I used to cover Cheryl Tweedy/Cole/Fernandez-Versini back when everyone called her Cheryl Cole. I started paying attention to her at the tail-end of her famously tumultuous marriage to footballer Ashley Cole circa 2008-2011. Ashley cheated on her, frequently from what I remember. He would cheat, they would split up, they eventually got back together. Then they split for good. Then Simon Cowell really tried to make Cheryl happen in America… only to have the experiment blow up in his face. He eventually fired her off of the American X-Factor, and Cheryl went back to the UK, where she quickly re-established her career as a reality show judge, celebrity personality/model and “local celebrity.”
Then in May 2014, she met a French dude named Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini. Two months later, they eloped. Because some women are just like that: dumb in love. And instead of realizing that she’s kind of dumb in love and that she shouldn’t make any rash decisions about her branding, Cheryl decided to drop her married name, Cole, for Fernandez-Versini. That’s when I tapped out – it was difficult enough to care about Cheryl when she was Cheryl Cole, but her latest married name made it impossible. She changed everything over to her married name and every media outlet was forced to use the total mouthful “Cheryl Fernandez-Versini.” Well, a year and a half later and it’s done. Shock of all shocks, Cheryl now thinks she got married too quickly. Ya think?
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini is ‘divorcing’ her second husband Jean-Bernard after just 18 months of marriage. According to The Sunday Mirror, the 32-year-old singer has cited ‘irreconcilable differences’ as the reason for the split, which allegedly happened in August.
A source told the newspaper: ‘In the end Cheryl realised she had married too soon and had been swept away by a bit of a whirlwind romance. Over time it became clear to each of them that they were very different people and from very different worlds. They are now focusing on making sure they stay friends. The divorce is amicable and they have both said they will always be there for each other.’
According to The Sun on Sunday, The X Factor judge has ‘already begun formal legal proceedings’ in a bid to get a ‘quickie’ divorce from the restaurateur.
Dear celebrity women: this is why you don’t change your professional name when you get married. That’s the lesson here. If you want to elope with some dude-face you just met, God bless and I hope you have great lawyers. But don’t change your name, because A) you’ll look like an idiot when they whole thing falls apart in a year and B) the name that made you famous is part of your branding as a celebrity. That’s why, after all of these years, so many people still call the Duchess of Cambridge “Kate Middleton.” No one is trying to be rude, it’s just that she was famous for ten years with her maiden name and it became part of her (“normal”) brand. My advice to Cheryl would be to just go back to her maiden name and stay there, regardless of whether or not she ever remarries.
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He looks like Russell Brand a little, in the face.
Brand / Theo James lovechild
Oh, this is spot on!
YES.
He actually looks exactly like Cheryl’s mother, which I find quite weird.
LOL! Hey, how’d that happen?
She looks good in the first picture and her dress is cute. He looks like a sweaty creepy stalker, standing behind her like that.
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
Also, a dude you met at the Cannes Film Festival??!!!
Honey, cool it down for at least a year before running off with a person you met at the Cannes Film Festival who isn’t there specifically for the film industry, but to service or party the festival. They tend to be shady in the extreme.
Never saw this coming said no one ever. She is famous for having sh!t taste in men and this one was no different. I remember at the time he was labelled a party boy/hanger on and the stories of his wealth were greatly exaggerated. Marrying someone who doesn’t speak great English isn’t exactly the best start to a marriage, how can you communicate? By most accounts she didn’t make much of an effort to learn French and the same for him with English. I think she married him because he seemed exotic (double-barrel name) and he married her cause she was a celebrity.
Am sure the divorce will happen quickly and hopefully he doesn’t take her to the cleaners as there is no prenup. Maybe she will learn to date someone for a long time before getting married but Cheryl is rather a silly woman.
Gary Lineker is suddenly available. Perhaps they’ll gravitate to each other.
@Betti, thank you for the very big laugh I got from your comment this morning, a wonderful way to start the day. To say that Cheryl How’syafather is “rather a silly woman” is probably the understatement of the millennium, as Simon Cowell found out to his eternal shame. If she did get together with Gary Lineker (ha, ha), he would be able to say she was all that, and a bag of chips!
Thank you thank you, I’m here all week. LOL
Hahaha at the Gary L comment but she does like her footballers. Wasn’t she also getting is on with Simon Cowell at some point and thats the only reason why she got the American X Factor gig? We know he was shagging Dannii Minogue – Sharon O outed them.
But why did Simon fire her? What did she do?
Sorry, but I stopped watching AI after the first couple seasons. I couldn’t hack talentless dweebs who can’t sing to save themselves actually coaching young people on how to sing better. The irony was too much to handle.
@Jennifer – it was because test audiences during the first few rounds of auditions didn’t take to her. They didn’t know who she was and the couldn’t understand a word she said. It was said she was taking elocution lessons but they clearly weren’t working plus there were reports that she wasn’t willing to shill the show and promote herself, she even later on admitted she would stay in her hotel mopping about missing her family. It was rumoured that Simon was pissed with her for effing up the golden opportunity to crack the US market that he handed her on a plate. Her ego couldn’t handle that she was a nobody in the US.
What Betti Said.
Nevermind Simon, *i* was pissed at her for messing up the golden opportunity she was handed. She wouldn’t work withe PR company, turned down all invitations to events and basically acted like she was too big a star to shill the show or herself.
