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**** INSIDE US WEEKLY **** The Us Weekly Cover The new issue of Us Weekly has all of the details how Bachelorette Emily Maynard’s relationship with fiancé, Jef Holm, went from fake to finished. Multiple sources confirm to Us the pair have officially ended their five-month engagement, but the decision was long in the making: Following Maynard’s sexting scandal in August that Us Weekly broke exclusively, the duo had agreed to keep the charade going in public. According to Holm’s former flame Kaylee Shepherd, Holm, 28, decided to keep quiet about Maynard’s indiscretion in exchange for half her Bachelorette salary. But after weeks of forced happy smiles, things got so bad that Maynard couldn’t even stomach a fake relationship. “Emily just decided that she’d had enough,” says one insider, who reveals the final breakup conversation took place after they attended a Carolina Panthers football game October 7. What led to the official split? For one, Holm had no p...

**** US WEEKLY UN-COVERS THE LIES ****  Emily Maynard In Us Weekly The cover story of the new issue of Us Weekly is a revealing piece on how Bachelorette Emily Maynard worked a deal with her No. 1 guy to fake their engagement. Reality star vets Maynard and Jef Holm know how to give a convincing performance. In the weeks since Us broke the news that Holm, 28, and his fiancée, 26, had an explosive fight August 19 after he found explicit text messages to another man on her phone, the Bachelorette star and her husband-to-be have put on a united front. Step one: Deny, deny, deny. Step two: Take advantage of every photo op, even if that means making out in a supermarket aisle. Step three: Post saccharine tweets about life together, as Holm did September 22 when he coached a soccer game for Maynard’s 7-yearold daughter. “Last minute of the game, Ricki scored the only goal!!!!” In an exclusive bombshell interview, his former flame Kaylee Shephe...