E!: Gavin Rossdale is still ‘in contact’ with the nanny he banged for three years

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All the cool guys listen to their iPods when they’re driving their cars, amirite? These are some photos of Gavin Rossdale out and about in LA yesterday. He doesn’t have enough hair for a proper sad man-bun, but he does have enough hair for an itty-bitty nubbin-bun, a Sad Bunubbin™. Why is Gavin so sad? Because his divorce has been finalized and Gwen Stefani is coming after his cojones, that’s why. All week, the tabloids and legit gossip outlets have been inundated with “leaks” from “sources” telling all about Gavin’s three-year affair with the nanny, Mindy Mann. Mindy Single-White-Female’d Gwen. After Gwen gave birth to Apollo, Gavin left her in the hospital so he could go and bang Mindy. Gavin was so indiscreet that he left naked photos of Mindy on the family iPad.

So, it’s been a bad week for Gavin Rossdale. The good news is that he really didn’t have far to fall. I get the feeling – and this may be my bias speaking – that Gavin was never really going to get much sympathy from the media and from the public anyway. People LIKE Gwen. People never really cared about Gavin. So, most of us were already going to be on Gwen’s side anyway. Still, Gavin is trying to clean up his mess a little bit, which is why we get stories like this:

After a report alleging that Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale’s marriage ended because he had an affair with their nanny (Rossdale’s rep could not be reached for comment), the Bush frontman’s focus continues to be on their three children.

“It’s really tough for them,” a source close to Rossdale tells PEOPLE of his sons – Kingston, 9, Zuma, 7, and Apollo, 20 months – with Stefani. “Every day there’s a different story. He is concerned about the kids and wants to keep them safe and is trying to keep all this craziness out of their lives and keep things as normal as possible for them. He’s just all about being the best father he can be for them.”

[From People]

Other outlets have gotten variations on that “he’s worried about the kids” quote, so it definitely feels like it’s coming from his publicist. Interestingly enough, even though Nanny Mindy was fired by Gwen back in February of this year, sources tells E! News that “Gavin is in contact with her, checking up on her to make sure she is OK.” Huh.

Gwen’s coup de grâce may be the story about how Gavin was cheating on her while she was pregnant, and how that’s when she knew her marriage was over. E! News had a story about how Gwen got pregnant with Apollo, hoping that the baby would bring them closer together and help mend their tattered marriage. But once she saw the photos of the nanny, “she knew that she could not get past the betrayal.” Every woman can understand that, right? The E! story also has a source claiming: “Gwen didn’t want the news about the nanny to get out for the sake of her kids. She really wanted to protect them and not have them go through knowing this went on with their father and someone that she trusted. Over the last few weeks, she had begun telling more of her friends what had happened. She is ready to move on and start the next chapter of her life.”

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  1. Zapp Brannigan says:

    “Gwen got pregnant with Apollo, hoping that the baby would bring them closer together and help mend their tattered marriage”

    That is a solid plan that always works. Baffled as to why it failed this time around.

    • Seraphina says:

      Correct. Because the more kids you bring into an unhappy marriage the happier you will become. Babies are cute and fun. The happy glue to a family. So smart.

    • Elisa the I. says:

      Right? Band-aid babies for all! They will fix everything!

    • Free Spirit says:

      I’m sure Apollo was an oops. But with two gorgeous sons, you make the best of it. By all accounts out there Gavin seems to insist on bareback.

      • Lirko says:

        I think Gavin said as much on Howard Stern. He said Gwen emailed him a picture with a positive pregnancy test, and in the subject she woke something like “look what you’ve done to me now”.

      • Lucky says:

        And confirms are the only way to avoid pregnancy? Evil Gavin insisting on impregnating his partner with his bareback ways…

      • anon33 says:

        I am so sick and effing tired of these men who “refuse to use” condoms and the women who allow this shit. I’ve been with my husband almost fifteen years, and I can’t take hormonal BC because it makes me insane…and there has literally never even been ONE time when we’ve done it without a condom. Not one. I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, I’m not having an “oops” baby for anybody. Nor am I letting ANY man tell me he “won’t” use condoms. Guess you ain’t screwing me then, buddy.

      • Andrea says:

        You’d be surprised how reckless 25-45 year old people can be! I have a friend who just had a baby with a man whom she got pregnant with after 2 months at 35. They have very little in common.

      • geezlouise says:

        You are friends with Sophie Hunter Cumberbatch?

      • kc says:

        @geezlouise – rofl!

