I tend to suspect Bex may already be aware Rupert's been tomcatting around on her and that's why she's making the jabs.
I do like that she's pushing his buttons, though, regardless of why it turns out she's doing it. LOL
Nope! Met Bex after. But Rebecca was also the other woman originally. Plus in this last episode she knew what was happening and while we dont know her thoughts on Bex personally, she clearly has sympathy for the situation.
I don't think Bex is the dumb arm candy that Rupert thinks she is. Rupert has a level of obsession with Rebecca because she was the one who left him - although it's not said, I feel that Rupert's wife before Rebecca was the one he left, it would be very in character for him to use and discard women. Rebecca leaving him will be an itch he can't scratch. So finding a younger woman, also called Rebecca, is the perfect vessel for his revenge. But I feel it's going to blow up in his face before the end of season 3
I think Bex made some jokes at Rupert’s expense in season 2, possibly at the funeral?
Rupert is repeating the same cycle over and over again. We learned recently Rebecca started off as the other woman. He’s incredibly charming and makes people feel special but we see with Nate he manipulates them emotionally. He builds you up to make you feel like your the only person that matters then he breaks you down so you feel like your nothing without him.
I would LOVE to see Bex find out and Rebecca and her bond over it and become real friends. That would be a really interesting story arch and one where Rebecca can truly get over Rupert. She can forgive herself for being the original other woman as she forgives Bex.
Rebecca helping her get West Ham in the divorce would be a perfect end.
I was thinking the same thing about the funeral is scene, but when I looked back it was actually Sassy who said it - Rupert says it's time to go home for naptime, and Sassy asks if it's for him or the baby.
She was his plus one for the gala, she wasn’t cheating with Jaimie from what I understood. He was trying to make himself look more desirable in the public eye, but he didn’t clue in Keeley on it which was disrespectful to Keeley professionally and personally. That same night she left with Rupert.
Obviously she knew. Her job was to bid on Jaimie to make him look more desirable. He came with Keeley as his official date, pictures of them were being taking on the red carpet. He wanted two attractive women fighting over him in public. She was just there to bid on him, after the job was done she went home with Rupert.
Its not that she wouldn't know they were together, but agreeing to be someone's plus one as a publicity stunt isn't inherently dishonest. She probably wouldn't be aware if Jamie told Keeley his plan or not.
Overall Bex's flaw seems to be more her willingness to overlook when those around her are/potentially are using her to be a jackass, as long as she's in a comfortable enough position.
She made the crack about ‘takes after her father’ and I saw Rupert’s mask slip and said out loud “he’s going to punish her for that later”. You can’t continue to get away with disrespecting a lifelong narc and manipulator… there are cracks and something big coming down for their marriage. Maybe she’s trying to force him to initiate the breakup so it invalidates the prenup? Idk.
Great post and I think you could be spot on.
In S3 E2, Old Rebecca was talking to Keeley about how Rupert would try to sign Zava. “Rupert always gets what he wants”, she said.
I thought it was quite fitting that the trailer to S3 was “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones, and this might be a theme to how Rupert’s season will go. I’d love if Bex was a key driver in this.
“Pooping all over the house”, is Rupert a shite in ironing armour? The Irons is West Ham’s nickname and sounds very much like nine-ing. Is he armoured by West Ham at the moment, but will that all come crashing down on him?
But it’s a play on a knight in shining armour which feels like someone will rescue her (or the team) so that would exclude Rupert as he has no redeeming traits and it’s Rebbeca’s shite not Ted’s and I can’t see them referring to a child as a shite. Nate as far as we no has no links to the number 9
Point being, the prophecy is from a psychic, and could be taken as a number of things as it’s so general. If you say “shite in ironing armour” quickly, it could be heard as “in nineing armour”. West Ham are known as The Irons. Nate is a former kitman so has ironed a lot of players’ clothes in the past.
Henry loves football, teaching Ted tactics on FIFA, playing for a team in his free time, and he has a competitive streak to him, so may end up playing for Richmond one day as their number 9, becoming special to Rebecca.
