I have a theory about who Hand is. I won’t be posting his or his company’s name as I’m unclear what’s allowed here, but I’ll say how I landed on this theory so you can do your own digging if you’re curious.
Today, I randomly checked her followers list and noticed an account that had recently followed her (my Instagram occasionally shows things in chronological order again). The account name rang a bell, it felt like I’d seen it before. So I clicked on it and sure enough, it’s a marketing company that does digital signage using Landrovers. They did a job for that charity pedalo challenge along the Thames, which Meg attended and posted about in October.
I took a look at their website and found the name of one of their team, the person who seems to be the “face” of their social media. I Googled his name, and two things popped up: His LinkedIn which mentions cricket as one of his hobbies. Then a Mirror article about him being a fan of alcohol-free beer, mentioning that he’s attended AA and has been sober for several years. The alcohol-free beer company he references in the article is one he used to work for.
Hmmm, cricket. Didn’t she attend a “sports awards” evening in September? The one where she had her “main character moment” and got a shoutout? So I Googled his name along with “cricket” and sure enough, a Surrey cricket club came up. This club held their annual awards presentation on September 7th, the day before she posted on Instagram and TikTok about attending an awards evening, asking for shoe advice. Coincidence?
The last photo featuring the bathroom (aka the one with the bath) at Arm’s house was posted on August 11th, only a month before the cricket awards evening. If my theory is correct, she moved on from Arm to Hand almost immediately.
Around August 26th, she mentioned on TikTok going on a first date and joked about “bagging a husband” while wearing those fugly kitten heels. On September 2nd, we noticed she deleted her YouTube videos. From that point on, her content became noticeably inconsistent (even before the grief related posts took over).
It could also explain why she’s so chill about drinking non-alcoholic beer because he does. Hand was pictured on September 27th drinking 0%.
On October 12th, she posted a photo from the inside of an old Landrover-esque vehicle with the caption: “If I told you what I was doing today, it wouldn’t make sense.” This feels like a nod to Hand’s business.
If my theory is correct, they probably met at AA, and she probably knew him while still with Arm. That would explain why their relationship moved so quickly and why, by September 7th, she was already going on public dates like the awards evening with him. It might also explain why she goes out of her way to look “glowy af” and “slay” for AA meetings. Much like rehab, she seems to treat any outing as an opportunity to flirt with men.
Of course, I could be completely wrong here. If he’s not her boyfriend, then he’s likely a good AA friend who happens to invite her to be his date to cricket functions and work events. Funnily enough he kind of resembles Will, which is amusing.