Archive for February, 2009

Mickey Rourke finally got his career back on track with his movie ‘The Wrestler’, where he was nominated for an Oscar for best actor at the Academy Awards last weekend. The film was billed as a return to form for Rourke, who had been absent from the movie world for the best part of a decade. The reason for his absence, and descent into drink, was his divorce from wife Carre Otis

Rourke divorced his wife in 1998, after a turbulent 6-year marriage where he was at one point arrested for abusing his wife.

Rourke says it took him until now to get over his divorce.

I still love her. I love her in a different way but I waited for her for eight years (after the divorce) for her to come back. I’ve moved on now. It’s the first time I’ve been able to say that and mean it.

Clive Bellmore

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A man tricked his Thai bride into getting divorced, and is now being hounded by her. Graeme Shore met his Thai bride, Nongyao Yaiprab, in 1995 and brought her back to the UK, marrying her in 1997. Despite living in the UK for over ten years, Nongyao failed to learn the language and didn’t settle. Mr Shore then sent her on a holiday back to Thailand, on her own, before tricking her into signing divorce papers that she couldn’t read.

Paul Masters, the divorce lawyer for Nongyao Yaiprab, stated:

At some point, he told her she looked rather tired and needed a holiday. She agreed that this was a good idea, expecting that they would go together somewhere. Instead, she was given one ticket.

When she came back from Thailand she was met by Shore’s parents, who gave her a document to sign before she could meet her husband.

It was in English and she could not understand what it said. Mr Shore’s parents just told her to sign it, and she did so that she could return to her husband.

Later she discovered her signature had finalised her divorce.

Since the divorce, Nongyao Yaiprab has hounded her ex husband with letters, parcels and phone calls. However he has now met and married someone else, also a Thai bride.

Clive Bellmore

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We all know that divorce is bad for our bank balance, but did you know that divorce is also bad for the planet? No, we don’t mean in a bad Karma sort of way, the truth is that divorced men tend to be more wasteful than married men when it comes to their carbon footprint, at least according to Australian senator Steve Fielding.

Fielding argues that men who get divorced are more wasteful with resources, as they consume more electric, food and of course a second property, than they would if they lived with their wife.

Personally I found that I used far less resources when I got divorced, as I didn’t leave the heating and the lights on, I didn’t buy as much milk and I didn’t drive into town for no reason whatsoever, other than to just ‘look around’.

Clive Bellmore

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We all know that divorce can be costly, especially when there are children involved. If you have kids and you get divorced, your wife could take up to 60% of your wealth.

However, according to a survey conducted on the website OnePoll.com, cheating actually works out more expensive than getting a divorce. The website conducted a survey of 2,000 cheats (how’d they manage to find them and get them to own up?) and fond that they mostly agreed that affairs are very expensive.

For example, cheaters were spending almost £2,000 per year on romantic (yet sordid) weekends away with their part time partner, £1,000 on dinners out and another £1,000 chocolates and flowers.

Incredibly, even 10% of guys who cheat spend money on flowers for their wife on the way home because they feel guilty.

Had any flowers lately ladies?

Clive Bellmore

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If you’re going through a divorce you may wonder where it all went wrong. What exactly happened to cause you and your soon to be ex to drift apart? Often the problem lies with the fact that you’re just two very different people and your personalities don’t mix, quite the opposite in fact, they clash. If you’ve found yourself arguing with your spouse all too regularly, the chances are that you probably should get divorced, if anything for the sanity and health of you both.

It doesn’t always follow though that couples grow apart and end up resenting and arguing with each other, sometimes the relationship is stormy from the outset, and you wonder why you ever got married at all.

My ex-wife for example would rant and rave before we even lived together, blowing up over the smallest thing. Once she grabbed the handbrake of the car I was driving because she didn’t like the way I was driving, causing the car to stop abruptly at a roundabout. This led to an argument which lasted until we got home, and she launched her Nokia 6500 Slide to the floor, shattering the phone on the pavement outside the house.