She even turned down the American-centric stylists appointed for her and when she turned up with her own idea of clothing that works in America and leonine hair, the Americans were rightly puzzled and she was laughed out of town. She was also terrible at the elocution lessons, but she publicly said that anyone who didn’t understand her accent was being classist.
Eventually Simon gave up on her. You can’t force a horse to drink even if you give it as much assistance as possible and talk it up to all who will listen.
Then she had the nerve to ran back to Britain and claim that it was all Simon’s fault for not supporting her enough……honestly!!!
Short of physically tying her to himself, it’s ridiculous to suggest that he didn’t help her out or that it was his fault.
The entire episode was infuriating.
There’s actually never been any explanation as to why she was sacked, despite what these two say above. The episodes where Cheryl did sit on the panel were actually received quite warmly by audiences and critics alike, who found her exotic, interesting, and cute. The fact that she was replaced by Nicole Scherzinger, who was positively reviled as a judge that season, also made the whole situation more curious.
@Grant – Simon has given an official reason for her sacking and he said something along the lines of that she had lost her confidence (she had not long divorced her twatty first husband) but at the time the stories that LAK and I mention above were rampant and quite a few of them have even been confirmed by Cheryl herself. She admitted that the purple outfit with the big hair was a mistake and that she didn’t want to go out to these parties with people she didn’t know so preferred to sit in her hotel room drinking tea, eating biscuits and being miserable. Its well known in the UK entertainment industry she’s a nightmare to work with due to a massive ego. I remember when the US Xfactor was announced and she basically slagged off the UK music industry, which gave this no talent ho her career. She accusing Simon of not supporting her and letting her down, what about her letting him down with the ungrateful divatude. She was given a door into the US on a plate wrapped in a bow and blew it. She had no one but herself to blame.
Ha! Reminds me of reading Kickette back in the day. Good times.
I miss Kickette, sigh. I wonder what they would say about this (and what happened to some of their favorites).
If Cheryl goes back to her maiden name(Tweedy) every time someone googles her name, they will be brought to news reports of a racist attack she committed in a club toilet before she became cheryl cole. It also brings the searcher to old pictures of cheryl before she got veneers. I think she will try and brand as Cheryl or go back to Cole.
She won’t go back to Tweedy – she’s been running away from her working class roots and Girls Aloud for several years now. I think she’ll got back to using Cole or just stick with the V-F surname until she gets married again.
it would make no sense for her to go back to Cole, she has nothing to do with him anymore.
I’ve heard rumours of her being an awful person, but I didn’t know she’s this bad.
Her new name will be Cheryl Colenandez Tweedini.
Also.. her husband looks A LOT like her mother.
Creepy.
I never noticed that! spot on paolanqar, that is very creepy.
You’re right. I googled her by Tweedy and old pics came up in images of her with her original teeth. Not horrible, just different. I kind of like her old smile better – less Hollywood “stepford”.
Now a days you see people who were married for 20 years getting a divorce. You just never know. It’s hard to say if a woman would want to keep her ex-husband’s last name, especially if he was horrible to her. Hey how about us women just keep our maiden names. After all, it’s not like we become our husband’s property after marriage.
Oh Dear and she hyphenated!! LMMFAO!! girl!!!
Blind Gossip recently ran a tidbit that was obviously meant to be Cheryl, referring to two fake marriages and her girlfriend. Were the lesbian rumors ever debunked?
IMO, I think it’s virtually impossible for a celebrity to shake off a gay rumor unless the celebrity has a leaked sex tape or a child with a partner who acknowledges the kid.
Never heard any gay rumours about her – there are rumours that she’s a bit of a nightmare to work with, very up herself who bought into her own hype. She was particularly up herself during her first stint on the British X Factor, thou she had to eat some humble pie after she was dumped by the US X Factor. At the time she famously said she was glad to be leaving the UK behind, she quickly came running back with her tail between her legs.
she is cute as a bug – why did Simon give her the boot?
marriage did NOT agree w/ her…
she’s adorable w/ a bit more weight in her happy dimple cheeks.
(and speaking of cheeks – girl’s tattoo is CRAZY!)
Yeahhhhh. Really not great! http://us.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2013022211290/cheryl-cole-reveals-new-tattoo/
Anyone remember when she got seriously ill? A little more weight and no makeup and she’s beautiful! I have been hearing about this chick for a while, didn’t realize it was Cheryl cole. She’s interchangeable with all the other brunettes with a gallon of makeup.
That looks like a coke fiend if I ever saw one. I’m guessing irreconcilable differences has something to do with an addiction problem.
Thank you for that fine scientific analysis. You’re a regular Nancy Drew!
confident she is closeted.
Ya think
Maybe it’s just the way he photographs, but he always gave off a sketchy vibe to me.
Aaaand there’s no prenup!!!
I bet she will also regret that huge butt rose tattoo too.
I’m betting that would require her to be able to think beyond the next five minutes, and I would also surmise that that requirement would be next to impossible for this particular person. The rose arse was a gigantic portion of bad taste.
This and that tattoo on her ass prove she’s dimwit
She proves she’s a dimwit every time she opens her mouth without a script. It’s positively painful. Very lucky for her she’s uncommonly pretty!
Was she EVER famous as “Cheryl Tweedy” though?