article_snippet.sent: The messy divorce between chef Bobby Flay and actress Stephanie March just got uglier.
article_snippet.sent: On Sunday, the New York Post's Page Six alleged that the marriage breakup was the result of Flay having an affair with his assistant Elyse Tirrel, who's 28.
article_snippet.sent: But the chefmoved swiftly to dismiss the claims, saying that if Flay, 50, had been having an ongoing affair with an employee, Flay's business partner Lawrence Kretchmar would know about it.
article_snippet.sent: it was alleged Sunday that chef Bobby Flay has been having an affair with chef Bobby Flay assistant Eliyse Tirrell and that it led to the breakdown of chef Bobby Flay marriage to Stephanie March .
article_snippet.sent: Secret affair: the New York Post's Page Six  claimed Flay, 50, has been seeing Tirrel, who's 28, for three years and that according to a friend of March, the actress learned of the relationship with the former hostess just after Thanksgiving 2014 .
article_snippet.sent: The gossip site claimed that Flay, who filed for divorce from March, 40, in April, has been cheating on the Law & Order:
article_snippet.sent: Flay filed for divorce earlier this month saying that Flay 10-year marriage to Law & Order: SVU star March has 'irretrievably broken down' After the story ran, Flay's representative released a statement to the media saying: 'the media will continue to refrain from responding to the continued efforts by certain parties to spread rumors and innuendo.' '
article_snippet.sent: Happier times: March was Flay's third wife and appeared as a guest judge on several of a guest judge Food Network shows.
highlights_snippet.sent: Flay's business partner Lawrence Kretchmar dismissed the report, saying Flay's business partner Lawrence Kretchmar'd have known if the chef was having an affair with an employee .
  