Earlier this year, after Joe McElderry’s big X Factor win, I finally had to admit to myself that I liked Cheryl Cole. I can’t exactly pin down why. It’s most certainly not her L’Oreal commercials, or even her style. I just find her a bit fascinating in a very simple way.
But what I find even more fascinating is why she’s decided to stay with her scumball of a footballer husband, Ashley Cole.
He’s a trending topic in the UK on Twitter this morning, as not only has he broken his ankle, thus putting his World Cup dreams in question, but he’s also admitted to taking naked photos of himself that were “accidentally” sent to a glamour model named Sonia Wild. (Great name, by the way!)
Cole claims that while he did take those photos of himself while he was “joking around” when he was staying in an England hotel, he then “forgot to delete the images before giving the unregistered pay-as-you-go phone to a friend because there was still credit on it,” according to the Daily Mail.
Great story, Ash! It makes total sense that a famous footballer who makes £82,000 a week would own an “unregistered pay-as-you-go” phone. You know, the perfect gadget to own if you’re, oh I don’t know, messing around behind your (hot, famous) wife’s back.
Poor Ashley says that he "can’t believe I gave a phone away that still had stuff in its memory. I thought I’d deleted it,” Yes. We can’t believe it either.
Even better, once the phone was passed from a friend to a friend of a friend, someone then “pretended to be him” and sent Wild the photos of Ashley. Wild naturally sent some racy photos back to “Ashley” as she “couldn’t resist having a bit of fun”. I mean, how could one resist? Ashley Cole is so hot.
As someone who has “allegedly” cheated on his (talented, "Nation’s Sweetheart") wife with a bloody hairdresser before – how much weight does this “Um, someone was pretending to be me!” story have?
Even if he is telling the truth – was Wild’s number already in his pay-as-you-go phone? And if you’re so worried about your marriage and not further embarrassing your wife, why take questionable photos of your topless and laying on a bed “for jokes” and accidentally keep them on your phone when you’ve handed the phone off to someone else?
In his statement, Ashley told The Sun, “I’d laugh if my foot didn’t hurt so much.” To which @photogirlUK brilliantly responded: “Put your cock away, dear.”