‘It’s such a cliché’: Anthea Turner’s brother-in-law slams her ex-husband Grant Bovey for leaving her for a younger woman
The actor said he and wife Wendy were left to help pick up the pieces of the affair
ANTHEA Turner’s brother-in-law has slammed her ex-husband Grant Bovey for leaving her for a woman half his age.
Gary Webster, who is married to Anthea’s sister Wendy, said his affair with a younger woman was such an obvious thing for a man his age to do.
Speaking to the Sunday People, he said: “A middle-aged man taking up with someone much younger is such a cliché.”
Grant and Andrea married in 2000 after he left his wife Della to be with the TV presenter but Anthea divorced him last October following his affair with 25-year-old socialite Zoe de Mallet Morgan.
Around the time of the marriage breakdown, Grant’s buy-to-let empire collapsed and in a swipe at the former property tycoon, Webster said: “Wendy and I were never interested in owning helicopters and horses. When those things are taken from you – especially if you’re in the public eye – it’s much harder to bear.”
He said: “I don’t see Grant any more. My role was to be there for Wendy in helping Anthea, who’s been through a hell of a lot.”
And he added that his journalist and TV presenter wife “may be the little sister but she’s the go-to person when times are tough”.
Anthea is now dating photographer David Yarrow, who used to date Liz Hurley, but Gary has yet to meet him.
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But he said: “Anthea’s a survivor. She is in a good place right now and that makes my Wendy happy.”
Gary, who became a household name when he starred as George Cole’s nephew in Minder, recently returned to TV screens as as Belinda Slater’s husband Neville.
The 52-year-old has been married to Wendy since 1999 and they have two sons, Jack and Freddie, but things took a horrible turn for the pair not long after they met.
But years ago he suffered financial ruin when he declared himself bankrupt having not put any money aside for tax and he had to re-mortgage his mum’s house to pay his debts and he and Wendy’s £400,000 house and flat in west London were repossessed.
Then Wendy got viral meningitis, double pneumonia and pleurisy and in 2011 Gary suffered a heart attack.
But he said: “However bad things got, I had my wife and kids. I knew we’d get through. And we did.”
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