Team Ioan Gruffudd or Alice Evans?

[BabyBearRus]

I've been following the story around the breakup of Ioan and Alice. I haven't been a great fan of Alice in the past, but I do feel for her and her children right now. Who else thinks that Ioan has behaved atrociously to his family? According to his wife, he has been having an affair for a long while, and making her feel as though she was in the wrong for months.

Interesting, isn’t it @Thesummeriwas16?

Bluntness believes Alice Evans is a terrible person for attacking her ex online.
Yet thinks it’s perfectly reasonable to attack @sunglassesonthetable online.

Bluntness thinks it’s acceptable for them to use this thread to question a poster’s mental health and sobriety.
Bluntness wants everyone who is condemning the way bluntness has responded to people to stop discussing it and return to the topic of the thread.

Can we please go back to the actual point of the thread rather than groups of posters attacking each other. It's getting tedious now.

Today 13:39 Thesummeriwas16

Bluntness100
This really doesn’t need to be a bun fight, for rhe second time can we get back to the subject matter?
Rather rich coming from you!

Quite.

@AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken

Totally agree

Back to the point vaguely. What is troubling about some of commentary (not just here or related to this couple) is the belief that people shouldn’t be allowed to leave a marriage. I get the issue is about a long marriage but the nonetheless it’s very sinister.

This is a fundamental right, legally and ethnically. Divorce or separation is never a good option. But it’s better than the alternative which is to live unhappy or dysfunctional lives. Never mind the question of abuse and dishonesty that goes with an unhappy relationship.

Divorce provides financial redress to the extent that it can. There are laws to protect children’s interests. But ultimately women who marry and have children need to accept the marriage can end and is statistically likely to.

LemonTT I agree with you. You can't stay in a marriage, or even long term relationship, if you're really not happy, no matter how the other person feels. No matter how devastated I'd be if my husband left, I think it would be worse to want to stay in a relationship where I knew he didn't love me anymore or want to be with me but was too scared to leave. What kind of marriage is that? It isn't one.

Ahem, Blind Gossip anyone?

The trouble with flinging mud around is that some may stick to clinger too!

Flinger

I read that Blind Gossip article earlier too. The thing about Blind Gossip is that the majority of the time, their stories are true....

Oh I don't know, clinger seems quite appropriate in these circumstances.

Really hope the Blind Gossip isn't AE. She's already a hypocrite in my book since she was already in an 8 year long relationship with Olivier Picasso when she started her 'love affair' with IG behind his back. "Alice, who lived in Paris with Picasso for eight years, said they had to keep their love affair secret for fear of hurting Olivier - but she knew in her heart that Ioan was the man for her."

The Blind Gossip article is definitely supposed to be Alice, whether it's true or not. But yeah, hypocritical indeed

at the Blindgossip article. A poster said previously, when you draw this much attention to yourself, something is bound to come out of the shadows..

Isn't that a sight for unverified stuff? I'm not sure I'd be putting any weight behind unprovable, anonymous rumour from a website like that.

*site

I just think it is really weird that Ioan’s new squeeze was liking Alice Evans’ posts back in 2018

@ChequerBoard

Oh I don't know, clinger seems quite appropriate in these circumstances.

Really hope the Blind Gossip isn't AE. She's already a hypocrite in my book since she was already in an 8 year long relationship with Olivier Picasso when she started her 'love affair' with IG behind his back. "Alice, who lived in Paris with Picasso for eight years, said they had to keep their love affair secret for fear of hurting Olivier - but she knew in her heart that Ioan was the man for her."

But people get past these things don’t they

@TheSunnySide

That is weird and rather creepy!

She seems to have had a flurry of liking AE's posts in April 2019 when IG and his wife seems to be extremely happily reunited just after season two of Harrow filming wrapped. Then nothing.

It might be perfectly innocent. May have been when she first worked on that set but didn't yet know him that well so just followed the star of the show and his family on insta..

It's pretty weird liking a bunch of posts of someone you work with but apparently haven't even met, let alone going on his wife's social media as well.

Yes would be creepy if I followed on insta someone from my work that I don't know that well, and their wife as well, but think in this case it's different as they are both fairly famous and have thousands of followers as it is.

Pure speculation of course but wonder if the fact that she stopped liking AE' posts later on implies some sort of time line for them (BW and IG) getting to know each other better.

I had never heard of Alice until January when the news of the separation came out, but knew Ioan from Forever (a series that got cancelled after one season). To start with I was firmly Team Alice but not a fan or her behaviour on social media of late so not too sure anymore. I feel sorry for her though and I hope she has some support IRL.

I think he'd be attracting less criticism if he'd had entered into a relationship with someone closer to his age, and not very much his junior at work. And then not put it on instagram with a backhanded caption towards his former wife.

I was originally team Alice as well but she is losing me with all the posting. It seems as though, even on her telling, that there had been a lot of problems in in the marriage for a long time. I don't think he owes it to anyone to stay in a miserable marriage, but to do it by going abroad for work and hooking up with a much younger extra who is probably enamoured with him because he is the star is kinda gross.

Agree with you @DifferentHair IG certainly should have informed AE about his new relationship privately, letting her find out on social media at the same time with everyone else was pretty low. Wigh regards to the age gap between him and his new girlfriend, guess it's s bit of a cliche (middle-age semi-famous actor and a much younger woman) and as such not overly surprising or shocking.

I do hope Alice will get her act together and stop posting on social media for her children's sake if not for any other reason. Her eldest will be a teenager soon and this could really backfire over the next few years as she starts rebelling against her parents, and in this case, most likely against her mum if the dad continues to be mostly absent.

@DifferentHair

It's pretty weird liking a bunch of posts of someone you work with but apparently haven't even met, let alone going on his wife's social media as well.

I think so too. She started liking his posts in Dec 2018, Alice's a little later. Maybe innocent but in hindsight must be falling for Alice Evans, particularly the happy family ones. I wonder if the abrupt stopping of the liking in April is significant.

I feel very sorry for Alice Evans given how happy they seem to have been up to that point.

@AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken

Interesting, isn’t it *@Thesummeriwas16*?

Bluntness believes Alice Evans is a terrible person for attacking her ex online.
Yet thinks it’s perfectly reasonable to attack @sunglassesonthetable online.

Bluntness thinks it’s acceptable for them to use this thread to question a poster’s mental health and sobriety.
Bluntness wants everyone who is condemning the way bluntness has responded to people to stop discussing it and return to the topic of the thread.

So, in a nutshell. Bluntness is being their usual self. Shocker.