Thursday January 31, 2013 at 9:00am
Katie Price got married again last week. Is this even news any more? I have not mentioned celebrity marriages for some time, which shows either unusual restraint on my part or simply reflects the fact that there are perhaps signs that the public is falling out of love with C-lister nuptials.
For a while there, you could not open a tabloid or look at the Mail online without having to plough through several images of overblown wedding ceremonies for those in the public eye before you got any real....
Thursday August 9, 2012 at 9:00am
It seems like the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes divorce publicity blaze burned very brightly and then was suddenly gone. Just over a week after the divorce papers were filed, the couple reportedly reached and signed a settlement. The disappointed media have sloped off looking for the next celebrity relationship to explode.
So is that the entire process done? Are they now divorced and ready to start their new lives free from the acrimony common to divorce cases? Do they really get a “quicki....
Monday July 16, 2012 at 9:00am
It was sad to hear the news that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are to divorce. And it was said their six-year-old daughter would be at the centre of the legal battle. Great news therefore to learn they have come to an agreement already - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reach divorce settlement.
Too often we see children in divorce being used as pawns with which parents try to score points off each other. However, this case is a little different if you believe half of the reports goin....
Monday August 8, 2011 at 9:30am
She was one of the original supermodels and famously uttered the oft-quoted line: “I don’t get out of bed for less than £10,000.” She still cuts a stunning figure with looks that many women would die for. But at 46, Linda Evangelista has gone down in my estimation this week. Considerably. I’m sure it won’t bother her but anyone who can still command vast sums for appearances and modelling does not need to argue in court that she needs £28,000 a month fro....
Monday July 18, 2011 at 10:00am
Katie Price appears to have made it very clear that she will not marry again. This revelation came on the same day as other reports which suggested she would wed Argentine lover Leandro Penna “at some point”. Not so clear then. I am less worried about clarity on her love life and future intentions though as I am with her not wanting to get married again “because it is too expensive”. I take it she is not just referring to the cost of extravagant receptions grand enough to....
Thursday June 2, 2011 at 10:00am
A warning for over-enthusiastic divorce lawyers this week. Please read slowly and carefully because it’s difficult to keep up with the twists and turns on this one.
In what was billed as a test case, celebrity chef Marco Pierre-White has won a (very) public apology from his wife’s divorce lawyers. The couple are still married after rekindling their romance last Christmas following three years of bitter feuding in the divorce courts.
The multi-millionaire chef decided to sue his w....
Tuesday February 8, 2011 at 10:00am
I find myself in the difficult position of being positive about a piece of coverage in the news about Katie Price and Alex Reid’s divorce. Well, perhaps it’s not so much the coverage. As I may have hinted at in the past, I would be quite happy if the glamour model formerly known as Jordan was never pictured in the paper again, either with our without one of her estranged partners. It was more the message that came through from a clutch of stories last week that I thought highligh....
Tuesday January 25, 2011 at 10:00am
I can’t help wondering if there was more to the now former Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson stepping down than meets the eye. The official reason was the classic “personal reasons” and to spend more time with his family at a difficult time. Rumours abound as I write this that it has to do with his wife Laura allegedly having a relationship with a police protection officer assigned to her and her high profile husband. Scotland Yard’s standards watchdog is looking into this....
Monday November 15, 2010 at 1:28pm
Regular readers of this Blog will by now know that I tend to get quite worked up about celebrity divorce and also the phrase "quickie divorce". When they are together that is almost too much for me!
Celebrity divorce annoys me mainly due to its constant presence in the media and the fact that it is so easy for a belief to grow up that the legal aspects of such a financial settlement are relevant to the lives of the rest of us--they are not. It is just a question of exactly how many &p....
Wednesday October 27, 2010 at 2:39pm
Comedy stars Dawn French and Lenny Henry have been granted a divorce on the grounds of his "unreasonable behaviour", various media outlets have reported this week. Of course, all stories I have seen talk about the mythical “quickie” divorce as usual. I don’t think anyone wants to listen when we tell them that it simply doesn’t exist. Is there another way we can manage this message? Instead of fighting to get all people to use the right terminology, should we ins....
