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Famed chef Bobby Flay and his wife, “Law & Order: SVU” actress Stephanie March, separate after she uncovered he had been creating an affair with a aide, says a detailed friend of March.
March, 40, read associated with betrayal soon after Thanksgiving, stated actress/writer Maia Madison. The boyishly good looking 50-year-old ingredients system superstar have for three decades been watching 28-year-old Elyse Tirrell, a singer/actress who worked as a hostess in the chef’s Bar Americain in Midtown in 2008 and became their assistant, she stated.
March jam-packed this lady facts.
“She concerned my house and had been sobbing uncontrollably,’’ Madison remembered. “She said, ‘I can’t feel the very last several years of living are a lie.’
“Elyse had constantly appeared very stressed whenever Stephanie involved the restaurants, and Stephanie, unsure the thing that was taking place, went of this lady strategy to supplement their and attempt to making her more content. Elyse had even visited Stephanie’s house when she was actually indeed there — once she isn’t.
“Now this woman is just about to become the Monica Lewinsky for the meals business.”
Tirrell failed to get back requires review.
Julie Halpin, a spokeswoman for Flay, wouldn’t normally confirm or reject the affair:
“We continues to try to avoid addressing the continued efforts by particular events to spreading rumors and innuendo. This type of allegation was at a letter delivered from 1 attorneys in such a case to the other. It absolutely was authored following released particularly to try and put this facts to the click, and that’s unfortunate. Much More unfortunate is the fact that all this is being carried out in order to renegotiate a prenuptial contract that has been agreed to more than about ten years ago rather than amended through the marriage.”
March’s lawyers have actually pushed the couple’s prenup, under which Flay will be pay her $5,000 a month. In 2012, Forbes anticipated Flay’s worthy of at $9 million.
Flay performed try to rescue the marriage, surprising March in Amsterdam while she was at Europe with pals the trips.
Bobby Flay and Elyse Tirrell Instagram
“the guy performed a Hail Mary and questioned their to please make an effort to run their unique wedding,” Madison said. “Because she enjoys him, she said okay, as well as went to a therapist and made an effort to function with their own problems.”
But he decided to come at Miami’s Southern coastline wines & edibles Festival in February during the time of 
their own 10th wedding. The guy went with their “B-Team,” as he phone calls his assistants, including Tirrell.
It struck March hard.
“Stephanie explained, ‘I wasn’t requesting much. I would personally have remained if he previously given me one night out a week and tulips on all of our wedding,’ ’’ Madison stated.
Flay gone right from Miami to a five-week shoot in la, mentioned his rep, when he returned, March asked your to move around. Months later on, the guy registered for divorce proceedings.
Flay business mate Laurence Kretchmer defended his buddy.
“Bobby have a rule that whenever folk talk crap about him, he doesn’t react,” he informed The article. “I’ve held it’s place in the middle of this commitment for 14 years, and then he performed everything the guy could to truly save his wedding.
“Elyse is a great and respected staff member and it’s really dreadful to see this lady pulled into this thing. If she had an affair with Bobby, it might have been reported to me. Which includes never also come recommended, and people desire talk. Has Bobby and Elyse been seen collectively? Yes, that is the woman work. Nothing of this features any grounds the truth is.’’
Kretchmer put: “As ugly as Stephanie will probably seem [when this reports comes out], she’ll hunt uglier whenever other activities come out.”