  2. Jayna says:

    Well, E right there got a huge fact wrong. Gwen said in a radio interview sometime after the baby was born that the baby was not planned and a huge surprise, but he was a beautiful surprise, of course. She said something about she was shocked she even got pregnant. I couldn’t tell if she meant because she and Gavin weren’t together that much because of schedules or if she meant because of her age.

    She adores the little fella. But she didn’t get pregnant hoping to bring them closer.

    • Luca76 says:

      Of course she wouldn’t announce that she was trying to hold her marriage together by having another baby while in the process of trying to hold her marriage together. Of course it was a ‘surprise’.

      • Free Spirit says:

        I really doubt Gwen did that. A third child is enormous stress and she seemed ready to dive into work. It might have been nice if it had been a girl, but A seems adorable.

      • Luca76 says:

        I’m not saying she trapped him. I’m betting she went through some fertility treatments. He may have been on board for the whole thing because he seems to enjoy fatherhood.

      • tealily says:

        Yes, but wouldn’t she just say that it was planned pregnancy then? Why make up that it was unplanned if it wasn’t actually.

    • GreenieWeenie says:

      That just means he wasn’t a bandaid baby (at age 45, you can’t bank on a bandaid baby). But she must’ve still been banging Gavin on the regular for it to have occurred. Which means she must’ve been totally clueless about him. I don’t think her marriage was in tatters. I think she’s a bit naive + religious, and it was all a shock.

    • Joaneu says:

      You’re right, Jayna. I remember Gwen talking about how her third pregnancy was a surprise because she and Gavin had been trying to conceive #3 for years before with no success. I got the impression that she thought her baby-making years were over.

      @GreenieWeenie – Gwen said that Gavin had just come back from a tour when she got pregnant. Trust me, you don’t need to be banging on a regular basis to get pregnant. It can really be a one-time deal, which was probably even more shocking for Gwen since they had been trying to conceive for so long beforehand.

      • StormsMama says:

        @Joaneu
        I was gonna say the same thing.
        I had miscarriages and badicly thought at almost 39 I was maybe a one and done mom
        My man and I had one night at end of April in a sea of sexless months
        And here I am due in January with a baby. So…yes you can get pregnant from a one time lucky strike.

    • Sabrine says:

      I agree. The tabloids always use that story line of a couple having a baby to fix a marriage.

    • kate says:

      Unplanned would mean she was actively trying not to get pregnant, which it doesn’t seem is the case. If you aren’t on birth control and you’re having sex, you’re trying for a baby.

      • Leahpet says:

        Well, as a 49 (almost 50) year old who got a positive home pregnancy test last week, I can say that you don’t even think pregnancy is a possibility after 45. And then it happens to you, and your husband laughs his ass off.

  3. OSTONE says:

    What a fool! Gwen adored him, and this dude on his own, C lister and I am being generous. So he gets no money, no family, no fame for banging a budget look alike of his wife. FOOL.

    • Nicolette says:

      If men would only start thinking with the head on their shoulders instead of the head between their legs the world would be a better place.

  4. GreenieWeenie says:

    I remember looking at photos of the nanny in the Daily Mail a few years ago and seeing the SWFery…and thinking, oh, that must be awkward for Gwen. I taught teenagers for a long time and they totally get SWFy (the girls, I mean).

    • Lirko says:

      Teenagers are still trying to work out who they are, so that makes more sense. The nanny is in her late 20’s, right?

  5. als says:

    Shouldn’t he have thought about the kids when he banged the nanny?
    Shouldn’t she have thought about her last kid before creating him just to fix the marriage?
    This protecting the children rhetoric is sick and perverse
    That goes for the Afflecks as well

  6. crab says:

    It’s really sad because you don’t just cheat on your spouse you cheat on your entire family! His whole family is affected by what this douche did! I hope it was worth it all Gavin and I hope his little whore is proud of herself for helping break up a family! Good luck to both of them, they deserve each other!

  7. Ojulia123 says:

    SAD BUNUBBIN.
    ::dies::

    • I Choose Me says:

      That gave me a good giggle too. Here we’d call that a struggle pony.

    • Lama Bean says:

      He should get one of those man-bun clip ins. (Yes, they legit exist)

      • antipodean says:

        So true, a man with his receding hairline should never wear a Croydon facelift, most unseemly, and unflattering. His tonsorial fashion is stuck in the 80s, methinks. I wonder how he will explain this mess to his boys when they are older? Something like “I cheated on your mother because I am a weak willed specimen of an arsehole”. Let’s hope that they have better morals than their sire.

