Ledger Pop Journal - Celebrity News & Sports

Amy Taylor from has divorced her husband, David Pollard, after he committed "adultery" through playing Second Life, and one report notes she caught his avatar having sex. "It may have started online, but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts as much as now it is over," she said. "I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character."

Virtual Affair Online Leads to Real Life Divorce

According to the UK Daily Mail, "Linda Brinkley, 55, known on the multi-player online game as Modesty McDonnell, revealed that since her online fling with David Pollard the couple had become engaged in real life."


According to a report from the Associated Press, "the online drama shows how emotionally invested some people have become in their virtual identities. At least that is the opinion of Ellen Helsper, who is identified as "a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute who has studied the impact of the Web on relationships.

"For a while there was this impression that as long as it's online, it doesn't matter. But research has shown it's not a separate world," she said, adding that infidelity was "just as painful, whether it's electronic or physical."