Love rat Dave Grohl’s Fighting for his wife…but at least he won’t shun his secret child like Kyle Walker is accused of

FOO Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is, er, fighting to save his 21-year marriage after secretly fathering a baby girl with another woman.

“I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness,” he says.

If only that love had prompted him to do everything to keep it in his pants, he might not have propelled his family into such a public mess.

But I digress.

The good news, relatively speaking, is that he has vowed to be “a loving and supportive parent” to his new daughter.

Quite right, too.

After all, the difficult circumstances are nothing to do with the child, who deserves as much ­stability as she can get in such difficult circumstances.

And if Dave’s wife, ­Jordyn Blum, has condoned his ongoing involvement with the baby, all credit to her.

As the poet Philip Larkin famously wrote, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad” etc  . . . and it’s an adult decision to try to avoid that happening.

Similarly, despite headlines suggesting they are at war over their looming divorce, Ben ­Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were spotted out for lunch at the weekend with their children from previous relationships, who became good friends.

Again, they’re making the best of an unfortunate situation for the children and, to the best of their ability, making sure they don’t have to take sides.

Also this week, I was struck by the comments from swimmer Adam Peaty’s ex-girlfriend as he announced his engagement to Gordon Ramsay’s daughter, Holly.

Eirianedd Munro, mother to their four-year-old son George, said: “Holly is so gentle and kind, I couldn’t wish for a better stepmother for my son. We wish them the best.”

It’s a wonderfully magnanimous statement that publicly endorses Holly’s role in George’s life and will free him from the curse of being the little diplomat that so many children feel they need to become when ­flitting between warring households.

All credit to her

Which brings me to the ongoing saga of footballer Kyle Walker, who fathered two children with on-off mistress Lauryn Goodman, with whom he’s recently been locked in a highly public paternity pay battle.

In January, Lauryn sent friends video footage of Kyle playing football with their then three-year-old son Kairo in the park as proof he was involved in the boy’s life.

But since the scandal went public, and Kyle’s wife Annie kicked him out, Lauryn says that Kairo, now four, is asking “difficult questions” about his dad, suggesting he hasn’t seen him.

Now Kyle has moved back into the marital home with Annie and their four young sons in a bid to get their marriage back on track.

Kicked him out

But where does that leave Kairo and his year-old sister, Kinara?

Yes, their mother and father are at loggerheads in public, but it’s not their fault.

So I hope that, like others before them, the adults put their differences aside and focus on what’s best for the children.

Dummy run for Harry and Meg’s return?

PRINCE HARRY is 40 and he popped in to the Duke Of Sussex pub in Peckham, South London, for a ­celebratory drink with wife Meghan.

Ok, he didn’t. The Madame Tussauds PR team played a blinder and sent along their waxworks instead.

Which got me thinking . . .

With a family rapprochement ­looking unlikely in the near future, why not roll out this dummy duo for royal duties in the continued absence of the real thing?

After all, Harry has a smile clamped on his face (rare when Press photographers are around).

Meanwhile, Meghan can’t make any 5am email demands of her staff, and the pair of them won’t bang on about media intrusion on their worldwide privacy tour.

What’s not to love?

LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to pedestrianise the major traffic artery of Oxford Street, and Deputy PM Angela Rayner reckons it will give the area “the boost it needs”.

Alternatively, they could drop the eye-wateringly high business rates, or stop the “tourist tax” that West End stores say has cost them a £220million loss in unrealised sales in the first half of this year alone.

But don’t hold your breath.

PASSING FANCY, NANCY?

NANCY DOOLALLY-O turned up at Sven-Goran Eriksson’s funeral looking like she’d covered herself in glue and run through a dominatrix flood sale.

“We spent ten, almost ten, years together and had ups and downs – it was a big passion for both of us, a big love story,” she told a TV channel after the service, having earlier released unseen photos of them together with the caption, “My husband”.

Their often tempestuous relationship limped along for ten years but, in his autobiography, Sven said he actually stopped loving Nancy after just a year.

He then met long-term partner Yaniseth Alcides who, 16 years on, was with him right up to the day he died of pancreatic cancer.

Still, dead men can’t refute the “big love story” claims of their ex, so Nancy can witter on in her own fantasy world.

But one wonders what the far more dignified Yaniseth makes of it all.

THE first lady of France, Brigitte Macron, has won her libel case against two online trolls who claimed she was born a man.

Self-proclaimed “medium” Amandine Roy, 52, and ­conspiracy theorist Natacha Rey, 48 – both old enough to know better – were ordered to pay her £6,750 in damages.

Bon. The more that morons like this realise there’s a ­consequence to their damaging online bile, the better.

LYNDA’S ANGUISH

CRIME writer Lynda La Plante says she clocked that her PA was having an affair with her husband when the woman started singing along to a rare record unavailable in Britain – but which was at her marital holiday home in America.

Worse, her husband had a baby with the other woman and named the child Ben – after the baby Lynda had lost.

Cheating on your wife is bad enough, but that is just wilfully and unforgivably cruel.

LABOUR NOT SO COCKY

WHEN Boris Johnson allegedly spent funds from Tory donors on redecorating the Downing Street flat that Sir Keir Starmer now occupies, Labour’s David Lammy was straight on to Twitter to express his disgust and call it Boris’s “last scrap of integrity”.

Now Foreign Secretary (me neither), Lammy spent Sunday squirming under the scrutiny of various TV cameras as he sought to justify his wealthy boss getting a donor to pay for his wife’s frocks.

What a hypocrite.

For the past 14 years, Labour has been shrieking from the sidelines about everything from “Tory sleaze” to how they would bring migration under control and they would look after the most vulnerable in society.

And now they’re in power?

They’re like one of those little dogs that yaps endlessly while tethered, only to scurry off to the shadows the second it’s unleashed.

Not so cocky now, eh?

IF a pensioner on £12k a year doesn’t need the winter fuel ­payment, then why does an MP on £91k a year need to claim expenses for their heating bills?

KEIR TO U-TURN?

OUR new Government has refused to say whether it has asked for a refund from Rwanda after scrapping the £290million asylum scheme aimed at deterring migrants from getting into leaky boats.

That’s a no, then.

Still, given the rumours that the Germans are thinking of sending their unwanted migrants to live in the Rwandan accommodation we paid for, perhaps we could tap them up for the cash?

Meanwhile, our new PM is considering Italy’s plan to send illegal asylum seekers to Albania for processing in the hope it will act as a deterrent.

Words fail me.