Ex-England footballer Jermain Defoe and his estranged wife have ‘no record of marriage’ between them
He split from his wife just months after their £200,000 wedding, according to reports.
But now, it has been reported that there is no marriage record between former England footballer Jermain Defoe and his wife Donna, both in their 40s.
The couple married in a lavish £200,000 wedding in the summer of 2022, but there is no record of them being legally married at the country house.
Suspect: Former England footballer Jermain Defoe and his estranged wife, both 40, have sparked confusion as there is “no record of marriage” between them
According to Sunthere is no record of a marriage in Glasgow, where they lived at the time on June 4 of last year.
Explaining the ‘mystery’ surrounding their wedding, a source told the publication: ‘It’s all a mystery. They did not allow the magazine to have their reporter and photographer at the wedding at Cliveden House.
“No one knows they got married and there were no pictures in the magazine of anyone marrying them,” they continued.
The former Spurs and West Ham star spent Christmas on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia while his wife Donna stayed home in Glasgow.
Love story: On June 4, Jermain married Donna, 40 (pictured), in a £200,000 ceremony at Cliveden House stately home, Berkshire
Defoe has recently been photographed without his wedding ring, while Donna has gone back to using her maiden name of Tierney online.
She has also unfollowed her husband on social media and neither has posted about the other for more than eight weeks.
Both have deleted photos on Instagram of the OK!
Cover of the magazine that starred in their wedding last June.
The Sun on Sunday revealed that Defoe had begged a nurse for sex just a month after they were married.
said a source Sun said: ‘The marriage seems to be in trouble. You’d think they’d want to spend their first Christmas together as husband and wife, but they haven’t, so things aren’t looking good.
For almost two months there has been a remarkable silence.
Mr Defoe has only posted photos of himself without his wedding ring and no mention of his wife.
His wife Donna has gone back to using her maiden name of Tierney on social media.
Defoe has only posted photos of himself without his wedding ring and no mention of his wife.
Donna has only posted photos of herself and her family and wished her 8,000 followers ‘all the love and happiness in the world’, under a photo of her 12-year-old daughter unwrapping Christmas presents.
Donna suggested in an Instagram Story that she was glad to see the back of 2022 and was “looking forward” to the New Year.
The Mail Online has contacted Mr Defoe’s agent for comment.
Last year, Defoe was said to have contacted a woman via Instagram and invited her to join him in his Range Rover just weeks after their June nuptials, though Defoe denied any wrongdoing at the time.
According to The Sun, the youth academy coach began contacting the nurse, a 40-year-old mother, in July, after they had married the previous month.
On June 4, Jermain married Donna at Cliveden House stately home in Berkshire.
He said OKAY! magazine: ‘This is my future, this is forever, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with.’
On June 21, she posted online: ‘Dedicating my entire life to Donna Defoe was one of the easiest things I’ve ever done, and I can’t wait to have a life of pure love and happiness.
“Our wedding was like a movie and I thank God for blessing us both with such a special day with family and friends who mean the world to us.”
But by July 14, Jermain had allegedly already started messaging another woman and then tried to set up a meeting.
The Sun said the woman, who was not named, met the footballer years ago in a bar, but they had not spoken for a long time.
Looking back: The Sun reported that the youth academy coach began contacting the nurse, a 40-year-old mother, in July last year, having married the previous month.
She said: ‘He then started messaging me on Instagram in July. He was desperate to meet me and we flirted a lot.
“Then, when I realized that he was married, I didn’t want to go any further.”
The woman said she didn’t think it would have been fair to his wife and questioned why he would be looking for another woman “so soon” after their wedding.
In July, he began messaging the woman, eventually asking her to meet up for some fun in his Range Rover, calling her “baby” in voice memos.
She added: “Our messages were kind of funny at the time, but there was no point in continuing.”
Jermain first met his wife Donna by liking her photos on social media.
They met in person in January 2021 at a charity, where she asked him for a signed shirt.
Just seven months later, he proposed to her in a Glasgow hotel and decorated her room with heart-shaped balloons and rose petals reading “marry me.”
Beauty therapist Donna told OK! magazine about how friends of hers said how obvious it was that Defoe appreciated her through his ‘special’ wedding speech.
Jermain has previously found himself at the center of cheating rumors, including about his ex Alexandra Burke.
In 2017, he was charged with causing the breakdown of the marriage of radio host Ben Weston, months after he bought his wife, the saleswoman Sally, a jacuzzi.