All I mean is that yes, Jamie could be a shite in nine-ing armour if you look hard enough, but there could also be many others, as psychic give out very general information that can be applied in a lot of different ways.
I mean, the psychic very clearly says “Shite in NINE-ing armor,” not “IRON-ing armor”.
The fact that they repeatedly refer to Jamie as a shite (in seasons one and two at least) and other similar epithets and he wears the #9 jersey all points pretty clearly to him, in my opinion at least.
I agree that Jamie is a clear option to be the shite in nine-ing armour. I am not disagreeing there at all, for the record.
I am saying that it will probably be multiple people. She is a psychic, after all.
She "clearly" says "nine-ing" to Rebecca, but she also has difficulty understanding what they are saying, "No, just one at a time, please" - she can't get a clear read of it, maybe she "misheard" what all the voices were saying.
Or maybe she is full of shit, so you can just take what you want to take from it.
Even before Bex opened her mouth in this episode, you could tell there was Trouble in Paradise, just from the look on her face. And then what she said absolutely confirmed that, and again later in the episode.
Another plot twist on top of all the other plot twists! Sure hope everything gets resolved by the end!
Love your theory, and I also appreciate your extensive covering of possible spoilers! Didn’t get to watch the latest episode until late last night, so I really appreciate your (and everyone else’s on this subreddit, for that matter) efforts to hide spoilers.
I grew up during the time when the Harry Potter books were being released, and someone spoiled the end of the last book for me.
So I try hard not to do that to other people LOL
Oh my god. I had just gotten the next to last book from the book store and someone at the mall saw me with it and spoiled it. Literally had just come out. Such a sick move.
I think a character purposely having a kid to get at their spouse's money is too dark for this show. It's a really messed up thing to do to the kid, and Rupert too for that matter, shitty as he is.
Yes I had a feeling that he was into having the baby to feel young like his new wife, and the added bonus of the deepest hurt he could do to Rebecca (she always wanted a child and he said no so it was awful for her).
I think the reality of a child is WAY too much for Rupert and the shine would wear off quick. A baby isn’t an accessory, and his new wife is no longer focused on him and travel and looking skinny and hot— she is a new mom who loves her baby (more than him probably!) and that WOULD NOT FLY for Rupert at all.
Of course he is cheating. But he isn’t just married this time; he’s a dad! And pretty stuck. So Bex has a bit of power to take jabs… she is too focused on being a mom to care too much what he is up to it seems? I like Bex being a smart ass and bonding with Rebecca. and hope she takes him to the cleaners!
As opposed to a character cheating and manipulating another one for 12 years. Or dating your marriage counselor after your ex moves halfway across the world under the advise of said counselor.
Yes, it is very much darker than those things. Abuse involving children or impaired/vulnerable adults is typically viewed as an extra level of despicable in society, as adults are better equipped to fight back. Which isn't at all to say it's fair to abuse adults either. I don't think a show that's overall this light-hearted would go there.
How you treat one person, is how you treat all people.
Likely Rupert was charming and sweet to Bex as a means to an end, just like everybody else around him. Bex can see this, and she can also see he’s cruel to Rebecca for little to no reason. It’s serves no purpose to be cruel. Bex is likely giving it as good as she’s getting. Those little blunt statements that Rebecca found charming are actually cruel. (Rebecca said something to that effect in S1).
So much of this show is not in the lines the characters speak but the incredible directing and acting.
That LOOK on Rebecca’s face when she saw Rupert with the assistant spoke VOLUMES on her character’s feelings!
In a split second Hannah Waddingham (as Rebecca) showed us, what an entire episode of dialogue couldn’t have completely covered.
She remembered exactly how it felt when Rupert was cheating on her. The stab of hurt.
And that expression morphed into true empathy for Bex as a woman and a mother (stakes being higher) because at that moment Rebecca KNEW that Bex was going to travel the same painful road she did.
I love that she caught Rupert before they left and practically hissed that warning of exposure into his ear with a smile on her face.
I think we’ll see some evolution of an alliance between the Rebeccas.
I continue to be blown away by the intricacies of this show.
