April 19, 2015 | 8:04am
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Famed chef Bobby Flay along with his wife, “Law & Order: SVU” actress Stephanie March, split after she discovered he was having an event with a young guide, claims a detailed friend of March.
March, 40, discovered associated with the betrayal shortly after Thanksgiving, mentioned actress/writer Maia Madison. The boyishly good-looking 50-year-old snacks Network superstar have for a few years come watching 28-year-old Elyse Tirrell, a singer/actress just who worked as a hostess from the chef’s pub Americain in Midtown in 2008 and became his associate, she stated.
March stuffed the girl issues.
“She involved my house and is sobbing uncontrollably,’’ Madison remembered. “She stated, ‘we can’t believe the very last years of my life have been a lie.’
“Elyse have always appeared thus anxious when Stephanie stumbled on one of several restaurants, and Stephanie, unsure that which was happening, sought out of the woman solution to compliment their and then try to making the lady much more comfortable. Elyse had even been to Stephanie’s residence whenever she was actually here — once she was actuallyn’t.
“Now this female is about to become the Monica Lewinsky regarding the delicacies industry.”
Tirrell didn’t return calls for opinion.
Julie Halpin, a spokeswoman for Flay, will never confirm or reject the affair:
“We will continue to keep from responding to the continued efforts by some events to distributed rumors and innuendo. This specific allegation was a student in a letter delivered from attorneys in this instance to another. It actually was created and then leaked specifically to attempt to insert this facts to the newspapers, and this’s unpleasant. Even more unfortunate would be that this is done in purchase to renegotiate a prenuptial arrangement that was decided to more a decade ago and not revised through the marriage.”
March’s lawyers has challenged the couple’s prenup, under which Flay would be to shell out the girl $5,000 30 days. In 2012, Forbes approximated Flay’s worth at $9 million.
Flay did just be sure to help save the wedding, astonishing March in Amsterdam while she was at Europe with friends for all the trips.
Bobby Flay and Elyse Tirrell Instagram
“He did a Hail Mary and requested the lady to kindly try to run their particular wedding,” Madison stated. “Because she really likes your, she stated okay, in addition they visited a therapist and attempted to sort out their dilemmas.”
But he consented to come at Miami’s southern area Beach drink & Food event in March during their unique tenth anniversary. He opted for their “B-Team,” while he phone calls his assistants, including Tirrell.
It struck March difficult.
“Stephanie explained, ‘I found myselfn’t seeking a lot. I would have remained if he’d offered me one night out weekly and tulips on our very own anniversary,’ ’’ Madison said.
Flay gone right from Miami to a five-week shoot in L. A., said their rep, so when he returned, March expected your to maneuver completely. Days afterwards, he registered for split up.
Flay company mate Laurence Kretchmer defended his buddy.
“Bobby keeps a guideline that when someone talk crap about him, he does not answer,” the guy informed The article. “I’ve held it’s place in the middle of this union for 14 years, and he did every little thing the guy could to save his relationship .
“Elyse is a good and cherished staff and it’s really dreadful observe this lady pulled into this thing. If she had an affair with Bobby, it would currently reported if you ask me. That has never ever also been suggested, and folks want to talk. Need Bobby and Elyse already been observed along? Yes, that is the lady job. None with this has actually any factor the truth is.’’
Kretchmer added: “As unsightly as Stephanie is going to search [when this reports arrives out], she’ll have a look uglier when other stuff appear.”