8 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing star had 'secret affair' with pro dancer before split from partner

Strictly Come Dancing has been hit with a new affair scandal weeks after it was reported a married celeb was filmed passionately kissing his female dance partner

Society

31 h. ago My warning to midlife women about open marriages: It's not sophisticated and modern to let your husband sleep with other women, it's a sanctioned affair

Asking your spouse to let another person into your relationship - to share not only your bed, but your headspace too - imposes a heavy duty on her. How can that be fair?

Events

39 h. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: Influencer billed £1.3 MILLION for having affair with married man

In this week's round-up of bonkers news from across the Pond, Donald Trump's attraction to stupidity continues, monkeys on the loose, and a love rat influencer gets her comeuppance

Economics

9 d. ago TikTok star accused of stealing woman’s husband in $3.5m ‘alienation of affection’ lawsuit

Lifestyle TikTok and Instagram influencer Brenay Kennard is being sued by her husband’s ex-wife, claiming an affair led to the end of their marriage

Events

1 week ago My wife has been having affair with someone I trusted – the betrayal has shattered me

DEAR DEIDRE: I SACRIFICED everything to provide for my family but all my efforts have cost me my marriage. For the last year my wife has been having an affair — and to make matters worse, it’s with someone I knew and trusted. I’m 43 and my wife is 41. We have three children. Two...

Politics

2 w. ago BUCKTIN: 'Moaning Trump's treating democracy like it's just another golf course to cheat on'

Donald Trump's whingeing about not being allowed to stand for a third term is being ignored by his own elective, writes Christopher Bucktin

Politics

2 w. ago Heartbroken cousin of singer who fell to death from David Harbour's apartment speaks out

David Harbour has been the subject of Lily Allen's latest album West End Girl as the record is based on the three year affair he had during their marriage

Events

2 w. ago Who is Lily Allen’s Madeline about? Wait, I don’t actually want to know – pop needs its mysteries

Whether it’s Parton’s Jolene, Beyoncé’s Becky with the good hair and now Madeline on Allen’s new album, the ‘other woman’ is everywhere – but gossip risks spoiling these songsSo, to quote Lily Allen – who the fuck is Madeline? As mysteries go, this one didn’t seem to last long. On Friday, Allen released her new album West End Girl, which appears to concern her divorce from US actor David Harbour, with its highly detailed evisceration of an open marriage destroyed by a husband’s emotional affair with a woman called Madeline. By Sunday, the press had already declared they’d found Madeline: the Mail on Sunday printed an interview with a woman claiming she and Harbour had had a relationship. “Of course I’ve heard the song,” they reported her as saying. “But I have a family and things to protect It’s a little bit scary for me.” (Harbour, for his part, has not responded to the album’s contents or to the Mail’s claims.)On the song Madeline, Allen (or her character) sings about messaging a ...

Politics

2 w. ago Who is Lily Allen’s Madeline about? Wait, I don’t actually want to know – pop needs its mysteries | Sian Cain

Whether it’s Parton’s Jolene, Beyoncé’s Becky with the good hair and now Madeline on Allen’s new album, the ‘other woman’ is everywhere – but gossip risks spoiling these songsSo, to quote Lily Allen – who the fuck is Madeline? As mysteries go, this one didn’t seem to last long. On Friday, Allen released her new album West End Girl, which appears to concern her divorce from US actor David Harbour, with its highly detailed evisceration of an open marriage destroyed by a husband’s emotional affair with a woman called Madeline. By Sunday, the press had already declared they’d found Madeline: the Mail on Sunday printed an interview with a woman claiming she and Harbour had had a relationship. “Of course I’ve heard the song,” they reported her as saying. “But I have a family and things to protect It’s a little bit scary for me.” (Harbour, for his part, has not responded to the album’s contents or to the Mail’s claims.)On the song Madeline, Allen (or her character) sings about messaging a ...

Politics

2 w. ago How Kelsey Grammer finally found the one after three doomed marriages

When he first announced he was getting married to the British air hostess, who is 26 years his junior, not many gave the relationship much chance of success.

Politics

3 w. ago The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits audiobook review – an American road trip with a twist

A law professor leaves his failing marriage and faltering career and hits the open road in this Booker-shortlisted novel of midlife turmoilAt the start of The Rest of Our Lives, we learn that Tom, a 55-year-old law professor from New York, plans to leave his wife just as soon as he has dropped their youngest child off at college. Tom and Amy have been together for 30 years. He believes theirs to be a “C-minus marriage” which was irreparably ruptured when Amy had an affair 12 years previously. And so, after leaving their daughter Miriam at college in Pittsburgh, he keeps on driving, revisiting old friends and places in search of his departed youth.Benjamin Markovits’s 12th novel – which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize – could be seen as a companion piece to Miranda July’s celebrated All Fours in its exploration of the dissatisfaction of middle age. Tom is not a reliable narrator of his life, though he is nonetheless a compelling protagonist even in his flagrant mome...

Transport

4 w. ago Anthea Turner opens up about how she was once labelled a 'homewrecker' after falling for a married man

The TV presenter, 65, left her husband, former Radio 1 DJ Peter Powell, in 1998 for property developer Grant Bovey, who at the time was married with three young children.

Politics