SOLVED!
[LaineyGossip] A popular married television personality who’s also a chronic cheater had an affair a few years ago with a woman (also married with kids) who’s now become his colleague. The colleague ran into his wife recently. The wife decided they would have a little conversation. There were no pleasantries. The wife pretty much opened with – who did you have to f-ck to get this new position? How many people have you f*cked to get to where you are now? The colleague, obviously mortified, as they’re actually in a place crawling with parents and children, frequented by their own children, tried to be civil, tried to downplay the hostilities. No, the wife wasn’t interested in having a dignified discussion in public. She kept up her line of questioning about the colleague’s career mobility with pointed questions about how much time she’d spent on her back to get to where she is. The badgering continued, the wife was relentless, until the colleague rushed away. The wife is now boasting about the incident to all the ladies in the circle and beyond, convinced that the reason the colleague is getting so much play on the network these days is because she’s willing to give up so much play for the executives, the way she gave it up for her husband.
This isn’t the first time the wife has behaved aggressively. Her husband has pleaded with her to chill out when they’re in public as it could affect his reputation, like his constant dicking isn’t the major contributor to that. Still, her target right now is his colleague and the colleague’s reputation and she seems to be willing, happily willing, to share with anyone who asks how this colleague is earning all her jobs …though I wonder if all that casting couching is enough since, you know, Julia Roberts didn’t seem to be aware.
SOLVED!
It’s Annette Roque confronting Natalie Morales about Matt Lauer! Source: BlindGossip.com
As you know, we’ve already done several posts about Natalie’s affair with Matt, and the affect that it has had on his marriage and on NBC’s choice for replacing Ann Curry on The Today Show. Here’s one that hits on some of the high points: Top Show Drama 3
The Julia Roberts clue that Lainey gave was a great one. This gem goes back to a Golden Globes interview where a drunk Julia managed to dis both NBC and Natalie Morales:
Who’s Natalie? Ouch.
Annette is happy that Savannah Guthrie got the cohost spot, but unhappy that Natalie is going to stay at the Today Show. She is certainly going to keep a close eye on Natalie, starting with the Olympics. From RadarOnline:
Matt Lauer’s Wife Going To London Olympics To Keep Tabs On Him!
Matt Lauer’s wife, Annette Roque will be traveling across the pond for the London Olympics with their three children, to keep tabs on her husband and his roving eye as he spends time in the city reporting on the upcoming games, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
“Annette and the kids will all be going to the Olympics so she can keep very close tabs on Matt,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. “Matt and his family will be staying at a different hotel than the rest of the cast and crew. Annette generally doesn’t like to accompany Matt when he travels for work, but it’s the Olympics and the kids are very excited. It’s hard to travel with three kids and Annette enjoys spending the summer at their Hamptons mansion where they live full-time now but Annette has made it very clear the whole family will be heading to London. Annette has made no bones about the fact she will be keeping close tabs on Matt.”
As previously reported ratings for TODAY have plummeted since Ann Curry took over from Meredith Vieira last year and as a result the veteran journalist has been handed a pink slip and Roque isn’t happy about the situation. She fears the replacement will be none other than Natalie Morales, the woman Lauer was not only accused of having an affair with, but also fathering one of her children.
Roque, reportedly told the NBC host that if Morales gets the job, she’s divorcing him. “When she heard about Ann getting the boot, the first thing she told Matt was that she didn’t want him cozying up any closer to Natalie,” a source close to Lauer’s wife told The National Enquirer. “In fact, Annette drew a line in the sand and said if he pushed show bosses to make Natalie his new co-host, she’d divorce him. Annette knows Matt is the key to the TODAY franchise and his bosses will put whoever he wants in the co-host chair.”
Annette filed for divorce from Lauer when she was pregnant with their third child in 2006, but soon thereafter the couple reconciled, and the divorce petition was withdrawn.
We still have one more question about this whole mess: Is Matt Lauer the father of Natalie Morales’ son?
Wow. This Wife needs to recognize the fact that if SHE doesn’t like other women sleeping with her husband, then SHE needs to kick the husband to the curb!! After all, the Wife is the one who accepts this and stays~ so she has spent her entire MARRIAGE on her back, and tolerated the serial cheating to ensure SHE is getting what SHE wants!!
