Why Todd English Is The Worst Fiance Ever
Posted by: Ami Angelowicz
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1:30PM, Monday October 12th 2009
The next time a guy screws me or one of my friends over, I will remember that it could be worse … I could have been engaged to celebrity chef Todd English. In a move that can only be described as sociopathic, douche castle Todd English ditched fiancée Erica Wang and 150 guests and skipped out on his $150,000 wedding at the St. Regis last week. In a statement, English said, “It was never intended this way, but our relationship has not been positive for some time.” Erica has a much different story. She thinks things went downhill when she refused to sign a prenup saying that if the couple split she would get big, fat ZERO. Get the full saga, after the jump.
Last February, Todd English proposed to girlfriend and employee (she quit her job to organize his busy schedule) of two years, Erica Wang. Erica wanted to elope but Todd insisted on a wedding, saying, “... you’ll resent me for the rest of your life if you don’t let me throw you a big wedding.” In August, Todd took Erica to Venice and Croatia. A few weeks before the wedding, Todd was on business trip in Florida and Wang flew out to meet him for a weekend. He was supposed to return the next day to help prepare, but he mysteriously dropped off the grid. Erica called, emailed, and texted to no avail—Todd didn’t respond until two days before the wedding. “I know this call is long overdue, but I can’t marry you,” he told Erica coldly before he hung up on her.
In a heroic move, Erica decided to have the reception anyway. She drank, danced, and partied with friends and relatives without Todd. The reception was supposedly paid for in full, but Erica had one more unhappy surprise waiting for her at the end of the night—a $12,000 bill that English left for her. Hang on … it’s not done yet. On Thursday, Erica was greeted by two security guards at her former Chelsea apartment with an inventory list of what belonged to Todd and what she was allowed to take with her on her way out. Yes, people … Todd left Erica husbandless, homeless, and jobless. And to add insult to infinite injury, he was spotted partying with a bunch of ladies in South Beach on the day of the wedding. [New York Post]
I’ve met a few bastards in my life, but this one takes the wedding cake. But Wang refuses to feel sorry for herself. “I guess it wasn’t meant to be,” she says. “I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I could really be bitter, but I actually still believe in love.” Applause. Bravos. Props. Flowers. Medals. If anyone deserves to find love, it’s her. I propose a worldwide ban on all of Todd English’s restaurants ... either that or a public beheading. Who’s with me?
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AlisonNoelle
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:39 pm: [report]
What a douchebag. Who does stuff like that? That girl deserves like some huge prize for putting up with all that.
AgentBeryllium
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:43 pm: [report]
I think she dodged a bullet on this one. Can you imagine being married to something like that? However if I were her. I would sue him.
brandyalexander
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:44 pm: [report]
Prick.
slip
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:54 pm: [report]
I’ll guess that he waited as long as he did to see if her lawyers would try to negotiate the pre-nup, and that they didn’t. She went all or nothing, and he called her bluff.
Sounds like they both dodged a bullet.
Slip
canadiancutie
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 01:22 pm: [report]
This is why I don’t date rich men. Too selfish, too greedy. I know that’s a blanket statement. I’m completely comfortable with that. I have and would reject a man for being too wealthy.
thatgrrl
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 01:34 pm: [report]
I don’t see a happy ending there. That’s a lot of money for someone without a job. I have been where she is on a smaller scale. I married an American only to have him change his mind just over year later. I had no home, no car, no husband/ friend and no job when I left to go home to Ontario. I was too numb to have any feelings at the time.
Oliveira
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 03:02 pm: [report]
I’m up to join for the beheading, myself. Her responsibility or lack thereof, “Erica was greeted by two security guards at her former Chelsea apartment with an inventory list of what belonged to Todd”? Really? Well Todd why don’t you do us a favor and go cook yourself.
cadyms
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 07:09 pm: [report]
What restaurants does he run/own? I’d be up for a boycott!
dizzy
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:18 pm: [report]
Agree with AgentBeryllium. I’m sure she can get the reception paid for. La creme de la douche indeed.
Hymie
wrote on October 14 2009 @ 10:47 am: [report]
Todd English is a good man and a lucky man.
He found out that Wang was only after his money and he did the right thing for him, his business and his family. He bailed. He gave the greedy shrew more chances than she deserved.
Ms. Wang is notoriously rude and snobbish in Boston.
Good riddance.
