Blue Heelers star Lisa McCune reveals her shock 'situationship' with Teddy Tahu Rhodes after they stunned Australia by kissing while married to other people
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Lisa McCune has revealed her ‘situationship’ with New Zealand opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes, 13 years after they shocked Australia when they were busted kissing while both being married to other people.

The former Blue Heelers star, 54, admitted on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show that despite talking to Teddy, 59, every day, they were not romantically involved.

‘I don’t have anybody in my life in a full-time kind of way. I have a great friendship with the man who caused so much drama in my life, Teddy, who’s my dearest friend and we speak most days,’ Lisa began.

‘We have lovely conversations every day. He’s a very dear friend and I value that relationship very much.’ 

The Sydney-born actress added her lifestyle was far too busy to maintain a serious relationship. 

‘I’m really busy. I love the idea of having someone to travel with, but I’ve got great girlfriends to travel with and my kids and I’m just in a really happy place at the moment. I’m in a really contented place. I’m not on Hinge,’ she said.

Lisa McCune has opened up about her 'situationship' with New Zealand opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes, 13 years after they were busted kissing while both being married to other people. Pictured together in 2012

Lisa McCune has opened up about her ‘situationship’ with New Zealand opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes, 13 years after they were busted kissing while both being married to other people. Pictured together in 2012

However, Lisa added she was optimistic about one day finding love again.

‘I will fall in love. I love being in love. I’m such a romantic,’ she said.

In 2012, Lisa and her South Pacific co-star Teddy were caught kissing, despite both being married to other people at the time.

The photos were splashed across the tabloids and dubbed ‘scandalous’ because she was still married as far as the public was concerned.

Lisa did not announce her separation from Tim when she was caught kissing Teddy, leading some publications to speculate the couple had an ‘open marriage’. 

‘That gives me the giggles. I think the description [open marriage] is hysterical. It makes me laugh when I read that,’ she was quoted as saying at the time. 

She married Tim Disney in 2000, and they went on to welcome three children – sons Archer, 23, and Oliver, 21, and daughter Remy, 19. 

New Idea magazine later revealed unearthed comments the veteran actress made back in 2017 following the scandal. 

The former Blue Heelers star admitted on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show that despite talking to Teddy every day, they were not romantically involved

The former Blue Heelers star admitted on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show that despite talking to Teddy every day, they were not romantically involved

In 2012, Lisa and her South Pacific co-star Teddy were caught kissing, despite both being married to other people at the time. The photos were splashed across the tabloids and dubbed 'scandalous' because she was still married

In 2012, Lisa and her South Pacific co-star Teddy were caught kissing, despite both being married to other people at the time. The photos were splashed across the tabloids and dubbed ‘scandalous’ because she was still married

‘I was getting advice, saying: “Make statements.” I just thought, “No, I don’t need to because it’s my life,”‘ she said, as reported by the magazine. 

‘For me personally, I have always been open and happy to talk about my babies when they were born and my marriage, and then I hit a speed bump.’

She revealed in 2020 that she was ‘happily single’, but still living with her ex-husband as they continued to co-parent their three children.   

In 2020, she revealed the couple’s very unusual co-parenting arrangement.

‘We all live on one property so we’re here for the kids – we have to because our work is so all over the place,’ she told the Australian Women’s Weekly. 

‘Tim and I are very much dual parenting. We are all over them as parents. It takes two people a lot of the time.’

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