Jesse Metcalfe, best known for his role as the hunky gardener-slash-homewrecker on Desperate Housewives, has just been very publicly dumped by his girlfriend after pictures of him holding hands with another girl surfaced on the Internet yesterday. Metcalfe — who checked into rehab last month — was photographed on the streets of L.A. with a mystery brunette. His girlfriend, Nadine Coyle, was not particularly happy about it.
If you’re reading this from the U.S., you’ve probably never heard of Nadine Coyle. If you’re reading it from Britain, you know exactly who she is. Coyle is a member of the British all-girl pop group Girls Aloud, which has become quite a phenomenon across the pond. There’s been a ton of publicity dedicated to the couple overseas, although little of it has filtered into the U.S., where we seem to be dedicating all our British energies to Posh & Becks, and two people named Katie Price and Peter Andre, whose import on any level I have totally given up on understanding. But, anyway, trust me when I say that Nadine is a big deal in Britain.
In response to the pictures, Coyle gave the following quote to Britain’s Daily Mirror:
“It’s over between Jesse and me. I’m not the kind of girl to put up with nonsense like that. I’ll meet the right person when the time is right. I’m disappointed but what can I do? There’s no point hanging on when it gets to this stage.”
Nadine has been filming a movie in the U.K. while her boyfriend has been rehabbing — and apparently doing everything in his power to drum up publicity for his floundering career — in Los Angeles.