I Go To 11
wrote on October 15 2009 @ 03:13 pm: [report]
@ Hymie: Hi there, Todd English.
intheknow
wrote on October 15 2009 @ 03:26 pm: [report]
Ok, hold on. There are two sides to every story. I know more than I’d care to about both sides of this one. Yes, Todd is a coward and let this go way too far. He hadn’t intended on going through with the wedding for many months. He chickened out because she’s a psycho. She DID hit him..more than once. She set a fire in their apartment after a fight. She did lots of anger spending, to the tune of, like, $100,000. She threw her $100,000 engagement ring down the elevator shaft in their building. She dated another chef for years before Todd and lied to him about it (anyone smell a gold-digging, chef-groupie?) His kids hated her so much that they refused to see Todd if she was around. It’s true that she didn’t know he wasn’t going to show until the day before the wedding, when she had guests arriving from all over the world, but going through with the party was really tacky and I doubt she would have had to cough up the last $12,000, had she not actually had the party. Regardless of what happened, it is beyond bad taste to air your dirty laundry to the press. It’s understandable that she wants revenge, but in the end, they both look like idiots. It’s just too gross, telling all of the dirty details of your personal life to the papers. Todd was a wienie, but she’s not some innocent victim in all of this. She’s a crazy, money-hungry shrew and he figured it out just in time. Also, even if he’s guilty of breaking her heart, he’s still a talented chef. Can’t we separate the artist from the man? Should we boycott Woody Allen? And every other man and woman who cheats or lies or hurts their partner? Todd is not a bad guy. He just did a bad thing.
Leesa
wrote on October 15 2009 @ 10:28 pm: [report]
“Can’t we separate the artist from the man?” Nope. At least not in the present. Past wrongs can be forgiven (Van Gogh, anyone?) but there’s a difference between those people who are only recognized for their artistic genius after their death and those who are still living. Namely, their attitudes.
intheknow
wrote on October 16 2009 @ 12:54 am: [report]
Hmm, Leesa. That’s ridiculous. What about Bill Clinton? He’s still alive, a valuable and positive public servant who has had trouble keeping it in his pants. Did it make him a lousy president? Do Todd’s personal issues make his food any less delicious or his cookware less efficient? What difference does it make whether Woody Allen is alive or dead? His films are great but his sexual moral code is questionable. Now that Michael Jackson is dead, are his deviances forgiven? If you take issue with a man’s behavior to the point of boycotting him, how is whether he’s dead or alive at all relevant?
Shewolf68
wrote on October 16 2009 @ 01:06 pm: [report]
What a passive pussy he apparently is!
She should sue him for damages for lost employment and damages if at all possible.
Having guys with a wad of cash is great and all, but they often can be total douchebags simply because they can afford to be…financially speaking. it allows you to make many expensive and rash decisions and then just use the same money to buy yourself out of said jam.
LunaLena
wrote on October 16 2009 @ 01:27 pm: [report]
@ intheknow - soooo, you’re saying that she deserved what happened to her because of what she did in the past? You say he “figured it out just in time,” which flatly contradicts your earlier statement that he hadn’t intended to go through with the wedding for months. Yeah, maybe she pulled some batcrap crazy antics, but apparently he was okay with it, since he never actually broke up with her (sounds like they’re perfect for each other, actually). And she wasn’t the one stringing him along, only to humiliate him in such a public (and expensive) manner.
I’m guessing you’re part of Todd English’s public relations team. His food may be delicious and his cookware line may be efficient, but perhaps some people want to boycott him because they don’t want to think that their hard-earned money is helping him commit his douchebaggery.
Shewolf68
wrote on October 16 2009 @ 01:38 pm: [report]
I agree with LunaLena…When a celeb is outed for being a an A-hole…it affects how I decide to spend my money on anything they are attached to. I think many people feel the same about that. Why I won’t watch Rachel Ray or buy her crap…why fill the coffers of someone I neither like professionally or as a person, moreover, buy something with that persons name attached?
Like it or not…bad press matters.
intheknow
wrote on October 16 2009 @ 10:52 pm: [report]
LunaLena- I didn’t say that she deserved it. No one deserves that kind of treatment. He should have told her a long time ago. As I said, he was a weenie and a coward. I was pointing out that neither one of them behaved very well, neither of them was the victim. Or maybe they both were. No, I don’t work for Todd. And, yes, bad press matters. I’m just suggesting that before you put your money where your judgement of someone’s personal behavior is, consider that we all make mistakes and the guy’s suffering plenty. I’m sure that almost everyone selling almost everything could be called out on some type of despicable behavior, if you dug deeply enough.
papayalily
wrote on October 17 2009 @ 04:24 pm: [report]
@Shewolf68 So do I. Van Gogh also wasn’t out for fame, and I hate helping douchebags counting on their fame to help them commit said douchbagery. If Todd English was just some great chef in a restaurant and nobody really knew who he was outside of ‘oh, right, he’s the chef at that place’ it might be different, but I don’t feel like condoning in any way what he did. Yes, Erica sounds like a piece of work, but there is just no excuse for dumping someone right before the wedding if you knew for a long time it wasn’t going to work out. And unless personal safety was involved, why exactly couldn’t he have given her 2 weeks notice before making her homeless? 2 wrongs do not make a right.