{"id":570084,"date":"2026-03-28T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:03:10","slug":"tess-crosley-deletes-instagram-after-lachie-neale-affair-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570084\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Crosley deletes Instagram after Lachie Neale affair backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tess Crosley, the woman at the centre of the high-profile split between AFL star Lachie Neale and his wife Jules, seems to have reached her breaking point with the public spotlight.<\/p>\n

The mother of one, 30, has officially deactivated her Instagram account, taking it down sometime after her post last Sunday.<\/p>\n

The move hints at her current state of mind, possibly suggesting she\u2019s had enough of the public scrutiny and online backlash that followed rumours of an affair with Neale<\/a>, who is married to her former best friend Jules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crosley was active as recently as last weekend, sharing a series of images, including a racy selfie going braless in a white dress with a plunging neckline, as a toddler safety gate can be seen in the background.<\/p>\n

In another, she posed in a bedroom mirror, smiling as she showed off her makeup look.<\/p>\n

A third showed the influencer in a navy activewear set with a daring neckline as she grabbed a takeaway coffee.<\/p>\n

She captioned the post: \u201cas of late x\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, she faced scrutiny in the comments, as social media users began drawing parallels between Crosley and Monica Lewinsky.<\/p>\n

Lewinsky gained international notoriety in 1998 following the scandal regarding her sexual relationship with then-President Bill Clinton when she was a White House intern.<\/p>\n

One comment simply read: \u201cMonica Lewinsky #2\u201d.<\/p>\n

It appears this remark might have been the final straw, prompting Crosley to go underground.<\/p>\n

However, she\u2019s previously hinted that the public doesn\u2019t have the full picture of the alleged affair<\/a>, cryptically noting that there is \u201calways another story\u201d<\/a> in the caption of another recent Instagram post.<\/p>\n

Perhaps she will return to the photo-sharing platform once the dust settles, ready to share her own narrative.<\/p>\n

It comes after Crosley appeared to be re-entering the dating scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, she was reportedly spotted on Raya \u2013 an exclusive dating app for celebrities and influencers.<\/p>\n

In a dating profile seen by The Courier Mail<\/a>, Crosley posted multiple glamorous photos of herself, including one where she has blonde hair and is wearing a revealing bikini.<\/p>\n

Her job description says, \u201cI\u2019m a mammii,\u201d while her bio is simply: \u201cTell me about you first x\u201d.<\/p>\n

Crosley has not publicly confirmed her current marriage status to finance director Ben Crosley, whom she\u2019s been married to since 2017.<\/p>\n

However, in January, Ben told reporters she no longer lives in their family home.<\/p>\n

She was also seen packing up large boxes<\/a> at their shared home in the upscale Brisbane suburb of Camp Hill in February.<\/p>\n

Ben also removed all traces of Crosley from his social media accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tess Crosley, the woman at the centre of the high-profile split between AFL star Lachie Neale and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[280121,280117,280126,6508,64,63,689,280130,22345,118880,651,280120,196153,447,280123,280127,246769,134,29980,117848,280124,98767,280129,25875,280122,280128,100565,280118,677,161984,701,280119,1314,82524,212218,280125,218783],"class_list":["post-570084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-affair-backlash","tag-affair-drama","tag-affair-saga","tag-alleged-affair","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-bedroom-mirror","tag-bill-clinton","tag-blonde-hair","tag-brisbane","tag-cafe-surcharge","tag-camp-hill","tag-celebrities","tag-dating-profile","tag-dating-scene","tag-eleanor-wicklund","tag-entertainment","tag-family-home","tag-final-straw","tag-former-best-friend","tag-fuel-crisis","tag-job-description-states","tag-lachie-neale","tag-makeup-look","tag-marriage-status","tag-monica-lewinsky","tag-navy-activewear-set","tag-oceania","tag-plunging-neckline","tag-queensland","tag-smoothie-collab","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-accounts","tag-social-media-users","tag-takeaway-coffee","tag-tess-crosley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}