When Ioan Gruffudd’s fiancee Bianca Wallace posted an image of herself sporting a brand new Rolex watch, little did she know it will spark such a large row.
A hardworking actress, she noticed nothing incorrect with a bit retail remedy once in a while.
However Wallace’s show of pleasure in her newest acquisition spawned yet one more chapter within the long-running feud between British actor Ioan and his ex-wife Alice Evans.
Ioan Gruffudd’s fiancee Bianca Wallace enraged his ex when she posted an image of herself sporting a brand new, costly Rolex watch
The Welsh actor and Ms Wallace (pictured) introduced their engagement in January, with Ms Wallace sporting a hoop value hundreds of kilos
For Alice, who’s the mom of Ioan’s two daughters, has been claiming she is poverty stricken as a result of, she alleges, the Welsh heartthrob hasn’t been paying her the upkeep funds she is due.
She says her ex has paid her nothing in any respect, both in little one or spousal help – one thing he denies – since April, and final week filed a authorized request for ‘public help’ pending a listening to over upkeep funds set for later this 12 months.
Within the circumstances, the sight of Bianca with a watch on her wrist value hundreds of kilos – to associate with the gorgeous engagement ring that Ioan purchased her when he proposed in January – has solely served to gas her rage.
Buddies of Ioan, who say they’re unable to face by as she spouts such ‘unfounded and unfaithful’ claims, say he’s equally livid. They describe British-American actress Alice, 55, as a ‘complete nightmare’, who’s ‘decided to wreck’ her ex ‘as a lot as she will be able to’.
They insist that he has paid ‘greater than what the court docket dominated’, has made funds since April, and say her pleas of poverty are ‘simply nonsense’.
Gruffudd and Ms Evans again in 2016 earlier than their relationship turned bitter. He filed for divorce in March 2021, shortly after she claimed on social media that her husband of 14 years was strolling out on her and their two daughters
The couple with their daughters, Elsie and Ella, who are actually 10 and 14
In addition they level out that Bianca is entitled to spend no matter she likes on no matter she desires, together with an costly watch.
One tells the Mail: ‘If something, Ioan has overpaid Alice what the court docket dominated. He desires to make sure the most effective for his kids and would be sure they have been taken care of solely as they need to be.
‘For Alice to say totally different to that’s completely incorrect. And what Bianca spends her personal cash on is her enterprise; to start out bringing into issues is absolutely foolish.
‘She is her personal girl who has her personal cash. It appears like a final ditch try to have a pop.
‘Alice comes throughout as very bitter and jealous. Whereas these items are by no means straightforward to navigate, that is getting uncontrolled. It’s turning into a desperately unhappy scenario. You’d assume Alice would know when to be quiet.
‘It is verging on being very merciless.’
However cruelty has been the underlying theme of this divorce, which went public in January 2021, when Alice took to Twitter (now X) to disclose that her husband of 14 years was leaving her.
‘My beloved husband/soulmate of 20 years Ioan Gruffudd has introduced that he’s to go away his household beginning subsequent week. Me and our younger daughters women [sic] are very confused.
‘We have not been given a cause besides ‘he not loves me’. I am so sorry.’
When that tweet disappeared, she posted one other, saying that he had deleted her announcement. She wrote: ‘Hell sure, when I’m being gaslit and mentally tortured, then hell sure, I’ll wash my linen in public.’
As the most recent flip of occasions exhibits, she definitely meant it.
Gruffudd and Ms Wallace are mentioned to have met in Australia, the place the Hornblower star had been filming the ABC collection Harrow and Bianca had been working as an additional
The Hollywood stars met on the set of 102 Dalmatians in 2000, after they performed on-screen love pursuits Chloe and Kevin
The Rolex incident marks solely the most recent unhappy flip in a saga that had such promising beginnings.
Ioan and Alice met on the set of 102 Dalmatians greater than 20 years in the past, after they performed onscreen love pursuits Chloe and Kevin. They then fell in love in actual life and, on New 12 months’s Day, 2006, he popped the query.
A lavish marriage ceremony in Mexico adopted after which alongside got here Ella, now 14, after which ten-year-old Elsie. They settled in Los Angeles, the place they grew to become referred to as considered one of Hollywood’s extra enjoyable {couples} and shortly gathered a lot of buddies.
However cracks started to appear of their marriage. Then started the confrontation, which escalated swiftly – and because the fallout raged, the gloves got here off.
In line with Ioan’s buddies, a part of the issue was that Alice had an inclination to tweet after having had just a few drinks.
She was additionally susceptible to posting rambling messages on video-sharing web site Cameo, the place she bought messages to followers for £30.
At one level she conceded that she was ‘most likely consuming an excessive amount of’.
‘Alice was clearly hurting however she would frequently go onto Twitter and put up,’ says a pal of her ex-husband. ‘At occasions it was very unseemly, and it was hurtful. There have been kids in the midst of it.
‘Ioan took the view that he would preserve a dignified silence on all of it.’
In a bid to finish what he noticed as a marketing campaign of abuse, Gruffudd took authorized motion, and in court docket papers claimed that Alice had branded him a ‘little one abuser’ on social media.
He additionally accused her of organising nameless social media accounts, as many as 22 on Twitter/X, which she would use to lambast him to her followers.
In court docket paperwork final 12 months, Ioan, 49, claimed Alice referred to as him an ‘abusive c***’ and so breached a restraining order, which had been in place for 3 years.
He additionally alleged that Alice flashed her ‘naked behind’ when he dropped off their kids at her Los Angeles dwelling.
Ioan claimed: ‘Since Could 26, there have been a lot of nameless social media accounts arrange – 22 on Twitter – naming Bianca and myself ‘little one abusers’, and making extremely slanderous and 23 defamatory claims.’
Buddies say it was ‘clear as something’ what she was doing.
One pal of Ioan’s mentioned: ‘Alice is attempting to make this as troublesome as potential now.
‘At this price it feels as if it’s going to by no means finish. There have been such wild accusations being made; let’s not overlook the entire Twitter posts which the choose needed to inform her to cease.
‘Why would you wish to put your kids in a scenario the place they need to learn all of that? They’re at an age the place they’ll see all of this. It’s exhausting to grasp why anybody would try this. It is loopy; none of this has been good for his or her welfare in any respect.
‘We’re in an age the place these items stays on the web for ever; if they aren’t studying it now then what’s to say that they will not learn it in years to return.’
‘He has tried to get them assist and to make sure that they’re taken care of correctly. He has pushed for them to have remedy.
‘These women are what matter probably the most to Ioan and it’s actually devastating for him to see this taking place.’
As for the longer term, Ioan’s buddies say they worry that their fallout will ‘by no means go away’ and can proceed to plague the already fractured household for the foreseeable future.
‘Alice is simply going to maintain coming again at any alternative there may be,’ says a pal of the Hornblower star.
‘She is so offended and she or he does not seem to have rather a lot else happening proper now. We are able to solely hope that Alice finds a method to discover her personal happiness.’
