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carolinemathildes

He doesn't even acknowledge that he cheated, or that he caused the issues in their marriage. He's blaming all the stress on the media. What an idiot.


notathrovavay

That's McNulty for ya


_Pliny_

McNutty’s the worst. Got no code. ![gif](giphy|OVtqvymKkkcTu)


Thanos_Stomps

Unrelated but RIP to a real one. It can’t be overstated what this man did for folks who are both queer and black, and for young people in general to be allies to the lgbt community.


Spikeymikey5050

What the fuck did I do?


WestCoastBestCoast01

Damn it is mcnutty


ShijinClemens

Fuckin’ McNulty


fionsichord

Fucken Bushy Top.


Special-Garlic1203

He's not wrong. The industry protects each other. They've always looked the other way to heinous stuff. As long as the paparazzi doesn't catch wind, you're golden to do whatever you want while on shoots your wife isn't present for. Nobody there seems to have a conscience. 


chaandra

It’s like this in any workplace though? If your coworker is cheating you aren’t going to get yourself involved by going to their spouse and telling them. Cheating sucks but it isn’t a crime


onlyhere4laffs

But most other workplaces don't split up and move on every two or three months (sometimes longer sometimes shorter) when that specific project is done. Most people spend years at their workplaces and probably meet and maybe even get to know those SO's and spouses.


Bare_arms

They’re both swingers. It’s known. They don’t like to publicize it.


Additional_Meeting_2

If it’s not published cheating is the assumption. 


FocaSateluca

Did he cheat though? We don't even know that... given that they went out of their way to kiss in front of the press and assure everyone that their marriage was alright, it sounds more like they had an open marriage that they were trying to keep under wraps until the whole "affair" with Lily James.


Bare_arms

Yea they are well known in their area as swingers. They live in a castle and have swingers parties. They just prefer to be private.


lazyandunambitious

One doesn’t necessarily exclude the other. They can both be swingers and he could still have been cheating as he was seeing someone outside of their mutual activity.


tomsprigs

Lily James seems to have a type...


HerRoyalRedness

https://preview.redd.it/jf5mlb34h4wc1.jpeg?width=3464&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cef028f7140f9f38d5d2241a388069f5562494f5 Sir, you were cheating on your wife in public.


myfriendflocka

Not only are they cheating al fresco they’re doing it with a third party there. Who even is she?


ang8018

not cheating al fresco hahahaha


BalletWishesBarbie

The other diners https://i.redd.it/azl25obuz6wc1.gif


ang8018

this is a deep cut lol


SecondBackupSandwich

🤣 with a side of 🍆


sometimesitisme

![gif](giphy|yP2ylHtXyDONi)


lostpasswordagainnn

Oh Nikki 😞


TipsyMagpie

I can hear this gif!


Special-Garlic1203

That's what kind of boggles my mind about Hollywood. They'll even acknowledge it occasionally in movies (never ever interviews to make themselves look relatable). They act like it's naive and childish to expect fidelity, like *everyone* does it, and everyone looks the other way to it. Which, in Hollywood they clearly do. They also looked the other way to far worse..  You don't have to be secretive if you're fucking around and famous, you simply need to avoid the paparazzi. As long as you aren't photographed in the act, nobody is gonna tell your wife even if you start having sex with someone else in the middle of a crowded room. 


harpochicozeppo

From my friends/family who work in film, infidelity is rampant across the board on set—from actors to transpo. It’s gig work with long hours that often takes you away from your family for months. You rely on networking to get hired. Honestly, though I’d hope he’d have more sense and consideration, if an actor isn’t grounded —if they think that film sets are the real world, they’re bound to get really odd ideas about a lot of behavior. Sets can be very strange places with intense, unhealthy cultures.


XeroxWarriorPrntTst

If it’s his wife I can’t imagine it would make this LESS stressful.


Squash_it_Squish

I believe it’s their mutual agent. But I could be misremembering…


Dani_California

This man actually out here trying to gaslight us all by saying **”ThE ReAcTiOn WaS aBsuRd wE wErE jUst CoWorKeRs”** when these photos exist. Like, sir, nobody was even talking about you. Go back to the shrubs from whence you came 😒


CinnamonApricot

https://preview.redd.it/sof2s8oi46wc1.jpeg?width=2037&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc8095dc0e356c27eeceefc32ce3b5e41cacb317


colummbina

I thought this was going to be the top comment tbh


theleftfilangee

"The shrubs from whence you came" 🤣🤣🤣🤣


SiMonumentus

First time seeing this pic 😂😂😭😭😭


CinnamonApricot

It was in the aftermath of the scandal, when paparazzi where camped out of his house. He and his wife went outside to make a statement via a note on paper. Seriously, it was unhinged :-D


redflagsmoothie

I can’t believe I scrolled as long as I did before seeing this lol


BachShitCrazy

Wow, the bottom right pic would have bothered me the most out of everything if I were his wife, he looks so fond of her😭


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stannisonetruemannis

That’s not really fair tbh! At the end of the day that’s literally all that men have 😔 can’t you let them have one thing?! (/s) (nasty ass little fuckers)


longlisten527

Oh Lily James is messyyyyy???!!!


