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Anthea Turner splits from Grant Bovey

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bkgirl · 12/06/2013 10:37

www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/anthea-turner-splits-from-husband-grant-bovey-after-13-years-8654946.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I can't help but feel sorry for her but if I am honest, I also think "well you should have expected it". He has a talent for moving on to someone younger/richer etc....what a cad!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/anthea-turner-and-grant-bovey-is-zoe-1186421

Thing is, Della and now Anthea both really loved him despite his failings - I pity any female he is involved with.

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chicaguapa · 15/06/2013 12:49

And vice versa! Wink

Sparklingbrook · 15/06/2013 12:50

I have stopped reading DM online unless there's a link in a thread and even then I don't always bother. I have no idea who the celebs are they are talking about half the time. The sidebar of shame is a mystery to me.

Frizzbonce · 15/06/2013 13:15

I think it says a lot about her that his three daughters (the people most likely and reasonably to have an enduring dislike of her) seem to love and adore her. You can't buy that so she must have done something right with them.

And I've never understood the tidal wave of Flakegate hatred. There are millions of celebs who sell their wares or their fake hair (Cheryl Cole) for wads of cash and wouldn't think twice about flogging a Pepperami or a bar of chocolate at their wedding.

As for Bovey he looks like he leaves a trail of slime behind him. Urggh.

HazeltheMcWitch · 15/06/2013 13:17

I know someone who is the SPIT of Grant Bovey.
He prefers that we don't mention it.

LeGavrOrf · 15/06/2013 13:20

He is a ghastly weak looking man.

I do feel somewhat sorry for her. Marrying him fouled up her career didn't it.

Wickedwaterwitch · 15/06/2013 13:23

Hmm, well, he was married when she started seeing him.

Wickedwaterwitch · 15/06/2013 13:24

That having been said, I do feel a bit sorry for her.

LadyBeagleEyes · 15/06/2013 13:28

Poor Anthea.
OK they broke up two marriages but the relationship did last a long time.
It happens.
He has now shown his true colours, and another woman has fallen for it.
What do they see in that creepy little man?

AnotherLovelyCupOfTea · 15/06/2013 13:28

I hope she dumped him. He was a dickhead. Her next boyfriend might be a decent human being

TheCrackFox · 15/06/2013 13:29

I reckon Anthea could rebuild her career after this - start with Loose Women and take it from there.

He looks like a poor man's circa 1983 Andrew Ridgely so God knows what she saw in the loser in the first place.

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bkgirl · 15/06/2013 15:10

That's true, Peter obviously has sensibly refrained.I guess that's the problem when a public figure - you invite people to comment on your life, particularly when you sign up for magazines like "Hello". That said, everyone deserves privacy and break ups are painful. It's just very difficult not to state the obvious (he has done it before - will do it again) and at the very least roll your eyes heavenwards when this happens, how much more so when those concerned are in the public eye? Anthea knows this and it must hurt but I guess you live and learn. It will be interesting to see if she publishes articles on it herself or takes part in chat shows etc thereby creating more debate. Debate on matters of the heart will never be stifled, look at history.

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Sparklingbrook · 15/06/2013 16:58

I like her I think. I loved her perfect housewife t-shirt folding show. She would be good on LW, better than some that seem to be on there Denzie Welch.

hermioneweasley · 15/06/2013 17:02

Ah, sparkling, I loved her TV show too. Guilty pleasure!

Dackyduddles · 15/06/2013 17:03

Hurrah! I wish her a long and happy life without that useless gormless waste of space who was holding her back!

Good luck!

Sparklingbrook · 15/06/2013 17:10
hermione Grin
Pancakeflipper · 15/06/2013 17:13

Ooh my DP loved her show - he still folds towels the ways she showed. And he bought drawer inserts for his socks and pants.

Sparklingbrook · 15/06/2013 17:18

She had at least 6 unsuccessful attempts at IVF Sad She deserves to have some happiness.

MatersMate · 15/06/2013 17:36

what do these women see in men like him? He looks like an utter sleazeball.

Like Darren Day?! Never understood it.

Poor cow, did feel like she was flogging a dead horse when she said it was her own fault when he had an affair, as she was working away?!

I hope she meets someone nice next time.

Sparklingbrook · 15/06/2013 17:38

Me too Maters. Who is single at the moment?

MatersMate · 15/06/2013 18:12

George Clooney?! That would be a turn up! And would piss Bovey right off :)

AnotherLovelyCupOfTea · 15/06/2013 18:55

is it the one that he was seen with a while ago, a friend of his daughters? ffs I thought she looked like tamsin outwaite. She was allegedly 24 but looked older.

AnotherLovelyCupOfTea · 15/06/2013 18:56

GC aygizz gaygay thaygough

Wahla · 15/06/2013 18:58

I reckon his boyfriend would be non too chuffed either Wink

K8Middleton · 15/06/2013 18:59

Nasty little shit of a man behaves in nasty shitty way... hardly news.

I am sorry for anyone who invests in a marriage and it doesn't work. I hope she takes up with a naice man now.

LeGavrOrf · 15/06/2013 19:02

I am in awe of her sheet folding.

I know she has her haters but I think she was stitched up with flakegate, and I think she has been unfairly maligned to be honest. She must have gone through such misery with failed ivf, and her step daughters seem to love her, which says a lot. Best of luck to her, frankly.