Two weeks ago, Noah Wyle and his wife Tracy announced their split after 11 years of marriage. The couple have two children, a son and a daughter, and nothing about the initial reports indicated that anything strange, gross, weird, nasty or sexy was happening with either Noah or Tracy. The words I used were “clean as a whistle.” Guess what? Not so much, according to a report in this week’s National Enquirer. The Enquirer claims that Noah has been engaged in a year-long affair with an actress named Tanna Frederick. Here’s Frederick in November of last year:

That’s not all! It seems that the Enquirer’s sources have Noah cheating on his wife and his mistress with yet another woman! Jeez. Here’s more:

Noah Wyle has allegedly been leading a secret double life. An insider told the Enquirer that after engaging in a year-long affair with actress Tanna Frederick, Wyle is now hooking up with a theatre actress!

“Not only was Noah cheating on his wife, he was cheating on his mistress!” said an insider.

Wyle fell for redhead Tanna, 32, when they played lovers in the independent movie “Queen of the Lot” in December 2008.

“The chemistry between them was instantaneous, and they were having sex almost daily in Tanna’s dressing room,” the insider claimed. “When Tracy saw the film’s initial footage, she could sense something was going on between Tanna and Noah. Tracy called Tanna to confront her, and Tanna admitted the affair! Tracy was furious.”

Initially, Wyle and Tracy stayed together for the sake of their son and daughter, according to another source. Meanwhile, he spent nights at Tanna’s Santa Monica home, said the insider, and even escorted her to the Project Save Our Surf gala last April and the premiere of her film ‘Irene in Time’ last June.

But in late 2009, Wyle started dating a stage actress, said the source.

“Noah visited his new flame in New York while she was doing a Broadway play, and they’ve hooked up in Los Angeles numerous times,” the source revealed.

The news hit Tanna “like a ton of bricks,” said the insider. “She tried desperately to reach Noah recently, but all she got was a text saying he was with family and trying to deal with the end of his marriage.”

Now Wyle and Tracy, 42, are working out the details of their split.

“They’re living in separate homes near each other in the santa Barbara area so they can each have quality time with the kids,” said the source. “They’ve been meeting with a mediator to talk about dividing up property and custody arrangements.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, February 8, 2010]

I have three scenarios for this Enquirer report: first scenario is that this is all bullsh-t. Second scenario: it’s all true, and Noah is a major a-hole, and none of us every realized it – something akin to The Tiger Woods Syndrome. Third scenario: parts of this are true, but there are other pieces missing. Like, I could conceivably buy that Noah Wyle cheated on his wife with a costar, and they had an affair for a while. I could also buy his wife confronting the mistress. What I don’t buy is this whole “we’ll stay together for the kids” thing which Wyle seems to have (allegedly) used as an excuse to act like a single guy. I think there’s a possibility Noah and Tracy have been quietly separated for a year, and he’s been dating multiple women. That makes some kind of sense, doesn’t it?

Oh, and to add extra evidence to the Enquirer’s story, check out this photo of Noah and Tanna from June 11, 2009. I’m sorry, but you don’t pose for photos like that with a married man. That’s trashy.