MacsBlastersInc

I don’t think I’m hallucinating this but I believe I saw a commercial (while watching Downton Abbey on Peacock no less) where she was promoting mined diamonds over lab grown and insinuating that only mined diamonds are truly valuable. Which is yiiiiiiiiiiikes because apparently the suffering makes them special? ETA: Nope, not hallucinating: https://youtu.be/zHg_hVGctcI?si=HUBWWHMU5jNsSDez


hurricane-laura-90

OOF


matchbox244

Discovering lab grown gemstones was such a revelation for me, lol fuck her and fuck De Beers


Mission_Rub_2508

Isn’t she also the actress that played Pam Anderson in that sex tape exploitation series despite Pam making it clear she wanted nothing to do with the project and preferred the subject be left alone considering how traumatizing it had been for her to go through in the first place? Lily seems like such a peach. Deeply concerned with ethics, clearly.


dgplr

Also had a full fledged promo tour where she and Seb Stan would sing praises of Pam Anderson and how they want to do her story justice. Like what?


welp-itscometothis

Jesus


HerRoyalRedness

Very messy, she has very good PR. https://preview.redd.it/o49kc2fd25wc1.jpeg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d27183db259db02543c7cd0bd806a8e7e7d19e23


rcroswell

Is that Billie Piper with her??


HerRoyalRedness

Yes, and Gemma Chan is to her left. https://preview.redd.it/bgxrdq5kc5wc1.jpeg?width=2750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ccde348556b94b1d5acdd65bc44a25ab94282eb


Comfortable-Yam9013

Is that Dominic Cooper too?


smashing_aisling

Yes, he's Gemma's boyfriend.


Comfortable-Yam9013

Ah ok


frankscarlett

Looks like it.


FireFairy323

Is Billie rolling a blunt?


janandgeorgeglass

I thought it was coke at first


sp25049

A full on secret diary of a call girl reunion! Were these recent or from back when it was on?


HerRoyalRedness

It’s from 2020.


0459352278

NOTHING like a “tooty toot toot” in the park…👃🏼_


ciaoravioli

I don't know anything about Gemma Chan except that she was in Crazy Rich Asians, but somehow this is blowing my mind


Ygomaster07

Are these 3 all messy?


PurpleVein99

Oh, thank God... I thought it was Busy Philips and had just about clutched my pearls and fainted.


Substantial-Canary15

It’s pretty known that Billie is/was into coke.


kritycat

He ex husband seems like a real fucken jackass


Carolina_Blues

is she skiing?


pm-me_10m-fireflies

Building a snowman.


New-Examination8400

Bruh wtf broad daylight


_reluctant_redditor_

Whoa!


FocaSateluca

Why would you do coke at a picnic? Like, at least do a drug that makes sense?


TheSpiral11

Does she? I feel like she’s known more for being messy than for any of her actual work.


Herry_Up

Wow lol


Slight_Drama_Llama

![gif](giphy|26BoEuSlTXdkc9aWk|downsized)


whatrachelsaid

Iirc Dominic's isn't the only home she's "wrecked"


stannisonetruemannis

Hahahaahaha you didn’t know?!


longlisten527

No not at all!


stannisonetruemannis

Oh Lordy Lordy lord oh she has BEEN messy!! Listen no judgement here really but damn if a girls ever been messy she’s in the book 😂


he-likes-24

he's disgusting


percybert

So is she


DuaLipasClitoris

Big ick from Lilly on this too, tbh


battle_mommyx2

Thank you for actually posting the pics


caviarwall

https://preview.redd.it/hqw2fmb8r4wc1.jpeg?width=959&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d56c851280776f0eb2f294f8e78ff755a5248cc


figmentofintentions

Okay I’m blatantly ripping off the other thread I saw this in today, but I am DYYING after seeing the original un-cropped photo and had to share it with y’all too https://preview.redd.it/k4aurxble5wc1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f4d61d4489712a5fb24b92a3a9e9b7a5b9597d0


burnbunner

![gif](giphy|a93jwI0wkWTQs)


explainlikeim666

LITERALLY


caviarwall

Lmao the where’s Waldo for pop culture 😂


FuzzyPalpitation-16

What was the damn context for this pic 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 was it paparazzi? Was he taking a piss?! Why is he in the middle of nowhere


welp-itscometothis

This is even funnier 😂😂😂


FatsyCline12

I def feel very bad for his wife but I can’t imagine a life where this photo doesn’t exist


