Ioan Gruffudd, 50, is engaged to girlfriend Bianca Wallace, 31,
Ioan Gruffudd and girlfriend Bianca are engaged, following the Welsh actor’s messy divorce from ex Alice Evans.
The actress, 31, took to Instagram as she shared a kiss together with her new fiancée, 50, whereas proudly displaying off her gorgeous emerald ring for the digicam on Saturday.
The couple, who’ve been relationship since 2021 after Ioan’s cut up from his spouse in March of that 12 months, beamed as they shared a candy kiss.
Both have been wrapped up heat as they captured the loving second open air with Bianca writing: ‘The most valuable factor occurred…’.
Fans rushed to the remark part to want the couple nicely with one writing: ‘So so so joyful for you!!! Your love is one for the ages’.
Ioan Gruffudd, 50, and girlfriend Bianca, 31, are engaged, following the Welsh actor’s messy divorce from ex Alice Evans
The actress took to Instagram as she shared a kiss together with her new fiancée 50 whereas proudly displaying off her gorgeous emerald ring for the digicam
While one other stated: ‘Wow congratulations to you each. Adore your ring’.
Someone else commented: ‘Wow!!! Many congratulations to you each!!!’.
And: ‘Congratulations holy hell!’.
Last month Bianca hit again at hypothesis she was pregnant, after catching the attention with a white phantasm gown.
The actress once more took to Instagram as she shared a beaming selfie in a reasonably white sundress, gushing within the caption she was ‘a cheerful gal residing life.’
However, later Bianca shared a remark replying to a different person saying she’d been ‘smashed’ with messages asking if she was anticipating.
She famous that her pinstriped white gown was ‘giving her tummy that phantasm,’ and clarified that she was not pregnant.
Captioning her publish, Bianca wrote: ‘Just a cheerful, joyful gal residing life.’
The couple have been relationship since 2021 after Ioan’s his spouse Alice Evans in March of that 12 months
Alice and Ioan pictured collectively in 2018
Fans rushed to the remark part to want the couple nicely with one writing: ‘So so so joyful for you!!! Your love is one for the ages’
One fan then commented: ‘I had a dream that you’re pregnant and that you simply and Ioan have a phenomenal little lady.’
Bianca then replied: ‘That is a cute dream, I’ve been completely smashed in my inbox this morning by individuals asking me if I’m!
‘Apparently the traces on my gown are giving my tummy that phantasm! It’s simply the gown!’
The Daily Mail reported once more final month that Alice is in dire monetary straits – and has informed associates that she can not pay her lease or afford meals, and is considering taking a job in Starbucks.
Alice introduced in January 2021 that Ioan was strolling out on her after 20 years of marriage and in October that 12 months he went public with Bianca.
It comes after Bianca hit again at hypothesis she’s pregnant, after catching the attention with a white phantasm gown
She shared a remark replying to a different person saying she’d been ‘smashed’ with messages asking if she was anticipating
She has informed buddies that the cash which she received from the sale of the marital house, believed to quantity to $100,000 is all gone, a lot of it on attorneys, and she or he is now in a monetary disaster.
A pal stated: ‘Alice has been extraordinarily upset and says that she will be able to’t afford to make lease when it’s due later this month – not less than not in the event that they need to eat – and has simply hit a monetary all-time low. She says she has nothing – not even medical insurance coverage.’
They continued: ‘She’s been informed that she ought to get a job however has not discovered any performing work and in any case she must take care of their youngsters who’re college age.
‘This week she has been discussing attempting for a job in Starbucks however she thinks they won’t need her as she might be too previous for them at 55. Also her agent does not need her to do it in case it appears to be like dangerous.’
The pal added: ‘She is feeling determined and is out of concepts about how she will be able to get alongside. She has been crying herself to sleep.’
The Daily Mail reported once more final month that Alice is in dire monetary straits – and has informed associates that she can not pay her lease or afford meals, and is considering taking a job in Starbucks
Alice introduced in January 2021 that Ioan was strolling out on her after 20 years of marriage and in October that 12 months he went public with Bianca (Ioan and Biance pictured in 2022)
The ex couple share daughters Ella, 14, and Elsie, 10
She and Gruffudd lastly divorced in July this 12 months however custody, spousal and baby help have but to be settled and the subsequent listening to within the case is due in March subsequent 12 months.
The ex couple share daughters Ella, 14, and Elsie, 10.
It comes amid information that the Fantastic Four star will reunite together with his daughters not less than as soon as per week after claiming his ex-wife had stored the ladies away from him for nearly a 12 months.
In new courtroom filings obtained by DailyMail.com, a choose ordered Evans to take the ladies to weekly ‘reunification remedy’ periods with their father.
And Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Josh Stinn additionally decreed that the warring former couple couldn’t trash or insult one another in entrance of their youngsters throughout remedy periods.
According to courtroom papers, the 2 women now use the final identify Griffith, the Anglicized model of their Welsh father’s final identify.
Gruffudd, who met Evans after they co-starred within the 2000 Disney film, 102 Dalmatians, filed for divorce in March 2021, shortly after the blonde actress claimed on social media that her husband of 14 years was strolling out on her and their two daughters.
Evans introduced on Twitter in January 2021: ‘Sad information. My beloved husband/soul mate of 20 years, Ioan Gruffudd, has introduced he’s to go away his household, beginning subsequent week.
‘Me and our younger daughters are very confused and unhappy. We have not been given a motive besides that he “no longer loves me”. I’m so sorry.’
In June 2022, she launched a Go Fund Me web page asking for $25,000 to attempt to pay her payments, saying: ‘I by no means in one million years thought I’d be doing this. However in August 2020, simply because the pandemic was actually kicking in, my whole world fell aside.
‘Since that date I’ve been not solely struggling as a single mom to my infants, but additionally attempting to cowl payments and meals and authorized charges (ha! do not even speak to me about authorized charges) which dwarf some other expense in my life and have lastly drained all the things – financial savings, accounts, pension, the lot.
‘Yesterday all my accounts ran out and I could not purchase something. On the identical day, my husband’s lawyer despatched me a letter telling me I used to be due in courtroom on 2 August to argue “my case” within the divorce. I at present haven’t any lawyer and no funds to pay one.
‘If I do not flip up at courtroom I will likely be in contempt, and I don’t know what’s going to occur to me or my children at that time.’
Inside probably the most bitter divorce in Hollywood: A timeline of Alice Evans and Ioan Gruffudd’s relationship
January 2021: The starting of the top
Gruffudd filed for divorce in March 2021, shortly after Evans claimed on social media that her husband of 14 years was strolling out on her and their two daughters.
October 2021: Ioan goes public together with his new love
After Evans’ explosive announcement about her cut up all appeared to quieten down till October 2021 when she took to Twitter to assert to her 29,000 followers that her estranged husband had been dishonest on her for 3 years with a a lot youthful lady.
Evans implied that her ex had gaslighted her for years, betraying her and their two daughters (however didn’t supply any proof to help her accusation).
February 2022: Ioan information for a restraining order towards Alice
After months of pointed tweets and social media posts made by Evans, Gruffudd responded by submitting for a restraining order, submitting 113 pages of unhinged texts and emails that had not beforehand been made public.
In his courtroom submitting, Gruffudd claimed he informed Evans that he wished out of the wedding in August 2020 and that since then, she had harassed him with lots of of unanswered textual content messages, abusive emails and social media posts – a lot of which he included within the submitting.
He claimed she verbally threatened to inform the media he had abused her ‘do what Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp’.
Inside probably the most bitter divorce in Hollywood: A glance again at Alice Evans and Ioan Gruffudd’s shock slanging match (pictured in 2004)
June 2022: Alice begs followers for cash to pay for a divorce lawyer
As their divorce proceedings entered its fifteenth month, Evans claimed to be ‘fully out of cash for meals and payments.’
She claimed she would obtain no monetary help from Gruffudd and that she was struggling to pay her authorized charges and can be unable to ‘feed or dress’ their daughters together with her dwindling funds.
July 2022: Ioan asks for joint custody of daughters
After Evans filed for sole custody of their daughters, Gruffudd filed for custody and visitation rights to see his youngsters, claiming within the submitting that Evans had been purposely attempting to chop communication between himself and the youngsters.
He additionally petitioned that the ladies attend in-person remedy and reunification remedy through zoom with him pending court-ordered mediation about custody.
In the submitting, Gruffudd reiterated allegations that Evans had been verbally abusing throughout their 14-year marriage, and ‘undermin[ing him] in entrance of the ladies all through their lives.’
August 2022: Ioan will get a three-year restraining order towards Alice
Having beforehand been awarded a short lived restraining order towards his estranged spouse, Gruffudd efficiently obtained a three-year restraining order towards Evans in August 2022.
Harsher restrictions have been put in place by a US choose, together with a ruling stopping Alice from leaking non-public textual content messages from their youngsters.
In the courtroom paperwork, Gruffudd claimed Evans continued to trigger him points and wished further provisions added to the present restraining order.
He additionally requested Evans not publish his textual content messages or some other communications to the events’ youngsters, or the youngsters’s textual content messages or some other communications to Ioan, on any social media account.
