Viral ‘hawk tuah’ star Haliey Welch’s boyfriend is being trolled online after the couple went public with their romance this week.
Welch, 22, had been hiding her boyfriend Kelby Blackwell, affectionately nicknamed ‘Pookie’, since she rose to fame in June, but finally revealed him to the world on her Talk Tuah podcast on Tuesday.
Following the announcement, fans and trolls flooded Blackwell’s personal Instagram page with crude comments about her sex life with Welch, with many wanting to know if she lived up to the reputation she had built for herself.
“How’s that hawk, Pookie?” one asked, while another wrote: ‘Does he really spit on that thing?’
Blackwell is a plumber and revealed on Talk Tuah how his colleagues started calling him ‘Pookie’ at work after he started dating the viral sensation.
They also shared how Welch’s cousin KK hid in the back of his car for three hours when she first went out with him.
“KK is a G,” Welch said, laughing. ‘I was scared. I didn’t want to go alone. Then he started kissing me and when I looked, I saw KK peeking out from under the covers looking at me!’
Kelby Blackwell, boyfriend of viral ‘hawk tuah’ star Haliey Welch, is being trolled online after the couple went public with their romance this week.
Fans flooded Blackwell’s personal Instagram page with crude comments about her sex life with Welch, and many wanted to know if she lived up to her reputation.
The young couple has had ups and downs over the past few years, but they are now fully committed to each other.
“I was working more on myself and working on being able to give her what she needed,” Blackwell explained of the delay in being with Welch.
‘I know what I feel in my heart and that I love Haliey. That’s just that.’
Blackwell also said he was “proud” of Welch’s success, but was surprised given that he knew her to be more “calm” than her online personality would suggest.
“I never expected her to really get over it because, like I said, she was always that calm person,” he shared.
‘I mean, you really changed your life and made a good name for yourself. So I’m really proud of you.’
The southern gentleman also explained how he fell in love with Welch.
“The times we spent together, every time we went out and stuff like that… It was like every day I wanted to be with Haliey,” he said.
Welch rose to fame in June after a clip of her giving hilarious oral sex advice during a street interview in Nashville went viral.
“It was one of those things where I knew Haliey was the right person for me after everything we’ve been through.”
Welch rose to fame in June after a clip of her giving humorous sex advice during a street interview in Nashville went viral.
Since then, she’s amassed millions of followers on social media and launched a successful line of products.
His podcast has also become one of the most popular in the country and at one point ranked third in the US behind Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan.
So far, guests on the podcast have included comedians like Hannah Berner and Whitney Cummings, and pop star JoJo Siwa.