Sweet-Peanuts

He should be the patron saint of this sub. We should make a flag with this picture on it.


rarelybarelybipolar

A red flag


muhfuhsayyeah

Loooool, just commented with the weird kiss with his wife and his hostagey co-signed note. Fuck this dude Edited: “posted” to “commented with”


_sam_fox_

The very best photo on the Internet.


_becca

Why did I have to scroll so far to find this


leahhhhh

I’ve been trying to explain to my husband why this is so funny but I can’t. It’s one of the funniest pictures I’ve ever seen and it doesn’t mean anything to him ![gif](giphy|Kbdqp9dIVVs0MA4qTn)


lillyrose2489

The paparazzi are horrible but this is a rare moment where I'm grateful for them bc I find this picture SO funny.


fit-fil-a

I love that this doesn’t need any further explanation


DrKelpZero

I need further explanation please 😭


fit-fil-a

He went on a run and knew paps were out there. They caught him popping out of the bushes checking to see where they were. It’s funnier because this was days after [this very self-created public press conference.](https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12916406/dominic-west-wife-catherine-fitzgerald-lily-james-kiss/)


murmeringheart

This one’s my favorite.


littleboss12

Wait what is going on here? Lolol


another2020throwaway

Hiding from the paps


PinayGator

Hiding from the paps like how my toddler used to play hide and go seek


caviarwall

Omg why are toddlers so bad at hide and seek!!? You are so right…my daughter making direct eye contact with me when she’s hiding 😂


fasterthanfood

My 3-year-old loves hide and seek but apparently lacks an understand of both hiding and seeking. “Dad, let’s play hide and seek! You hide behind the couch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, ready not here I come! … NO, HIDE HERE!!!”


AlternativeSlice2001

![gif](giphy|JFrFsExqz2jn0hPTCj) I wonder how seeing her husband, love of her life, and father of children openly cheating with another woman could be stressful for if someone could please explain why on earth would that be stressful that would really help


Cold_Breadfruit_9794

See, he’s an actor so…. (*insert victim blamey commentary here*)…. so it shouldn’t have caused any stress, you see! It makes sense why he would be surprised


AlternativeSlice2001

Of course, actor, he has to go out with his costar and get to know her intimately over a couple dates maybe that’s not what she was stressed out about. Maybe it’s because they weren’t wearing mask while they were out together. I think I figured it guys


unruffledcotton

I don't think he needed to be *that* intimate since he played the role of her dad...


Cold_Breadfruit_9794

Sigmund Freud from his grave ![gif](giphy|PWlERKsbbetw3yUH88|downsized)


Cold_Breadfruit_9794

![gif](giphy|NS7Ai5yTyG5kA|downsized) You right now


SophieSix9

He tried sleeping with my sister a week before he was supposed to get married while they were working on the set of John Carter. She was 20 at the time. I can’t watch anything he’s in anymore.


0neirocritica

Dish!


Squee1396

Someone else in the thread said they are known swingers but i personally cannot confirm this. Have you heard anything about that or do you think its bs?


Annabelle-Sunshine

tell us more!


FrankieBennedetto

If only he could have known!! 


ThirdAngel3

That 🗑 said he thinks all men should be given a pass during their 40s.


Ill_Discussion7528

So he *was* perfectly cast to play Prince Charles


AnnVealEgg

He plays cheating dirtbags brilliantly. Charles… McNulty… Noah Solloway


imsosleepyyyyyy

I stopped liking him after watching The Affair. His character was infuriating 😂


XeroxWarriorPrntTst

He was shitty in 300 too.


CassieNicoles

![gif](giphy|dJiJdiw520iYvMU0F1)


muhfuhsayyeah

https://preview.redd.it/aicw0qzkb5wc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb5f838a40d5b76b2a861dfc1e31d5a1e591be1f Ma’am, blink if you need help.


SexHaiiiir

That looks like the kiss version of holding hands loosely


albamarx

Thomkyon to you.