If I were the colleague~ I would have looked her square in the eye and said, “Lose your jealousy and stop flattering yourself. I may have had a fling with him, but I don’t want him. He might be good enough for you, but he certainly isn’t good enough for me!”
Other than that, the last line seems to have the clue, right? But what does Julia have to do with television?
Thank you!! Finally, a person with some common sense. AS IF it is the cheatee’s (for lack of a better word) responsibility to make sure that the cheater isn’t cheating.
You know what the best response to that would have been? “Don’t worry, honey, I don’t want your husband for marriage” LOL. The entitlement of both the husband and wife is unreal.
Some people are suckers for romance. Now, maybe not in Hollywood where everything is about money and image but in real life a lot of people juggle children, household full/part-time jobs…and don’t want to lose their partners. It hurts being cheated on or dealing with other problems that cause severe stress on the relationship. When it happens and you confess, you can go into therapy or you can quit. I don’t think it’s fair to assume the cheater wants a relationship out of the affair, it can be a way to escape the marriage, to feel young again and so on and most of the time the third person DOES want something more out of the relationship. Most people don’t quit the marriage for another person due to many reasons so why would the third person be with that kind of person? You know when you deal with an unavaible person you are going in dangerous territory, they have to get something out of it otherwise they wouldn’t do it. Most people cheat, most partners don’t find out about it otherwise, few people would have stable relationships. Monogamy is a modern given, in the past it was a rule men cheated and women stayed home. There was no such thing as the family we see know.
That’s interesting. My question would be not be “why would the 3rd person be with that kind of person?” because I find that question irrelevant. My question instead would be “why would the spouse be with that kind of person?”
Because I believe that, if the cheater simply MUST cheat, it’s not up to the “other woman/man” to make sure the cheater isn’t cheating, but it’s up to the cheater’s spouse.
Because, were it not for the availability of spouses to cheat on, cheater’s wouldn’t cheat.
Funny how that goes. I don’t understand the entitlement of married people to expect others to make sure their spouses don’t cheat on them.
I wouldn’t ask any questions at all. I believe in therapy and what not but not when cheating is involved. Can’t deal with that. Just pack my bags and leave, enough single men to mend my heartache.
Many men/women get away with cheating all the time. Some people live double lives or are secretely gay. How can partners solve that if they’re not even aware what’s happening? There was a big meeting with the EU-top a couple of months ago in Brussels. ALL legit brothels were occupied. That has nothing to do with love but just lust and needs. Those people are busy, are barely home and just want the sexual satisfaction. That doesn’t make them doucheb*, it makes them people who listen to their instincts without thinking about the consequences and their responsibilities. You can’t stop somebody from cheating no matter how hot, sexually active, perfect housewife, great mother/father you are…Why should the non-cheating partner carry that burden? if they didn’t do anything wrong?
Another thing, how many people change after marriage, become violent and abusive? That’s a lot to deal with for the partner. I do think it’s up to the cheater to clean up his/her act and to the third person to know their “moral compass”. There are enough hot singles on the market to have fun with but if they’re so insecure and needy to go after a man/woman that’s taken just to feel like they’ve accomplished something, then that’s just pathetic. A family is crumbling apart because you decide your self-esteem needs a boost.
That does not apply to this blind since the wife knew of course and like I said, Hollywood works different that way. They all will get to know a little thing called Karma when the time is right…
Two yrs. ago I remember seeing from train windows men in business suits patronizing Brussel-Noord brothels that face the tracks, at 8 AM!
Women might have stayed home but there was always cheating by both genders. Romantic myth that there wasn’t.
Less by women because they were supposed to be “decent”. Nobody would peep if they saw a man came out of a brothel but that openly cheating wasn’t accepted for women so it’s less likely they would have a sidepiece since it would be hard in doing so without getting noticed. How stealth would they have to be when the community would know everything about you? But there was definitely a need for women to liberate themselves. And they successfully did so =).
@NM9005- the overall theme of your response sounds to me as if you’re validating and/or justifying cheating. Just an observation.
