Friday 22 August 2008

What the Kiwi gossip mags say

It's a sad day as deuce high-profile couples - one from New Zealand, the other from Hollywood - pack their bags and depart for that alone city known as Splitsville.



A beaming Chris Cairns and his South African married woman Carin star on the cover of this week's edition of Woman's Weekly, but the "love catastrophe" headline gives the secret plan away.


The pair have broken up, and there's reportedly no chance for a reconciliation of the union that produced two sons, Thomas and Bram. It's just non cricket for the kids.


"It's a sad situation," agrees the former big-hitting Kiwi cricketer. "We separated hexad months ago."


Carin is reportedly heartbroken over the split, and has shifted back up to South Africa to be comforted by her mum on her family's lily farm. Never underestimate the healing qualities of a lily.


And Chris won't comment on rumours that a third party - an Australian girl in her 20s who met Chris when he was playing beach cricket sooner this year�- is byzantine in the break-up.


Those blasted Aussies. First they steal our bands, now they're stealing our men.


There ar more broken in heart string section over at New Idea as Jennifer Aniston gives notorious philanderer John Mayer the heave-ho. Was his body not a wonderland?


While Jen continues her sleeveless searching for Mr Right and wonders where it all went wrong, John is convalescent from the break-up exploitation a slightly differently method.


NI reports the singer consoled himself with a hot tub caper in Cabo with a naked alien. Life goes on as usual, then.


Don't worry, romantics - there's good famous person relationship tidings afoot: Kiwi supermodel Rachel Hunter is getting married.


Woman's Day reports�Rachel's boyfriend - 26-year-old iCE hockey actor Jarret Stoll - proposed during their New Zealand visit net week at boutique hotel Mollies, acquiring down on bended knee�with a mob worth $100,000.


Thanks to that ring,�Jarret's nickname has changed�from "toy boy" to "iCE man". That's $100,000 well exhausted, then.


Other stars who hit the headlines this week:


* This week's weirdest couple alert truly is unknown. Keanu Reeves has reportedly hooked up with Trinny Woodall, the British co-host of strike fashion show What Not To Wear. "Trinny met Keanu through a friend in London and they really clicked," a source tells WD. Perhaps she could begin a new show called, 'How Not To Act'.


* Tori Spelling has dropped out of the forthcoming Beverly Hills 90210 by-product show. The plastic surgery-loving star was set to reprise her role as Donna Martin until she discovered she was organism paid half as often as co-stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth. Those tummy tucks aren't chintzy, Tori. Are you certain you don't want to reconsider?


* In random Hollywood news this week, Nicollette Sheridan and Grace Jones need to wear more clothes, Gordon Ramsay looks like a lobster when he's sunburned, Hayden Panettiere is taller than Eva Longoria and Elton John needs to stop wear clown pants.


Finally, the quote of the week comes from George Clooney's ex Lisa Snowden, who claims the Ocean's Eleven star ruined her sex living: "I've been celibate for a year and I am starting to think I english hawthorn never give sex again."


Perhaps you could start up a reinforcement group, Lisa. There ar bound to be heap of George's ex's suffering the same fate.


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