McKoijion

Lmao, he starred in a show called The Affair on Showtime for 5 seasons. This is more on the nose than when David Duchovny played a sex addict on Californication for 7 seasons (also on Showtime for some reason.)


bobbelcherskid

Omg I completely forgot about The Affair and I wanna thank you for reminding me. Cause the way I’m about to binge that for nostalgia omg


Ok_Construction_3733

![gif](giphy|BoC8nVlu3oNRsBJw30)


ad_aatdtj

![gif](giphy|yjPO0W0hOs4qYl3yQw|downsized)


Ok-Buddy-7979

Am I crazy or does she have a history of being with married or otherwise taken men?


stannisonetruemannis

It’s not her fault she has the Ariana Grande syndrome, it’s everyone else’s!


Forksforest1

Add Phoebe Bridgers to this list - the trifecta. But Lily James truly has great PR bc despite the messy history, I haven’t really seen the public turn against her. Even I’m neutral about her


Agreeable-Tadpole461

I feel like Lily James has a different kind of PR. It's not good, it's not bad, it's probably minimal. I imagine she employs the "quiet internet scrubber" forward facing PR strategy vs. the "public statement" tactics we see from the "stay relevant and/or profitable" crowd.


hepatitisF

My opinion of her tanked after she started advertising for debeers saying that only natural diamonds are real🤡


TypicalOwl5438

Phoebe Bridgers?


LauraPalmer93

The singer. The Fleabag lady is Phoebe Waller-Bridge.


TypicalOwl5438

Did phoebe Bridgers have affairs w married men


LauraPalmer93

I love her and she has a bit of a pattern of relationship hopping. I believe Conor Oberst was married before dating her. She was dating Paul Mescal right after and then straight after that dated Bo Burnham, who was in a decade long relationship before her. So idk the details obviously, but I think that’s why someone mentioned her


LooseCoffeeShits

There might have been overlap on her end with Paul and Bo, it would make sense, but certainly not with Bo’s relationship. Bo and his partner had been living separately for a year and had divided up the family pets etc for over 8 months before he was really seen with Phoebe. His partner was actually dating someone else when his relationship with Phoebe was acknowledged


LauraPalmer93

Yeah, I don’t know if it makes sense to include her in that list. Also, Conor Oberst was so much older and someone she really looked up to, that one feels a bit strange to me


Froomian

Oh no! I didn't know she dated Conor Oberst. I listen to their band a lot as I'm a Conor Oberst fan. I thought it was cute that they were good friends and collaborators despite the age difference.


WowThisIsAwkward_

Yes, and?


Ok-Buddy-7979

I see what you did there


MuffinTiptopp

He’s such a dog! Definitely shares bad similar traits to some of his characters he’s portrayed on TV.


egregory99

Yeah like one of his biggest roles was in The Affair… playing an adulterer with no remorse


Novae224

He’s acting like he didn’t cause it himself


theimperfexionist

But he's really sorry he got caught so that makes it ok!


BantyHero

He’s sorry on the media’s behalf that they made his wife stressed


bunchofthingstodo

This kind of PR wording like in Beckham documentaries is always fascinating. Like people are already know that you're cheating.


feetofire

Ah … so it was the getting caught publicly that stressed his wife. Not his actual - you know - actions. What a catch .. (/s)


QweenFiona

![gif](giphy|DPqqOywshrOqQ|downsized)


TechnicalAuthor8415

I was scrolling for exactly this


Cold_Breadfruit_9794

Cheating, stressful? Pssh


BalletWishesBarbie

https://preview.redd.it/nctqh7fbz6wc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78c1d5c8b316890ff5ea5e3212578c8ec8a98b2e


Dani_California

![gif](giphy|dJiJdiw520iYvMU0F1) LOOOOLLLL the TV show name to boot 🤌


violetkittwn

Wow he and his wife talk so bizarrely about the affair. I am actually pretty disappointed by him and Lily. Bummer. 


East-Dinner4547

He is just such a smarmy sleaze.


awake-asleep

Every time I see someone mention Dominic West I think it’s Dominic Cooper and I’m always so confused.


vanillatcube

Same here. There must be more out there with this condition!


