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Ronnie Wood Divorces After Affair (you guessed it!)

I don’t what you expect if you marry a Rolling Stone. Well, if you marry one now, you can probably look forward to wild weekends of woodland walks, or sharing a packet of Werthers Originals whilst complaining about the volume on the Antiques Roadshow.

You know how old the Stones are? Jokes about them being old are old!

Anyway, Jo Wood married Ronnie at the height of the Stones’ fame. And in those days they cut a rather  different dash. Drugs. Drink. Women. Violence – even murder – followed the Stones wherever they went. They were the high priests of the rock ‘n’ roll myth. At the centre of it in the seventies was the quasi love-affair between Ronnie Wood and Keef. Both louche outsiders with a taste for decadent behaviour on the road. Perhaps surprisingly, Ronnie was happily married for all that time.

So it’s kind of sad to learn that Ronnie and Jo are calling it quits. Of all the Stones, he seemed the most grounded – with none of the nose-tweaking self mythology that surrounded the others. He genuinely was just one of the lads.

Anyway, after all those years of hellraising, it’s awful to see that he’s finally been caught dipping his wick where he shouldn’t and wound up in court. The divorce leaves Jo a cool £6.5 million better off, but really – can you put a price on being married to a Rolling Stone?

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