Billy Elliot star’s wife – and Cara’s lesbian lover
After splitting from model, Michelle ‘pursues’ Jamie’s ex, Evan
WHEN the star of Billy Elliot announced his split from openly bisexual wife Evan Rachel Wood, he enigmatically tweeted: ‘Don’t punish people for things they can’t control.’
What precisely was Jamie Bell alluding to? That question becomes clearer when I reveal True Blood star Evan was at a showbiz party in Los Angeles earlier this month with actress Michelle Rodriguez, who recently ended her very public relationship with model Cara Delevingne.
Because I hear Michelle is now very much enamoured with Evan.
The meeting was just days before the announcement of Evan’s split from Jamie, 28, who danced his way to stardom in his hit 2000 film. The couple married less than two years ago and had a child last year.
Michelle, 35, and Evan, 26, were at the aptly named gala An Evening With Women – a fundraiser for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community – in LA on May 10. And as my exclusive picture shows, they were all smiles.
The pair posed for photographs together alongside Milla Jovovich, the actress whom Evan once confessed to fancying, saying: ‘My husband is well aware of the crush I have on Milla... I mean who doesn’t?’
By the end of the evening, I am told that Michelle was left with quite the crush on Evan. She has previously been engaged to goth rock star Marilyn Manson, while Michelle, who stars in the Fast And Furious movies, split from Burberry model Cara, 21, in April. The pair are said to have remained amicable, though Michelle backed out of the wedding last week in Morocco of Cara’s sister Poppy.
They crossed paths last week when Cara was working on a modelling shoot in a hotel room at the Chiltern Firehouse night spot in London’s Mayfair while Michelle was eating in the restaurant downstairs.