Cheick Tiote, a 28 married Premier League footballer who already has two children by his wife and has a one-year-old child with mistress Nikki Mpofu has just taken a second bride in his native Cote’Ivoire.
Cheick Tiote, earns £45,000 a week playing for Newcastle United, reportedly wed Laeticia Doukrou in a traditional ceremony earlier this month, saying taking another wife was ‘nothing unusual’ given he is a Muslim.
But news of the second wedding came as a surprise to his first wife, Madah, 25, who is said to have only found out about it on Facebook. Madah, who lives with Tiote and their two children in a £1.5million house in Ponteland, Newcastle.
first wife, Madah reportedly fainted with shock when she saw the photograpsh of her husband marrying another woman.
His agent today confirmed reports he had got married for a second time.
Jean Musampa said: ‘I can say that he did get married and that it is his second marriage.
‘This is nothing unusual. He is a Muslim.’
The footballer, who can have four wives under Islamic law, is also said to have insisted to friends that having several partners is commonplace in his native Ivory Coast.
According to Ivorian news website iMatin, Madah wasn’t aware of her husband taking a second wife, and found out about it through social media.
They reported that she fainted when she saw the photos of her husband marrying another woman on Facebook.
but the first Mrs Tiote is now said to have forgiven her husband.