THE show may have only started last night but the fallout over Thomas Skinner’s fling is already turning into yet another Strictly scandal.
If you’ve not been across it, let me fill you in.
Thomas Skinner admitted he had a fling just weeks after getting married
His ex, the mistress, Amy-Lucy O’Rourke, has gone nuclear
last week when he put his hands up, admitted that he’d made a mistake — had a fling just weeks after getting married.
He confessed he had
Thomas didn’t go into the full dirty dancing details. He wanted to save his wife Sinead the agony of hearing any of it.
Which I respect.
As a journalist, I obviously did my best to get further details out of him but he clearly told me he didn’t want to say more.
He had told Sinead about it at the time — three years ago — and the couple have moved on, had two more kids together, and are happy.
There was no point upsetting his wife all over again.
Or talking in detail about the other woman to upset her either.
It’s a mess. He’s been an idiot but you can’t actually knock him for this. He’s doing what he can to repair the damage.
And as , it was clear he felt remorse and that Sinead has been through an absolute bloody nightmare.
Thomas wanted to set the record straight before the show started — and before someone else said something.
And boy, has someone said something.
His ex, the mistress, , has gone nuclear.
And I think her actions are absolutely disgraceful, utterly shocking.
Yes, of course the other woman has a right to speak out. It was Thomas who was the idiotic married one.
was single, she wasn’t the one cheating. She is angry about being dismissed as a mistake. All of which I absolutely get.
But the phrase “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” could have been written for this lady.
She appears to be out for revenge and won’t stop, threatening to divulge text messages on, spilling more and more lurid details. She has turned on everybody involved.
Cheating plonker
But her continued attack is actually hurting the one person who doesn’t deserve any of it. Sinead.
Breaking the girl code by choosing to have an affair with a married man can never be condoned — but we are all fallible.
What can’t be forgiven, though, is rubbing salt into the wife’s wounds like this. It is cruel and selfish. It is unnecessary.
all the time. We know that.
But we also know that when you are the other woman, harping on like this is just not on. It can never, ever, be acceptable.
It is not the affair code.
If you choose — yes, choose — to be the other woman, you know what the risks are, you know the unwritten rules and where you stand.
You made your bed so it’s best to keep your head down.
That only changes if he does actually leave his wife for you.
But Thomas didn’t leave Sinead. And she didn’t leave him.
I know this mistake won’t destroy them. I hope it doesn’t destroy his chances of success on the show either
Jane Atkinson
And we are now more than three years on.
Dragging up every cough and spit now is a mean way of putting Sinead through fresh pain she doesn’t deserve. It is just vile.
After interviewing Thomas I realised he
And seeing her in the studio audience last night watching him on the dance floor for the first time, it is clear she feels the same.
I know this mistake won’t destroy them.
I hope it doesn’t destroy his chances of success on the show either.
Because he is, despite being a complete and utter cheating plonker, a truly likeable bloke.
He spends his life spreading a lot of positivity on social media too. For that, I admire him.
What I hope this sorry saga does do is show men that mistakes almost always come back to haunt you and that someone who has a fling with a man who stays married is always “the other woman”.
Most of all it should serve as a warning to those women that their feelings will, and should, always pale into insignificance when compared to those of his innocent wife at home.
BRAVO BULLY BEATER
MY heart goes out to , who says that
It is the hardest thing for a child to endure and something every parent dreads.
Rochelle Humes has revealed her little girl is being bullied at school
But I am always surprised by the number of celebrities, successful men and women, who actually had a tough time at school but went on to have glittering, money-making, shove-it-in-your-face-bullies, kind of careers.
Take . In her new Netflix documentary she tells how she was who was “awkward” and desperate “to be liked, have some self-worth”.
She threw herself into stage school and now she’s having the last laugh.
Maybe mums and daughters – like Rochelle and her 12-year-old – should sit down together and watch this new series.
I hope Victoria’s bullies tune in too and realise what vile kids they really were.
After all, revenge is a dish best served cold.
DOUGH NUTS
ONE of my son’s favourite weekend treats is a visit to PizzaExpress.
But I think we will be heading to the Hut instead this weekend.
Two workers at PizzaExpress have been having after-hours hanky panky at their place of work, bonking over the customers’ dining tables.
An explicit video of staff getting some action shows them romping on the floor, then on the table next to the cutlery, shagging in the loos and then moving into a manager’s office in the staff area.
The clip was uploaded to a swingers site saying they’re a “fun couple looking for a female”.
So now you imagine the threesome will take place in the mysterious PizzaExpress too.
How off-putting.
Not to mention unhygienic.
It’s enough to make you choke on your dough balls.
GLAM SQUAD MAKE KRISTEN BELL OF THE BALL
IT would come as a bit of a shock if somebody paraded down the and did not look amazing, wouldn’t it?
And at the Emmy Awards on Monday night in a backless dress was no exception.
Kristen Bell at the Emmy Awards in a backless dress
It took her glam squad hours to get her ready
The team included her hairdresser, manicurist, stylist, and even somebody to shove her earrings in
But take a look at her and you will see exactly how she got there.
It took her glam squad, pictured, hours and included some expensive gold , a team of highly paid artists, and even special gloves to make her hands look line-free.
Then there was the hairdresser, manicurist, stylist, and even somebody to shove her earrings in.
There’d be something very wrong if she DIDN’T look amazing.
WEEDY EXCUSE
ALAN TITCHMARSH’S gorgeous house, which has just gone on sale, would be a dream come true for any gardener.
But you’d obviously need to be loaded, as this country pile is on the market for £4million.
But for that money you get not only a Georgian mansion but the four-acre, carefully tended landscaped garden too.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than being saddled with those sprawling grounds.
The pressure to keep it in good nick would be exhausting.
You’d be weeding every day.
CLARKSON’S Farm star has got a new money-making scheme which involves , bookmarks and key rings.
Kaleb Cooper’s new clothing range has KC plastered over it
The problem is that everything has his initials, KC, plastered over it.
I actually can’t think of one good reason why you would buy anything with KC on it unless they are your own initials.
Niche market.
DON’S LEAN TIMES
FORGET all the for a second, was fascinating for so many other reasons.
Not just because his face was more Tango-ed than usual and Melania’s looked as though it was ageing in reverse, but because the revealed just how our royals stay so slim.
Trump’s skin was more Tango-ed than usual and Melania’s looked as though it was ageing in reverse
And no, it isn’t the skinny jabs.
I pored over the menu which had been overseen by the King and can confirm there wasn’t a carb in sight.
No bread, rice, chips. Not even a skinny fry.
They dined on a panna cotta dish, followed by a chicken dish and then a an ice cream dish with fruit.
Presumably the pizza-loving, McDonald’s-munching President loaded up with carbs the moment he was back on Air Force One.
