The singleton whose Tinder match got trapped in his bathroom window trying to retrieve her own excrement has revealed they are still friends.
Post-graduate student Liam Smyth, 24, became internet famous after the incident dubbed #poogate hit headlines in September 2017.
Speaking on the Lorraine programme today, Mr Smyth revealed love didn’t blossom between him and the woman but said they were still in contact.
He said: ‘We still talk on Facebook every now and then. You’ve got to stay friends after going through something like this together.’
‘We’re still friends’: Mr Smyth revealed while love didn’t blossom between him and the woman, they continue to speak on Facebook following on from the drama
Viral: Photographs of the unnamed woman trapped in Mr Smyth’s window after their first date in September (pictured) were shared across the world
But he added: ‘I’m single now and still looking, of course.’
Previously he said he would be open to dating the woman again but feared about his university workload.
Mr Smyth hit headlines around the world and became temporarily internet famous after the debacle in September 2017.
The hilarious incident happened when the amateur gymnast went to the toilet at the home of 24-year-old Mr Smyth in Bristol and blocked the pan.
After the woman blocked the toilet pan, she picked up the stool and threw it out the window – but it fell down into a narrow gap between two window panes.
Pictured: Liam Smyth, speaking to Christine Lampard on ITV’s Lorraine on Valentine’s Day about his disastrous date
She had no choice but to confess to Mr Smyth, who helped lower her out of the bathroom window into the gap between the houses in an attempt to retrieve it.
But she then got stuck after getting wedged upside down in the gap, and had to be rescued by firefighters who were called to Mr Smyth’s house.
Mr Smyth launched a GoFundMe page to replace the broken window – which raised £2,540 thanks to 330 people donating in just one day.
Recounting the hilarious story, Mr Smyth – a postgraduate studying sociology at Bristol University – said: ‘I recently took a girl I met on tinder to Nandos. We had a lovely evening, and enjoyed each other’s company very much.
Smyth revealed how the night unfolded in a GoFundMe he started in hopes of raising funds to fix his broken window
‘After our meal, we repaired back to my house for a bottle of wine and a scientology documentary. About an hour in to Louis Theroux and chill, my date got up to use the toilet.
‘She returned with a panicked look in her eye, and told me she had something to tell me. “I went for a poo in your toilet”, she told me, and it would not flush.
‘She continued, “I don’t know why I did this, but I panicked. I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window”.’
Mr Smyth said that he told his date that they would go out to the garden, retrieve the poo and ‘pretend the whole sorry affair had never happened’ – but then he realised the bathroom window doesn’t open to the garden.
Mr Smyth wrote on his GoFundMe: ‘Instead, it opens into a narrow gap of about a foot and a half, separated from the outside world by another (non-opening) double glazed window. It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo.
‘As can be seen in the picture, the inside window opens at the top, into the gap that is separated from the garden by a non-opening double-glazed window pane.
‘Seeing only one solution, I messaged our house group-chat, and went upstairs to find a hammer and chisel to smash open the window.’
But Mr Smyth said his date had other ideas. He added: ‘Being an amateur gymnast, she was convinced that she could reach into the window and pull the poo out, using the tried and tested ‘inside out bag as glove’ technique.
The bizarre chain of events started when the woman went to the toilet and blocked the pan. In panic, she picked up the stool and threw it out the window. Firefighters were called when she became stuck between in the gap trying to retrieve the excrement
‘Unfortunately she couldn’t reach. She climbed further in and had the same problem. Eventually I agreed to give her a boost up and into the window.
‘She climbed in head first after her own turd, reached deeper into the window, bagged it up, and passed it out, over the top and back into the toilet from whence it came.
‘She called out to me to help her climb out from the window, I grabbed her waist and I pulled. But she was stuck. Stuck fast.’
Mr Smyth said that they tried to get her out of the window, but after several attempts, it was time to call the fire department for a little help.
He wrote: ‘She had been upside down in the window for around 15 minutes at this point, and I was starting to grow concerned for her health. I called the fire brigade.
‘Bristol’s finest were on scene sirens blaring in a matter of minutes.
Smyth shared a photo of the window to show how small the gap where the woman got stuck truly is
‘Once they had composed themselves after surveying the scene in front of them, they set to work removing my date from the window using all of their special firemen hammers and tools.
The rescue took only 15 minutes, and left Mr Smyth’s date unharmed, but as for his bathroom window – it was completely destroyed by the firefighters’ tools.
Offers came in from local companies in Bristol, including Warmley Windows, and as far away as Essex.
Mr Smyth said: ‘We have far exceeded the target, and had a few offers to have the window replaced, free of charge.
‘One hundred per cent of the money raised will be going to charity. I’m astounded by the response to this, as these are two fantastic causes.’
The first is Toilet Twinning, a charity that builds and maintains flushing toilets in the developing world.
The second is the Fire Fighters Charity because ‘the guys who came to the house were brilliant, took everything in good humour, and professional’.
After the story went viral, director Louis Theroux, who Smyth says they were watching a documentary from when the event occurred, tweeted: ‘Honoured to be part of this important story.’