Oh Della, how COULD you do an Anthea? Grant Bovey's ex-wife leaves her second husband... and steals another woman's partner

By Lara Gould


History repeating itself: Grant Bovey ran off with his best friend's wife, Anthea Turner (left)... and now his ex, Della Bovey, has dumped her second husband, James Williams (pictured, right, at their wedding in 2001) for a family friend


She famously suffered a humiliating end to her first marriage when her husband Grant Bovey ran off with his best friend's wife, TV golden girl Anthea Turner.

But now Della Bovey has ended her second marriage - after dumping her second husband for a builder.

Mother-of-three Della, whose battle over Mr Bovey with former Blue Peter presenter Anthea became front-page news, told her property developer husband James Williams their marriage was over in the New Year.


A month later she moved father-of-one Steve Logan, a successful local builder whose clients have included TV duo Ant and Dec, into her £1.5million mansion in Pulborough, West Sussex, after he walked out on his partner and their young son.

When The Mail on Sunday visited last week, Mr Logan's white van was parked in Della's drive, although he is understood to be away on business in America.

Mr Logan's partner Carol Glenister said yesterday: 'It's so ironic. Della has done the very thing she complained so bitterly about all those years ago.'

Cuckolded Mr Williams, a cousin of pop star Phil Collins, says he was left with no option but to move in with his mother after his wife told him about her affair with Mr Logan, a family friend for more than ten years.

Mr Williams, who married Della in 2001, said he was at 'a total loss' over the end of his marriage and struggling to come to terms with the betrayal.

He said: 'I moved out even though it was Della who was unfaithful. I had no idea Della was doing this, but after she told me I suddenly had this feeling about Steve.


Affair: Della (left) has moved builder Steve Logan (right) - a family friend - into her £1.5m mansion. News of the affair has devastated Mr Williams - and Mr Logan's partner of 16 years, Carol Glenister


'He had done some work on Della's house when she was married to her ex-husband Grant and he was always around. I went to his house and confronted him and he admitted it.'

Mr Williams, 46, who lives in the same road as his estranged wife, added: 'Things are very tough.

'Because I live so close I have to drive past the house every day but Della won't speak to me. I'm at a total loss.'

In 1998 it was Della courting public sympathy when she discovered her then husband Grant Bovey had been having an affair with squeaky clean Anthea Turner, wife of his close friend Peter Powell, the Radio 1 DJ.

Mr Bovey, who had three young daughters, left his wife for Anthea - then the second highest-paid woman on TV - triggering a very public tug of love.

It peaked with Della famously being photographed dancing to I Will Survive in a skin-tight red dress at a party where her husband and Anthea were present.

Initially, the carefully orchestrated PR campaign succeeded and Mr Bovey returned to give the marriage another go.

But he left again three months later, eventually marrying Anthea in 2000.

It was the same year that Della, who remained in the family home to raise the couple's three daughters Lily, now 19, Amelia, 18, and 14-year-old Claudia, met businessman Mr Williams when she hired a car from a firm he owned.

Six weeks later, Della and Mr Williams announced their engagement and they married 18 months after at a low-key ceremony.

News of Della's affair has also devastated Mr Logan's partner of 16 years Carol Glenister, who lives ten minutes away from 47-year-old Della in rural West Sussex.

Speaking outside her home, tearful Carol, who works part-time at a local college and is mother of the couple's young son, told The Mail on Sunday: 'Steve told me a few weeks ago about the affair.

'To be honest I'm still trying to take it in but he seems to have made his decision and that's it. It's over and finished as far as I'm concerned.

'They were really good pals but obviously it has developed over the past few months. It was a close friendship. I have known Della for many years - she has always been close to my family.'

She added: 'Della's not quite the lady she paints herself to be. She came round for parties with her husband James - we were all friends.

'I can't quite believe this has happened. I have a son to think about, he's heartbroken as well. This is a very difficult time.'

Della declined to comment when approached at her home.

She said: 'I don't deal with the media, I have nothing to say about the matter. I'm not going to talk about it, you're wasting your time. No comment whatsoever.'


source:dailymail