Ioan Gruffudd/Alice Evans

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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.

He did work last year, he did the Welsh TV thing in December in NYC he also is doing promo for the Reunion (I’ve not seen it) but he isn’t getting consistent work, and acting is hard enough as it is without having this reputational trashing. It’s not easy as he’s clearly trying to work but also stay in LA when he can for the kids. He’s tried his hand at directing and also screen play now, so I imagine he’s working on things but they aren’t exactly getting offers flooding in and he needs to keep afloat to pay lawyers and therapy bills. I don’t see a lazy asshole, he has HAD work but remember a pandemic happened in this and he’s the same as us, increase in cost of living. BW is doing extra work and he says he’s auditioning where he can - they both seem to be trying

Alice is not trying to do anything apart from wallow

Nice try Marjorie

Wow, you know a lot about this. Some of it not in the press that I can find. Like her affair and that IG agreed to take her back.
Is that you Bianca?

When Alice decided to open their private divorce for the whole world to view in an effort to shame Ioan back into servitude, gossip magazines began posting TheDirty about all she had done.

I also read the story about the affair on Blindgossip.

Alice is an abuser, straight up, plain and simple. How anyone can have read any of the court documents and come to any other conclusion is beyond me. She's an abusive mother and she was an abusive wife.

@Rosiefifi

this is very noble but unrealistic. I’m sorry but I am a parent in the U.K. and even I know I cannot just kidnap my children without repercussions, emotionally and legally, my children have 2 parents who share parental responsibility. This is not how real life works. People do not go around snatching their children from each other. They get stuck in long, drawn out bitter custody disputes. The law is complex and a good lawyer would never advise anyone to take matters into their own hands. Ioan could risk getting into a lot of trouble, mainly as he is a man and as you can see from this thread, people don’t believe men about DV. He could jeopardise all hopes of custody by making a rash decision. He also has 2 little alienated, emotionally confused kids who aren’t sure if they trust him because their mother has gone to town scaring them . That takes time to build

He did a court filing in December 2022 about forcing the sale of the house.

At the same time, Gruffudd reveals that his 2022 income has been 'drastically lower' than previous years.
He says he picked up a presenting gig last month but prior to that had not worked since 2021, when he filmed The Reunion in France. He still owes 67,760 euros ($71,120) to French authorities in tax.
I currently have about $2,829 in my American bank accounts, and approximately £12,193 in my bank account in the United Kingdom.

Bollocks to him trying. He needs to earn money to pay for his kids. I remember a guy from Hollyoaks photoed being a builders assistant and one or two people mocked him but the vast, vast majority of people said, well done him. He needs money and he's getting his hands dirty working for it. If Ioan Gruffud has had a whole year with no acting work, then he should be out looking for a regular job - or does he think that's beneath him? And to me, it goes without saying that that applies to Alice Evans too.

How can their children be proud of either of them?

I'm not saying he has behaved that well. But why does he need to work himself to death to ensure his wife who doesnt even work can live in a $2m house and pay all the bills and pay a nanny.Ridiculous.

She hasn’t worked once in this whole time
she had a nanny as well so she has no excuse
all she did was take handouts

Because he's living off his girlfriend who suffers from MS. Lots of people find themselves in unfortunate positions due to other people. Getting a 9-5 job at 50 is hardly working yourself to death. Don't most of us do that to feed and clothe our own children?

I don't disagree. She's batshit crazy. She should get a job.

But it doesn't alter the fact that IG is taking money off his girlfriend to fund himself. He's not worked all year. He owes more money than he has in his bank accounts. He needs to get a regular job and earn some money because that's what all grown ups have to do when we have no money...and two kids.

So now its faux concern for Bianca 😂

Nope. He needs to take as long as it takes to recover his mental health, and he can venture out into acting or whatever job is appropriate when he feels good and ready.

Alice has been living a pampered life for 13 years now and only seems to have developed a plethora of diseases no Dr has been able to diagnose.

If she is so hellbent on them maintaining their glam lifestyle, she should drag herself out of bed, throw on a rug and get to cleaning toilets as she promised she would to support her "babies"

Moving to the USA when you have MS would be so difficult. Bianca could access free healthcare in Australia. I doubt she could get insurance in the US.

They were on an extended visit with his family in Wales, whom he hadn‘t seen in years thanks to Alice. They were in Monte Carlo on a promotion tour of his latest project, all expenses paid by the production company. They were in Australia for a short film she did there and visiting her family, trip paid for by her project and frequent flyer miles. They were in NYC for his paid gig for a Welsh TV network for the World Cup, all expenses paid. How is this prancing about and living a glam life? Oh yes, forgive me, they are supposed to stay home with the shades pulled down so as not to upset the ex-wife from hell. Sheesh!