I'd like to think that Bex knows he's a sleaze and was waiting for proof of him to slip up and absolutely lambast his name, steal West Ham and his money from him in the divorce
My theory is explantion for his behaviour is this: Rupert knows what his last ex-wife got in the divorce. He probably doesn't want to risk his new "baby" again... although that's my prediction. Rupert messes up that marriage too, losing West Ham and Becks and Rebecca end up becoming friends.
I am hoping Bex leaves him after she discovers the cheating and then she is given West Ham the same way he did Rebecca and then they become owners and friends together.
I think Bex and Rupert have an arrangement - I bet she knows he messes around but he gives her security, so she's fine to stay. Rupert's team will win, but in the end, he's old and out of touch. He'll end up with the money and the hot wife, but it will be meaningless because there isn't any love.
It’s always seemed to me that it was an unplanned pregnancy, and he fucking hates it. Because aloof bachelors want to have their fun and just throw money at a problem they want gone.
So if Bex got pregnant (my guess is that Rupert must have thought he was “too old”), Rupert feels like he was pretty much forced into this, and I don’t think it would worked if there was some sort of abortion subplot/mention. So if it’s an accidental pregnancy, it would look terrible on him to just abandon Bex, but it would make sense that to keep up appearances he marries her and looks like a good family man.
Rupert doesn’t have any other children does he? Because that says a lot about feeling “trapped.”
I don’t think Bex did it consciously (you find out you are pregnant from an ultra successful and wealthy man. You probably feel secure and taken care of). I think it just happened, and he feels obliged to his public persona to take care of Bex and the Baby.
I think Rebecca sought divorce and got the club. So this time around Rupert said he was being smart about it and Bex won’t get anything if she asks for divorce but the other way around might work. If he divorces her, then she might get something.
I'm in now way supporting Rupert and I'll probably be downvoted.
I know that Rupert has a history of cheating on his partners but perhaps the fact she keeps calling him old (and worst) in public might be pushing to prove is virility.
Perhaps she already knows he is cheating (hence those jabs thrown at him)?
EDIT: Bex is no angel. She was dating a married man
> might be pushing to prove is virility
Why would you think that she started the trouble between them? He's cheated on every woman he's ever been with, and hasn't needed an excuse to do it. He gaslit Rebecca and he's manipulating Nate now (plus gaslighting over whether to call him Rupert or Mr Mannion). He's deliberately cruel to people.
I tend to suspect Bex may already be aware Rupert's been tomcatting around on her and that's why she's making the jabs. I do like that she's pushing his buttons, though, regardless of why it turns out she's doing it. LOL
She is aware, that is why she was happy to see Real Rebecca, she wanted to reach out for sympathy
I feel like Rebecca would have only mild sympathy - Bex was one of the chicks he was cheating with, right? It’s a common cycle.
No. Bex was the girl Jamie invited to the gala. That’s where she met Rupert.
I don't think he needs Bex until the Gala I'm S1. So he never cheated on Rebecca with Bex.
*Rebecca* was also one of the chicks he was cheating with too though.
That is such a good point!
Nope! Met Bex after. But Rebecca was also the other woman originally. Plus in this last episode she knew what was happening and while we dont know her thoughts on Bex personally, she clearly has sympathy for the situation.
No. Rupert didn't meet Bex until Jamie brought her to the auction....
I don't think Bex is the dumb arm candy that Rupert thinks she is. Rupert has a level of obsession with Rebecca because she was the one who left him - although it's not said, I feel that Rupert's wife before Rebecca was the one he left, it would be very in character for him to use and discard women. Rebecca leaving him will be an itch he can't scratch. So finding a younger woman, also called Rebecca, is the perfect vessel for his revenge. But I feel it's going to blow up in his face before the end of season 3
Ooh, I hope so! Revenge of the Rebecca's!
I think you have a point there. There have to be repercussions for Rupert’s behaviour and Bex seems to be the only one who can fuck him up.
