Anything you can do! Tess Crosley strips down to a bikini on the Gold Coast after Jules Neale’s hot ‘revenge body’ post… as fallout from her affair with Lachie takes a wild twist

Nearly a month after Jules Neale set tongues wagging with her pointed ‘revenge bikini body’ post, Tess Crosley has made her own move.

Tess – the former Mormon missionary at the centre of Jules’ very public split from AFL star husband Lachie late last year – proved that ‘anything you can do, I can do better’ as she flaunted her figure in a tiny two-piece during a beach outing on the Gold Coast on Wednesday.

The brunette, 30, was all smiles as she threw off her towel to reveal her figure in the brown bikini, which featured a balconette-style top and G-string bottoms. 

Wearing a full face of makeup and a half-up hairdo, Tess completed her look with a pair of sunglasses, gold earrings and a ring worn on her right middle finger.

Her wedding finger was notably bare – despite speculation she and husband Ben are working through their recent marital woes following her alleged affair with the former Brisbane Lions captain.

It also comes as Ben, an investment company director, was spotted liking Lachie’s latest post on Instagram – a puzzling move given it’s alleged the midfielder had a months-long fling with his wife that only ended when the two were caught in a compromising position in a car.

During the sun-soaked outing, a beaming Tess was seen frolicking on the sand before wading into the water to cool down. 

Some time later, she dried off and threw on a pair of breezy white pants, before stopping by a takeaway where she bought a cold drink and an ice block. 

The sighting came just weeks after Tess’ former bestie Jules showed her estranged husband Lachie what he was missing by sharing a series of red-hot bikini snaps that were hailed by fans as the ultimate ‘revenge’. 

In the photos, the former hairdresser – who is now back living in Perth with her two children after her marriage collapsed – posed for a mirror selfie in a blue and black polka-dot two-piece. 

She also wore a brown cowboy hat in a possible nod to similar headwear worn by Tess in an Instagram post she’d shared on Boxing Day, at the height of the scandal.

Other photos in the carousel showed Jules relaxing in a spa as well as enjoying drinks with a girlfriend.

The blonde also seemingly took a swipe at Lachie with her choice of background music: the Taylor Swift song Father Figure.

‘You want a fight, you found it / I got the place surrounded / You’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re drowning’ are the lyrics of the song. 

‘Who covered up your scandals? / Mistake my kindness for weakness and find your card cancelled.

‘Leave it with me, I protect the family.’ 

Tess’ beach outing came a day after Daily Mail pictured her outside her marital home in Camp Hill, 6.5km east of Brisbane’s CBD, on Tuesday.

The sighting was surprising given that her husband Ben had told the Mail on January 18 that ‘she does not live here anymore’ when we knocked on their door seeking clarification on the state of their marriage.

Tellingly, this week, Ben’s Facebook account still listed him as ‘married to Tess Crosley’.

His public Instagram account also still features many photos of the couple, including their wedding pictures from when they tied the knot at Summergrove Estate. 

While questions linger over whether the Crosleys’ marriage is still intact – and we note that Tess is not wearing a wedding ring – Mormon doctrine holds marriage as eternal and strongly encourages repentance and forgiveness in the wake of infidelity.

As Jules and Lachie navigate the divorce process, it remains entirely possible that the other couple in this sorry saga are trying to mend bridges.

Plus, the fact Ben appears to have liked Lachie’s most recent Instagram post only strengthens the possibility that he is of a forgiving mind.

And in another compelling twist, earlier this week, Tess shared a cryptic Instagram post hinting ‘there is always another story, there is more than meets the eye’. 

The alleged cheating saga emerged back in December after Jules publicly claimed that she had been ‘betrayed in the most unimaginable way’. 

Lachie later announced at a January 2 press conference that he and his wife were separating, adding that he would also be stepping down as the Lions’ captain.

Tess had been one of Jules’ best friends before her alleged affair with Lachie last year. The Neales and the Crosleys were close too, often socialising together.

The first sign of trouble in paradise came on Friday, December 19, when Jules took to Instagram to refute a Herald Sun story suggesting she and Lachie were ‘working through’ unspecified marital issues. 

‘I want to make it very clear that I am not ‘working through’ anything,’ she wrote on her public profile. ‘I have been betrayed in the most unimaginable way.’

She would later hit out at Tess in a now-deleted Instagram comment, demanding the brunette take down photos of her and Ben celebrating Brisbane’s AFL premiership victory alongside Lachie and Jules.

‘Take these down, you idiot, you’re embarrassing yourself,’ Jules wrote, all but confirming Tess was the other woman.

Lachie eventually came clean on January 2, telling reporters he had ‘let [his] family down’ while refusing to confirm or deny cheating on his wife with her best friend. 

This week, Lachie broke his silence on social media as he jetted to Western Australia to spend time with his son Freddie and daughter Piper, who attended her first day at kindergarten.

Jules had weeks earlier moved back to Western Australia with the couple’s children for a fresh start after the abrupt end of her marriage.

She and Lachie are in the process of selling their $2.43million Seven Hills home in Brisbane – just minutes from the Crosleys’ place in Camp Hill.

Lachie has since moved into his own apartment in the city.

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