@Mermaid- “I believe that, if the cheater simply MUST cheat… to make sure the cheater isn’t cheating… it’s up to the cheater’s spouse.”
I think a man or woman who MUST cheat has some very serious compulsion issues that need to be handled in a more extensive way than the average bear who knows cheating is their choice. I think when it’s a compulsion, then and only then, is it necessary to take responsibility for the actions of your partner – and that’s only if you choose to do so for the sake of the health and wellness of your loved one and the relationship/s at stake.
Otherwise, it’s fully up to the *individual* in the partnership to have the integrity within to honor ones commitment/s.
@nm9000- my comment about justifying cheating is directed to your original post.
For one: sex. When I hear my gay friends talk, I’m amazed. The best way to pleasure a man is to “push the right button”
, it will drive them insane. It’s more equal and intense than heterosex imo. Two: The gender roles within the household are different. In heterosexual relationships it’s still woman – household, man – breadwinner even is the woman does work, she has to do “double shifts”. Women can discuss it, men (supported by society) mostly get away with the excuses that doing the dishes for instance “isn’t a man’s job”. With gay men, you don’t have that so they have to communicate who does what on a less hostile/defensive level. Again more equal since gender does not apply to divide the tasks. Three: Looking at point two, you can say that gay men have both “traditional” feminine and male qualities, I think they are more “free” since they don’t have to fit in a certain box y’know?
The only problem is: they can’t procreate which is a crucial point =).
It affects more than lifestyle, it would affect society since the “battle of sexes” is still very much present.
Monogamy was implemented in our lives through the church. So people just went it to conform to certain expected norms, even though it is biological not natural . And if it’s really choice then people should stick with it instead of cheating all the time. Thus that would imply something is wrong about the way we think about relationships and how to maintain them. If it’s too heavy to carry, we must be figting our natural instincts. Also there is a difference between sexual and emotional monogamy but I’m digging too much into it. This is not the platform to discuss such things… So I’m done. This isn’t about cheating anymore so I’ll quit here.
Oh, well I’m 300% against cheating and would never cheat myself. Don’t do anything that would hurt you too =).
I’m just studying Sociology and you have to step back from your own principles to understand how a society works, you have to break it apart in small fragments and go back in the past to understand how it evolved the way it did. Fascinating. My whole take on marriage, sexuality, monogamy etc..has changed but I personal still believe in monogamy and would be heartbroken if I would be cheated on. That said, it’s clear that sex is an instinct and monogamy is something that’s pushed upon us through church and it is a modern given. Some people crumble on that pressure and some can thrive under it. I think polygini, polygamy, homosexuality, swingers and so on are much more evolved than serial monogamists.
Giddens, Sociology.
You think that homosexuality is more evolved than serial monogamy? In not sure what one has to do with the other outside of the fact that they both affect ones lifestyle. Where homosexuality and heterosexuality relates to ones inborn sexual identity, monogamy is a choice. And certainly, they’re are many gay and lesbian couples that choose monogamy.
Beautifully put, NM9005.
OK NM9005 what would the right button be? I have a thought in mind being it was gay men you mentioned but I need some clarification! lol
@justjinx: Massaging the prostate gland with fingers and/or tongue or just straight up anal s*
. Google it: prostate orgasm or male g-spot. It is the most intense orgasm a man can reach (sreaming can be involved) but some women and men are a little wary about going into that “dark place”, haha…They just don’t realise how pleasuring it is for the man altough heterosexual men themselves can be ashamed of it because they think it’s a “gay” thing to do. There are many tricks to make it more hygienic because the anus is after all where sh* comes out :s.
I agree on some points, but they said that the husband is a “chronic cheater”. If he a chronic cheater, than it up to the spouse to decided if she wants to accept his cheating as a part of him,or do she want out.
LOVE the insight, 4sixx2 and Mermaid!
The responses the two of you gave regarding the woman who cheated were Great; probably the best thing she could have said to quiet wifey in the situation.
Also, wifey’s choice of the time and place to express her wrath regarding this *private* matter showed just how uncouth she is. The environment was filled with children! Could she be any more self absorbed?? Also woman, focus! Is it any of your damn business what other men the cheetee(?!) has been with outside of your husband? Absolutely not. Boundaries DO exist with those who’ve been scorned.
