Aviva chief confesses to affair with colleague's wife - papers

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Aviva became the talk of the City yesterday after it emerged that its £2.2million-a-year chief executive was involved in an office love triangle.

According to the Daily Mail, Married father of four Andrew Moss, 51, admitted to a relationship with Deirdre Galvin, 45, a junior member of staff he had seconded to work directly for him. To complicate matters further, Miss Galvin is married to Aviva's head of human resources for Europe, Andrew Moffat, but has reverted to her maiden name since the affair. In turmoil over what the City has dubbed 'the Aviva triangle', the company - formerly Norwich Union - was forced to issue an extraordinary and embarrassing statement yesterday defending Mr Moss's reputation. Full story...

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