IT'S been weeks now since the rocky relationship between Julia Roberts and her husband Danny Moder looked like it had finally hit the point of no return. But now, just as the affair comes to a sorry end, a third element has entered the equation to liven things up ? Moder's betrayed and very bitter ex-wife, Vera. After waiting in the wings for almost a year as Julia played out the charade of happy marriage with her man, the feisty lady has seen her opportunity to step in and start to make mayhem.

Vera has always looked upon Julia as nothing more than a lowdown husband thief, and when Danny started seeing Julia she did her best to thwart the relationship by refusing to cooperate with divorce proceedings. Julia ? who was obviously raring to get Danny down the aisle and start procreating ? was so pissed off with the delays that she took to wearing her heart on her sleeve (or rather her chest) by sporting a T-shirt with the logo 'A Low Vera'.

Roberts eventually decided that bribery would be more effective than bitchery, however, and is reported to have paid Vera $210,000 to hand over her husband. Vera stoically accepted the cash and annnounced to the blushing bride that she'd be looking for a new husband within a year as she'd never be able to change Danny's roving eye.

Less than a year on, after the trauma of Julia's desperation to get pregnant and her failure to do so, Danny's eye is indeed starting to rove: first to Julia's co-star Kirsten Dunst, and now, in a twist of fate, back to his ex-wife. Vera is now reported to have phoned Julia to crow about the turnaround.

Not only that, she's decided to play the actress at her own fashion-fight, and is said to have had six T-shirts custom-made and sent to Julia. One of them was emblazoned with the logo 'Who's Crying Now?', another a short but sweet message: the simple logo 'No 2'.