The thing I differ with (or maybe just want to add) is that all _three_ of them have unbridled gall and rampant entitlement issue. Even though it’s commonplace and “no big deal” in Hollywood to use an individual with power as a means to get ahead, (which imo is one form of prostitution) to do so with a person that has a significant other or that is married makes it all the more disgusting.
Drama, embarassment, shame, guilt, emptiness, selling themselves out … I think all three got what they deserved.
I agree with you. What I was trying to say, and what I believe got lost in my sarcasm (LOL) is that I cannot believe how some scorned spouses attack the “cheatee”. When it is the *cheater’s* fault. It is always the *cheater’s* fault.
Do I have high regard for the “cheatee”? Of course not. But neither do I have high regard for the scorned spouse who doesn’t leave and instead blames the “cheatee”. What is that? They are both pathetic, IMO. And I pity both. And as for the cheater? He just disgusts me.
I really dislike the argument “if there weren’t people to cheat with there wouldn’t be any cheaters.” Because one can just as easily say “if there weren’t any people to cheat ON, there wouldn’t be any cheaters.” In other words, if your spouse cheats on you *leave*. Don’t want to leave? Great. Well the “cheatee” doesn’t want to stop sleeping with your spouse either. So if the spouse can be weak, so can the “cheatee”. Don’t expect from others what you can’t do yourself.
People just give the cheater all this power. Willingly. When all you have to do is say NO. Like Nancy Reagan says. LOL.
FYI not so sure on the higher evolved swingers & polygamists as I have known one polygamist and several swingers and they have all been psychologically messed up and/or on drugs. I do not think they were at all evolved. The opposite, if anything.
I could argue a case for serial monogomy though
And that’s only because people become boring and/or take each other for granted and/or get married too young. If the latter weren’t the case – I think monogomy can definitely work.
The reason the spouse pours scorn on the cheatee not the cheater is because they LOVE the cheater and the cheater has hurt them. It’s easier to blame the cheatee because they have no real stake in the matter other than trying to get what is not theirs. Obviously cheater and cheatee are equally to blame and both have broken moral compasses.
Agree that’s why the scorned spouse blames the cheatee (instead of the cheater) but I still can’t believe they do. Unless the cheatee stalks the cheater, then it is *only* the cheater’s fault. IMO The cheatee owes nothing to the scorned spouse. Some posters below said it best – very succinctly.
Mermaid, YES! I remember when I was very young Nancy Reagan ran a campaign regarding fidelity. She said, “Just say NO to cheating!” Haha Kidding.
What a great reference! Apparently Corey Feldman gave his speech to the nation while on drugs. Sheesh. But getting back to the original discussion…
Thank you for the clarification. Your points we’re well taken and I agree with every one, including you’re opinion on swingers and polygamists. I’ve known/I know quite a few swingers so I, too, (in terms if knowing them without having been intimate) can speak from experience. Polyamory, on the other hand, and this maybe even moreso directed at NM, is the only option I feel is possibly more highly evolved then monogamy and that’s because if it’s to work, the level of communication and trust has to be *at least* twice that of a monogamous relationship. And though it’s a rare option to act upon, I’ve found those I do know who’ve taken this route are some of the most intelligent and genuinely healthy individuals I’ve befriended.
Wow, what tangents we’ve taken this thread through!
I know and I’m going to stop now but I wanted to just clarify a mistake I made. I meant to say “polyamorist”. A woman I knew back in High School is now a polyamorist (NOT polygamist – sorry!!) and in fact has made several movies about this (she’s a film maker). I don’t know. Back in High School she had serious family relationship problems. On the surface she seems completely well-adjusted and great except that her husband isn’t really into it, you know? He goes along with it, but….making one relationship work is hard enough…bringing other people into the mix? I don’t think her husband is happy with the situation so it seems one-sided on her part. (She has other amorists – whatever you call them; he, not so much). In her film(s) you can see her make out with her other amorist in front of her husband – he looks miserable and humiliated and embarrassed. Why put someone you ostensibly love through this? The father of your child. Isn’t it selfish to give away part of yourself to someone outside the family (I feel like she’s cheating her husband & child). But, again, not my life. Don’t mean to judge. Just that he looks miserable in her films.
