Tess Crosley has found some calm in the storm as she rang in her 30th birthday this weekend.
The Mormon missionary, 32, who has been embroiled in the marriage breakdown between AFL power couple Jules and Lachie Neale, enjoyed a tipple at Penfolds Magill Estate Winery in South Australia.
Documenting the outing in a social media post on Monday, Tess looked relaxed and luminous as she looked away from the camera, smiling.
‘Turned 30 on the weekend,’ she captioned the post, which showed her enjoying a dessert as well as a glass of wine.
Re-sharing the same image on her Instagram Stories, Tess added a telling song by American singer Lana Del Rey.
The section of the song, called Cinnamon Girl, which Tess posted, features the lyrics: ‘Hold me, love me, touch me, honey. Be the first who ever did.’
Tess Crosley (pictured) has found some calm in the storm as she rang in her 30th birthday this weekend. The Mormon missionary, 32, who has been embroiled in the marriage breakdown between AFL power couple Jules and Lachie Neale, enjoyed a tipple at Penfolds Magill Estate Winery in South Australia
It’s unclear who joined Tess for her birthday weekend, as her husband, Ben, has travelled to Bali with multiple friends to inspect several of their investment properties.
Ben was pictured with his two friends, Tom Bennallack and Seth Mutton, at the luxurious Bambu Fitness centre in Uluwatu last week, after the group had completed a high-intensity workout.
On Wednesday, Bennallack shared more snaps of the trio exploring Bali on scooters, before they arrived at an Airbnb in Ubud.
It appears the group of friends had previously invested in multiple stunning new holiday homes and had jetted out to the Indonesian island to check out how the project had been coming along.
He and Tess are understood to have married back in 2017 and had become close friends with Lachie Neale and his wife Jules.
It comes as the Brisbane Lions captain announced last Friday that he had separated from his wife, adding that he had ‘let his family down’.
On December 18, rumours began to swirl that the couple, who have two children together – Freddie and Piper – were experiencing some issues in their relationship.
In response to the speculation, Jules took to Instagram to say that she had been ‘betrayed’.
Re-sharing the same image on her Instagram Stories, Tess added a telling song by American singer Lana Del Rey. The section of the song, called Cinnamon Girl, which Tess posted, features the lyrics: ‘Hold me, love me, touch me, honey. Be the first who ever did’
It’s unclear who joined Tess for her birthday weekend, as her husband, Ben, has travelled to Bali with multiple friends to inspect several of their investment properties. Ben (left), pictured on Bennallack’s (middle) Instagram, working out at the luxury Ubud fitness centre Bambu Fitness earlier this week
It came after Ben’s partner Tess found herself at the centre of Lachie Neale’s marriage breakdown with his partner Jules (Pictured L-R: Tess, Lachie, Ben, Jules)
‘I want to make it very clear that I am not ‘working through’ anything,’ Jules wrote.
‘I have been betrayed in the most unimaginable way.
‘All I can do now is to heal and do what’s best for my children.’
Jules had also publicly demanded that Tess, her former friend, delete several images of herself, Jules, Ben and Lachie celebrating the Brisbane Lions’ recent AFL Grand Final victory.
The Instagram post appeared to feature several images, including one of Tess and Jules biting Lachie’s premiership medal.
Jules wrote on Instagram: ‘Take these down you idiot you’re embarrassing yourself.’
The comment has since been deleted.
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Tess.
Tess, who shares a young child with Ben, had been seen cutting a downbeat figure in recent weeks, as she stepped out of her Brisbane home.
She was also seen not wearing her wedding ring.
She has since quietly removed the photographs of herself celebrating the Lions’ victory from Instagram, though some traces of her former relationship with Jules still remain on the social media platform.
