Charles Dance says marriage of 34 years ended after he ‘succumbed to temptations’

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/charles-dance-wife-affair-age-b2521307.html

37 comments
  1. “The thinking woman’s crumpet” as an American, this makes no fuckin sense

  2. This is upsettingly candid lol, you don’t read admissions like this too often:

    > “We were living in Somerset, in this enormous place, and Jo had her study at one end and I had mine at the other end, and we became a bit like George and Martha [in] Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? really after a while.

    For whoever is familiar with that play/movie, that’s uh, quite a thing to say.

    > “In our business, Gyles, temptation is often presented and you have to be pretty together and balanced, and have not a particularly powerful libido to not succumb to that.”

    I don’t think we can reproach him here for brazen honesty. For the cheating, yeah, but at least he says the obvious thing out loud, even if he’s clumsily trying to defend it.

  3. Reporter: Charles, why did you have to give so much in the divorce settlement?

    Dance: sigh…

    Reporter: Dude…just say the line…

    Dance: A Lannister always pays his debts…

  4. I heard that in a Tywin Lannister voice……& it made perfect sense.

  5. For those that didn’t read the article. This happened in 2004 not recently. They are good friends now and Dance says he regrets it and would have done things differently which is good I guess..

  6. Well, it’s been 20 years since that happened… btw, british people are funny

  7. Good for him for being honest about it.

    A lot of people can never admit what did they did wrong or can improve in relationships.

  8. In his recent memoir Sam Neill said of Dance: “Brand New Stars can sometimes appear a teeny bit up themselves for a while.” Reading Neill he was probably being kind.

  9. “you prefer to spend your time, bedding harlots and drinking with thieves”

  10. That’s code for she caught him surfing male dwarf porn late at night

  11. Funny way of saying “I decided to take my cock out and fuck someone else”

  12. It’s always the temptations themselves, or the temptress’ fault… never hear them say “I’m a piece of shit and cheated”

  13. That’s when you tuck your tail, grab just your clothing and give them the house, the cars and the bank account. Don’t fight them. With a betrayal that big after that long, all you can do is let them go cleanly.

    Imagine sharing your life with someone for them to do this after a lifetime together. I can’t imagine that level of betrayal

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