£45,000-a-week Muslim Premier League star Cheick Tiote admits he has two wives AND a mistress - but wife number one FAINTED when she found out on Facebook.
- Newcastle United's Cheick Tiote, 28, has taken a second wife in Ivory Coast
- Lives near Newcastle with first wife Madah, 25, by whom he has two children
- The midfielder also has a one-year-old child with mistress Nikki Mpofu
- His agent Jean Musampa said: 'This is nothing unusual - he is a Muslim'
- Tiote, who earns £45,000 a week, 'doesn't know what the fuss is all about'
- Ivorian press says first wife only found out about second wife on Facebook
Madah reportedly had no idea he was marrying again or who the woman was
A married Premier League footballer who already has three children by his wife and mistress has just taken a second bride in his native Cote'Ivoire.
Cheick Tiote, 28, who 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 a village outside Newcastle, reportedly fainted with shock when she saw the photographs of her husband marrying another woman.
Meanwhile the midfielder also has a one-year-old child with mistress, 33-year-old Zimbabwean Nkosiphile Mpofu, known as Nikki.
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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.
A source told The Sun: 'He doesn't see a problem with having two wives.
'It's perfectly acceptable in his culture. He doesn't see he has done anything wrong and doesn't know what the fuss is all about.'
But his first wife, Madah, is said to have felt rather differently.
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 - whose name she did not know - on Facebook.