    • AntiSocialButterfly says:

      LOL. I came to lob an epithet related to just that nubbin-
      Sad man-bun wearing, washed- up, has-been douchelord .
      So ick.

      • treyyfhfhfh says:

        that’s not a receding hairline.. it’s called Widow’s peak , he’s always had it.. take a look closer

    • Sarah says:

      And I read recently that man buns can actually lead to hair loss because the hair is pulled too tight. So much for looking cool, Gavin!

  8. Jaded says:

    Can I just say how much I detest man-buns? On him even more because he’s a loathsome adulterer.

    • I Choose Me says:

      Why is it called a man-bun anyway? Why not just a bun?

      • Jaded says:

        Good question – and why are capris on men called manpris? Why is male body hair landscaping called manscaping? This is all too deep for me….going for wine.

  9. Tippi says:

    The nannys a private citizen and unlike Ouzouzian hasn’t set anyone up and isn’t selling this story in an attempt to be a celebrity. As unfair to Gwen as her behaviour may have been (assuming this is true), Gavin is the one responsible, he was the married one, he was the one in a position of power. So I would hope that he has the decency to make sure that she is ok with the stress of all this media attention that she has NOT asked for! If the stories are untrue or exaggerated – then the press is despicable.

    • MP says:

      She worked for years for an A-list star and started f***ing her husband. If you want to be a private citizen maybe don’t do that? She deserves everything she is getting. Her life maybe ruined but so what? She helped to ruin Gwen’s and seriously jeopardized the wellbeing of the kids.
      If the stories aren’t true she should sue and live comfortably with that money.

      • Agree says:

        Yeah. She deserves this lesson. Especially since I read that she moved on to having a child care business. I don’t think that is fair at all. Demonstrating that you can’t be trusted with someone’s kids and then expecting to be trusted with people’s children.

    • Bread and Circuses says:

      That’s what I was thinking. Her name is in the press, and she’s not courting the attention, so I doubt she welcomes this in any way. If that’s the case, then yeah, I hope Gavin is offering her some emotional support and some coaching on how to handle the situation.

    • Melanie says:

      Big NOPE to that Tippi. When you sign up for that job, your main concern is the children. Think you can bang a famous married man and not face the consequences? She smelled like a fame whore from day one. I always thought she was mugging it up for the cameras. Every shot of her throughout the years, she’s smiling the biggest smile or laughing. I always thought it was because she was Gavin’s sister, and she was truly family.

      This girl knew exactly what she was doing. Calculating, and I don’t feel sorry for her at all. Gavin deserves the brunt of the hatred, he broke his vows and ruined his family, but a nanny has an obligation to the children and her employers. This is so much more gross than if he had banged some random chick or had an affair with someone else. She deserves all the shame she gets. Those kids are screwed.

    • No so says:

      How do you think she financed her children’s day care business? From her nanny savings? As the owner of a business that is about childcare, her behavior belongs in the public eye.

  10. Blackbetty says:

    I never understood what she saw in Gavin. He always seemed to have one foot out of the relationship? No one knows him in my country, other than being Mr Gwen Stefani.

  11. Elisa the I. says:

    Judging from their body-language and their styling/look I would say that he is a very self-confident person whereas she isn’t at all. This can create weird dynamics in any relationship.

    • Lauren II says:

      Gavin is self confident, disloyal and very smug.
      Apparently, he controlled Gwen’s career too, according to Courtney Love.
      Gwen is talented, very hard working, and charasmatic.
      I watched a video of Gwen today -a concert with No Doubt. She was incredible. A fantastic dancer/entertainer. Decent voice. She owned the crowd. They loved her.
      As for Gavin – Gwen seemed to worship him – even when he didn’t deserve her adoration. He was very attractive~sexy when Gwen married him.
      Gwen devoted almost 20 years to Gavin, gave him 3 gorgeous, healthy sons. And she worked her a** off supporting the family. Gavin seemed to be using her for fame and money . It’s very sad.
      I understand Gwen’s devastation, and will always be on her side.

  12. Manjit says:

    My mum always used to say “Don’t act like a doormat and then moan when people walk all over you”. Such a shame she didn’t seem to think she deserved better than him.

    • Holmes says:

      Absolutely. She never should have married him. She was always far more into him that he was into her, and I’m sure she knew that. She chose to marry a man who was indifferent to her, and bring three children into the world with him. She has no one but herself to blame for this mess.

