whatevzz, when you’re doing Strictly it’s not like you can take an evening off or swap shifts. They pay you a huge amount of money to stick to a schedule and they do it. I know people in similar careers who miss kids birthdays, wedding anniversaries, partners birthdays, school plays, the whole shebang. Sometimes they’re away for months at a time. For someone doing jobbing TV shows and gigs, having your partner around for some of the period on or around your birthday is usually a bit of a result. She’s an actress, she knows this and most likely she’s done the same to him at some point. But she fed the whole ‘it was my birthday’ line because she knows the public at large don’t know that so it will instantly increase his bastard points.
I agree with fascicle too. The statement was very, very carefully constructed to heavily imply abuse using buzzwords like ‘victim’ ‘control’ and ‘free’ retweeting DV organisations. Things which were careful to say nothing directly but were loaded with implication. It looked like a statement a PR and lawyer had been through armed with the knowledge that if they made specific allegations Seann would probably have evidence to refute them and sue BH. It’s incredibly well constructed and legally aware and is hugely damaging without making concrete allegations. There’s no way she wrote that without advice.
And to do that over a snog? It’s a bit over the top isn’t it? Especially when she herself has given interviews in the past complaining about him and saying she was “still waiting for Prince Charming”.
Anyway, anybody who knows that industry would tell you that an underemployed actress living in London whose just left the source of income that kept her going’s first concern is going to be money, as much as possible and as quickly as possible.
I doubt this has half as much to do with revenge for her deep ‘trauma’ and sticking one in their for the girls as you lot seem. I think this has much more to do with squeezing the last possible bit of exposure out of her association with someone more famous, garner a few extra social media followers, and be relevant to modern issues and get her name known as much as possible and hope the offers roll in. Although I know people who don’t know much about that industry might think that all sounds a bit calculated - believe me it’s pretty standard stuff.
(Source: first husband was moderately famous comedian/actor whatevs type.