AIBU to not believe Ant McPartlin only hooked up with his PA after his marriage ended?

[Unfinishedkitchen]

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5852475/Ant-McPartlin-finds-love-personal-assistant-Anne-Marie-Corbett-42.html

Your situation sounds awful but there is a big difference in both situations in that you didn't know your DP when you both left your partners whereas Ant and PA did.

Totally missing the point. The point is that non of us know the facts. But people are taking the bits they do know and making it fit a story, even if that story may not be accurate. It's disgusting. This is someone's life. His, his wife and the PA. Maybe they had an affair. Maybe they didn't. Non of us know, so why are people scraping bits together to try and make it fit their version of what they think must have happened. Why do people want to make up a version of the ending of a marriage between 2 people they don't even know?

There was a backlash against Scarlett Moffat because people made up their own version of a story then. This is people lives and others are gossiping and making up shit. It's just wrong.

People still think that I must have known dp and am just lying. Because that fits their story better. This pointless speculating and gossiping, isn't helping anyone.

Pandora you are making it about you and it's not the same situation. Did your dp work in your home, was he your DHs friend.

No I am not making it about me. I am saying a bunch of people speculating isn't helping anyone and giving an example.

The fact that he knew her before is zero proof of an affair. And people gossiping about your marriage is awful. That's my point. It's gossip. It's not helpful people gossiping isn't helping his wife. Like it didnt help my exh.

I didn't know my DP. However because of the situation (he is connected to my best friend who is like my sister) people assume that I must have done. I could have easily met him. But I just happened not to.

I never said it was the same situation. But all this speculation is just people using others lives as entertainment.

Well if all the people upthread saying that this is a carefully stage managed reveal to gain sympathy for Ant are correct then he needs to sack his PR, because surely “check with the ex that she won’t cause a massive stink all over Twitter about it” should have been high on their to-do list.

Wow, the nasty, sneery comments on here about the pa being old, ordinary, plain, middle aged are very revealing about the women making them.

I think his ex will loose sympathy quite quickly

She will start looking like the bitter ex very soon the best advice for her is to not tweet on anything personal it can and will be used against you

I feel for her I am hoping she stops tweeting too. I am rooting for her to emerge from this with dignity.

Ant a little shit. Her friend. Fgs.

Wow, the nasty, sneery comments on here about the pa being old, ordinary, plain, middle aged are very revealing about the women making them.

Christ, what are people supposed to do? Pretend every woman is a hyper gorgeous 20 year old ingenue? And what’s wrong with middle aged or ordinary anyway?

She is a fairly ordinary looking mother approaching middle age. She would look totally unremarkable at my kids school gates. Because me and all my friends and most of the women I know at the moment are fairly ordinary looking mums. It’s not an insult, it’s a statement of fact.

I wish Lisa would maintain a dignified silence instead of keep posting on social media about how broken hearted and bitter she feels. I totally get that she’s devastated, but it just makes her look desperate.
Let him go, love, he’s not worth it.

Absolutely agree LeahJack I wasn't slagging her appearance at all. But she is remarkably ordinary, not something you usually see in the partner of a well known celebrity. She has the same hair/fashion sense as the woman I know too....in fact I'm sure she was wearing a dress from Hush in on e of the pictures.

In a way it's a cliche because she's his PA but on the other hand it isn't because she's older and normal looking.

I do hope the PA is careful with her 2 dc round him, he can't be trusted.
So he's gone from an addict who cheated on his wife to someone who can't be trusted to not abuse her children?

So he's gone from an addict who cheated on his wife to someone who can't be trusted to not abuse her children?

No. He's someone who drove drunk witj a passenger in the car. He's someone who clearly wasn't functioning well enough to be in charge of children.

Fair enough, just the wording... It seems unlikely he's going to be driving her jus around alone though, does he even have a license?

Yeah I'm not sure it's very nice to speculate on someone's marriage in this way.

