Has ‘Queen’ Claire’s ex fallen for a red under the bed?
THE Crown star Claire Foy and her actor husband Stephen Campbell Moore surprised the showbiz world last week when they announced that their four-year marriage was over.
But I wonder whether Stephen is being comforted after the split by pretty young actress Sophie Cookson, his co-star in a forthcoming KGB spy drama?
My spy spotted Sophie, 27, and Stephen looking cosy at a West End theatre shortly before Christmas. The pair were at the press night of The Grinning Man at the Trafalgar Studios and they were seen buying cigarettes at the interval. They later left together to attend the after-party, while Claire – a Golden Globe winner for her portrayal of the Queen in Netflix’s The Crown – was nowhere to be seen.
At the time I thought nothing of it, as I had recently questioned Claire’s PR team over rumours about her separation from Stephen, 38, but was told categorically that those rumours were untrue. Now it seems there was, sadly, a split on the cards after all.
Stephen and Sophie spent much of last year together filming the drama Red Joan, the story of the KGB’s longest-serving British spy. Sophie plays the agent during her younger days. The film also features Judi Dench and Victoria’s Tom Hughes.
Sophie, who previously appeared in Kingsman: The Secret Service, got engaged to fellow actor Andrew Gower in 2014, but they never made it down the aisle.
Claire, 33, and Stephen, who have a two-year-old daughter, revealed their split last week and admitted they had been apart ‘for some time’.
The announcement came just months after Stephen had life-saving surgery to remove a brain tumour.