So in 2007 there was a french presidential election. There were two main runner Segolene Royale and Nicolas Sarkozy. I didn't know much about it only that Segolene was a bit to the left and had an amazing bikini body for a 50 something year old, and Sarko was a right winger, who despite having hungarian grandparents wanted to send all the immigrants home! I was up for Segolene for no decent reason other than I didn't like the look of Sarko nor his policies.

Anyway there was an election and Sarko won by a hairs breath. Segolene's relationship broke up (how modern they weren't married) and she took some fancy job in the south west of France. Sarko meanwhile started to rile up the workers and caused loads of strikes and riots and all sorts (slightly generalising and swooping over lots of issues there!). Then we all started to get a bit sus about his own relationship. A few years ago Sarko's second wife Cecelia had taken off for New York with her lover and Sarko had taken up with another woman in retaliation. However it seems that when the whole presidential race thing came around, people thought it would be a good idea for him to be happily married so Cecelia was trotted back to the mother country. They either paid her lots or have some bad on her! Anyway a few months after Sarko's victory, in July, Cecelia disappeared off the scene, nowhere to be found. No don't worry this isn't the Sopranos, she didn't get whacked and it all came out in October that they were getting divorced and Cecelia hit the high road.

Sarko not to look like the rejected nerd he is decided he needed a new girlfriend and debuted former model/songstress Carla Bruni at Disneyland (em thought the french were supposed to be romantic?!)in November. Now Bruni for all her 40 or so years is super hot in comparison to Sarko's prominent featured 53ish year old face. So it was a bit of a score for him. However she is legendary for her philandering, having had all sorts of mad affairs, leaving a father for a son etc and making strong denouncements about monogamy. Next thing you know they are covorting in Egypt. Then there was talk of an engagement at Christmas by Bruni's mother and then the media was buzzing about a secret wedding ceremony about two weeks ago. And they are making the uptight french elite a bit nauseous with their constant PDA's!

The latest is that Sarko is heading to India on an official state trip. You don't bring your girlfriend on these trips and the whole thing is causing a slight headache for Indian protocol! It will be interesting to see how this develops. Mainly for the reason that I cannot see what Bruni sees in him. Maybe he's a nice guy... but I doubt it! Or just an animal in the sack **shudders**. Or more likely its the power thing. Supposedly in Paris all these powerful intellectual types (and usually not so attractive) have supermodels dripping off them. In Ireland we maybe prefer footballers! Maybe that says alot about our different cultures, who knows?!!

Anyway so Bertie all you need to do to take the heat of your money worries is to get yourself a younger piece of skirt, about 40, a tiny bit past it but still hot... now who would fit that bill......hmmm answers on a postcard please!!

*sorry for any political errors... its not half as interesting, so those articles are just usually skimmed!