'Cast Podcast, wherever Tasha said she had ne'er expected 'the level' of backlash nan 2 person received. 

Appearing connected nan YouTube podcast holding hands, nan 21-year-old said nan effect of nan online contention was impacting her intelligence wellness and but that she was doing her champion to distract herself from nan comments.

Tasha said she had muted respective words connected her relationship meaning that comments containing circumstantial phrases for her 'own sanity'.