EMMERDALE hunk Matthew Wolfenden began dating another woman before the end of his marriage to co-star Charley Webb was announced.
He has enjoyed secret late-night meets with a mystery female — believed to be a personal trainer — between his performances in Elf the Musical.
She has regularly met him at the stage door of the Dominion Theatre, West London, before they breeze back to his bolthole for the night.
They were twice seen hand-in-hand before Matthew and his devastated wife Charley said they had split.
And on the night the marriage was publicly said to be over, he and his new woman kissed outside the theatre.
An onlooker said: “They looked like honeymooners, or loved-up teenagers.
“The pictures will prove a shock to the heart for poor Charley, even as her relationship with Matthew unravelled.”
Matthew, 43, and Charley, 35, announced their split online on Wednesday.
They married in 2018 and have three kids — Buster, 13, Bowie, eight, and Ace, four.
Charley’s message said: “It is with love and respect that Matthew and I have decided to separate. We remain friends and our priority is the love for our children.”
Matthew shared the same words but, hours later, he was snapped arm-in-arm with his Watford-based new woman.
Charley, and Matthew, 43, met on the set of Emmerdale in 2007 and got engaged in 2009.
They split in 2013 for two years and then had a surprise wedding in 2018.
Matthew recently quit Emmerdale after 18 years of playing David Metcalfe.
Charley played Debbie Dingle but left the soap two years ago and was recently in ITV’s Yorkshire Ripper drama The Long Shadow
