Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Ioan Gruffudd/Alice Evans

1000 replies

Notatallanamechange · 28/01/2023 00:46

Don’t know if anyone has followed this, but she had an arrest warrant issued today for failing to appear in court for breaching a restraining order he has for domestic abuse. Their poor children seem like an afterthought.

OP posts:
Thread gallery
8
DanseAvecLesLoup · 28/01/2023 15:14

Rosiefifi · 28/01/2023 14:59

I'm sorry but fantastic 4 was a panned film , he's been in a few things..I remember him mostly from Hornblower which my dad used to put on when I was little. He wasn't Alist. Her own attorney must have been crap to be ok with her signing that especially when they had kids a few years later.. Yes that's the mentality she knows she's going to be left broke so may as well take him down as well.

Well looking at his filmography he has been in more then a few things and seems to have kept himself relatively busy over years in both TV and film. Sure fantastic 4 was bollocks but that was sometime ago and did not seem to sink his career and by my yardstick he is a successful actor. It seems rather churlish to attempt to 'take him down' given that a ruined IG will adversely affect the kids as well.

karamazing · 28/01/2023 15:15

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 28/01/2023 15:13

Yes, one would think she could work as a translator or tour guide or something.

When we went to LA we paid a non-celebrity $800 for a day-long private tour of the area; she was fabulous! Alice could generate some similar business targeting foreign tourists.

Didn't she try selling personalized recorded messages online? I don't know if she would have enough tolerance for difficult tourists!

WaddleAway · 28/01/2023 15:16

‘Taking him down’ is a ridiculous strategy, as if he isn’t earning there will be no spousal support or child maintenance.

xJoyPeaceHealthx · 28/01/2023 15:18

She could get an agent to look for roles where she leans in to the crazy. That could work for her. Kind of like Hugh grant playing himself so repeatedly. And if she was reliable, charismatic, brought attention to the film, she could get more work in the future. That's what I'd do in her shoes.

Harrysfrostbittentodger · 28/01/2023 15:20

karamazing · 28/01/2023 15:06

Isn't she a languages graduate? The problem is that she has not worked for so long that she may have a fear of starting again. It would also reduce how much she can claim from what she believes is his real pot of wealth.

Yeah, she speaks French fluently and worked over there for a while. And she had a long term relationship with Olivier Picasso before leaving him for Ioan (rumour has it there was overlap, like Alice claims there was between Ioan and Bianca!).

She seems a very clever woman it’s a pity she cannot use that intelligence to her advantage.

MarshaMelrose · 28/01/2023 15:20

musingsinmidlife · 28/01/2023 14:41

This thread has taken a bizarre turn - why aren't Alice, Ioan, and Bianca working at McDonalds?

I don't think it is all that straightforward in your 40s to rock up to random jobs with a Hollywood / TV acting resume and get work.

Is Alice really going to be hired at Target or Burger King?

Same with Ioan.

They likely both have some residuals that come in each month from past TV work but it isnt much.

Er, there are 50 year olds working at my local McDonald's. But there will be tons of jobs in the service industry and, if there aren't, there are loads in the UK he could do. Raine Spencer got a retail job and she was the step mother of the Princess of Wales. Why could Gruffud and Evans do the same?
Bianca Wallace has nothing to do with it. She owes no one anything.

musingsinmidlife · 28/01/2023 15:25

MarshaMelrose · 28/01/2023 15:20

Er, there are 50 year olds working at my local McDonald's. But there will be tons of jobs in the service industry and, if there aren't, there are loads in the UK he could do. Raine Spencer got a retail job and she was the step mother of the Princess of Wales. Why could Gruffud and Evans do the same?
Bianca Wallace has nothing to do with it. She owes no one anything.

There is no benefit to them to work minimum wage jobs. Why would they do that? No one is saying they are destitute and that a few hundred pounds a week would solve any of their problems. He wants to sell the house. It is costing him $7000 a month in mortage and household costs. It is worth $2 million and will alleviate some of the financial issues they currnelty have.

Notatallanamechange · 28/01/2023 15:27

Ehhh he had to take a handout from his parents to pay mortgage arrears. I think it sounds like the pair of them really should be taking any work they can find. Acting, McDonald’s, anything.

