Soap star Gemma Atkinson shared the horrifying moment that left her Strictly Come Dancing husband Gorka Marquez reaching for the TV remote as they watched Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Gemma Atkinson revealed the grim moment her husband Gorka Marquez walked out of hit Netflix show, Monster: The Ed Gein Story. The Hollyoaks star sat down for a TV night with her Strictly Come Dancing pro husband, but they were soon left horrified.
They tuned into Netflix’s latest true crime series, which many viewers have binge-watched while others have been left too frightened to continue. It follows killer Ed Gein, played by Charlie Hunnam, who is said to have served as inspiration for some of the most iconic horror movies including Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The series uncovers Gein’s house of horrors in rural Wisconsin during the 1950s. Driven by isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein has shocked with his crimes.
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He admitted to digging up bodies from graveyards and made items and pieces of clothing from human skin. In the series, Gein tries on a grotesque mask, with hair, which looks like it was made from one of his victims.
Gemma and Gorka tuned into the first episode after they put their kids to bed. The soap star told her followers: “Gorka is home and we are having a nice romantic night…”
Gorka interrupted and said: “We are watching a b****y monster, there is nothing romantic about this. It is disgusting.” A laughing Gemma put her hand on her face and declared: “This is awful.”
Her husband agreed as he said: “It is awful. I watched the first episode on a plane, sat on a row with two women next to me and I was watching that man. I was so disgust. I felt sick on the plane. I didn’t know where to put myself.”
Gemma admitted: “I can’t stop watching it. I mean it is awful. It is awful. But at least we feel that way, if you were watching this and you didn’t feel that way…,” as Gorka quipped: “You have got a problem.”
TV star Gemma then put up another message to her fans as she said: “Gorka’s caved in. Got to the lady bits in the freezer part and he’s thrown in the towel ‘is awful Gemah’.”
She added: “He’s gone to sleep but I’m still watching.” The show is the latest instalment in Murphy’s ‘Monster’ series – which also covers The Lyle and Erik Menendez story.
Depraved Gein became known as The Butcher of Plainfield as he rarely left home and lived alone in a remote property he once shared with his family. He went undetected for several years before the disappearance of a local woman in 1957 alerted police officers, leading them to discover his horrific secrets.
Inside the house, authorities discovered bowls made out of skulls, masks made from skin peeled off human faces, and a skull and “face mask” later confirmed to belong to one of Gein’s victims – 54-year-old local tavern owner Mary Hogan.
Gein was arrested for the murder of Mary and another 58-year-old woman called Bernice Worden. The twisted murderer, who was 51 at the time, confessed to both killings with the victims described as having resembled Gein’s mother.
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