FORMER Emmerdale actress Amy Nuttall revealed this week that she’s back with her love-rat husband Andrew Buchan.
Amy, 41, has given her marriage a go for the third time, after The Crown star’s affair with an on-screen lover saw them separate and reconcile twice last year.
But it appears they’re not alone in their on-off union, with many celeb spouses separating and reconciling in the public eye.
In light of Amy and Andrew’s latest stab at making it work, The Sun has compiled a roundup of the rockiest marriages in showbiz.
Wayne and Coleen Rooney
In 2004, the Sunday Mirror reported a teenage Rooney had paid £140 for sex with prostitute Charlotte Glover, then 21, and gave her his autograph as a “souvenir”.
A month later, he was said to have slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, at a £45-a-go brothel in Liverpool.
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The football star visited the brothel 10 times, and was caught on CCTV.
It was at this same brothel that he was said to have slept with grandmother Patricia Tierney, then 48, who wore a rubber catsuit and was known as the ‘Auld Slapper’.
She later denied these claims, while Rooney went on to admit to sleeping with unnamed prostitutes.
Faithful Coleen stood by her man, and the pair married in 2008.
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But Rooney went on to cheat again, sleeping with £1,000-a-night prostitute Jenny Thompson, then 21, in July 2009 – while Coleen was pregnant with his son Kai.
He met Jenny, who recently appeared on Ex On The Beach, seven times in four months – and even took her on dates to bars, clubs and casinos.
The pair last met up in October 2009, a month before Coleen gave birth, but she didn’t find out about his infidelity until the following year.
His heartbroken wife moved out of their family home and in with her parents, taking their son with her.
At the time, Rooney said: “My life is in ruins… I’ve been so stupid,” but Coleen decided to take him back.
Dominic West and Catherine FitzGerald
Dominic’s wife Catherine banned Lily James’ show from their house after pictures of them kissing in Italy were published.
The Affair star Dominic, then 50, been spotted kissing his 31-year-old co-star Lily on a romantic break in Rome.
Catherine weathered the storm and stayed with him.
But friends of the pair later told us things became more tense since their romantic drama, The Pursuit Of Love, debuted the following May.
A pal of the couple revealed: “Catherine has been incredibly strong since the pictures of Dominic and Lily came to light.
“But now it feels like it’s all coming back to her, with The Pursuit Of Love on TV and Lily filming as Pamela.
“Catherine is avoiding social media and any websites where she might see the pictures.
“No woman wants to see the woman her husband made a move on. But when that woman is as glamorous as Lily, it feels ten times worse.
“There is no Pursuit Of Love on in the background at their house on a Sunday evening, either.
“It’s banned. Catherine has been a model of strength and after everything chose to stand by Dominic. She has been nothing but devoted but this has all made the situation far more tense.
“She will celebrate her 50th birthday this week and is trying to focus as much as she can on that.”
Catherine, a landscape gardener, said the couple had had their “ups and downs” but added: “We are totally devoted to each other and to our full, vibrant family life together.”
Amir Khan and Faryal Makhdoom
Faryal gave the former world champ his marching orders after The Sun on Sunday revealed last year he had been sexting bridal model Sumaira, 25.
We also told how Amir had romped with a 30-year-old brunette during a four-month affair.
A friend said at the time: “Faryal is insistent she won’t be walked over like a doormat.
“The past few weeks have been incredibly tough for her. She says she feels humiliated by the stories that have been coming out.
“Amir has more than his fair share of making up to do before he can even think about moving back into their home.
“Faryal has taken a lot of crap throughout their marriage and she’s fed up of doing so.”
He was also accused of sexual harassment by a former BBC presenter.
Suzi Mann – who worked for the BBC Asian Network – said the boxer bombarded her with messages and calls after meeting at a concert.
She said she did not feel “comfortable” and chose not to “entertain” the advances before allegedly receiving a message from Khan’s wife Faryal threatening to “destroy” her.
Faryal, who has three kids with Amir, took him back though and the pair have repaired their 11-year marriage.
Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn
Ed hinted at some serious marriage issues on his seventh studio album, Autumn Variations.
One song even appeared to suggest his wife may have temporarily called time on their relationship.
The superstar featured a pointed number called Punchline about an imploding romance on the LP.
On the track, he sang: “I can’t help but be destructive right now. It’s been weeks since I saw your outline.
“In my room is a silence so loud. This is what losing hope might sound like.”
In the heart-wrenching chorus, he continued: “I can’t help it but I love you so.
“I can’t take this letting go. I still feel like we could work it out or something.
“All I am is only flesh and bone. Why’s your heart sofreezing cold?”
Ed has been with his childhood pal Cherry since 2015. They married in 2019 and have daughters Lyra and Jupiter.
In another track, called That’s On Me, Ed sang: “This is not the end of our lives, this is just a bump in the ride. I know that it’ll be alright . . . ”
And on The Day I Was Born, he sang: “I broke apart from my lover a couple months ago, if they were here then I guess I wouldn’t be alone.”
It is unclear which songs on the album were written from Ed’s personal experiences, as he previously said the record is about events in both his and his friends’ lives.
Ellie Goulding and Caspar Jopling
Ellie has just moved out of the home she shared with her estranged husband – just days after being pictured kissing her surf instructor.
Pals previously confirmed to The Sun how Ellie and Caspar separated after their marriage hit the rocks last summer.
In September, we told how Caspar had asked Ellie to cool off her close friendship with Tory MP Zac Goldsmith in a bid to focus on their four-year marriage.
The former couple, who share four-year-old Arthur, later went public with the news in a statement saying they were “committed to protecting our family privacy”.
But, last month, we revealed how Ellie was without her wedding ring while frolicking with surf instructor Armando Perez in his native Costa Rica.
She was spotted making out with the hunk in Costa Rica as The Sun was first to reveal the popstar’s antics.
Ellie was being schooled by Armando and they were canoodlying on a break from the waves.
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne
Sharon and Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy had been married for more than 30 years when he began an affair with celebrity hairdresser Michelle Pugh.
Ozzy was booted out of the marital home when the four-year fling came to light in 2016, as Sharon insisted she had “proof” of it happening.
Thankfully, the couple were eventually able to work through their crisis and Sharon let her husband return to their Beverly Hills mansion.
A source at the time told us: “Sharon went ballistic with Ozzy and accused him of having the affair.
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“She said she had suspected something had been going on for some time and now had proof.
“People are wondering whether Sharon went through Ozzy’s phone before accusing him. She has done that before but in the past she was checking if he’d been using drugs.”