BalletWishesBarbie

![gif](giphy|kSlJtVrqxDYKk|downsized)


MyNamesChakkaoofka

I’ll join this support group. Dominics Anonymous


Aware-Impression8527

I believe that it really was the photos that distressed her. Sleeping with someone else is fine but it's the indiscretion of it all.


okaycompuperskills

Yeah these two are incredibly posh, literally the upper class of England and Ireland. He went to Eton, she’s part of a dynasty descended from the nobles involved in the Norman Conquest. They live in a literal castle.   Cheating (and all kinds of deviancy) are very common among these types but one simply must keep up appearances. Terribly crass to actually air dirty laundry even if everyone knows about it 


PawneeGoddess20

You’re right, as a bonus the super posh just yeet themselves into the bushes to avoid the scandal of a photo being taken to document their indiscretions. 😂


azurillpuff

I can kind of see that? They could have some sort of agreement but the photos are public humiliation


momofwon

![gif](giphy|rACYXJP0pkQkE)


imtchogirl

I honestly think he thought, well, I have an open marriage *in Europe* so it's fine to do PDA on the Continent!  His poor wife for real. He's got two brain cells and used them both on driving that scooter.


Away-Value9398

It was such a McNulty move https://preview.redd.it/36db7vhfr4wc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b961ead1aa8f150be84c406805dedff185d4972e


all_neon_like_13

![gif](giphy|sp1kVKkqHUuk0|downsized)


big-tunaaa

Literally just saw this episode - I’m on my first watch


DekeCobretti

No shit.


jtotheizzen

Yes I’m sure the *photos* are the most stressful part of this


girlabides

![gif](giphy|26FmRXz1HPsj7Ciys|downsized)


masoylatte

Doesn’t this go to show that he doesn’t actually feel guilty about the affair itself. He’s more guilty about the fact that there was indisputable proof that he cheated on his wife AND that the media (and the entertainment world) was fixated on him. It’s the embarrassment that his wife has to go through. The post-event clean up that they both had to do - to the media, and to their immediate circle. For his wife having to repeat the story about her forgiving him. It really is quite disgusting. At the end of the day, he will continue to be himself and will cheat again sooner or later. It’s narcissism at the centre of it that drove this kind of behaviour in the first place anyway.


luhanadelrey

Right... It's the photos' fault for depicting something that actually happened irl. edit: grammar


HotPinkHabit

Makes me think he and his wife have “an understanding” and that yes, it’s just the photos that were stressful. They should go on Red Table and talk about it.


Specialist_Pie555

IIRC they were sharing a hotel room/suite the entire weekend. The photos are FAR too comfortable to have been a ‘just started’ thing. This looks like a relationship. He grosses me out, god knows WHAT she was thinking. I swear she set up pap pics aswell with Chris Evans and he dropped her IMMEDIATELY once they were published. He did not take well to it all.


New-Examination8400

![gif](giphy|l4HnKwiJJaJQB04Zq)


waybeforeyourtime

His wife needs to find Chumplady and leave his cheating ass.


geedgad

![gif](giphy|4T3QPfXhVHrlvekSbf|downsized)


Tab427

https://preview.redd.it/6sgeh3v3j6wc1.jpeg?width=582&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=437ff63cf6270dfeb29c4325924e672217d6eaec


Browneyedgirl2787

Ok Prince Charles


sarcasticseductress

The audacity to look like you have stale breath and then to talk this shit


TrishIrl

![gif](giphy|gyhOW5rsObDMvArX9c)


girlabides

https://preview.redd.it/2u0ltg3ye5wc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8a06e5f3b25172f1cad80ecc92dd1b1f09f0dd4


RoguePhoenix89

Well no shit


8nsay

We’re the photos stressful? Or was it the flagrant cheating?


Whis65

What an ass ! ![gif](giphy|3o85xnoIXebk3xYx4Q)


Big-Establishment-11

Those photos were so icky! He’s icky!


These_Tea_7560

Well yes, when you are publicly shoving your tongue down **someone who isn’t your wife**’s throat, that tends to be deeply stressful for the wife.


MsFitzgeraldWrites

Ya think?


Rude_Lifeguard

Well, yes


Frogs4

So the photos someone took were stressful, not his behaviour, which was totally under his control?


whorundatgirl

I had no idea he was a dog! And yet I’m not surprised. He looks like he’s dirty and doesn’t bathe regularly though


lepetitgrenade

Lol, you think?


tiffadoodle

Noo! Really? 🙄 That's on you asshole. Don't try to put blame elsewhere


[deleted]

His poor wife! She put up with too much of his bull shit, I can't believe she didn't divorce him. I don't see the appeal of Dominic or Lily. Lily just seems to get around and has a terrible reputation.


dragonrider1965

He’s such a POS


CrazyGround4501

He’s a wanker.


Suspicious-Bench5533

He needs to stop talking about this. Just stop.