LOVE split actor Ioan Gruffudd has spoken of the close bond he developed with a co-star while filming a TV show in Australia.
Ioan, 47, accused by wife Alice Evans, 49, of gaslighting her after their marriage collapsed, has gushed about blonde Ella Newton, 30.
The Welsh actor told an Australian newspaper: “I’m so lucky. We bonded almost immediately, so there’s a lot of respect there.” She plays his daughter in Australian TV drama Harrow, while another blonde, Anna Lise Phillips, 46, plays his ex-wife.
Ella, who has a boyfriend, used to play Delaney Renshaw — a Lolita character who tried to seduce an older man — in long-running Aussie soap Neighbours.
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