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Cheryl Cole insists that although she does not always wear her wedding ring, it is not a sign to her estranged husband Ashley Cole that she has decided to get a divorce.

The 26 year old X Factor judge stated that it is not a game she is playing and that when she was seen in Paris without her ring she was not drawing attention to her ringless finger, but simply pulling hair back out of her face.

On Twitter she explained that there have been many instances in which she has been photographed without her ring including instances when she was still with Ashley and thus believes it is crazy that people are so willing to interpret the gesture.

Later the same day Cole was seen in Paris wearing a gold knotted ring on her finger but it is not thought to have come from Ashley Cole.

Ashley Cole is the Chelsea and England footballer who made headlines this year off the field for cheating on Cheryl Cole with a long string of women which has led to their separation temporarily while the couple decides what to do.

Cheryl stated that Ashley and she are aware of what is going on in their private lives and a silly picture of her moving the hair from her face means very little.

Ashley Cole sent shivers through the spines of his friends after he sent a suicidal text at 3am to each of his friends a few hours after his wife said their marriage was over.

The message simply said ‘Thank You for Everything” and was sent at 3am in the morning to a close knit group of friends all of whom  were immediately concerned sending one rushing over to his mansion in Surrey to check on his condition.

Although he seemed to be in a dark place with a negative state of mind, according to several reports he was ok but his state of mind was in left field with friends stating that Cole is acting like a broken man.

The same source stated that he is not in the best state of mind and is currently like a zombie hiding in silence away from the world.

This is not the first time that fears about his mental status have arose, as he was apparently in a bad state of mind when his soon to be ex-wife, Cheryl Cole, flew to the United States and he begged her not to leave him.

Cheryl was so concerned about his mental state in fact that she agreed not to make a final decision about their marriage until she got back from the States after a week.

Cole was in fact so concerned during this period that he sent Cheryl text messages the entire time promising that they could work it out and begging for a second chance.

The English football Premier League has not had a good last few weeks with tabloids featuring the indiscretions of many of its star players almost every day.

Although Ashley Cole’s troubled marriage to Cheryl Cole and John Terry’s adulterous affair have been pretty horrible for the football teams, and the fact that Portsmouth is threatened with a wind up order after the financial mismanagement of the bottom club.

However, while the world’s wealthiest sporting team is out searching for a moral compass, Sir Alex Ferguson may be able to help out by taking a strong stand against vivid bright coloured football boots.  According to his new rules, all of the junior players on the Manchester team will have to wear old school black any time they are on club business.

Defender John O’Shea stated that the restrictions are to help the players from being singled out if they are playing poorly and that once a team earns a spot on the first team squad or reserve then they can wear flashy colours.

Although it may seem as if Ferguson’s change is simply cosmetic, the truth is that the collared boot has represented football’s popularity over the last twenty years and its absence in junior players may help restore honour and order to wear it is due.

Before Ferguson’s announcement people were already getting tired of the collared boots with youth team coach of the Queens Park Rangers, Marc Bircham, banning his players from wearing them because of how flashy they look.

Cheryl Cole is reported to have sent a text message to her husband informing him that their relationship is officially over.

The singer is said to have sent the message after reading in the papers about the fact that the famous footballer has five mistresses on the side.

According to friends, Cheryl will head back to the UK within this week to formally announce the split with a draft statement already created.  A friend has said she will head to LA and then consider what she wants to do next from there.

The same friend stated that she is tired of promises and excuses and is ready to move on with her life.  Cheryl intends to handle the divorce in a dignified manner and proceed as quickly and quietly so as to save both parties from further embarrassment.

Last week, one of Cole’s mistresses, the fourth to be exact, stated that Cole and called her and said that if he lost his wife over the cheating he would be devastated.

He also is rumoured to have pleaded with Ann Corbitt, a US political aide, to keep silent about having sex with her while Cheryl was on tour.  She stated that she did not know he was married until afterwards when she looked him up online.

The fifth girlfriend to come forward, Alexandra Taylor, claims that she and Cole had sex the very night that he announced he was dating Cheryl Cole.

Things just keep getting worse in the rather smutty scandal going on with Ashley Cole and his long-term and apparently ongoing infidelity to his wife Cheryl.

Cole, star of the Chelsea footballers and “the world’s best left-back” first denied accusations of text-sex with model Sonia Wild, claiming he was just joking around and that the sexy snaps of himself were sent to the model after he loaned his mobile phone to a friend.  That explanation blew up when another model came forward and told The Sun

that she had received almost identical photos from Cole, and produced the proof.

Obviously, Cole did not want his wife to find out about his off-field activities.  He often stressed the need for secrecy, sending text messages to the effect that if Cheryl found out he’d be in big trouble, and to please keep his communiqués absolutely private.  His pleas were not heeded, since both Sonia and an unknown (or at least un-named) additional paramour told reporters all about it.

Meanwhile, his wife is trying to decide what to do about all this.  The phone-sex was going on for the most part while she was at work as the star of “X Factor”, and one act had to be cancelled when she dissolved in tears backstage after hearing (some of) the bad news.  However, some of her sorrow must have been relieved when her band, Girls Aloud, hit Number 1 on the charts with their single “The Promise”.

What next?  At present Ashley and Cheryl are separated, with Cheryl living in a hotel while she considers her options.

Victoria Beckham is no longer the top earning WAG in Britain as Cheryl Cole the X Factor Judge has knocked the former Spice Girl off the spot by earning a reported £6.9m this year.

Cole has made her millions at the young age of 26 from her work with Girls Aloud, her own solo career, and from TV sponsorship deals.

Beckham on the other hand, was only able to raise £6.75 all of which came from the Spice Girls reunion and her fashion label.

An unnamed source commented that it was simply a waiting game to see who would finally take Beckham’s spot as the top WAG.  The source continued to say that Cole is the reasonable choice since she has a hand in every field from judging X-Factor to the band, to sponsorship by L’Oreal.

A large reason for Cole’s earning power to double in size is her place on the judging panel on X-Factor next to Simon Cowell.  She is estimated to be worth about £12m total and earned a solid £2.5m from her music career.

£500,000 of Cole’s earnings came from the L’oreal deal and another £1.25m came from wise property investments.

Despite the large earnings by Cole during the last calendar year, Beckham still owns the title for the wealthiest overall WAG as Coles £12m does little to touch Beckham’s personal fortune of about £45m due to the fact she is married to David Beckham who is easily the most recognizable footballer in the UK.