David Walliams and Lara Stone enjoyed a whirlwind romance, but it ended abruptly in 2015
It was at a Chelsea football match that David Walliams first met Lara Stone in 2009. And while it seemed like ‘destiny’, their relationship would begin to crumble after just five years together.
The Dutch supermodel, who was 25 when she first met the 38-year-old comedian, previously said that it was love at first sight… for him.
Everything moved very fast for the couple, who became engaged just months later in 2010 after Walliams reportedly proposed with a £100k vintage 1910 Tiffany ring he hid in a cheeseburger.
He is said to have chosen to place the ring in a burger patty because Lara always took off the top of a burger to remove the salad and thought it would be a funny way to pop the question.
At the time, Walliams had commented: “It’s true, we’re engaged and blissfully happy. I wasn’t planning to make a public announcement because I am not a royal – yet.”
Later, Lara interestingly described Walliams as “a bit mean” but “in a good way” and gushed that she was “madly in love” with him in an interview with Interview magazine.
The couple enjoyed a lavish star-studded wedding just four months later at London’s Claridge’s Hotel in May 2010, with James Corden and Alan Carr among those in attendance.
The couple welcomed their son Alfred in 2013 and Lara shared her happiness at being a mum a year later in an interview with The Telegraph. “I have a house, a husband, a good job, a beautiful baby – at the moment I don’t have anything else to wish for,” she said.
However, things began to grow sour between the couple in 2014, with sources claiming that they had started to “drift apart” and were last seen publicly together at Elton John and David Furnish’s wedding that year on December 21.
In March 2015, it was reported that the couple were undergoing a trial separation, with a source at the time telling The Sun that Walliams “didn’t want a divorce” and that he wanted to “work things out”.
But it was claimed that Lara had made up her mind and that “David accepted [it] for the sake of their son.
Filing for divorce, Walliams had cited the Dutch supermodel’s “unreasonable behavious” as the reason for the split.
But a friend of Walliams told the Mail at the time: “He is just deeply unhappy, underneath it all. If you are that unhappy, I don’t know how you can sustain a marriage.” They added: “Lara had had enough.”
Walliams was yesterday named as the celebrity who tried to stop two media organisations from publishing allegations against him after losing his high court challenge.
An investigation by ITV News and the Guardian claims that he abused his power and position for sexual purposes on a multiple occasions with teenagers and other women.In response, Walliams denies any wrongdoing and said he’s ‘devastated’ by the claims.He sent a letter to journalists working on this investigation and wrote: “Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with.“I realise I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret. And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did.”He added: “I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”
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