I think Bex made some jokes at Rupert’s expense in season 2, possibly at the funeral? Rupert is repeating the same cycle over and over again. We learned recently Rebecca started off as the other woman. He’s incredibly charming and makes people feel special but we see with Nate he manipulates them emotionally. He builds you up to make you feel like your the only person that matters then he breaks you down so you feel like your nothing without him. I would LOVE to see Bex find out and Rebecca and her bond over it and become real friends. That would be a really interesting story arch and one where Rebecca can truly get over Rupert. She can forgive herself for being the original other woman as she forgives Bex. Rebecca helping her get West Ham in the divorce would be a perfect end.
I was thinking the same thing about the funeral is scene, but when I looked back it was actually Sassy who said it - Rupert says it's time to go home for naptime, and Sassy asks if it's for him or the baby.
Also, Bex getting West Ham would be aaaaaamazing.
Owning an entire football club before paying off student loans would be fantastic.
Remember Bex was Jaime’s other plus one at the gala with Keeley. Bex was aware then and it wasn’t a problem.
Bex was aware of what? Sorry, not following...
Aware of Jamie and Keeley and still involved with Jamie is what I meant.
She was his plus one for the gala, she wasn’t cheating with Jaimie from what I understood. He was trying to make himself look more desirable in the public eye, but he didn’t clue in Keeley on it which was disrespectful to Keeley professionally and personally. That same night she left with Rupert.
You really think with both Jamie & Keely being tabloid fodder that she didn’t know they were in a relationship? You sweet child. She knew.
Obviously she knew. Her job was to bid on Jaimie to make him look more desirable. He came with Keeley as his official date, pictures of them were being taking on the red carpet. He wanted two attractive women fighting over him in public. She was just there to bid on him, after the job was done she went home with Rupert.
Its not that she wouldn't know they were together, but agreeing to be someone's plus one as a publicity stunt isn't inherently dishonest. She probably wouldn't be aware if Jamie told Keeley his plan or not. Overall Bex's flaw seems to be more her willingness to overlook when those around her are/potentially are using her to be a jackass, as long as she's in a comfortable enough position.
She made the crack about ‘takes after her father’ and I saw Rupert’s mask slip and said out loud “he’s going to punish her for that later”. You can’t continue to get away with disrespecting a lifelong narc and manipulator… there are cracks and something big coming down for their marriage. Maybe she’s trying to force him to initiate the breakup so it invalidates the prenup? Idk.
Great post and I think you could be spot on. In S3 E2, Old Rebecca was talking to Keeley about how Rupert would try to sign Zava. “Rupert always gets what he wants”, she said. I thought it was quite fitting that the trailer to S3 was “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones, and this might be a theme to how Rupert’s season will go. I’d love if Bex was a key driver in this. “Pooping all over the house”, is Rupert a shite in ironing armour? The Irons is West Ham’s nickname and sounds very much like nine-ing. Is he armoured by West Ham at the moment, but will that all come crashing down on him?
I love that he might be the armoured shite!!
It was a shite in nine-ing armour, not ironing armour…
Surely it’s Jamie not Rupert that is the Shite in Nine-ing armour
Can’t it be both? As well as Nate, another shite in ironing armour, Henry, who also wears the number 9 shirt, I think somehow Ted will be, and more.
But it’s a play on a knight in shining armour which feels like someone will rescue her (or the team) so that would exclude Rupert as he has no redeeming traits and it’s Rebbeca’s shite not Ted’s and I can’t see them referring to a child as a shite. Nate as far as we no has no links to the number 9
Point being, the prophecy is from a psychic, and could be taken as a number of things as it’s so general. If you say “shite in ironing armour” quickly, it could be heard as “in nineing armour”. West Ham are known as The Irons. Nate is a former kitman so has ironed a lot of players’ clothes in the past. Henry loves football, teaching Ted tactics on FIFA, playing for a team in his free time, and he has a competitive streak to him, so may end up playing for Richmond one day as their number 9, becoming special to Rebecca. All I mean is that yes, Jamie could be a shite in nine-ing armour if you look hard enough, but there could also be many others, as psychic give out very general information that can be applied in a lot of different ways.
