Jewellery News

The couple have been in the news since Christmas when they were both drunk and Charlie is said to have held a knife to his wife Brooke’s throat while he pinned her down. Brooke of course called the police and ever since, their fight has been written about widely. He was then charged with assault and both were reported to have gone in for counselling.

Charlie is a part of the popular TV serial Two and a Half Men and the rumours after this domestic upset were that he might just be pulling out of the show. As he is one of the most important characters in the show, obviously everyone wanted to know if that was true. Charlie and Brooke went to different rehabilitation centres for a while and after that, he was recently given a fortnight’s stay in jail.

Will their marriage survive this spat? What about their careers? While Charlie Sheen has denied that he is leaving the show, his wife Brooke seemed to be telling the world that she was thinking of leaving him. She showed up at a public event without her wedding ring so it looks like the marriage is all set to split.

It’s been just about six weeks since the couple told the world they were engaged and now comes the news that Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson have broken it off. This, after being together for five years, having two children and just getting engaged comes as a big surprise.

The proposal was so romantic – Gavin flew her by helicopter to Cornwall and it was there that he got down on one knee and proposed with a 2-carat diamond ring – and the diamond was heart-shaped. Apparently he told her that they had been through good times and bad but they were meant to be together for the rest of their lives. Well, that lasted for just six weeks!

So what do sources say was the problem? It seems Gavin went off to Norway for a reality show shoot when Charlotte would rather he were at home as she was in preparation for her Over the Rainbow BBC show. There were fights ever since he got back and now he’s moved out of their home. The couple have two children – Ruby and Dexter.

What do you do with a wedding ring when the marriage doesn’t work out? More and more men and women are faced with this dilemma today as the divorce rate soars. Time was when all one needed to do was to take off the ring and maybe sell it or exchange it for something else. Today, however, women especially don’t want to do that. They get comfortable wearing their wedding ring and all they want is to change it a bit so that whoever see it will know that she isn’t married anymore.

So more and more people getting divorced are changing their rings and wearing them. In some ways it’s a statement that they were married and they are not anymore. The ring sends a message that they are independent again. It also could mean that while they are single and ready to mingle, they might not be ready to get into another commitment soon.

In some ways, it also helps emotionally because it is a reminder that the marriage is over and the way forward to healing and picking up the pieces has begun. It is final – that the marriage is over and it is also a reminder of what was. For women who have children, this is a way of preserving some sort of togetherness without a complete break. So all it takes is the original wedding ring with a break in it and this can be done at any jewellers. In fact, you could choose from various designs.

Nothing ordinary will do for Carrie Bradshaw – that’s the character that Sarah Jessica Parker played in the hugely popular American TV series Sex and the City which was made into a film. The first movie ended with an engagement ring – Carrie got engaged with a huge diamond encrusted ring. Now, in the sequel, it just had to go a bit further when it came to bling. This one has her in a black diamond ring – all of 5 carats at that! That’s what Big her boyfriend gives her and all because he feels she is worth it.

The diamond ring was designed by Itay Malkin and apparently the film director as well as Sarah Jessica Parker looked through at least twenty designers’ rings before they decided on Malkin. They actually chose one out of two rings that Malkin had given in anonymously. This ring is set in 18 carat white gold and has eighty colourless pave diamonds surrounding the 5-carat black diamond. The good news is, there will be a limited edition replica range out soon which will be available through Malkin or in select sites online.

There is a lot of jewellery on display in this sequel and all the characters sizzle with fashionable jewellery. Why should it be otherwise when they are all fashionable women of the world? So there are plenty of diamonds flashing in the film – from diamond rings to bracelets to pendants. The film just opened and it was at the No 2 spot.

It’s a sad day when an old lady is robbed of her engagement ring and eternity ring but that’s what happened to Betty Keenan of Coventry who is devastated by the loss. At that age one gets even more sentimental about engagement and wedding rings and it’s sad she has had to live through this.

The thieves also made off with her TV and radio CD player. She had just celebrated the twelfth death anniversary of her husband a couple of days before this and then the thieves struck. Apparently she would remove the rings every night and put them beside a picture of her late husband. It was from there that the thieves made off with them. She hopes they will be returned and her family has appealed for their return.

Stevie Starr, also called The Regurgitator was doing his act on Britain’s Got Talent and the act involved swallowing a diamond ring. So he took a ring from someone in the audience and proceeded with his act. Unfortunately, he couldn’t make the cut and didn’t go on to the next round.

The two who were really scared were Amanda, the owner of the ring and her fiancé. They were hoping the diamond engagement ring, which was expensive would be safe and it was quite a tense time till they got the ring back. Yes, it was insured but that still didn’t stop them from feeling tense!

They met online and she flew halfway across the world to marry him even though they hadn’t met in real life. But for her, it didn’t matter – they had spent so much time talking to each other online that they knew everything about each other. Her friends warned her – he could be a murderer maybe but nothing deterred her. She flew to the USA to meet him and if they both liked each other, to marry him.

They went to a drive-through wedding service in Las Vegas and they have been happy for five years. According to her, she never wanted to get married because she thought she would get bored. However, he hasn’t managed to do that yet. She says she knew from the time she met him that it was going to work and it looks like it has!

The singer and her rapper lover have decided to get married and it’s going to be a double celebration. They are expecting their first baby and they are engaged. Sources say that the wedding will be later this year, probably year-end.

Both are in music and both seem very happy together. This is not Swizz Beatz’s first child – he has two children from earlier relationships. Alicia has been in the news for her music, especially after her Grammy win and according to friends, both of them couldn’t be happier. For Alicia, it will be her first wedding and first baby.