"Atonement" Director Joe Wright Calls Off Wedding To "Bond" Girl Rosamund Pike

Director Joe Wright met actress Rosamund Pike when she played eldest daughter Jane in his adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," and they got engaged. Pike became famous when she played Miranda Frost in "Die Another Day."

A Daily Mail reporter writes this week:

I have further revelations following my report last week that the wedding between actress Rosamund Pike and her film director fiance Joe Wright had been suddenly called off.

It appears that Wright put an end to the September nuptials after 29-year-old former Bond girl Ros sent out hundreds of wedding invitations without his approval.

'The invitations featured a picture of them together in a hot tub,' says a pal.

'Joe dumped her for sending them without consulting him and she had to tell all the guests the wedding was off.'

To add insult to injury, Wright was then spotted cavorting with a handful of girls at his local lap-dancing club in Shoreditch just days later.

Last week's report, to which this was an update, said:

The 29-year-old star was due to marry last month but the wedding was called off at the last minute after Miss Pike told friends she couldn't go through with it.

According to friends, the actress is devastated about the split and cancellation.

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Wright, 35, proposed on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy earlier this year and the wedding was to have taken place in England last weekend.
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My source says: 'It's not common knowledge and only a few people know. Rosamund obviously wants to keep it as private as possible but she is devastated. She's a lovely girl and we all feel very sorry for her.

'She was meant to be out at a party on Thursday night but she cancelled at the last minute. She just couldn't face going out.'

Rosamund's mother, who had been planning the wedding, has been consoling her daughter and cancelling florists and cake orders.

Meanwhile, Wright has been hitting the London party scene. 'Joe was out four weeks ago at a party. He was surrounded by girls and ended up taking a group of them to a strip club. He's a regular there and all the dancers know him,' says my scantily clad spy.

The pair at the Venice Film Festival last August:

Comments

[rzan]

It's lucky for her that this happened. The guy sounds like a creep.

[Anonani]

IF this story is accurate, sounds like cold feet to me...shades of Eddie Murphy's most recent wedding fiasco. It is so much better to deal with a reluctant spouse issue BEFORE you end up in Divorce Court than after...messy...messy. She is young, talented, and beautiful and her special someone will come along and this will become a distant and distasteful memory. I am sorry that it is so public.

[observing]

Man, don't go near Lake Como. 2nd celebrity dumping...

Anyway, he did her a favor. She's still too young. It will just take her a while to realize that.

[caps]

29 is too young to get married? glad to hear that... maybe you could pass the word on to my mom.

[DuckofDeath]

He's a total dick. Weddings are for the ladies...let them have their fun. He was just looking for an out it sounds to me.

[shengirl]

She should have talked these things over with him, after all it was "their" wedding, but it does sound like he has serious control issues. She's better off to find this out now. It never improves with time.

[hughbetcha]

I wish I had looked for an out...

[itsamessi]

who says true love never dies?

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

It just dies another day.
P.S. Never say never again.

[NoSillyName]

What? The date was set and she sent out invitations without his "approval"?

I'd say she's lucky she's out now. Sounds like he's a real control freak!!

Maybe there's more to the story.

[NeoStar9]

I don't think it's him being a control freak. Probably her not including him in the decision at all. True there is most likely more to this story then is being reported. Who is to say he even wanted to invite a lot of people let along hundreds?

It's his wedding as well (far to many women either forget this or simply ignore it) and for her to simply go ahead and send out invitations without his input is simply wrong if that really was what set this off.

[NoSillyName]

You're right, Neo. I thought the bride always has to take care of all the details. I wouldn't know; never had any interest in all that ceremonial stuff.

[adled]

Yes, she was stunning to look at in, "Pride And Prejudice". But then movies are all about illusion.

[HatingTheGame]

Ah, to be young, rich, and stupid.

Love it.