A love story gone awry is making headlines across the pond, and involves Paul Giamatti's co-star in 'Barney's Version,' Rosamund Pike.The U.K.'s Daily Mail claims that Pike ('Die Another Day,' 'An Education') -- whose wedding to director Joe Wright was abruptly called off in 2008 -- was completely taken by suprise when she learned recently that Wright and acclaimed sitar musician Anoushka Shankar quietly married last month.
Shankar, 29 (half-sister of Grammy winner Norah Jones, and daughter of sitar superstar Ravi Shankar) is reportedly pregnant, and due in the spring.
"'Ros was devastated when she found out as she hadn't been told," an insider tells the British news outlet. "It was quite different to the big wedding she had planned with Joe."
Wright, 37, became engaged to Pike, 31, after directing her in the role of Kiera Knightley's sister in 'Pride & Prejudice,' but he allegedly called off the nuptials when he learned that his bride-to-be had mailed out cheeky invitations depicting the pair in a hot tub, without getting his okay first.




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OMG! She is SOOOOOO pretty! I've see her in 'An Education' and 'Pride & Prejudice' she has this ethereal glow, she has to find someone fantastic! :)
Not to mention she is a terrific actress!
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I will say she has some of the finest, natural, breasts I've ever seen.
She'll survive. If the guy wants to have an average, short, very dark kid, let him.
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You are an idiot. Did it ever occur to you that he loves her because she's lovely and talented and not vain? Or that he was with Pike for a trophy and decided he actually wanted more in his life? Also, no matter how "average, short, very dark kid" that child is, s/he will have more opportunities in life than you could ever dream of due to his parents?
Nice job, implying that his kids should be less desirable because they will have darker skin than had he married the blond-haired blue-eyed woman, especially considering they will be descended from one of the most talented families there is.
Careful, your level of intelligence is showing.
Why on earth is she upset. They broke up years ago. It is just for the publicity and nothing else. On the other hand, if she is as hot as some seem to think, then why did he drop her? Think about it........ Then again this so called upset also puts here in the public eye for sympathy....
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She is taking a cue from Jennifer Aniston by being the latest love "victim". Aniston has made a career out of this kind of publicity.
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I really hope not. I actually like RP and think she can act. JA has nothing else to offer.
But she might be shocked because of whatever line he fed her when he dumped her, and then she realized it wasn't him, it really was her.
She was lucky she didn't marry the guy. They have different ideas about a relationship.
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Not a surprise because this was reported last year in several publications and the engagement was announced in August.
Good luck Joe Wright and I am sure Rosamund has moved on.
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I find it very hard to believe that Rosamund Pike was really "devastated".
Whenever the London Press claim an insider as a source, that's code for "we're full of bollocks".
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Why does she think her ex boyfriend owes her an explanation of anything he does? It's not like they just broke up last week. It's not like he's marrying her sister or best friend or has been flaunting their relationship to every magazine and tabloid around.
The article clearly stated they married quietly. If anything, they were extrememly considerate of your feelings.
You need to grow up, honey.
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@ Sally ,do actually believe everything you read? Really?
You truly believe that this woman is crying her eyes out over some schmuck.
You're the one who needs to grow up, sweetie.
What are you going to do, jump off the nearest building? Once you've decided you don't want someone or vice versa then it's time to move on, hard as that is at times, all the rest is fairly irrelevant in the end. Many have suffered much worse hardships and she'll simply have to deal with it as people have a tendency to believe others owe them much more in the end than they really do. Given her looks I'm guessing this is someone who's highly unfamiliar with people not doing exactly what she expects of them in a given situation and that likely plays heavily into her supposed devastation.
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Why are you sooo sure that this article is accurately describing her as being so devastated? Consider the source, or the non-source as the case seems to be.
The press does this crap all the time. Mountains out of mole hills.
You're right, it could certainly be absolute garbage. Then it again it could indeed be a jilted woman having what amounts to a hissy fit over a situation she can neither manipulate nor control. You and a few others have posted on here clearly NOT wanting there to be any truth to it and I get that as it isn't particularly flattering to Pike or women in general, but that alone simply doesn't negate it in any way. Given the long history of such things in the media I'd say it could just as easily be true as not true, I don't know, you don't know. By the way, I did state "supposed" devastation above, so I'm not unaware of the point you're trying to make there.
Another non-story courtesy of PopEater.
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I just happen to be available to get her mind off of that stuffy dude
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Your quasi-racist observation is disgraceful and you should be utterly ashamed, but I imagine you're likely too stupid to realize as much. I'll say this, if Wright has even half a brain he certainly wouldn't choose you or anyone remotely like you for any reason ever.
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He broke it off because he didn't love her -- not because of the invites. The invites were the out he'd been hoping for. Why do I know this? Because no man breaks up with a woman he loves for something so inconsequential. If he can't put up with something so stupid, then how is he going to face the ups and downs of married life. Pike, you're better off without him. He wasn't for you. Now go find someone who truly loves you.
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