Must be handy, going out with a builder. Especially if you need some shelves putting up in a hurry, or if you have a tank containing formaldehyde and a sawn-up animal that you need installing in your bathroom. Such are Lily Allen's perks from going out with brickie Sam Cooper, who was introduced to the starlet by their mutual friend – the hatstand conceptual artist Damian Hirst.
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No sooner had Jordan been dumped by hubby Peter Andre than she was cavorting with a string of musclebound nobodies. Her blossoming romance with cage fighter Alex Reid is a classic example of down-dating.
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Rumour has it that Sienna Miller is doing the same thing by dating a "psychedelic trance" DJ who performs under the irritating, self-consciously wacky name of Slinky Wizard. No, us neither. Still, Sienna's not the first celeb to date a "civilian"...
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As Sarah Harding likes her nightclubs almost as much as Cheryl Cole likes her dry-crying, it was no surprise that she ended up doing out with her current chap. Tom Crane DJs at Mahiki, a ritzy Piccadilly club where the celebs go to bray and breed. But apparently he's also a part-time market trader, which could explain some of Sarah's outfits.
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Remember Nathan from Coronation Street? Played by Ray Fearon? No, neither do we. But the TV mechanic can't have believed his luck in 2006, when Elle McPherson pulled up next to him and asked him to get his spanner out. Their romance lasted a year, but then Elle got fed up with having oily hand-prints all over her bedspread and sent him on his way. Possibly.
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Lily isn't the only star who's had her tiles regrouted by her boyfriend. Cameron Diaz went out with former builder Paul Sculfor for over a year. However, the fact that he was chums with Posh, had previously dated Jennifer Aniston and modelled for high-profile clients such as Next can't have harmed his chances. Indeed, "Next!" was probably what Cammie said when she chucked him.
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Christina Aguilera is beautiful, no matter what we say. So, by this logic she could have had any man in the universe. However, she ended up dating "music marketing executive" (i.e. the man who photocopies the gig flyers) Jordan Bratman in 2002 – and they're now happily married. Funnily enough, she kept her surname.
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"What would you like to have, Mr Cage? Bento? Sushi? Me?" So quizzed Alice Kim, a waitress in a Japanese restaurant, just before her customer Nic Cage decided to get his meal – and his evening's entertainment – to go. Despite the 20-year age gap and vastly different lives, the two of them got together and stayed together, with Kim giving birth to their first child in 2005.
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Jason Priestley spent years in the world's sexiest postcode, and ended up dating his 90210 co-stars Shannen Doherty and Christine Ellise. However, on a trip to London he fell for Naomi Lowde, a sales girl at a web design agency, and the rest is history. The two of them are now married, with Jason citing his wife as the reason he gave up the drink.
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She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. That much is true. But instead of a doomed affair with that bloke in make-up out of the Human League, Luciana Bozan got chatted up by Matt Damon at her joint in Miami– and they married in Manhattan two years later.
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