It’s possible I should have known from that, and other instances like it, that I shouldn’t have married her in the first place.

Clive Bellmore

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In case you weren’t sure, or if you actually care (some people do) Amy Winehouse IS getting divorced from her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. This doesn’t quite come from the horse’s mouth, more from the horse’s mother’s mouth.

We’re not calling Amy a horse though!

Amy’s mum, Janis, says that even though Amy did want to save their marriage, the fact that Blake his trying to get his hands on half of her reported £15 million fortune has opened her eyes to the fact that she needs to get rid.

Janis states:

The divorce proceedings are still going ahead. Her dad Mitch deals with that side of things.

As for the money, I don’t know what is happening with regards to Blake. All I know is that we have always looked after her finances.

We have a company where all of Amy’s money goes. We’re a family and we make sure we look after one another.

Clive Bellmore

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The Department of Health conducted a poll to discover what causes distress to teenaged children in their lives, and one of the main worries among children was the possibility of their parents divorcing. Actually, 17% were concerned about the breakup of their parents, which does seem quite low, considering the number of marriages that end in divorce. Unless of course many of those who took part in the poll were either already from broken homes, or they just weren’t concerned about the prospect.

Another worry for teenage children is their parent’s health, and the fact that they can’t quit smoking. 46% of children are worried about the health of their parents who smoke.

37% of those polled were concerned about financial matters, with the country being in recession and job prospects being bleak, and 29% were worried about the old school problem of bullying.

Clive Bellmore

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OK, so the lyric is actually ‘wash that man right out of my hair’, but let’s face it, sometimes we guys need to clean women out too. When you’ve been in a marriage for a long time, living in each other’s pockets and occupying the same space, when you eventually get divorced and you’re the one still living in the same house, everything reminds you of your ex-wife.

The pictures on the wall, the cutlery she picked out, the bedding, even the stain on the carpet that was caused when you spilled wine one evening. The whole house is a living memory jogger of a time you’d rather put behind you. For this, you need to get some cleaning sorted. Clean the whole house from top to bottom, throw out anything that reminds you of her, scrub the floors, steam clean the carpets. You know the score.

If this sounds like too much hard work, or something you just can’t bring yourself to do, you could try getting a cleaner in to do it for you. You don’t have to be some decadent rich guy either, as cleaners aren’t that expensive, especially in the major cities (as there’s so much competition). Plus you don’t even need to hire a cleaner on a permanent basis as you can have a one off service to wash every trace of the ex-wife out of your home. One-off cleaning London services are easily found, and you can get a professional to remove evidence that you ever shared a home.

Clive Bellmore

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When you’re going through a divorce you can be forgiven for getting distracted in your work and making mistakes, however depending on your job, some mistakes can prove more costly than others.

For example, if you work in Tesco and you’re pricing up beans, mistakes caused by the stress of divorce can cost a few pence. If you’re a major film director and you’re working on a multi-million dollar movie, mistakes can cost you (or your producer) millions.

Guy Ritchie has made one such mistake on his new film about Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. He has been ordered by studio execs to reshoot scenes of his movie, despite wrapping up, because they felt the scenes were too unrealistic. The Sun newspaper has put this mistake down to the stress of the divorce from Madonna.

Clive Bellmore

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A Muslim man has been accused of cutting his wife’s head off after she filed for divorce. Aasiya Hassan filed for divorce from her husband, forty-four-year-old Muzzammil Hassan, alleging that he subjected her to domestic violence.

Muzzammil Hassan is the boss of a TV network in the UK, and his wife’s body was found headless at the TV station. The couple worked together at the TV station, a popular Muslim channel in New York State.

Mrs Hassan’s divorce lawyer explained that violence had prompted her to file for divorce. The TV station also released a statement that it was:

Deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Aasiya (Zubair) Hassan and subsequent arrest of Muzzammil Hassan.

The couple had two young children together.

Clive Bellmore

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