Gruffudd additionally requested for the choose to order Evans to not contact his employer or make disparaging statements about him to his employers.
October 2021: Ioan went public together with his new love Bianca Wallace, posting an image with the Australian actress who’s 21 years youthful than Alice
September 2022: Ioan and Alice’s baby custody battle hits a wall
Two months after Gruffudd filed for joint custody of his two daughters and requested for custody and visitation rights, the exes did not settle their variations in household courtroom, regardless of the assistance of a mediator.
Court paperwork confirmed the exes assembly was set for 31 August and that mediation had taken place however that ‘no settlement’ had been reached.
The doc went on to verify that that each Gruffudd and Evans had accomplished the necessary Our Children First program.
The Superior Court of Los Angeles states of this system that: ‘Parents are required by legislation to attend a mediation orientation/mother or father training program and a mediation session previous to showing at an Order to Show Cause or Trial concerning the custody and/or visitation of their youngsters.’
November 2022: Alice is reported to police over claims of ‘baby abuse’ and drug use
Amid her ongoing custody battle, Evans claimed that somebody known as social companies and the police on her with considerations over baby abuse and drug and drink use.
The actress took to Twitter to allege that somebody had despatched authorities to her property who then discovered ‘completely no indicators of abuse’ and ‘no medication or drink’.
July 2022: Ioan requested for joint custody of their daughters Ella, 13 and Elsie, 9, claiming Alice had been attempting to chop communication between himself and the youngsters (pictured in 2018
February 2023: Child custody settlement is stalled once more after Alice is charged with ‘violating restraining order’
Evans appeared in courtroom in February 2023 to reply two fees of violating a restraining order that was put in place by her estranged husband.
The warring former couple have been scheduled to look later that month at a custody listening to however Evans requested for a postponement.
Her lawyer, Marie LaMolinara, argued that testimony Alice offers on the custody listening to could possibly be used towards her in her later prison trial, which might violate her proper, beneath the fifth Amendment, to not incriminate herself.
March 2023: Charges towards Alice are dropped
Prosecutors in Los Angeles dropped fees towards Evans who had been accused of defying a restraining order the Welsh actor has towards her.
Evans had pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of violating the order and at a listening to at LA’s Airport Courthouse, Commissioner James Cooper dismissed the costs after prosecutors informed the courtroom they have been ‘unable to proceed.’
At a follow-up listening to, Evans’ lawyer, public defender, Daniel Stefanic, filed a movement asking for a ruling that might declare her ‘factually harmless’ of the costs.
August 2022: Ioan efficiently obtained a three-year restraining order towards Alice that banned her from mentioning him or his girlfriend on social media (Ioan and Bianca pictured May 2022)
May 2023: Alice strikes out of $2million household house as ex Ioan is ‘too poor’ to pay for it
Evans and her youngsters moved out of her household house and right into a rented abode with their two daughters after Gruffudd pleaded with a courtroom to permit the house to be bought, saying he did not have the cash to maintain up with mortgage funds for his household following their cut up in 2021.
The Fantastic Four star informed a courtroom in a doc filed final 12 months that neither he nor Evans might afford the $6,750 a month in mortgage funds, insurance coverage and property tax.
He stated he’d had only one paid job up to now 12 months and was so poor he was counting on handouts from his younger girlfriend.
May 2023: Ella, 13, applies for a restraining order towards dad Ioan and his girlfriend Bianca
The teenage daughter of Evans and Gruffudd requested for a restraining order towards her well-known father and his girlfriend in paperwork filed on May 31 on the Los Angeles Superior Court.
In the paperwork, Ella said that she is ‘afraid’ of her father and accuses him of ‘threatening to name the police on her anytime she misbehaves’ throughout their visitations.
Ella filed for a home violence restraining order towards her father following what she stated was an unpleasant incident at their house, throughout which she claims Bianca ‘slammed a door on her head’.
In her submitting towards her father, Ella requested that he be made to maintain not less than 100 yards away from her and never contact her for 5 years and asks that Gruffudd be ordered to bear a ’52-week batterer intervention program’.
The program, which includes weekly lessons, is meant – the doc states – to ‘cease abuse, educate accountability, abuse results, and gender roles’.
Ella requested that the restraining order additionally cowl her nine-year-old sister Elsie, noting that she ‘lives together with her sister and is afraid that [Ioan] will abuse and/or proceed to permit abuse to occur to my sister too’.
She additionally requested that her father be made to pay ‘for some or all of her lawyer’s charges and prices’ and requests that her telephone account and that of her sister Elsie’s be transferred to their mom, alleging that Gruffudd has ‘threatened to cancel my sister’s telephone account and my telephone account’.
