Cattrall gives up men for girlfriends

Kim Cattrall is following her Sex and the City character's example, by putting her girlfriends before men after her traumatic third divorce.

The blonde beauty - who played sassy Samantha in the hit TV series - divorced Canadian writer Larry davis, German architect Andrea Lyson and music producer Mark Levinson and now refuses to marry again, arguing that a man can never provide the loyalty, closeness and understanding of her female friends.

She explains: "Divorce is very hard, because it's the end of a dream. Your dream is that you're going to spend the rest of your life with someone and you're going to be together.

"If anything, my marriage is to my girlfriends now. I feel closest to them, they're my family.

"That was the great thing about Sex and the City. It wasn't a child that you bore, or a husband that you married, it was the friends that you nurtured and loved. And from now on, that's where I'm putting the energy in my life."