Also, I met her brother at a party (who himself is quite messed up) and you can tell he thinks highly of her but refuses to talk about her.
“Julia Roberts didn’t seem to be aware”. Haha, oh memories! Lainy doesn’t want this one to stay blind, that’s for sure. She must be referring to Julia Roberts “Who’s Natalie?” at the 2010 Golden Globes. So that would be Natalie Morales from NBC, her colleague being the notorious cheater Matt Lauer. It does say that it’s a new position so maybe it’s Brian Williams? I’m still going for Matt Lauer though because of the “chronic cheater”.
And also, this article that pretty much sums up that’s she is cheating with Matt Lauer while hosting hypocritally “The Marriage Ref”:
http://deceiver.com/2010/05/24/matt-lauer-mistress-natalie-morales-gives-great-marriage-advice/
Matt Lauer and Natalie Morales.
Great catch. Completely on board.
Sounds good.
Dang, need to post it again:
“Julia Roberts didn’t seem to be aware” = clue. At the 2010 Golden Globes, she uttered the words “Who’s Natalie?”. That would be Natalie Morales from NBC!
The colleague being notorious cheater Matt Lauer. Or maybe because it’s a new show, Brian Williams but he’s not known as a “chronic cheater”. So I say Matt Lauer.
Oh, that is good. Very, very good choice. Great catch on the clue!
NICE CATCH!!! I remember Lainey commenting specifically on how hilarious/fitting that was. I am sold 100%
Oh, yes!
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Who’s Natalie? Natalie Morales, That cute young actress who was in the Middleman!
Matt Lauer.
Julia Roberts and Tina Fey were discussing the problems at NBC with Billy Bush from Access Hollywood at the Golden Globes pre-show. A reference was made about Natalie Morales who was co-hosting with Bush after which Julia Roberts asked Billy Bush: WHO IS NATALIE, referring to Morales. Because why would she know? Maybe that is the connection. Seems so to me.
You guys are Goooood!!! This explanation (and the same guesses above) make perfect sense! What appeared to be such an obscure reference is so blatantly obvious when you all put the puzzle pieces together. Bravo!!
Touche! Well done
Lainey HATES Julia Roberts and milked the “Who’s Natalie?” thing for over a year.
This is definitely Matt, Natalie and his crazy wife Annette.
It amazes me that some married women seem to think all other women owe them some type of loyalty not to sleep with their husbands simply because they are also women. I am married and if my husband ever cheats on me I will be directing my anger at him – not the woman he cheated with. She doesn’t owe me a thing. He does.
Oops – forgot to agree with the Matt Lauer/Natalie Morales guess….my soapbox tipped over….lol
I’m with you – on both counts. *L* If my husband cheats on me, she’s pretty irrelevant. But I have some serious business with him…
Yes. and on the guess as well.
Agreed!
And I’m with the Lauer/Morales guess, as well.
Agreed to a point. In this case, the wife needs to turn her anger onto her husband and not (just) the other woman. He deserves the brunt of the blame there (as the other woman does from her husband) and it’s obvious he’s not getting it.
Having said that, anyone who sleeps with someone knowing that they’re married with kids is one of the lowest forms of scum around. So yes, I do think women (and men) have a responsibility to not screw around with other people’s spouses.
Matt Lauer.
This is O/T, but is it just my computer or does everyone see an answer spelled out one letter at a time, downward?
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I can’t read half the answers sometimes, it takes too long!
Kat, it’s just your machine. Change the settings on your browser.
I agree the anger should be directed at the husband but you know if the sisterhood of women behaved with some dignity and respect for themselves and for other women and a realization that most men aren’t worth fighting over, it would leave men with a lot less options. They must just laugh their heads off at the stupidity of women sometimes. I say this as a female. We came a long way babies but we seemed to have regressed.
Then again I am naive since I am sure just as many wives and girlfriends these days fool around on their men as well. If you need serial sex don’t pretend to be in a monogamous relationship.