JANET STREET-PORTER: If you don’t want to be seen as a victim, Rebecca, stop whining like one. And snogging a dance partner may make Seann a cheat but he isn’t a #MeToo monster
Feminism has not been served well by the wittering wail of misery Rebecca Humphries posted on Twitter after discovering her former boyfriend Seann snnogging Katya, his glamorous dancing partner from Strictly. Starting a self-righteousness diatribe with the phrase ‘I am not a victim’ was a big mistake – because that’s exactly how poor Rebecca presents herself.
Understandably, she’s hurt, she’s cross with herself for being so gullible, and she’s determined to emerge as the winner in this one-sided war of attrition. (Seann is wisely saying nothing, after issuing an apology). But is broadcasting your anguish to the world in a long-winded tweet the right way to secure revenge? Surely it’s best to put up, shut up, and move on.
Irony doesn’t really work on Twitter, so blathering that ‘it was incredibly good’ of Seann and Katya to apologise in the media begs the question – ‘why are you using the same media to reveal so much about your relationship, because the more you tell us, the more I can’t understand how or why you put up with this rather unpleasant man for so long’!!
Rebecca Humphries publicly dumped her boyfriend of five years Seann Walsh on Monday
Seann was pictured kissing his Strictly co-star while his girlfriend Rebecca Humphries was at home alone on October 3 – her birthday
Mr Walsh and married Katya Jones were spotted larking around in the street, with Katya performing a sexy dance routine for Seann before he pulled her in for a passionate kiss
Janet Street-Porter: Understandably, she’s hurt, she’s cross with herself for being so gullible, and she’s determined to emerge as the winner in this one-sided war of attrition
What a sorry tale unfolds, with every bit of information Rebecca freely offers about this troubled five-year relationship. A relationship her comedian ex-partner regularly plundered for material to use in his stand-up routine, joking about her bedroom habits and healthy diet of quinoa.
That would bother me, for starters. When Seann signed up for Strictly, had Rebecca not googled the famous Strictly Curse and counted up the number of ‘rock solid relationships’ that mysteriously hit the buffers after two members of the opposite sex, thrust themselves against each other to the strict tempo of the Rumba or the Pasa Doble? Ask Rachel Riley – back in 2013, her year-old marriage was discarded pretty soon after the final scores had been tallied.
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Rebecca’s statement: The actress said she is not a victim and has left Seann and ‘took the cat’ after he kissed his dance partner in London – on his girlfriend’s birthday
Kristina Rihanoff segued her way from one man to another. Brendan Cole dumped his fiancée after winning the series with Natasha Kaplinksy in 2004, even though both claimed they were never an item. The much-denied Strictly curse has swung into action once again, providing excellent material for the ratings and the memoirs.
Even the BBC are running it as a news item on their website! Why did Rebecca think that Seann would be immune to this well documented phenomena? It takes a marriage as rock-solid as that of Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford to survive the extraordinarily lustful waves of temptation that are unleashed on this show.
As for the sorry tale of Rebecca and Seann, on October 3rd- her birthday – Rebecca was home alone, AT TEN O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING, when her love-rat partner texted to say he was ‘having one innocent drink’ after hours of hard work on the dance floor with Katya.
Sorry: Seann has apologised for his ‘mistake’ but he didn’t mention his girlfriend specifically in his apology
In fact, they were filmed kissing passionately on a London street in full view of passers-by.
How gullible is Rebecca Humphries? Who heard of ‘one innocent drink’ at that hour of the night?? Why did Seann not speak to her in person? How many drinks had already been consumed and he was no longer in control of the voice to brain mechanism?
Rebecca says she had been suspicious that something was going on for three whole weeks. Three days would be enough for me. Like all men (and women) caught out, naturally Sean initially denied it in the strongest possible terms, calling Rebecca (she says) ‘a psycho/mental/nuts’.
I would have done exactly the same myself.
When you’re behaving badly, you assume that you are operating in some kind of force-field, surrounded by special glass that no cameras or prying eyes can penetrate. But anyone could pick up on the vibes between these two from 100 yards.
I’ve been in the same situation. Once, I went to meet a boyfriend one Friday evening, having told my husband I was working late in Newcastle all weekend.
Instead, I’d secretly sneaked down to London for a night of naughtiness. When I strolled into the bar I looked over my boyfriend’s shoulder and there was my hubbie, having dinner with a mate. I ran straight out and hid around the corner!
My husband got straight up and asked my lover if the red haired woman who had dashed in and them out was Janet Street-Porter – he replied ‘most definitely not’. 100% denial is the best policy in this situation. Like Seann, I apologized next day, but that marriage had hit the buffers anyway.
Seann is now being demonized on social media for a snog. Quite a lot of us have been guilty of that particular crime. I don’t believe it carries a custodial sentence.
True, Rebecca has accused him of controlling behaviour, which is a serious allegation. But that could reveal more about her than it does about him. And why isn’t Katya attracting the same venom?
‘I’m not sorry I took the cat’: Rebecca Humphries and Seann Walsh with their cat Winston the ragdoll. Miss Humphries has left Walsh and taken Winston with her
Not so funny now? Strictly Come Dancing’s Seann (left) and Katya (right) appeared ashen as they were seen for the first time on Monday morning, five days after they were pictured drunkenly kissing on a London street
She’s the married participant in this particular quickstep. This hardly qualifies as another installment in the MeToo saga – isn’t it time for a sense of proportion?
Rebecca should go on television and shout out that she’s up for any well-paying work that’s in the offing – like the next series of Strictly.
There could be plenty of winners in this saga – the ratings for the show this weekend will soar through the roof. Neil and Katya will be able to sell their stories when the series has ended. Rebecca can become a poster girl for thousands of disgruntled women – but she needs to toughen up and remember the words of Ivana Trump – who had the best line in the 1996 movie First Wives Club – ‘Don’t get mad, get everything’.
Instead of taking the cat, she should have stayed put and changed the locks.
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