OP posts:
ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 28/01/2023 15:27

xJoyPeaceHealthx · 28/01/2023 15:18

She could get an agent to look for roles where she leans in to the crazy. That could work for her. Kind of like Hugh grant playing himself so repeatedly. And if she was reliable, charismatic, brought attention to the film, she could get more work in the future. That's what I'd do in her shoes.

I could see her in a Schitts Creek sort of role. Hell all of this batshit PR might work to her advantage.

"Spurned," a new Netflix comedy about a 50-something divorcee trying to make it on her own.... it would write itself!

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 28/01/2023 15:28

Or "Hell Hath No Fury," coming soon on Amazon Prime Originals.

karamazing · 28/01/2023 15:33

I think she graduated from Kings College, London so she may be crazy but she is clearly intelligent. She could even provide MFL conversational support online without leaving the house. She probably has become immobilized by various factors which keep her from doing it: rage/menopause/depression/ distraction of court case/thinking that her children still need her sat there 24/7 when that stage has passed.
Currently, she lives in one of the most amazing parts of the state. If they sold it, they would each end up with a concrete flat in Culver City. It would be very different for her.

Habber · 28/01/2023 15:40

I mean she could have done this kind of thing, a sitcom or book but now she has a restraining order and soon to be criminal conviction so I don’t think this is going to work for her in terms of advice

MarshaMelrose · 28/01/2023 15:43

musingsinmidlife · 28/01/2023 15:25

There is no benefit to them to work minimum wage jobs. Why would they do that? No one is saying they are destitute and that a few hundred pounds a week would solve any of their problems. He wants to sell the house. It is costing him $7000 a month in mortage and household costs. It is worth $2 million and will alleviate some of the financial issues they currnelty have.

It wouldn't solve his housing problem, but it would earn him more than the 3,000 a year he says he's earning which is keeping him having to take handouts from his girlfriend for basics.

Rainbowsandbutterflies1990 · 28/01/2023 15:50

I think the fact he is a man and she is an abusive woman makes some of these post crazy! no way would a woman being harrased by her ex partner be blamed for causing the abuse! Like some on here are trying to claim , just insane! If the sexes where reversed the replies would be very different!!

WaddleAway · 28/01/2023 16:56

Rainbowsandbutterflies1990 · 28/01/2023 15:50

I think the fact he is a man and she is an abusive woman makes some of these post crazy! no way would a woman being harrased by her ex partner be blamed for causing the abuse! Like some on here are trying to claim , just insane! If the sexes where reversed the replies would be very different!!

Exactly this. She has been deemed by a judge to be abusive. A restraining order was granted. She didn’t dispute any of the evidence given by Ioan (not that she could really, it was mainly screen shots and voice recordings). Honestly how many people would be sticking up for the abused party if it was the other way round?

WaddleAway · 28/01/2023 17:02

I mean how many would stick up for the abusive party obviously 🤦🏻‍♀️

WakeMeUpInspring · 28/01/2023 17:30

I'm baffled he didn't buy a house outright.

Who knows what goes on behind closed doors but Alice seems nuts.

WaddleAway · 28/01/2023 17:54

WakeMeUpInspring · 28/01/2023 17:30

I'm baffled he didn't buy a house outright.

Who knows what goes on behind closed doors but Alice seems nuts.

He would never have earned the amount of money to buy a house like the one he has outright, plus taxes, living expenses, agents fees etc.

LoekMa · 28/01/2023 18:27

The jilted wives brigade never fail to show their 🍑on this subject. 😂

I hope Ioan is rid of this beluga-sized anchor around his neck very soon.

As for Alice, she is already getting everything she deserves. All the bravado on social media is meaningless, it's obvious she knows she is on borrowed time.

MarshaMelrose · 28/01/2023 18:35

WaddleAway · 28/01/2023 17:54

He would never have earned the amount of money to buy a house like the one he has outright, plus taxes, living expenses, agents fees etc.

Why doesn't he get a role in a British soap? They all seem to live in very nice houses. He should have stayed local. 🤔

CyberSpaceTraveller · 28/01/2023 18:45

Choconut · 28/01/2023 11:38

To me it just looks like the script playing out. He goes off abroad to work while she's at home looking after the kids and while working away meets BW, then with AE is all 'I don't think I love you, I might leave or I might stay'. Then it looks like things are definitely lined up with BW even after the job finishes and so he's not seen for dust and AE is blindsided. Then AE says some unkind things to him and she's called an abuser and it's all made out to be her fault and she said he was balding and had saggy eyes and that hurt his feelings so it was understandable he shagged someone else.