      • Andrea says:

        This is a lesson for some women out there that I have seen not to have gotten this fact yet: you cannot change a man or make them love you, no matter how many kids they have with you. I have a friend complain to me about her husband’s drinking and how she thought he’d grow up after they had 2 kids; it boggles my mind how she just assumed he would grow up. Gwen I feel felt if I do everything he wants and love his as much as possible, it will be enough for us both. She comes across as a very sad, insecure person and at 46, for her to not have grown out of this, I fear she may never.

      • Gorgonia says:

        I absolutely agree with Holmes and Andrea: I like Gwen, but it is blatant she is too insecure and needy.

    • SydneySnider says:

      Manjit: Your comment made me laugh – I’m another mum who constantly said these exact words to my daughter and all her girl friends as they were growing up. I’ve had to say it a few more times to my girl in recent years, but she’s finally learned the lesson.

  13. TheBadBrit says:

    I like Gwen, she seems very sweet and everything, but I can’t help but think that Gavin must’ve been bored sh*tless for years as she is not the brightest bulb. Being pretty (even though I don’t like her new fake teeth, overly Botoxed look – I was so girl hot for her in the early 90s) is great but men really do get bored with that after a while, especially one that can bang whoever he wants.

    • trudie says:

      Gavin doesn’t come across as being a Rhodes scholar himself – seems rather clueless imo.

    • Luca76 says:

      I think the opposite is true. I think Gwen left Gavin. Gavin has always been a dog to her and she had always been so enamoured and fascinated by him and insecure that she forgave and chased him. This time Gwen didn’t want to forgive and win him back. She’s tired of his B.S. That’s why Gavin in his douchetastic way feels wronged by her relationship with Blake. He expected her to play the same game as always.

    • No so says:

      I disagree. I think she is quite intelligent and powerful. But he wore her down over time with negativity and telling her she never measured up. That’s standard behavior for these sociopaths who want to remain in control.

      • Andrea says:

        I disagree. She was worn down by her own insecurities. You can tell even before they got together how clingy she was to Tony then Gavin. This is a woman who always has to have her face on to go buy a carton of milk. I know women like that and they are incredibly insecure and it comes from within. A man can add to those insecurities, but it is never the root cause of them typically.

    • kate says:

      Yeah, she comes across as incredibly dull and insecure. Reading one of her interviews is always a slog, the only mildly interesting things she ever says are the things which accidentally show just how desperate she is to be loved. It’s painful to watch her on The Voice, she’s just so exceptionally blah.

      I think people see the make-up and clothes and assume she has some personality. I think the make-up and clothes are there to disguise the fact she has no personality.

  14. Whatever Gurl says:

    Gwen was undeniably the breadwinner in this marriage, with her touring and her Lamb collection.

    There are several studies that say that the stay at home husband is more likely to cheat because he feels emasculated.

    He had nothing going on career-wise and that often spells doom in a celebrity marriage.

    • Lirko says:

      I can totally belive that had something to do with it.

    • Betti says:

      I wouldn’t say he didn’t have anything going on career wise – he dips in and out of acting and toured every couple of years either with Bush or for his own solo stuff. He was also, i believe, involved behind the scenes with her music and was one of the driving forces behind her LAMB clothes line. Thou am sure other posters on here know more about his career than I – he was always more well known in the US.

    • anon33 says:

      Then maybe he should have figured out something to do with his life?!?! Sick and tired of this “emasculated men” trope too. GO DO SOMETHING WITH YOURSELF, ASSHAT.

      That isn’t Gwen’s fault, ESPECIALLY if that’s the arrangement they agreed upon.

  15. Tessa says:

    I don’t think Apollo was a band aid baby. She’s 46? You don’t just get pregnant and the drop of a hat. She has been very open about wanting another kid for ages and it not happening.
    I think Apollo was more of a wtf baby

    • Andrea says:

      She was pregnant before (some suspect 4-5 months) before Apollo and lost the baby. Apollo was a wow I am pregnant again at this age when I thought I was done, maybe it is a girl? Nope, another boy. Well, yayy anyways.

  16. The New Classic says:

    When I read these stories all I can think of is how mortified and angry the nanny must be if she had nothing to do with their breakup. If I were the nanny and had my name and picture plastered all over these magazines and knew I had nothing to hide I would sue the fcuk out of Gwen and these tabloids claiming emotional damage and difficulty finding work due to libel. It really seems like she was the easiest scapegoat and is being hung out to dry.. The whole SWF thing that people were talking about really seemed to me like she was wearing some hand me downs Gwen passed off to her or following trends that had nothing to do with Gwen. This whole thing just seems icky.

