Today, I am guest posting on Lisa’s blog. It is a privilege and slightly nerve-wracking to be doing this and I hope I provide something that you find interesting. I have read Lisa’s blog and saw that she keeps up with current affairs and writes about her own take on them. I’ve tried to do the same.
Nickie @ Typecast
Once a cheat, always a cheat?
Recently Vernon Kay has been exposed as participating in the exchange of explicit texts with a number of “models”. Not for one minute do I believe that this was supposed to ever have been public knowledge. He was having his ego stroked and this could possibly have progressed to other things – but that’s my speculation… and I’m entitled. I believe that it only stopped because the information was divulged to the highest bidding outlet and we can only speculate where that information came from, can’t we?
How on EARTH did Vernon Kay presume that his actions would be kept secret, especially when involved with the fame-hungry, stereotypical, tits-out-for-the-lads type of girl that managed to use the exposure (ooh, missus) to her advantage. The main “culprit”, Rhian Sugden, was pictured (posed), dressed in sexy night attire, attending a pyjama party at a Manchester nightclub a few days after the story broke. She was living in the moment, soaking up her fifteen minutes of fame, whilst Vernon was snapped by the paparazzi trying to avoid the main entrance to his own house. Tess, his wife, and the innocent party in all of this, hid herself from the public eye, distraught and disappointed (rightly so) and coped in her own, private way.
Vernon Kay is a man with a beautiful wife (and the word ‘beautiful’ doesn’t begin to describe Tess Daly here), two gorgeous, healthy children, a public image that has been geared towards family entertainment and he still feels that there are boundaries to be crossed and risks to be taken. Where would this have lead? He was obviously completely aware of what he was doing and he was familiar with whom he was conversing with.
I am sick and tired of public figures thinking that they are entitled to attention and even the fact that they could get away with it. And as for the “sex addict” excuse a la Tiger Woods and Ashley Cole, don’t get me started!
Should Tess be giving Vernon another chance? I don’t condone cheating in any way shape or form but my 20-year relationship with my husband is far from perfect and we’ve had our ups and downs. I found myself in the same position as Tess once and had to make a decision that would affect not only our relationship as husband and wife but also that would affect our three children for the rest of their lives. I chose to try and make our relationship work and it’s a two-way street. Not on any occasion did I think that my husband should be grovelling and treating me like a queen; that wasn’t us or how our relationship worked, but I made sure he knew that he was wrong and he wouldn’t get a second chance. To this day, I believe I made the right decision but it may not be the right decision for Tess – only she can decide that.
You can read Nickie’s blog ‘Typecast’, here.
