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It was bound to happen at some stage, I am just surprised that it took so long - I mean, Robyn Gibson must surely be in line for a sainthood having born so many kids to and stood by such a neanderthal as Mel Gibson!

We all thought this was the Hollywood marriage to end all, but you have to be realistic and admit that ever since Braveheart Mel has gone to seed completely - both in mind and body - and there have been increasing shots of him being snug with various bimbos around nightclubs and bars. This time he has given in to that age-old male midlife crisis and fallen for the even more typically pouting, heaving Russian model (just what is it with all these Russian models these days, they seem to be coming out of the woodwork…!)

Robyn has kicked him out and I say good on her!

This woman has stood by this caveman from the very humblest of beginnings when she was a nurse and he was a jobbing Sydney actor only distinguished by his blue eyes and great looks. Just prior to meeting Robyn, Mel and his parents attended a church in St Ives (devout catholics but odd with it…) that my friend and her family also attended. Mel asked my friends sister, Lynette, out several times for a date but she refused and we all thought she was mad at the time as Mel had just finished Summer City and was becoming known.

As the years went by I often thought Lynette did the right thing - imagine having all those kids and being kept in the shadows while he kicked up his heels and lived the high life. Admittedly Robyn never wanted for a single thing and would have had the best of everything but you have to say she deserved it - and she will deserve every single penny she gets from what looks to be Hollywood’s biggest divorce payout ever…

It’s hard to say where it all went wrong for Mel; I saw him act when he starred in the stage play ‘No Names No Pack Drill’ in Sydney with Noni Hazelhurst and he certainly had that X Factor - then he ended up in Hollywood…after Braveheart he seemed to lose the X out of his Factor.

His father, Hutton, was a bit of a fruitcake too; a huge critic of the Vatican and Church he and Mel eventually bought some land and started their own version of the pre-Vatican Catholic Church. Hutton also espoused some vile racist opinions concerning the Holocaust so it was no wonder when Mel ended up in trouble for the same thing while drunk not too long ago.

Robyn sounds very like Mel’s mother, Anne Patricia Reilly (born Co Longford Ireland) who was, like Robyn, a quiet and unassuming woman who also bore a large family (eleven children in Anne’s case) and stayed very much in the background of her somewhat nutty husband.

Kind of sad though, eh? Mel and Rob certainly went from the bottom of the ladder to the very top rung - from a tiny bedsit in Coogee Sydney, to multi-roomed mansions and everything that money could buy. From the birth of their firstborn Hannah in Sydney(1980), to which Mel listened over the phone as he was in Egypt filming Gallipoli at the time to that idiotic, marriage-wreaking frolic on the beach with some stupid, non-descript Russian bimbo.

But even though Robyn will be sad there will also be some gloating as well; from now on any female who wants to try her chance will only get the middle-aged, paunchy and balding Mel Gibson - grandfather, post atomic divorce payout with seven grown up children.

Robyn can smile because she had the better deal - she had Mel when he was at his very best; young, handsome, vital and with the world at his feet…and no-one else will ever share that with her

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