I mean he met BW at work while he was still with Alice, lets not be naive here, chances are they were shagging well before he split with her, men always want the next one lined up before they leave a long relationship.

If I understand it right (and I haven't been following it) but it seems that AE gave up her career to look after the kids so he could go off all over the world filming. I'm not surprised she's absolutely gutted that he's fucked her over and is lashing out, the problem is they're celebs so it's all over the press which is bad for the kids but I don't think she's mental at all, she just needs time to get over the betrayal and it will probably take a few years.

Absolutely you see it said on here all the time, that when the husband has lined up his newer, younger model and wants a new life, the history of the marriage it totally rewritten to portray the wife as horrible, not happy for years, etc so he doesn't look like a bastard and IG did have a reputation to keep. Didn't he do an interview shortly before they split singing AE's praises?

I thought his issue with not taking his daughter to a theme park was horrible as well. If his new girlfriend had a medical condition and he was so worried about her immune system, he could have taken his DC on a fun day out of their choosing (hadn't he not seen them for months at that time?) and stayed away from his girlfriend for a few days afterwards until he got a Covid test? Surely his gf could have coped not seeing him for a few days so he could spend time with his DC? Anyway his DC could have picked up Covid from school or actives etc so that didn't make sense at all.

IIRC IG has been away for a few years working in Australia and according to AE refused to come home when Covid struck. She said something about finding him a flight. Odd he wouldn't want to get home to his DC when a world wide wide pandemic hit with all the fear of the unknown that created. Obviously something was keeping him in Oz if that was true. He said he wanted to end the marriage after that I think.

I haven't read the court papers but was there anything water tight in his description of her being abusive before he ended the marriage or was it her behaviour afterwards and very few people behave well when they feel they've been betrayed. Obviously anyone is free to end a marriage if they're unhappy but expect some comeback if you're going to blow your kids world up, they're going to have to come out of a school they've been happy in and to lose their home.

If the prenup is as stated, the house would have had to be sold anyway, even without the public drama that has allegedly ruined IGs reputation so he's not getting roles, from the sounds of it.

That could have been largely avoided anyway if his girlfriend hadn't felt the need to post that inflammatory picture while IG was going through a messy breakup, crowing that she was the one making him smile again! Didn't his DC make him smile? Very odd caption and obviously desperate to finally make their relationship public. Was it necessary to make it public though? AE said she'd had her suspicions and I'm sure IG knew that so just why?

At that point I only remembered IG from Liar and AE from Vampire Diaries but I can imagine her distress at knowing she was fucked financially from the pre-nup and not working as both parents couldn't be flying all over the world to be on set for months so she'd given up her own career while he buggered off into the sunset.

I don't believe women should shut up and put up for the sake of the DC (not a good example for them at all) as seems to be the general consensus if they think their husband has royally shafted them so I kind of admired her for speaking out but also I don't think she's doing herself any favours now and she's in danger of losing custody of her girls completely.

It's a great shame as she could have done a chat show or something for women in her situation of the back of the media interest if she'd been a bit canny but I can imagine self esteem would have made that difficult.

BlastedPimples · 28/01/2023 18:56

How did AE abuse IG? Physically? Or verbally?

PatchworkElmer · 28/01/2023 19:01

The whole thing is very sad. Those poor girls.

LemonTT · 28/01/2023 19:01

WaddleAway · 28/01/2023 15:16

‘Taking him down’ is a ridiculous strategy, as if he isn’t earning there will be no spousal support or child maintenance.

Which is where she has landed. She won’t get spousal support because her decision to take him down resulted in a Domestic violence finding. The criminal charges seal it. He can’t get work and his future career at McDonald’s won’t compete with her daily Mail income of £40k or so for selling stories about him.

WaddleAway · 28/01/2023 19:03

BlastedPimples · 28/01/2023 18:56

How did AE abuse IG? Physically? Or verbally?

Both. Mainly verbally, with some physical abuse.
Honestly anyone defending Alice should read the court documents.

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is not accepting new messages.