@LoekMa

Alice has clearly had some kind of mental break in the last year.

Do you really think Ioan isn't fit for work on MH grounds but Alice is?

If Alice can pull it together she should work. They both should. As PPs have said. They could do voice overs, tours, teach acting - lots of actors do less glamorous stuff to keep money coming in. Ioan gets tens of thousands in residuals each year, that's passive income before he lifts a finger.

That's a much better financial position than most divorcing parents.

Alice is at least 50% responsible for her own kids!

ioan Has paid all the bills on a house he can’t live in.

utilities
mortgage
food
school fees and nanny (until he couldn’t)
property tax
Therapy
travel
insurances (car/health)
broadband
TV
their phones

this man is dry. She’s earned a ton from the daily Mail and paid nothing to the house upkeep.

he has a forensic accountant now as she’s had $100,000 hidden she can’t account for..

She is a bad apple. She is an entitled selfish person. There is no reason she cannot help

in the Us the health insurance is crippling itself

in the meanwhile she tried to enrol her kid in $50k school and gave their nanny $50k who doesn’t even work there now

@Truelive

Not so much to avoid upsetting the ex-wife, but they should be mindful of how it will be perceived by the hurt and young daughters before they post to instagram.

They're losing their home, pulled out of school, losing their nanny. Stuck with a hysterical mother being told god knows what.

Then they go online and see that their father's life is a series of poolside bikini and glamorous event shots.

She hasn’t had a mental breakdown. She says she’s TOTALLY FINE!
she has sat at home on Twitter for 2 years, talking to her friends for 19 hours a day. What part of a mental breakdown is that? She seemed fine going out to soho house at christmas recently. Alice isn’t even claiming to me mentally ill so don’t go making up stuff to excuse her behaviour

I don't have any axe to grind with Wallace. But how much pride can any child have to know their dad is living of their girlfriend?

He worked in 2021 on something in France. He did a presenting job in 2022. His mental health was fine to work on both of those things. He's not earning any money. He can't afford his bills. If he's well enough to do acting jobs, he's well enough to do regular jobs.

Both Evans AND Gruffudd need to go clean toilets if that's what it takes.

Cleaning toilets wouldn’t make a dent in the mortgage on the place Alice is currently living in. She needs to stop blocking the house sale, then there will be money to support the children.

I don’t really get what you are saying?
Ioan isn’t claiming he is not mentally well to work? He is trying to find work. If you Google him, his work doesn’t come up, all this Alice crap does. He is not very attractive to employers right now. Why are you claiming he is saying he can’t work due to mental health? Can you explain?
he is trained actor, who is trying to land well paid jobs that he knows will help him support his family. Alice has literally done NOTHING at all, why aren’t you on her case in the same way?

So what! He picked a bad parent for his kids and a bad spouse for himself. He's not the first person that's happened to. There are loads of posters on here out grafting because of feckless, impecunious or deceitful exes. They're rightly and understandably fed up, annoyed, distraught. But they still go out and work because they need to pay their bills.

He has no money. He has bills. He needs to go get a job. And as no one wants to employ him as an actor, he needs to do something different.

Alice Evans is her own world of crazy. However, he still has to earn money to support himself and pursue her for custody - just like thousands of parents have to do.

She was taking a swipe at me luv.

I believe Alice AND her alienation of one of theie children, possibly both, has done a number to his MH.

If I were him, I would take the time off to recover. Those children have TWO parents. He already spent his life savings on IVF. Its time Alice step up and provide for her babies, since she is hellbent on not letting him see them either.

No one should be forced to be married to someone and paying all their bills for well over 2 years. He is trapped with a financial situation that didn’t need to happen. If she had agreed to sort this out initially, both would be free of this financial drain. Can you not see that this is nonsensical? No one can afford this way of life long term, it’s not just down to your income it’s not practical or realistic. Who would pay 100% of everything in a household you don’t live in? You get a divorce, clean break and move on. Unless you have a virtual squatter who refuses until you are all bankrupt

If my financial circumstances changed I would:

1. downsize my home
2. downsize my outgoings
3. maximise my income

so apparently according to this thread, only point 3 is relevant and not Ioan trying to live within his means. Got it. Total intelligent logic there 🙄

He's tried to sell the house to the point of going to court to get an order, she's blocked the sale.

Yeah I know that, but apparently according to others here he just needs to earn more, including cleaning toilets.

It’s good financial sense to also sell the house you cannot afford ASAP, neither of them can afford it. Why is all the pressure and spotlight on the man saying ‘I can no longer afford a property of this size we need to downsize it’ which is just sensible?
they will both have to rent, he is not living beyond his means so why should Alice?