Along together with her home restraining order submitting, Ella included a declaration as proof to help her case, by which she shared her recollection of a bitter spat that she claims occurred whereas she and her nine-year-old sister Elsie have been visiting their father’s house on May 26.
Ella admitted that she was ‘so mad’ at her father to search out that Wallace was at his residence when she arrived that she started throwing meals on his mattress, on the ground, and on him, earlier than she tried to flee the residence – which, she says, is when the actress ‘slammed a door on her head’, leaving her with ‘a small bump’ and a ‘bruise on her arm’.
May 2023: The teenage daughter of Alice and Ioan requested for a restraining order towards her well-known father and his girlfriend in paperwork filed on May 31 (Alice and Ella pictured)
June 2023: Ioan accuses Alice of abusing him through faux Twitter accounts
In courtroom paperwork seen by MailOnline, Gruffudd claimed his estranged spouse screamed at him exterior his Los Angeles house and known as him a ‘f***ing abuser’ and ‘abusive c***’ in entrance of their 13-year-old daughter.
Gruffudd additionally claimed Evans repeatedly damaged a three-year restraining order he took out towards her which has resulted in prison fees – and flashed him whereas carrying no underwear when their youngsters have been being dropped off.
The bombshell papers additionally contained claims from Gruffudd that: Evans has made ‘hundreds of false, threatening and harassing posts’ about him; Evans claims to be home-schooling Ella, however has ‘offered no data’; Evans has interfered with the ladies’ remedy and they’re lacking appointments; and Ella poured rolled oats from a bag over his head, which left him ‘in shock’.
July 2023: Ioan and Alice are declared legally divorced
In a courtroom order handed down in LA Superior Court, Judge Josh Freeman Stinn lastly granted Gruffudd’s request for divorce amid the couple’s ongoing custody battle.
The Welsh actor had filed for bifurcation and termination of marital standing in May which might enable him and Evans to be declared legally divorced at the same time as they proceed settlement negotiations of their cut up.
A minute order obtained by DailyMail.com present the choose accepted the request on July 3, ruling: ‘The Court finds irreconcilable variations have arisen within the marriage and grants judgment for the dissolution of marriage as to standing solely, efficient right this moment.’
July 2023: Ioan’s daughter loses bid for home violence restraining order towards him
Two months after Ella filed paperwork a choose on the Los Angeles Superior Court dismissed an utility by Ella for a home violence restraining order.
Gruffudd was current in courtroom, together with Ms Evans for the listening to, in addition to the lawyer appointed because the minor’s counsel final month.
The choose dominated: ‘The minor’s request for a home violence restraining order towards the petitioner is hereby dismissed with out prejudice.’
The choice got here three weeks after {the teenager}’s bid to get a civil safety order towards Gruffudd’s actress girlfriend Bianca Wallace, who suffers from a number of sclerosis, was additionally denied.
Ioan stated: Friends of the Liar star stated he was ‘very relieved’ on the end result. They additionally claimed that the scenario is a ‘nightmare’ however they’re ‘joyful to see some progress’.
August 2023: Ioan accuses Alice of ‘baby abuse’ and protecting their daughters from him
A Los Angeles choose tried to protect Gruffudd and Evans from the fallout of their mother and father’ ugly battles by banning the press from a custody listening to, protecting the proceedings secret.
But that did not cease the warring former couple – who’re each searching for custody of the ladies – from taking vitriolic pictures at one another in written courtroom filings which are public and never sealed.
The Welsh star known as his ex a ‘baby abuser’ – whereas Evans claimed Gruffudd hadn’t seen or known as his youngsters for nearly three months, based on courtroom paperwork obtained by DailyMail.com.
Ioan stated: ‘Alice has continued to inflict severe emotional hurt on Ella and Elsie by her statements and by interfering in my relationship with them.
‘Alice has verbally abused and undermined me in entrance of the ladies all through their lives.
‘Since January 2021, Alice has additionally inspired and instructed them to not see me or talk with me and she or he has made hundreds of threatening and abusive communications to me and about me.’
Alice stated: ‘I’ve learn and disagree with the declaration of petitioner (Gruffudd) as to allegations that I’m inflicting or inflicting our youngsters ”severe emotional hurt”.
‘No one has ever contacted me or reported me for such conduct. No professional, nor teacher, nor school administrator, nor counsel, nor therapist.
‘Petitioner has not seen, complied with, nor called the children for 11 weeks. I don’t understand how having no recent information, “petitioner believes” there is an urgency such that a child custody evaluation must be commenced.’
June 2023: Ioan claimed in bombshell court documents that Alice has interfered with their daughters’ therapy sessions and they are missing appointments
