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Jemima having second thoughts: tabloid

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s 30-year-old wife Jemima Khan is in the news again, with British tabloids questioning her relationship with Hollywood actor Hugh Grant

According to Daily Mail, star of 2001 blockbuster movie Bridget Jones’s Diary, Mr Grant was “spotted leaving a high-society club in London with Jemina Khan”.

The paper continues to say that while Mrs Khan and Mr Grant insist they are ‘good friends’, they have gone to great lengths to avoid being photographed together. Daily Mail correspondent Kathryn Knight says “a number of eligible men (have been) squiring her about town”.

The article says since 2003, “arriving here before Christmas to study for a Master’s degree at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Jemima seems to have thrown herself into the city’s life with renewed vigour, attending regular fashionable parties, concerts and dinners, either alone or escorted by a cast of leading men.”

Quoting ‘friends’, the paper says that when Mrs Khan “came over here last year to do her degree, she was still optimistic that the marriage could work. But over the last few months she’s really started to think things through and decided she’s done enough compromising.”

Mrs Khan seems to have thrown herself back into the London partying scene with vigour, and “she’s really got back into her old social scene and ... all the things she should have been doing when she was in her 20s.” Not to be forgotten is her landmark birthday, and the fact that Mr Khan was conspicuously missing.

While Mrs Khan refused to comment on her marriage, the paper says her “shimmering, strapless gold dress... spoke far more about her state of mind than her refusal to comment about her husband’s absence”.

The paper quotes another source as saying Mrs Khan “enjoyed a number of lunches and dinners with male friends”.

“Men like Hugh do all the things that Imran just doesn’t do any more: the nice meals, flattering her, just taking an interest,” said a friend of Mrs Khan’s. While Mrs Khan has continued to quash rumours of a split, a friend of hers was quoted as saying, “a lot can happen in a few months”.

The paper concludes that “a combination of events - including Jemima’s despair over her husband’s continued refusal to compromise over his political ambitions, her mother’s influence and a desire for another child - have led the 30-year-old finally to seriously confront the possibility of ending her marriage for good”.

According to friends, Mrs Khan still “loves her husband deeply” and harbours hopes that he may “divide his time equally between London and Pakistan,” says a friend. “But that’s not going to happen, so I think with a heavy heart she is accepting the inevitable.”

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