{"id":283178,"date":"2011-02-27T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/27\/eastenders-actor-neil-mcdermott-cheats-on-wife-with-16-year-old-girl-weeks-after-birth-of-his-first-child\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:57:29","slug":"eastenders-actor-neil-mcdermott-cheats-on-wife-with-16-year-old-girl-weeks-after-birth-of-his-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/27\/eastenders-actor-neil-mcdermott-cheats-on-wife-with-16-year-old-girl-weeks-after-birth-of-his-first-child\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders actor Neil McDermott &#8216;cheats on wife&#8217; with 16-year-old girl weeks after birth of his first child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"135.470397028\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 2:57 PM on 27th February 2011<\/p>\n<p>He plays the moody, independent and long-suffering estranged husband of scheming minx Janine Butcher.<\/p>\n<p>But EastEnders star Neil McDermott, who plays Ryan Malloy in the soap, is at the centre of his drama this weekend after he admitted to cheating on his wife with a 16-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sunday Mirror, the 30-year-old actor slept with the teenage fan just weeks after his wife Michelle had given birth to their first child, daughter Arabella.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/9c6433c9939_468x654.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"654\" alt=\"Cheat: EastEnders star Neil McDermott and his wife Michelle who he cheated in with a 16-year-old girl just weeks after Michelle gave birth to their first child\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cheat: EastEnders star Neil McDermott and his wife Michelle who he cheated in with a 16-year-old girl just weeks after Michelle gave birth to their first child<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> And yesterday, he issued an apology in a desperate bid to save his three-and-a-half-year marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the newspaper, he said: &#8216;I am so sorry: To my wife, \u00addaughter and our family for this \u00adbetrayal. I love my wife and family dearly and I\u2019m distraught that my life is now in tatters due to a stupid \u00admistake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019ve caused heartache to those I love most which I deeply regret. This was a one-off incident but I\u2019ve let myself down as well as my wife and everyone who knows me. Now I just need privacy and time to do all I can to rebuild my family.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>His infidelity is believed to have happened last weekend when he made a personal appearance at the Glam nightclub in Stockton-on-Tees.<\/p>\n<p>And according to a friend of the teenage girl, who has not been named, Neil, 30, started &#8216;eyeing her up&#8217; as he signed autographs and took part in a Blind Date-style game.<\/p>\n<p>The girl told her friend: &#8216;Ryan just started staring at me through the<br \/>\ncrowd. It was so obvious that \u00adanother girl, who I didn\u2019t even know,<br \/>\nturned to me and said, &#8220;He keeps looking at you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fb4cb69e344_468x305.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"305\" alt=\"In character: Neil as Ryan Malloy with his on-screen wife Janine Butcher played by Charlie Brooks\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In character: Neil as Ryan Malloy with his on-screen wife Janine Butcher played by Charlie Brooks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;I was a bit starstruck to be honest as I love EastEnders and I\u2019ve always really fancied Neil\u2019s character Ryan.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After paying \u00a35 to have her picture taken with him, he kept mentioning to her which hotel he was staying at, and later met her at the hotel bar around 4am.<\/p>\n<p>After having a drink together, they went to his hotel room and had sex but did not swap numbers in the morning and have not seen each other since.<\/p>\n<p>Last night one of his friends said: &#8216;Neil is absolutely \u00addevastated. He<br \/>\ncannot believe he has been so stupid. This is not the way he usually<br \/>\nbehaves and he won\u2019t make a mistake like this again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Neil met wife Michelle at London\u2019s Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts when he was 19 and she was 18. <\/p>\n<p>They have been \u00adtogether ever since and married at Airth Castle, Stirlingshire, in 2007 and their daughter was born last month.<\/p>\n<p>And his betrayal comes two weeks after they took part in a glossy Hello!<br \/>\nmagazine shoot to show off six-week-old Arabella Betsy.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ndoting father \u2013 whose character Ryan had a baby with Stacey Slater<br \/>\ndespite being in a relationship with Janine Butcher \u2013 posed for a series<br \/>\nof \u00adheartwarming family snaps with Michelle and their child.<\/p>\n<p>In EastEnders, he fathered a child with Stacey \u00adSlater, played by Lacey Turner, and married Janine three months later he married Janine who poisoned him and held him captive after finding out about the affair.<\/p>\n<p>McDermott&#8217;s agent was not available for comment today.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/f0eb7ed1333_468x323.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"323\" alt=\"Soap family: Neil as Ryan with Stacey Branning, played by Lacey Turner, and their daughter Lily\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soap family: Neil as Ryan with Stacey Branning, played by Lacey Turner, and their daughter Lily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/9c6433c9939_468x654-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1361132\/EastEnders-actor-Neil-McDermott-cheats-wife-16-year-old-girl-weeks-birth-child.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"EastEnders actor Neil McDermott 'cheats on wife' with 16-year-old girl weeks after birth of his first child\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EastEnders actor Neil McDermott &#8216;cheats on wife&#8217; with 16-year-old girl weeks after birth of his first child<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:57 PM on 27th February 2011 He plays the moody, independent and long-suffering estranged husband of scheming minx Janine Butcher. But EastEnders star Neil McDermott, who plays Ryan Malloy in the soap, is at the centre of his drama this weekend after he admitted to cheating on his wife with a 16-year-old girl. According to the Sunday Mirror, the 30-year-old actor slept with the teenage fan just weeks after his wife Michelle had given birth to their first child, daughter Arabella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EastEnders actor Neil McDermott &#039;cheats on wife&#039; with 16-year-old girl weeks after birth of his first child - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/27\/eastenders-actor-neil-mcdermott-cheats-on-wife-with-16-year-old-girl-weeks-after-birth-of-his-first-child\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"EastEnders actor Neil McDermott &#039;cheats on wife&#039; with 16-year-old girl weeks after birth of his first child - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:57 PM on 27th February 2011 He plays the moody, independent and long-suffering estranged husband of scheming minx Janine Butcher. 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