Exclusive Interview
‘Sneaky Links’ Star Angelique Wilcox Fires Back at Colt Fason After He Leaks Their DMs
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark Season 1.]
Bella, Edward, and Jacob walked so that Sneaky Links‘ most intense love triangle—Colt, Kelsey, and Angelique—could run.
Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark couple Colt Fason and Kelsey Tomlin may have left the motel together, but the reality TV exes have very different perspectives on what went down following their time on the show. In back-to-back interviews with Swooon, Colt argued that they are on good terms even though their split came less than a month after filming ended, while Kelsey recalled getting ghosted by Colt immediately following the end of the show (even though he told her he loved her on camera).
Swooon spoke with Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark star Angelique Wilcox, the third member of Colt and Kelsey’s messy love triangle, to discuss why she and Kelsey, though pitted against each other on the show, were never the actual problem. Scroll to read our full interview with Sneaky Links star Angelique Wilcox to get her take on the post-show drama, lies, and leaked DMs.
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You and Kelsey have made it clear on social media that the real relationship you took away from your time on Sneaky Links was your friendship with each other. Were you two close in the motel?
Angelique Wilcox: Yeah, I mean, in the motel, you don’t see it a lot, but we were talking. I mean, granted, she did lie to me, and she knows that hurt my feelings, but she also thought I was lying to her.
In the motel, like I told her, “Hey, I’m gonna pretend like we’re sisters. There’s not a guy in between us, there’s no beef, we’re good.” We were friends in there. In a lot of the challenges and walking into parties, you can see me and Kelsey are next to each other.
On May 28, you and Kelsey posted on Instagram with the caption, “Turns out we weren’t the problem.” What has been the hardest part about seeing the fan reaction to that post and your friendship with Kelsey?
Wilcox: At least for me, seeing all the hate that she’s been getting. I have been on the other side of getting hate for things, and my heart just goes out to her. I think we kind of just needed a moment to be like, “Look, you guys, we’re friends. This was not us.” We were both lied to within minutes of each other, and we want to band together and show that you don’t need to pit girls against each other because we weren’t doing that to ourselves.
Have you talked with Kelsey at all since you and the rest of the cast started doing interviews about the show?
Wilcox: Me and Kelsey are friends. Actually, I called her this morning [May 29], talking about the Colt stuff because I saw the interview he did with you guys, where he talks about how they tried [to date] after the show, and that’s a complete lie.
I don’t know how Kelsey is feeling about the lies, but for me, it’s very triggering, because you just know that there are people who believe him, because he’s a man and he’s attractive. It makes me frustrated. I don’t know if Kelsey is feeling the same way, but we’re both annoyed. I think all the girls [from the show] are annoyed that he’s just out here still lying, and I don’t see the reason to lie. I think people would maybe like him more if he stopped lying.
On May 28, you did an interview with Elite Daily, where you said that you weren’t responding to his flirty DMs, which Colt reacted to by posting a TikTok scrolling through a bunch of your conversations. Can you walk us through your reaction to that video?
Wilcox: I was just annoyed because I feel like Colt is just trying to get any attention he can. And if you look at those things, those are all old messages from when we first got out of the motel.
What do the messages say?
Wilcox: It’s me, like, clearly reaching out to him. The last text he showed was maybe from December, where I say, “Hey, bud, can we talk?” Because I have not talked to him. I have not had a single phone call with him at all. When I first got out, he had added me on Snapchat, and so we were Snapchatting, but they were kind of flirty, just like, “Oh, that was crazy, what we went through.” But not like a talk I wanted to have, saying, “Hey, were you playing me? Was this real? Was it fake?” So, yeah, I mean, even the text messages show that clearly, I’m wanting to talk because they haven’t talked.
During our interview with Colt, he said that you follow each other on everything, swipe up on each other’s stories, and since the show, you’ve “kept staying flirty and kind of staying in contact,” but your relationship is “nothing too serious.” Does that line up with your perspective?
Wilcox: No. So I have never swiped up, at least from what I recall, I don’t swipe up on his Stories. He responds to mine. I do respond back to him, and it is somewhat flirty, but in my mind, it’s like, “Yeah, you played me. I’ll give you the attention you want.” But like, it’s attention that I know is not gonna go anywhere. So I would say, no, I don’t swipe up on his Stories. I don’t respond to his things.
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In a recent TikTok, Colt claimed, “Shortly after the show, we FaceTimed. Maybe it wasn’t soon enough, but you were on a balcony, you were wearing a white top, and we talked about everything. And I thought we were good after that.” What was your reaction to that video?
Wilcox: I have the video saved in my camera roll, because they were Snapchats of our conversation. He’s referring to a different video that he just swiped up and responded to that I posted like two weeks ago. In that post, I was wearing a white shirt. This [back and forth] is silly. It’s just like little details, and it’s just petty.
Are there any conversations you wish you could have had with Colt after the show?
Wilcox: I guess I had closure on the show, but I haven’t asked him, like, “Hey, was that real? Was it fake? Did you actually like me? Were you telling me lies the whole time?” I mean, obviously, he was telling me lies, but like, I don’t know if his feelings were real. I don’t know if he was pretending with all of the girls. So that’s a conversation I would have liked to have had.
Seeing how things panned out with Colt, were there any other connections in the motel that you wish you had pursued?
Wilcox: No, no. I think when you’re in there, you kind of see a lot of how things play out with the other relationships and other couples. Once I see a woman with a man, they are off limits to me. I saw all of the girls on the show try things with each of the guys, so they’re just not people I would pursue after that.
Watching the show back, do you have any regrets?
Wilcox: I don’t think so. It was just like a fun little side quest, and I’m happy I did it. I think it was essential for me to grow and learn to say no to things. My update is that I’m very single and very open to dating.
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