Laurence Fox and Billie Piper

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https://news.sky.com/story/laurence-fox-responds-after-ex-wife-billie-piper-claims-enormous-difficulty-in-co-parenting-with-him-13095462

Laurence revealing more stuff in that statement than perhaps he meant to.

TeamBillie all the way.

She sounds sensible.
He sounds like bloody hard work.And attention seeking.

Everytime there is something in the news about that absolute waste of a human I think of Billie Piper. Just imagine having to live with the decision to procreate with that hateful, attention seeking windbag!? I didn't know they had boys and to be honest, that now worries me more as he is clearly trying to make a career for himself as some sort of Andrew Tate wannabe. Hopefully she can steer them down a less hateful path.

I feel so sorry for her. He is a total twat.

I have to admit I don't she made choices she chose to have a relationship and children with him, he did not force

Sure he is a twat but she made her choice

He is an arrogant twat and he must be just exhausting and dreadful to deal with and causing hassle non stop over the children and only has himself as his first interest. Horrible man who hates women.

I wonder if he was always this hateful (in which case WTF did she have kids with him?!?) or if he has turned into this Andrew Tate wannabe since they split?

i can imagine that you could have kids with someone, then they go all extremist and you’re wondering what the hell you’ve done!!

It's possible to like someone for traits that turn sour or get old faster than you thought.

I found my xh's outspokenness incredibly attractive at first - I thought he was honest, told it like it was, not hung up with taboos. I married him much too quickly. It became borne in on me that he was just unpleasantly rude and disliked most other people quite quickly after that.

I can imagine that LF was interested in current affairs, knowledgeable about acting (his family do about 10% of it after all), had a wonderful wider family, probably adored her, probably did some things that were a nice contrast with her exes, welcomed her getting pregnant. Haven't most of us been there? Whatever it is that makes a person vulnerable to online nonsense to that extent might not have been evident.

Plenty of us marry and have children with people who end up being complete arseholes and even abusers, it’s not always evident immediately.

Yes I feel for her. I remember being stopped at the school once by another parent complaining about my ex’s dickish behaviour and explaining very clearly how he was nothing to do with me. Must be awful for her .

He's getting paid £250,000 a year to spout the bile he comes out with for his political party. I dont know what the damages award from his lost libel trial is but he'd better start counting the pennies before he finds himself in another one. He's a hideous human being.

It’s impossible to say what is going on here.

There is a real possibility she has been trying to wreck the relationship he has with his kids, it happens all the time.

just as he is outspoken and provocative, she may well be a nightmare actress type, we just don’t know. She had an affair on him so it’s not beyond the realms of possibility.

I do know warring parents are very bad for kids

Normally I’d be team Billie all the way- I don’t like him, I do like her.

However, there’s a ring of truth to this that’s actually absent from his usual bile spewing.

As in, I suspect she tries to protect them from who he is, more than is actually reasonable. He is a dick but he’s their dad and presumably not a dick to them.
I can imagine him as a really irritating Disney dad.

What does this story even tell us? Practically nothing.

Crap for a father to repeatedly do things that publicly embarrass DC and make it difficult for himself to get work and thereby financially support the DC. Maybe he has loads of money without working.

He 'works' for the dodgy political party that he fronts with payment of 250k pa. That should be more than sufficient for any CM payments.

Woah, really @newnamethanks?

think i am perhaps naive about the economics of media, trolling, extreme ‘politics’ etc

If only LF would sign an agreement with an agent to delete hus Twitter account and go back to acting! He may have a point here, though. Imagine taking someone to court multiple times and then complaing they're the ones difficult to co-parent with. The divorce seems to be the thing that's sent him over the edge. Although I'm sure there were faults on both sizes, It's awful to lose your kids.

just as he is outspoken and provocative, she may well be a nightmare actress type, we just don’t know. She had an affair on him so it’s not beyond the realms of possibility

@hamstersarse what is a ‘nightmare actress type?’ Do you mean a woman who expresses her opinion just like a man? What type of actress is acceptable to you? Someone who just giggles, smiles and bats her eyelashes. You come across as a very old fashioned man.

Also, what does ‘she had an affair on him’ mean? Do you mean that she had an affair when she was with him?

I get her point about not wanting to hear about him from others. I would also be saying don’t tell me, not interested each and every time.
not sure how she manages their sons just reading the internet, that would be impossible.
i also do believe lf tries to be a good dad too.
the kids will be old enough to make up their own minds soon anyway

Seems unlikely to benefit DC for either parent to comment publicly about parenting with an ex or legal matters relating to the DC.

The 'which it seems continues to elude her' absolutely drips with passive aggressive contempt. If I didn't know another thing about him I'd have a pretty good idea of his number from that.

He has used his children as props in some of his Twitter videos. One of them even has the children blacked up. It is bad enough that they have this racist, misogynistic twat for a father; they will be associated with that blackface video forever. I’m not surprised she has had to take him to court a number of times; I’m more surprised that he is still allowed unsupervised access.

The sons are 15 and 11. I expect they have a very good idea of who both parents are.

15 and 11 is still young.

I love how all he's done is provide a cracking example of how co parenting him with him must be incredibly difficult.