A MAN and woman have abruptly ended their two-year friendship after he unexpectedly made romantic advances, it has emerged.

28-year-old Sophie Rodriguez was left baffled after best friend Joseph Turner stopped replying to texts, unfollowed her on all platforms and posted ‘no fakes, no flakes’ a matter of hours after going in for a kiss.

She said: “Joe was like a protective big brother, spotting red flags in all the guys I date and even warning off men who approached in the pub. Always there, always supportive.

“We’d watch romcoms where the girl falls in love with her geeky male sidekick and we’d snuggle and laugh about how that could never be us because we were totally platonic and always would be.

“Which is why it was so weird when he tried to kiss me, literally out of nowhere. Once I

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