    • Andrea says:

      Something seems/feels too tidy with this narrative. He banged the nanny for 3 years, she was swfing Gwen. I do believe it was Gwen’s cast off clothing and she was fine with it. I wonder what this is deflecting from? Cheating while they were all still married?

      • mememe says:

        Gain has always been bi. The public doesn’t like bi men. This nanny scandal was invented for Having to appear more hetero, to save either Gwen or gavin’s image. Or both.

  17. Louise says:

    Honestly, the most surprising thing for me is that he has been cheating with a woman. For real, yo.

  18. tealily says:

    He’s probably on the phone.

  19. FingerBinger says:

    I can’t take a side. Gwen and Gavin both seem like a holes.

  20. Anon says:

    I love how a day or two before the truth about the nanny comes out, I read a story saying that Gavin was suspicious over the timing of the Gwen and Blake thing and how it timed out with Blake’s divorce from Miranda…. and then suddenly this. Sounds like Gwen was like “OH RLY, GAV, OKAY, WE CAN PLAY THAT GAME” and shut it down with this story. Either way, this is messy and sad all around.

    • iheartgossip says:

      Actually, it’s in reverse. A ‘Source’ claims Gavin was questioning the timeline of Gwen / Blake, then BAM – the source (Gwen’s team) planted the story regarding the nanny. The adults need to adult in this story since there are children involved. Both Gwen & Gavin are wrong.

  21. Liz says:

    That doesn’t change the face that she was the provider for their family while he was out screwing their children’s nanny. He also surprised her with the news that he had a daughter. Probably even lied or misled her about his relationship with a man (Marilyn). He had other affairs with women. He is a dog. He took advantage of her love, naivete and adoration.

  22. BadAssCompass says:

    he does not seem bothered with any of this at all. I even doubt the emasculation speculations that lead to all of this; some musicians and artists in general are just too involved with themselves and their side-gigs to ever feel that classic envy. But you could tell with him and Gwen it was never gonna last, she’s just to straight for him I think. Plus insecurities she basically displayed in half of her songs, the latest being spectacularly bad. Still, she’s harmless and a hard worker and deserves a round of inspiring and empowering love.

    on unrelated note :I kind of like his posture, with a man-bun he’s quite of a bunhead 😀

  23. iheartgossip says:

    The two adults in this situation need to STOP. Hey- you two selfish, self-centered parents. You have children needing a good role model. And so far it isn’t either one of you.

  24. Carol says:

    He looks like a chipmunk with glasses.

  25. TMI says:

    Don’t they have kids to worry about. This is silly

  26. Cirque28 says:

    Gavin seems cocky and entitled. And his behavior bears this impression out.

  27. the other Kate says:

    Seems like I’m the only one here, who liked Gavin, cared about him, and wasn’t going to be on Gwen’s side anyway? 😉

  28. Crystal says:

    He’s so unattractive.

  29. Bridget says:

    What’s with men and the gas station photo ops?

  30. My two cents says:

    It could be Gwen’s team is trying to save her image being ruined. Gwen has far more to lose if her image is ruined. Timing of this is peculiar to me as Blake and Gwen just revealed they are ‘close’ and now no mags are talking about that cause they are busy ruining Gavin.

  31. “He is concerned about the kids and wants to keep them safe and is trying to keep all this craziness out of their lives and keep things as normal as possible for them. He’s just all about being the best father he can be for them.”

    Oh really? Is he now? Well of course Gavin is concerned about keeping his kids safe and being the best father he can be. That’s why destroyed their family by cheating on their mother by banging the nanny even while the mother of his kids was giving birth in the hospital to one of the kids he’s trying to protect and be the best dad to. Got it Gavin.

  32. Veronica says:

    Off topic, but hilariously awful Gavin-is-a-douche story my friend related to me recently:

    She has a photo of a high school friend posing with Rossdale and the rest of Bush from the late 90s. In it, her friend has the most bizarre expression in comparison to her pals, who are all sporting smiles. She finally asked her recently why she looked so odd and was told that the expression and shock and surprise – because right when the camera went off, Rossdale decided it would be a good time to grab a good handful of teenage girl booty.

    So this is her friend’s brush with fame – Gavin Rossdale playing grabass with her backstage. Immortalized forever in a terrible photo op.