Friday October 22, 2010 at 4:16pm
A landmark ruling this week gave pre-nuptial agreements a vote of confidence. While the agreements, drawn up by couples before marriage to set out how their assets will be divided if they should divorce, are not strictly enforceable in law, they are taken seriously by courts when a settlement is being discussed.
Their validity was thrown into doubt when French banker Nicolas Granatinio went to the High Court to overturn a pre-nuptial agreement he had signed with heiress Katrin Radmacher ....
Monday October 11, 2010 at 12:11pm
I took a test this week and found it asked some tough questions of me. This was not an academic test. I’ve had enough of those in my life and thankfully I can say that the bulk of those are well behind me now. Now I think about it, test is too strong a word. It was just a simple assessment of the way I deal with things. Here’s a taste: • Do you have a tendency to criticise others? • Do you keep things bottled up and then eventually explode at tiny irritation? • Do you ....
Wednesday October 6, 2010 at 9:20pm
I listened with interest to a debate on You and Yours on Radio 4 on Tuesday about divorce and separation. The wide-ranging item ably covered a full deck of topics, from children's rights and a review of the current guidelines by Sir Nicholas Wall, to collaborative law and mediation. It is rare for a subject so obviously close to my heart to get so much air time so I have to give a hearty thanks to Radio 4 for highlighting such a swathe of issues. It was obviously promoted by comments made ....
Monday October 4, 2010 at 9:05am
I hoped beyond hope it had now died away the remainder of the wrangling over the high-profile divorce of Katie Price and Peter Andre would be settled with dignity behind closed doors. However, I read in reports today that the estranged couple will face each other in court this week when details of their marriage and reasons behind the split will be laid bare. Each has lined up friends and family members as witnesses to back their cases. In a writ, Andre claims damages for comments made in a maga....
Tuesday September 14, 2010 at 3:54pm
When I first read this article it did strike me more as the sort of thing you would see as a storyline on Desperate Housewives as much as a real-life report. A scorned wife successfully sues their husband’s mistress for £3.75 million. In the United States of course. But then, when you think of it, in this day and age, it is perhaps surprising that it caught my eye as being something unusual. Hardly anything surprises us these days. Children divorcing parents, football stars scoring w....
Wednesday September 8, 2010 at 3:27pm
Another high-profile couple break-up, another deluge of incorrect headlines about quickie divorce. I’ve said it before many times so I am not going to labour the point here about Cheryl and Ashley Cole but there is no such thing. Celebrities have to wait the same time as everyone else etc etc. How do we educate the media on this important family law issue? Would it change anything if we did spell it out and they did listen? I doubt it. “Quickie divorce” is a snappy headli....
Tuesday August 31, 2010 at 4:21pm
I’d like to think that the announcement last week that Tiger Woods and estranged wife Elin Nordegren have divorced would bring to an end the carnival that has surrounded the pair ever since the bizarre incident that saw him crash his car outside their home in November last year. I fear it won’t though and the whole sorry episode, in my opinion, has been a disaster, not just for the couple, but also for the image of pre-nuptial agreements. A joint statement confirmed the divorce has b....
Friday July 30, 2010 at 2:54pm
I’m a big fan of the Vicar of Dibley. Shame they’re not making any new ones now. Funny, gentle, inoffensive – bit like the impression I have of its writer and star Dawn French, though I have never met her. Over the years, I have also liked a lot of what Lenny Henry has done – though I think perhaps he peaked too early with Tiswas in the late 1970s. For years, these two modern-day pillars of British comedy were pillars of a modern-day family – married, apparently hap....
Tuesday March 9, 2010 at 4:02pm
I’ve done my best to keep my own counsel about celebrity divorce recently. It has been a struggle. As regular readers of this blog will know, in the past, I have had a bit to say about the cult of celebrity, the column inches dedicated to it and the myths perpetuated in newspapers about so called “quickie” divorces which appear to be the preserve of celebrities and are, in actual fact, nonsense. As I said, I have done my best to turn over a new leaf and live and let live. ....