English Premier League Players Annoy Lionel Ritchie

With four weddings (and no funeral) featuring English Premier League players this past weekend, it was only a matter of time that stories of the festivities started leaking out. It doesn’t hurt that three out of the four sold the rights to their weddings to various magazines. Nothing says true love more than getting paid mondo money to share your happy day with the free world.

It was not so happy a time for singer Lionel Ritchie when he performed at John Terry’s wedding. If you are to believe The Sun, and really we have no other choice but to believe them because this sounds so plausible, Ritchie got his panties in a bunch because of the loutish behavior of a few of the footballer guests.

But after his first song he had to ask guests, who included Wayne Rooney, Coleen McLoughlin, Jamie Carragher and Frank Lampard, to pipe down.

A witness said: “It was really embarrassing. Toni was looking very anxious about the lads making a real fool of her.

“When he started singing Hello the boys started chanting back to him as if they were on the football ground terraces.

“They had downed so much champagne at the reception the guests became really lairy and started shouting over his set.

“In the end he asked the crowd to be quiet and said, ‘I’ve only got two more songs, please stick with me.’

“When he came off stage he moaned to one of the organisers, ‘I imagine this is what it’s like at a working men’s club’.”

Wait a second. Lionel Ritchie isn’t working at men’s clubs these days? Where is he working then? Bar mitzvahs? Karaoke bars? Weddings?

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