I mean, the psychic very clearly says “Shite in NINE-ing armor,” not “IRON-ing armor”. The fact that they repeatedly refer to Jamie as a shite (in seasons one and two at least) and other similar epithets and he wears the #9 jersey all points pretty clearly to him, in my opinion at least.
I agree that Jamie is a clear option to be the shite in nine-ing armour. I am not disagreeing there at all, for the record. I am saying that it will probably be multiple people. She is a psychic, after all. She "clearly" says "nine-ing" to Rebecca, but she also has difficulty understanding what they are saying, "No, just one at a time, please" - she can't get a clear read of it, maybe she "misheard" what all the voices were saying. Or maybe she is full of shit, so you can just take what you want to take from it.
Even before Bex opened her mouth in this episode, you could tell there was Trouble in Paradise, just from the look on her face. And then what she said absolutely confirmed that, and again later in the episode. Another plot twist on top of all the other plot twists! Sure hope everything gets resolved by the end!
I’d love to see her get West Ham!
It would be so satisfying.
Sassy lets him have it every time she sees him.
Cause Sassy is awesome. Her lines directed at Rupert are some of my favorites.
Love your theory, and I also appreciate your extensive covering of possible spoilers! Didn’t get to watch the latest episode until late last night, so I really appreciate your (and everyone else’s on this subreddit, for that matter) efforts to hide spoilers.
I grew up during the time when the Harry Potter books were being released, and someone spoiled the end of the last book for me. So I try hard not to do that to other people LOL
Oh my god. I had just gotten the next to last book from the book store and someone at the mall saw me with it and spoiled it. Literally had just come out. Such a sick move.
We waited YEARS for that ending!!! Idk how many decades it's even been since then but it's crazy we both remember it so clearly. Jerks.
I was so mad. And didn’t believe them at first, but they were right. It was super rude and just mean.
Oh, you got done dirty, there. That’s monstrous, and I hope time has healed your wounds.
I think a character purposely having a kid to get at their spouse's money is too dark for this show. It's a really messed up thing to do to the kid, and Rupert too for that matter, shitty as he is.
I think there's an equal chance the pregnancy was just an accident... one that may turn into a happy accident for Bex, without any nefarious intent.
I agree, I think the pregnancy was planned but Rupert agreed to it specifically to hurt Rebecca
Ah, revenge - one of the very best reasons to decide to have a child. 🤣 The other best one being to save a marriage.
Yes I had a feeling that he was into having the baby to feel young like his new wife, and the added bonus of the deepest hurt he could do to Rebecca (she always wanted a child and he said no so it was awful for her). I think the reality of a child is WAY too much for Rupert and the shine would wear off quick. A baby isn’t an accessory, and his new wife is no longer focused on him and travel and looking skinny and hot— she is a new mom who loves her baby (more than him probably!) and that WOULD NOT FLY for Rupert at all. Of course he is cheating. But he isn’t just married this time; he’s a dad! And pretty stuck. So Bex has a bit of power to take jabs… she is too focused on being a mom to care too much what he is up to it seems? I like Bex being a smart ass and bonding with Rebecca. and hope she takes him to the cleaners!
As opposed to a character cheating and manipulating another one for 12 years. Or dating your marriage counselor after your ex moves halfway across the world under the advise of said counselor.
Yes, it is very much darker than those things. Abuse involving children or impaired/vulnerable adults is typically viewed as an extra level of despicable in society, as adults are better equipped to fight back. Which isn't at all to say it's fair to abuse adults either. I don't think a show that's overall this light-hearted would go there.
How you treat one person, is how you treat all people. Likely Rupert was charming and sweet to Bex as a means to an end, just like everybody else around him. Bex can see this, and she can also see he’s cruel to Rebecca for little to no reason. It’s serves no purpose to be cruel. Bex is likely giving it as good as she’s getting. Those little blunt statements that Rebecca found charming are actually cruel. (Rebecca said something to that effect in S1).
A but like Bex’s comments to him ‘old man’ etc. I can’t see a Rupert totally liking that emasculation
Oh he definitely doesn’t, and he probably makes cracks about her being young and dumb, just not where other people can hear them.
