The quiet domesticity that Marvel fans long celebrated has been shattered by a whisper: the suggestion that actor Chris Evans may have been unfaithful to his wife, actress Alba Baptista, just weeks after the reported arrival of their first child. It is a story straight out of a Hollywood nightmare, where a private fairy tale is hijacked by the viral chaos of social media speculation.
Now, the actor known globally as Captain America has been forced onto the defensive, not against a supervillain, but against an anonymous claim originating from the deepest corners of the internet.
