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Celebrity marriages, in wildly varying states of repair, feature in all the women's mags.
For the four-point-something million of us who didn't get invited to All Black Doug Howlett's wedding, this week's New Idea has all the details.
Doug looks dashing, and Monique Everard, his 25-year-old bride, is as pretty as a picture. The wedding came as the couple prepared to leave for Irish rugby club Munster, and thus doubled as a going-away party.
But as one high-profile marriage begins, over at the New Zealand Woman's Weekly it looks as if another celebrity marriage is on the rocks.
Jonah Lomu's refusal to give up his dreams of once again playing rep rugby is being cited as the reason for the collapse of the star winger's second marriage. Friends say Jonah told wife of four years Fiona their marriage was over because of her refusal to support him in his bid to find a new rugby contract. Word is Fiona, who stood by him as he underwent a life-saving kidney transplant, is concerned he will do himself "serious damage" if he ever plays again.
Also worth a look is the Weekly's graphic tale of talkshow host Oprah Winfrey's out-of-control eating.
In the space of 48 hours, Oprah, who is said to be nudging 100kg, consumed a mind-boggling 10,700 calories, reportedly feasting on fried alligator, hotdogs and ravioli. And that's not all.
Sources say the queen of daytime telly also dispatched cheese omelettes, sausages, fried potatoes and chocolate cake.
With that kind of calorific intake, it is a wonder she doesn't have smaller talkshow hosts orbiting her.
Woman's Day has an in-depth interview with disgraced former sportsman Brent Todd, who performs a post-mortem, of sorts, on his own failed marriage. He tells how his 11-year marriage to South African surfer Wendy Botha finally came unstuck when she was questioned by a journalist about Brent's involvement is a celebrity drug ring.
"She's very competitive, and so am I, and we had some amazing arguments."
Todd also talks candidly about the multimillion-dollar fraud that saw him cop a year's home detention.
