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MEDIA MOGUL RUPERT Murdoch will marry actress and former supermodel Jerry Hall, the couple announced in The London Times today.
It follows a four-month romance.
The couple got engaged over the weekend in Los Angeles, where they attended the 73rd Golden Globes awards gala – although Hall was not pictured sporting a ring on the red carpet.
Murdoch, the 84-year-old executive chairman of News Corporation, which owns the Times, announced the impending nuptials in the Births, Marriages and Deaths section of the newspaper.
“Mr Rupert Murdoch, father of Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, James, Grace and Chloe Murdoch, and Miss Jerry Hall, mother of Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel Jagger, are delighted to announce their engagement,” it read.
The pair started dating in the late summer after being introduced by one of Murdoch’s sisters and his niece in Australia.
Rugby outing
They first made their relationship public in October at the rugby World Cup final in London, where they were pictured kissing and cuddling in Twickenham stadium.
Between them they have 10 children from previous marriages, and went on holiday with several of them on a yacht in the Caribbean after Christmas.
A spokesman for the Murdoch family said:
They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future.
No date for their wedding has been given.
This will be Murdoch’s fourth marriage and technically the first for 59-year-old Hall, an American.
She had a Hindu ceremony with Mick Jagger in 1990 in Bali, although a court later ruled the ceremony was not legally binding when they split up nine years later.
Hall also dated British musician Bryan Ferry, of Roxy Music, before leaving him for Jagger.
Australian-born Murdoch, now a US citizen, was married to Patricia Booker, journalist Anna Torv and most recently Wendi Deng, who he split from in 2013.
Billionaire
With an estimated fortune of more than $11 billion, Murdoch owns some of the world’s most famous newspaper titles, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and The Sun.
He hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2011, when British police arrested several journalists from Murdoch’s now closed News of the World for allegedly hacking voicemails of celebrities, soldiers and a murdered teenager for stories.
The scandal snowballed, with nine journalists from Murdoch’s empire finally convicted in the biggest police investigation in British history.
Less charitable social media users greeted news of the engagement with amusement, with one quipping on Twitter:
Love is not only blind but deaf and can’t read… And that goes for both sides.
But Australian Women’s Weekly magazine, owned by rival German media group Bauer, dismissed such comments as “cynical,” wishing: “Good luck to them!”
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35 foot taps in 1 second??? Really
@Trevor Rooney: lol, I didn’t even see your comment.
@Trevor Rooney: Yeah. That sounds impossible?
@Trevor Rooney: Sure there’s a fella in Scotland did 38!!!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/flatley-rival-taps-controversy-over-fastest-feet-claim-2508656%3famp
@Trevor Rooney: sure aren’t me feet so fast from walking on the lush green grass of me homeland, begorrah.
@Mark o’ Leary: Fine soft day, begorrah aye.
@Vonvonic: the Guinness record is actually 38 taps per second held by James Devine, an Edinburgh-based Irish tap teacher, set in 2000 apparently.
Most taps in a minute though is 1,163, which is about 19 times a second, set by Anthony Morigerato in June 2011.
@D. Memery: he’s not from Edinburgh. He’s from Ardmacrusha in co. Clare. I know him. And its just irish dancing not irish tap. He is brilliant.
@D. Memery: Mental. Is that both feet?
I came on here only to appeal to the people of Ireland to stop this great annoyance of dance crazes. Cops dancing at beauty spots, nursing home staff irish dancing. Christ – give me strength.
@Armchair Follower: ah go one, sure isn’t it only a bit of fun? I bet you’d enjoy yourself if you loosened up a bit.
@Armchair Follower: iam sure ye have enough strength in you’re left and right wrist.
@Deborah Blacoe: or maybe he’s just not a sheep and would prefer a police force that isn’t corrupt to a bunch of dancers. I think by “lighten up” you mean “ah sure why not dumb yourself down to our level”.
@merely ed: or maybe he has a problem with nursing home staff only getting €10 an hour and dancing at the same time.
@Paul Gorry: exactly! It’s insane! And the only thing that annoys me more is the “ah sure lighten up” crowd. “Ah sure turn off RTE and get your head out of the sand”, morelike.
@merely ed: go to sleep. You won’t feel as whingey in the morning.
@Paul Furey: you ever heard of timezones, pal? Enjoy yer dancing distractions.
35 taps in one second???? What on earth is going on with that mans feet…..
@Gordon Larney: They flail about as if independent from his body
@Matt Fagan: I see what you did there ;)
My son could do the floss when he was 3. So could all his cousins. I couldn’t. And oh how I tried.
8 out of ten. Miley and Flatley let me down
@Geraldine Lawlor: I’m giving you a pass on Flatley. Unless he’s got feet like wood packers, he never did that.
@Vonvonic: woodpeckers lol
@Vonvonic: yes he did, sour Scotsman
@Vonvonic: he did do it but its not actually the record. That’s James Devine at 38 taps per second.
@LiamMac2018: Bad assumption there. Way off. I’m neither.
I had to sing achy breaky heart to get it……saaaaaad.
I tried tap dancing once. Fell in the sink though.
Amazing to tap 35 times in one second. Sounds impossible but wow what an incredible “feet” ha ha ha ha
Bh
I was sure we’d get a question about
“Oops Upside Your Head” by the Gap Band!
How could you leave that out?
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