To think that not sleeping around when married isn't that big a deal?

[Janbohonut]

Just read an interview with Tim Minchin and he talks about how in his career he travels a lot, loves women, loves to flirt and has got really close at times, especially when women are literally shaking and in tears at meeting him, but then he realised his marriage was too important to throw away.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-07/tim-minchin-reassesses-comedy-approach/101564662

"You're away from home for a long time, you're jet-lagged, you're drinking. I think the times I got close to doing the wrong thing made me realise it wouldn't be worth it to blow my marriage... I'm away a lot and I am in a really flamboyant industry and I'm really flirtatious and I really like women."

And meanwhile his wife, who supported him as a social worker at the start, is sitting there having to listen to all this.

I mean, in most long marriages there have presumably been opportunities for both parties. Either you act on them or you don't. But I can't imagine a celebrity woman talking in front of her husband about how she loves men and loves to flirt and had loads of chances to cheat, but didn't. It felt like a gigantic humble brag.

Agree!

Some very nasty-minded people trying to pull the man apart.

Don't know anything about him but it sounds like he is just being very honest, and that's to his credit.

Extremely mean-spirited to raise a negative and critical public discussion about someone you don't actually know, based on your failure to comprehend what he was getting at!

Here is his wife's point of view on the song about it.

"It's nevertheless one she lists among her favourites Tim has written, even if she's a little guarded with her praise. "I make a joke of that, that he shouldn't be praised for everything, including not cheating on me." "

Fair enough - he has been honest about situations that have arisen because of his fame. And shouldn't be praised for not cheating.

What a ridiculous comment - how ageist can you be?!!! Horrible.

I give you George Clooney, Martin Kemp - just a couple of men who have become even more attractive as they've aged! Plenty of women and plenty of other men - and that's just in the public eye.

Are you 16?!

He calls himself a 'weird looking ginger guy' in the article. So not exactly bragging.

This really is a mean-spirited thread, and a misleading OP.

I'd take Tim Minchin over George Clooney any day. He may not be a conventional heart-throb but I find him really sexy because he's clearly a very intelligent and articulate man.

...how did you find this thread @FancyFanny? Were you just googling certain names?