Yes, it is Varys, and I remember the parallel of having that evil sorcerer who cut him as a child, was also stored in a box, like Tyrion is.
Well, you do what you know.
What’s so big about being called a whore in this series? Shae called herself a whore. Little Finger is a whore procurer and he got to wed the regent in the vale. Sam put her sweetheart in a whorehouse, thinking she would be safe there.
Your explanation makes more sense, that it was vengeance for his first wife, who really did love him.
Yes and in the book Tywin keeps calling the wife a whore, but Tyrion knows now it is a lie. Tyrion tells him that if he uses that word one more time he will kill him. Then he asks Tywin where did my wife go? And Tywin says how do I know, wherever whores go... That’s when Tyrion kills him.
I think they do a great disservice most of the time when they try to rewrite what GRRM did in the first place, But then it’s always that way when you compare a book/ movie.