Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images. The photo call was dismissed as a 'performance'. Picture: BACKGRIDSource:BackGrid. Lily, whose big screen breakthrough came when she played the role of ­Cinderella in Disney’s 2015 remake, split from former Doctor Who Matt Smith, 37, earlier this year. Apparently, Dominic and Catherine met at Trinity University in Dublin (yes, the one in Normal People) almost 30 years ago. He and FitzGerald share four children – daughter Dora, 13, son Senan, 12, son Francis, 11, and Christabel, seven. This week, in the tenth month of the strangest year that ever there was, something depressingly familiar happened. They were French kissing and there was a lot of necking going on.”. Dominic and Catherine put on a united front outside their home (Picture: MIKE / SplashNews.com) Dominic West and his wife Catherine FitzGerald were ‘embarrassed to … The actor told Harpar’s Bazaar: “It’s one of those subjects that people have very strong opinions about because everybody is open to it and can experience it. She's about to be everywhere in the new do-over of Rebecca. Everything changes, and yet nothing does. It's also perfectly possible that he's the kind of guy who brushes hair away from young women's faces without being asked. “I don’t have parents, but I’ve got five sisters and a brother and they haven’t watched it. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2020. These days, he's 51. “It’s not the necessarily natural way to be, therefore there will always be adultery and intrigue about it.”. (Getty) Thank you. The Sun Online has contacted Dominic and Catherine's representatives for comment. West's wife, Catherine, is a landscape designer, and the mother to three of his four children. "They looked like a couple heading for a dirty weekend and they were all over each other. The program tracks West’s character Noah as he starts an extramarital affair with a grieving waitress – and he admitted in the past he doesn’t want his wife watching the show. Because while all of this talk of an affair is tawdry gossip, what happened next was not. Matt Smith and Lily James split for a second time recently. “I suppose people suspect that the conventions that we have agreed upon in society, that a man and women can stay together for life or a certain amount of time without cheating, that they’re not really staying together based on anything other than how society thinks they should behave. Maybe she has bigger things to worry about. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. Now a source has told New! West flew home for crisis talks at his $A3.25 million country cottage last night after the pictures of him getting cosy with James emerged. Boris Johnson and top medics to make 5pm Covid announcement today, Helen Flanagan shows off growing baby bump in glam dress for lunch in Manchester, Ulrika Jonsson, 53, strips naked and says she's 'reclaiming her body', Michelle Keegan returns to Corrie after 6 years away as cast film Xmas episodes, Tier 3 to be FORCED on Manchester closing pubs 'as Burnham's pride wrecked talks', ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. They were also seen zipping around Rome together, enjoying the sights by sharing an electric scooter. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Anyway, back to the Internet losing its mind and what came after. Our willingness to believe the worst from some grainy imagery persists. In a bizarre staged display of unity, West kissed her – although she kept her hands firmly in her pockets. One of those men who appears to have been born aged 35. My sisters were saying, ‘Yes, we heard it’s good. SAS Australia: Fans kick off on social media after Schapelle... Nick Cummins aka Honey Badger criticised for tackling Shayna... Home Improvement star Zachery Ty Bryan deletes Instagram div... Rumer Willis revealed how she lost her virginity on Red Tabl... Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Speaking at their home in the UK, the actor said to the media: “I just want to say our marriage is strong and we are very much still together”, The Sun reports. Dominic West and his wife struck a 'denial pose' in echoes of 'unfaithful politicians trying to save their careers' as they posed outside their house today, a body language expert has claimed. 'And we're very much still together. Reports flew that Lily James called Catherine to explain, and that's what made her go and stand out in front of cameras and kiss her "naughty" husband. Of his life. If you're not already a Mamamia member, sign up (it's easy, we promise). The photographs appear, on the surface at least, to be a classic paparazzi Gotcha moment. Especially after an Italian lunchtime white wine or two. She and Dominic run her ancestral home, a castle in Limerick, Ireland, as a very fancy hotel for hire. She and Dominic run her ancestral home, a castle in Limerick, Ireland, as a very fancy hotel for hire. Headlines made assertions like, 'I Know How Dominic West's Wife Must Be Feeling Right Now'. LILY James called Dominic West's wife Catherine on Monday night to insist the pictures of them kissing were innocent, a new report has claimed. It comes after the 50-year-old star had been spotted kissing his 31-year-old co-star Lily James on a romantic break in Rome. Our assumption of pity for a "wronged wife" persists. You might know Dominic West as McNulty in The Wire. … “At first, I thought she was his daughter, as I knew he was around 50 and you could tell she was a lot younger. Here We Go Again. You might know Lily James as Cinderella. "He's apparently told Catherine it wasn't as bad as the pictures look. "She doesn't care," he told Esquire in 2012, when he was asked if she was worried about The Affair getting a little close to home. Dominic West kissing Lily James during an al fresco date in Rome. Adam Bennett, The Sun news.com.au October 14, … news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site, spotted kissing his 31-year-old co-star Lily James, SAS: James Weir recaps episode 2 quits after dumb mistake. Dominic West, who was busted kissing co-star Lily James, has put on a bizarre display with his wife, declaring his marriage is “strong”. I can't surprise her in any way now.”. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Or Kristen Stewart being groped by Rupert Sanders in a car in 2012, when he was married with kids and she was one half of a generation's most swooned-over couple. Or, if you want to go way back to 1992, there was a time when a princess called Fergie was photographed having her toes sucked by a Texan oil tycoon while she was meant to be married to Prince Andrew (so many things wrong with that sentence by 2020). Well, it seemed to work, to a point. They're not common, genuinely revelatory pap moments. Picture: GlosPics/ MEGA TheMegaAgency.comSource:Mega. This article appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission. It's perfectly possible that they're good mates who like to flirt. They dated, and he was at her 21st birthday party. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. She was seen on an ice cream date in London with Captain America star Chris Evans in July, though it appears to have fizzled. A rare thing in 2020, when celebrities out their own shortcomings on social media and the stalking of private people getting on with their lives has largely fallen out of favour (Mamamia does not run paparazzi images, choosing not to support an economy built on stalking women and children). She's an Irish aristocrat by birth and a Viscountess by her previous marriage. Dominic West kissed his wife Catherine FitzGerald outside their home today and insisted they were not splitting up after he was pictured in a steamy clinch with co-star Lily James. All times AEDT (GMT +11). James recently split from her The Crown co-star Matt Smith, 37, for a second time, following five years on and off. When it comes to relationships, even in this fluid time, the notion solidly persists that women want monogamy above all things, and are almost always the aggrieved party if that is not what they get. Dominic West and wife Catherine FitzGerald make a strong statement to press outside their home after Dominic was seen kissing actress Lily James whilst in Rome. Perhaps in 2020 we should be giving a woman the benefit of the doubt that she can handle a broader definition of her primary relationship? Think Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's relationship finally confirmed by grainy images of Brad playing with a tiny Maddox on an African beach in 2005. A friend of FitzGerald’s yesterday claimed that they rushed to the West family home to console the actor’s wife who was understandably “devastated”. It’s embarrassing,” he told The Independent in 2016. “Within minutes of the plane leaving, they began kissing and cuddling after both removed their masks. 'Our marriage is strong,' it read, in photogenic cursive. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. She might well pull a face that suggests she was not that keen on her older co-star (the pair are filming a mini-series in London, and have starred together on the stage before) laying his hands on her during a casual business lunch. Or as Noah Solloway in The Affair. Picture: GlosPics/ MEGA TheMegaAgency.comSource:Mega. And the script a famous movie star has to follow when they've been 'caught out' hasn't changed in decades.