Footballer Jermain Defoe has sparked concern that he may have split from wife Donna just months after their lavish wedding in June 2022.
The former Spurs and West Ham star sparked the rumours of separation after he spent the Christmas break on the Caribbean island of St Lucia while his wife Donna stayed at home in Glasgow with family.
Defoe, 40, has also been pictured without his wedding ring in snaps on social media and wife Donna, 40, has reverted to her maiden name Tierney across her own social media accounts. She's also unfollowed her husband and both of the newlyweds have removed all pictures of their £200,000 June wedding.
Adding further fuel to the rumours of a split, The Sun On Sunday claimed Defoe had begged a nurse for sex just a month after wedding wife Donna.
The nurse, who has not been named, told The Sun : "Donna must have known what he was like when she got with him — surely she looked this man up. He was messaging me within days of getting married to her.
“As soon as I heard his voice on the phone last month I hung up. I’m so happy to be done and dusted with all of it.
"It doesn’t matter who he is or how much money he’s got, there’s no way I’d be in a relationship with a man like him."
Defoe wed Donna in a lavish wedding ceremony at Berkshire's Cliveden House in June, which was also featured across 14 pages of OK! magazine.
At the time, Defoe said: "This is my future, this is forever, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with."
However it appears forever might not be on the cards for the pair.
Wife Donna has reverted to her maiden name on social media and unfollowed her famous footballer husband. She also spent Christmas with family in Glasgow, with Jermain nowhere to be seen.
In posts on her Instagram account over the holidays, the 40-year-old brunette suggested she was happy to see the back of 2022 and looking forward to 2023 instead. She also posted: "Some people will take you out of the rain and dry you off, some will stand with you and some will turn the rain into a hurricane."
The couple were last pictured together at a champagne party for Jermain's birthday eight weeks ago.
In the past few weeks Jermain has also posted snaps of himself enjoying the sunshine in the Caribbean with his wedding ring noticeably absent.
The pair first met in January 2021 with Jermain proposing just seven months later in an extravagant hotel proposal featuring "Marry me" with lights, heart-shaped balloons and rose petals before he got down on one knee to pop the question.
The pair's huge wedding last year included 360 guests including former England footballers Carlton Cole, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ledley King.
A source speaking to The Sun on Sunday said: "The marriage seems to be in trouble. You would think they would want to spend their first Christmas together as husband and wife but they haven’t so things aren’t looking at all good."
The Mirror has approached Jermain Defoe's agent for comment.
