[Trustandlove]

I am one who dealt quite well with his books....  but watching the mini-series' is best, after all, that is how they were written -- in installments.  Were he around today he'd be writing all the TV series that we all watch. 

I read Claire Tomalin's biography of him; it's excellent.  Yes, he was a walking crisis, but the midlife thing is particularly apparent.  And yes, probably all down to childhood issues.....   

[panda]

So one I have been following is Paul Hollywood as I am a fan of TGBBO.

Anyway, he seems to have now got back together with his wife - interesting, though, his wife actually managed to get her own TV show out of this.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/great-british-bake-star-paul-2965466?oo=0

[toughtimes]

I don't think he had a mlc, he just had an affair and she wrote articles for newspapers about it and didn't she publish a book about baking too and now she has her own tv show!!! What amazing PR, husband has an affair and comes back very publicly ... All sounds like it went according to plan?!?

[Songanddance]

I think the story of the policeman blinded by being shot by Raoul Moat is very sad and possibly the worst and darkest form of MLC depression.

This policeman was shot at point blank range by gunman Raoul Moat. He survived but lost sight. He seemed ok mentally at first but months later an interview with BBC showed him clearly struggling.
18 months or so after the shooting he hanged himself.
The inquest opened today and his wife gave evidence and said that he had become increasingly depressed and difficult. He refused counselling and suddenly took up with a younger woman. He sent his wife abusive texts - approx. 1000pcm and distanced himself from his children and family.
Now obviously this particular catalyst is horrendous but it is so sad that he became so ill with depression that he took his own life. Was it just the trauma of the event or that and the guilt of the affair or both and the feeling that he could never return to what he was.

So sad, so very sad.

[Sunny]

I know this probably isn't news to many, but I only read of it today. Paul Young's wife (he is an 80s pop star) left him when she was 44,  in 2006. She moved in with another man, had a child, and three years later reconciled with Paul. No reference to MLC, of course, but I think this is most likely MLC. They are now raising the child, now 8, together with their other children and appear to be very happy.

[Trustandlove]

This was being discussed on DaRealist's thread; I took the liberty of putting the link here....

http://www.elle.com/life-love/sex-relationships/chris-evert-marriages

I had read another article in a magazine on this a while ago, in which Chris Evert actually used the term MLC for what she did. 

Her H, (2nd one, actually, the one she left when the MLC kicked in) did marry again, but has now divorced that wife very recently; it will be interesting to watch what happens next. 

[Ready2Transform]

I know this probably isn't news to many, but I only read of it today. Paul Young's wife (he is an 80s pop star) left him when she was 44,  in 2006. She moved in with another man, had a child, and three years later reconciled with Paul. No reference to MLC, of course, but I think this is most likely MLC. They are now raising the child, now 8, together with their other children and appear to be very happy.

Had to Google it, I had lots of posters of him on my wall during junior high. Found this - he sounds like a model stander: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1337256/Why-Paul-Young-taken-wife-TWICE-NOW-raising-love-child.html

[DaRealist]

I am so glad I found this thread!  I will start reading the previous one so I can get caught up.

[Anjae]

nce we're onf film and tv awards seasons the winner of every available award is François Hollande, the French President. Hollande got involved with a much younger actress, leaving Valerie Trierweiler for whom he had left his wife and 4 kids a few years ago.

The story is so bizarre (don't think it is on this article, think it was in another one) that Hollande had to confirm the status of the French fist lady to the White House since he and Trierweiler were offiacily invinted for a dinner. Now, I guess the young actress will go... or he will go alone...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/25/francois-hollande-confirms-separation-valerie-trierweiler


OK guys, it is fair enough if you say it is not MLC, just a French President being a French President... 

[toughtimes]

I didn't realise he left his wife and kids for Trierweiler! Four years and he's at it again. Oh dear. I would say typical French presidential behaviour.

I read johnny depp got engaged to his girlfriend, he never married Vanessa paradis and now back to his old ways of getting engaged or married to every girlfriend he has. I think that is all so odd.