Their marriage ended. For whatever reason neither could have been not hurt or saddened by that. Making it worse and guessing one was also unfaithful is fairly shit.

These are real people as well as celebs, and bitchy gossiping and speculation isn't very nice.

The truth is none of us know and it's none of our business.

Well considering many who go to rehab, especially celebrities start up their vice again, I hope she is keeping her dc well protected from an alcoholic.
Ant hasn't had to consider children before, I think it's amiss of his new gf not to consider her children more, rather than the new alcoholic bf.
I wonder if ss are keeping their eye on the couple, I hope so.

I wonder if ss are keeping their eye on the couple, I hope so.

Why would ss be interested in them

SS aren't going to be interested, but I do agree that it's far from the best thing for her young kids to be introduced pretty quickly to a new boyfriend whose every move is dissected in the media and who has a recent history of erratic behaviour.

YwbVu to believe any of it is true just because you read it in the fucking Sunday Sun. It’s all bullshit

And for those slagging off for him being with the kids, she’s been his PA for 10 years, obviously he’s fucking met them on more than one occasion, he’s a down to earth nice guy, maybe she had to do extra work so he took them to the toy shop as a treat/sorry I made extra work for your Mum by getting pissed and crashing. I do hope every single one of you will make a post apologising when this is all proven to be bullshit.

His ex-wife’s tweets aren’t a media fiction though. She clearly a) now believes (rightly or wrongly) that the two were having an affair b) has not been contacted by her exH to prewarn her or deny the press stories.

That’s the thing about Twitter - it sometimes makes it much more difficult to say “oh the press made it all up”.

I think there’s something heavily undignified about immediately jumping into a new relationship following the breakdown of a long term relationship/marriage personally. I don’t see what issue some people have with simply being single for a while, I always think it about Katie Price. Screams self esteem issues.

The Ant thing has come as a shock because Ant and Dec have been heavily revered for years as ‘national treasures’ that could do no wrong. They’ve always kept their private lives private and seemed wholesome and grounded. Now he’s suddenly an alcoholic that drink drives, ends up in rehab, divorces the wife he’s been with for decades and it’s a huge fall from grace.

So she isn’t just tweeting as a reaction to the tat in the press? Trying to save face and act the injured party when really she was the reason for the break up? Read the article, it even says they’ve never been seen on a date but she attended his court case (his PA therefore had to drive him) made him a lunch, pretty standard PA duties and was seen in public with him?? She works for him ffs. And just because she’s his employee she has to endure pictures of her and her family all over the press and arsehole trolls slagging her off and threatening social services because her kids met her boss? I look forward to the retraction on page 27 or whatever when they get sued but guarantee not one person spouting bile will apologise. This actually infuriated me and makes me sick

YwbVu to believe any of it is true just because you read it in the fucking Sunday Sun. It’s all bullshit

You must be crashingly naive. It’s obviously true because the Sunday Sun piece was a very obvious puff piece done with the permission and cooperation of him and his PR people and was clearly part of an orchestrated attempt to rehabilitate his image.

I do hope every single one of you will make a post apologising when this is all proven to be bullshit.

Well really I’d like to see all the fan girls like you apologise for jumping down the throats of anybody who suggested he had a drink problem last year now it’s obvious he does. But that isn’t going to happen either.

And you will be waiting a long time for your apology considering it’s quite clearly come from them and they’re not denying it. FFS, Ant was smiling and posing for the photographer, he knew they were going to be there. It’s not like they were papped unaware not wanting to be seen together.

Im reading that Lisa is saying they where besties.But the gf is saying she couldnt stand Lisa.
Shes saying this to garner sympathy.

The problem is Lisa now is playing in to his hands.Dignified silence all the way.

LeahJack I bet u r spot on. They both look so unhealthy, like they stayed up all night taking allsorts. I have never liked Ant and Dec, always found them forced fun.