If you would ask me whom Elin Nordegren would date next (and I care much more about Elin than I do about Gavin Rossdale) I would assume it would be some random rich guy she met through friends. That’s not that she only dates rich guys, just that they are the guys she meets in her social circle. From what we know Elin last dated her billionaire neighbor, a coal executive in his 50s named Chris Cline. Elin and Chris were on and off again for a while, but they must be over now because she went on a first date with Gavin Rossdale. The Gavin Rossdale, the British rocker and Gwen Stefani’s ex who slept with his kids’ nanny (allegedly, according to all the major celebrity outlets). US Magazine has the news so I’m assuming it’s legit:

Gavin Rossdale. Elin Nordegren (ex-wife of Tiger Woods) and the rocker (ex-husband of Gwen Stefani) went on a first date in L.A. on Saturday, August 27, a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.

Apparently they hit it off, too. Set up by mutual friends, the Florida-based mom of Sam, 9, and Charlie, 7, and the dad of Kingston, 10, Zuma, 8, and Apollo, 2 are planning round two. “Elin flies to L.A. on her private plane a lot,” says the source. “They want to make it work.”

The spark is new, but they already have something in common. Both the British singer, 50, and the Swedish former model, 36, have endured public cheating scandals in the past, though from different sides. Us exclusively revealed in November that Rossdale had cheated on his wife of 13 years, Stefani, with the couple’s nanny Mindy Mann. While pregnant with their youngest son, Stefani discovered explicit texts between Rossdale and Mann on their shared iPad. They split in August 2015.

[From US Magazine]

I believe in the adage “once a cheater,” but I also think that Rossdale, for being a low down dirty dog (it takes a special kind of sleaze to cheat with the nanny), did handle his divorce with grace. By most accounts he gave Stefani what she was asking for, didn’t fight her in the press or in court really, and bowed out. That said, Elin really knows how to pick ‘em right? I have a lot of respect for her because she went to college, graduated head of her class, and never trashed Tiger when it came out that he was a serial cheater who was hooking up with random women in every city he visited. She also worked hard to ensure that he continued to have a relationship with his kids and that she kept communicating with him. That must have taken incredible fortitude and class. So is her picker broken or is she making a halfway decent choice here? Maybe she’s just having fun though, they’re on different coasts after all, and she could do worse than Rossdale. Hell she already has but that’s not saying much.

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I just checked Gavin Rossdale’s Instagram for more photos of this photogenic dog and he is not the best photographer or this dog would surely be famous already. There are photos though! He’s called Chewy!

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