Page 22 Daily Mail, Tuesday, August 13, 2019
THE NEWLYWEDS: Comedian
Russell Brand, then 34, and pop
star Katy Perry, then 24.
MARRIAGE MILESTONE:
14 months
HOOK UP: Met on the set of Get
Him To The Greek back in 2008,
during which Perry recalls: ‘My
scene called for me to make out
with him. [Afterwards] I was
hopping like a bunny. I hop like
a bunny when I’m happy.’
FANCY PROPOSAL? Brand
popped the question on New
Year’s Eve 2009 at a tiger
sanctuary in Rajasthan, India.
THE BIG DAY: A small but high-
security Hindu ceremony in
Rajasthan in October 2010. The
pair reportedly sat on ornate
thrones as a Hindu priest
performed the ceremony,which involved walking around
a sacred fire seven times while
reciting Sanskrit mantras.
MARITAL STRIFE: Busy schedules
were initially blamed. ‘The
marriage didn’t last for a very
long time, and I think that is to
do with the undulating nature
of fame,’ said Brand, who filed
for divorce but said he still felt
‘very warm towards’ Perry.
HE SAID: ‘I’m associated with
the very thing I detest: vapid
vacuous, plastic, constructed,
mindless celebrity. That’s the
very sea we’re swimming in.’ He
married Laura Gallacher in 2017.
SHE SAID: ‘Let’s just say I haven’t
heard from him since he texted
me saying he was divorcing me
December 31, 2011.’ Katy is now
engaged to Orlando Bloom.POP STAR KATY DUMPED BY TEXT
March
As Miley Cyrus splits after eight
months, why ARE so many stars
making a mockery of
their vows?
S
HE might have
thought she was
embarking on a
lifetime with the
man of her dreams
— but after just eight short
months, pop star Miley
Cyrus’s marriage is over.
A representative for the 26-year-
old, who married actor Liam
Hemsworth, 29, only last
December, announced at the
weekend they had split ‘while theyboth focus on themselves and
their careers’. No sooner was the
separation announced than Miley
was pictured in the arms of female
reality star Kaitlynn Carter, 31,
while holidaying in Italy.
Reckless? Actually, compared
with many of her fellow celebrities,
Miley’s relationship history is
eminently respectable.
These days it’s not unusual for
marriages of the rich and famous
to end before the ink is fully dry on
the marriage certificate — as
ANTONIA HOYLE reports...RENEE CLAIMED IT WAS ‘FRAUD’
a Stetson, she a strapless
ivory gown.
MARITAL STRIFE: Chesney
said the marriage collapsed
because he ‘panicked’ while
Renee cited ‘fraud’ after filing
for an annulment that
September. She later denied
her allegation was related to
rumours that Chesney was
gay, insisting ‘fraud’ was
‘simply legal language and not
a reflection of Kenny’s
character’. A joint statement
later released hardly
clarified matters: ‘The
miscommunication of the
objective of their marriage at
the start is the only reason for
this annulment. Renee and
Kenny value and respect each
other and are saddened that
their different objectives
prevent the success of
this marriage.’
HE SAID: ‘I still don’t have any
regrets. I mean... I loved her,
you know? And it was real.’
SHE SAID: That the marriage
was ‘the biggest personal
mistake of my life,’ and has
never remarried.THE NEWLYWEDS: Actress
Renee Zellweger, then 36, and
country singer Kenny Chesney,
then 37.
MARRIAGE MILESTONE:
128 days.
HOOK UP: At a charity
fundraiser in January 2005.
Shortly afterwards Zellweger
gave Chesney a kiss on stage
during one of his concerts
in Florida.
FANCY PROPOSAL? Chesney
says: ‘She wouldn’t let me.
She just told me to name a
town and place and she’d
be there.’
WEDDING:
A sunset
beach
ceremony
on May 9,
2005 on
Saint John
in the
U. S. Vi r g i n
Islands —
attended by
just 45
family and
friends.
He wore14
MONTHS
micro
of
the
marriage
128
DAYS
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