Walton Goggins' Wife On Aimee Lou Wood Romance Rumors

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19-05-2025

It's no secret that Season 3 of The White Lotus was partially overshadowed by whispers of off-screen drama between the cast members — particularly Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins, who played couple Chelsea and Rick on the show.
If you need reminding, the two initially appeared to be incredibly close during the promo cycle for the series, and posted cute tributes to one another on Instagram. However, eagle-eyed fans later noticed that Aimee and Walton had unfollowed each other, with some going so far as to theorize that Walton had blocked Aimee when they saw that her comments no longer showed up under his posts, but his were still visible on hers.
Their co-star Jason Isaacs then added fuel to the fire when he reflected on 'tensions and difficulties' during filming in a candid interview with the Guardian. He notably added at the time: 'There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke.'
'It's a long period of time for people to be away from their family with an open bar and all the wildness being in Thailand allows,' Jason went on. 'Within a couple of weeks, my wife [who was with him on set and used to be an actor] went: 'Some of these people are fucking mad.' I said: 'No, it's just a bunch of actors away on location, love. You've forgotten what it's like.''
It didn't take long for people to speculate that something had gone down between 31-year-old Aimee and 53-year-old Walton, and while neither star has publicly commented on the speculation surrounding their relationship, Walton did repeatedly shut down a journalist's attempt to get him to comment in an interview with the Times UK.
In the article's intro, reporter Ed Potton warns that 'the interview will go off the rails' when he asks Walton about Aimee, and this proves to be true, with Ed asking Walton if he and Aimee had 'fallen out' partway through the interview. 'I'm not gonna have that conversation,' Walton said in response, with both of his publicists who were in the room at the time telling Ed to move on to the next question, with one of them adding: 'We're not going there, thank you.'But after a dutiful chat about Walton's latest movie, The Uninvited, Ed broached the topic again — this time hinged on the fact that Walton was set to host Saturday Night Live, which CNN journalist Elizabeth Wagmeister previously suggested that Aimee might make a special appearance on.
When asked if he and Aimee are set for a reconciliation, Walton apparently said nothing. One of the publicists is said to have suggested: 'Shall we talk about The Uninvited a bit more?' Ed writes: 'I splutter for a few seconds. Goggins laughs sarcastically. 'Thinly veiled, my friend. The thing you're least interested in.''
Despite this, Ed still attempted to bring up Aimee for a third and fourth time in the interview, which is when Walton seemingly ran out of patience. First of all, Walton told the journalist: 'There is no conversation to be had about that. Sharing politics on social media — it's in a vacuum,' and when Ed still refused to back down, Walton is said to have gasped: 'What the fuck, Ed! Come on, buddy. Wow.' Meanwhile, one of his publicists said: 'We're going to end it there,' stopping the interview in its tracks.
But while Walton wouldn't discuss the drama, his wife, Nadia Connors, did in a new interview with Hello! magazine, where she breezily brushed off the romance rumors.
For reference, Nadia is a writer and director, and she and Walton began dating in 2005 before getting married in 2011. They share a 14-year-old son called Augustus.
Referencing the speculation between her husband and his much younger costar, Nadia said: 'It's odd to see it, but it's an indication of how much people were invested in the fictional characters. I take it as a sign that he's quite popular.'
You can't deny that that's an impressively measured response to the drama! What do you make of Nadia's comment? Let me know down below.