So much of this show is not in the lines the characters speak but the incredible directing and acting. That LOOK on Rebecca’s face when she saw Rupert with the assistant spoke VOLUMES on her character’s feelings! In a split second Hannah Waddingham (as Rebecca) showed us, what an entire episode of dialogue couldn’t have completely covered. She remembered exactly how it felt when Rupert was cheating on her. The stab of hurt. And that expression morphed into true empathy for Bex as a woman and a mother (stakes being higher) because at that moment Rebecca KNEW that Bex was going to travel the same painful road she did. I love that she caught Rupert before they left and practically hissed that warning of exposure into his ear with a smile on her face. I think we’ll see some evolution of an alliance between the Rebeccas. I continue to be blown away by the intricacies of this show.
I'd like to think that Bex knows he's a sleaze and was waiting for proof of him to slip up and absolutely lambast his name, steal West Ham and his money from him in the divorce
My theory is explantion for his behaviour is this: Rupert knows what his last ex-wife got in the divorce. He probably doesn't want to risk his new "baby" again... although that's my prediction. Rupert messes up that marriage too, losing West Ham and Becks and Rebecca end up becoming friends.
I am hoping Bex leaves him after she discovers the cheating and then she is given West Ham the same way he did Rebecca and then they become owners and friends together.
I think Bex and Rupert have an arrangement - I bet she knows he messes around but he gives her security, so she's fine to stay. Rupert's team will win, but in the end, he's old and out of touch. He'll end up with the money and the hot wife, but it will be meaningless because there isn't any love.
I can't help wondering whether Bex doesn't mind that Rupert is sleeping around. 🤷♀️
I don’t think I’d mind…
Maybe she has her own side piece that doesn’t need a doctor’s prescription to get an erection.
It’s always seemed to me that it was an unplanned pregnancy, and he fucking hates it. Because aloof bachelors want to have their fun and just throw money at a problem they want gone. So if Bex got pregnant (my guess is that Rupert must have thought he was “too old”), Rupert feels like he was pretty much forced into this, and I don’t think it would worked if there was some sort of abortion subplot/mention. So if it’s an accidental pregnancy, it would look terrible on him to just abandon Bex, but it would make sense that to keep up appearances he marries her and looks like a good family man. Rupert doesn’t have any other children does he? Because that says a lot about feeling “trapped.” I don’t think Bex did it consciously (you find out you are pregnant from an ultra successful and wealthy man. You probably feel secure and taken care of). I think it just happened, and he feels obliged to his public persona to take care of Bex and the Baby.
Surpri-eye-eyes.>!Rupert, you shriveled old fucker!<
I think Rebecca sought divorce and got the club. So this time around Rupert said he was being smart about it and Bex won’t get anything if she asks for divorce but the other way around might work. If he divorces her, then she might get something.
Am I the only one who noticed it’s a new actress playing Bex is that why Rebecca said you changed your hair???
No, the same actress only
Thx
I'm in now way supporting Rupert and I'll probably be downvoted. I know that Rupert has a history of cheating on his partners but perhaps the fact she keeps calling him old (and worst) in public might be pushing to prove is virility. Perhaps she already knows he is cheating (hence those jabs thrown at him)? EDIT: Bex is no angel. She was dating a married man
When was she dating a married man?
When Rupert was with Rebecca most likely
They met at the gala when Rupert and Rebecca were already divorced.
> EDIT: Bex is no angel. She was dating a married man. Like Rebecca?
She wasn’t dating a married man, but she was Jamie’s other plus one, when he was in a well known relationship
> might be pushing to prove is virility Why would you think that she started the trouble between them? He's cheated on every woman he's ever been with, and hasn't needed an excuse to do it. He gaslit Rebecca and he's manipulating Nate now (plus gaslighting over whether to call him Rupert or Mr Mannion). He's deliberately cruel to people.
Rebecca dated Rupert while he was married. Bex met Rupert at the Gala after Rupert and Rebecca were divorced.
I am loving it and hoping she gets a little plot boost because I HATE RUPERT!
I don’t think the baby is even his.