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Dominic West, would you forgive after a public affair

154 replies

Pjsandbaileys · 13/10/2020 18:08

Seeing DW and his wife in the paper today got me thinking, would you have stood by your man so to speak? I think I would have forgave an affair, one affair, if the offender wanted to remain wholeheartedly in the marriage. I don't think I could forgive being paraded like poor DW's wife. I know I don't know the whole story it may be all very innocent, I don't know either of them obviously but I do feel for the women in the story.

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IheartJKR · 13/10/2020 19:25

Yes!! Gladys

Khadernawazkhan · 13/10/2020 19:29

I think its utterly humiliating for them. Pathetic actually.

shesgonebatshitagain · 13/10/2020 19:32

That board she dutifully trotted out with. There are no other words.

Arthersleep · 13/10/2020 19:45

I would have invited the press round on the pretext of issuing a joint formal statement of solidarity, then I would have suddenly slapped him round the face and given him the knee to the bollocks before slinging his suitcase out. Even when he had been caught out and was catching a flight home, he was still canoodling with his fling at the airport. Neither of them have any shame.

Storyoftonight · 13/10/2020 19:47

I don't understand how she went from the original statement to those photos.

AuntyPasta · 13/10/2020 19:51

When Tory MPs used to do the ‘wife’s standing by me’ gate pics at least they made an effort not to grin and look utterly smug while they did it.

What someone else chooses to do within their marriage is their business. I wish her the best (solicitor.)

gingganggooleywotsit · 13/10/2020 19:54

He does come across as a real slimeball, not sure how he has managed to get his wife on board with such an embarassing pda! He's probably having a mid-life crisis.

PicsInRed · 13/10/2020 19:57

Does anyone think such a man is above threats and coercion? That will be how he got her to fall in line.

BewilderedDoughnut · 13/10/2020 20:00

He’s a bit of a snack, I might have to consider forgiving him! 😂

FunDragon · 13/10/2020 20:01

When Tory MPs used to do the ‘wife’s standing by me’ gate pics at least they made an effort not to grin and look utterly smug while they did it.

Yes! His smug expression is repellant.

It doesn’t come as news that he’s sleazy and revolting, but I am surprised at Lily James. What kind of women knowingly fools around with a married father of four twenty years her senior?

WoobyWoo · 13/10/2020 20:05

He doesn’t look sorry at all and I don’t know what either of these women are thinking. I hope this ends well for Catherine whatever happens. Flowers

IhateBoswell · 13/10/2020 20:19

Would I frig forgive him. Shown up all over the shop.

seayork2020 · 13/10/2020 20:38

The main thing I would have a problem with in having anything public is people assuming things just because they read or see something in the paper and think they know what is going on

MadCatLady71 · 13/10/2020 20:43

It’s all just too weird and stagey. Who goes on a dirty weekend away with their agent in tow? And those pics on the e-scooter.... remind anyone else of the stills of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on a Vespa in Rome?

My money is on an announcement in the next week or so that DW and LJ are going to be starring in a remake/revival of Roman Holiday. And this was all lovely free publicity.

Bool · 13/10/2020 20:44

Another love: Dominic has a daughter called Martha, 20, with aristocrat Polly Astor, (pictured in 2009), who he split from because he 'broke a rule too far'

I know it’s the Daily Fail but seems he has form. That and the public note he wrote and got her to sign. It smells BAD

Ginogineli · 13/10/2020 20:53

I’m inclined to think it wasn’t an affair

They were sat at lunch with several other people - not alone

They clearly didn’t try hide anything

Are we sure they weren't filming?! I know it sounds daft but it doesn’t make sense

Ok the scootering looks fishy but I guess they could have been messing about or maybe they have to wear masks even during filming as part of Italy’s outdoor rules (to be edited out)

  • but the kissing at the table in front of their friends doesn’t sound like some secret affair to me

Prob being far fetched but equally I’m not buying the affair either

Bool · 13/10/2020 21:15

But if they were filming why don’t they say so?

Inkanta · 13/10/2020 21:24

Yes I don't think she has time to process. Just going for damage limitation for now I expect - to make it all stop and buy her time.

hypochondriacseveywhere · 13/10/2020 21:31

Is there actual pictures of them kissing because I've only seen ones of them looking cosy.

BlackForestCake · 13/10/2020 22:07

Who?

Ginogineli · 13/10/2020 22:13

Hypo actually your right the papers said kissing but the photos just show cosy

As for the lack of wedding ring I think that’s what makes me think they’re were or had been filming

I just don’t believe they’d act like that if it was real

Storyoftonight · 13/10/2020 22:17

@Bool

But if they were filming why don’t they say so?
Why should they?

They don't have to justify a single thing to scumbag journalists making things up.

Storyoftonight · 13/10/2020 22:18

@FunDragon

When Tory MPs used to do the ‘wife’s standing by me’ gate pics at least they made an effort not to grin and look utterly smug while they did it.

Yes! His smug expression is repellant.

It doesn’t come as news that he’s sleazy and revolting, but I am surprised at Lily James. What kind of women knowingly fools around with a married father of four twenty years her senior?

One who can do as she bloody well likes Confused
FunDragon · 13/10/2020 22:28

One who can do as she bloody well likes

Should we all behave however we like? With no regard to the effects of our actions on other people?

Can I shag your husband? I’d ‘bloody well like’ to.

lalalalaloo · 13/10/2020 22:28

I thought the pictures with his hand on the arse of the other woman were bad.

Then I saw the smug face and not outside his house. Jesus. What on Earth were they thinking.