The odd couples

These celebrity couples looked unlikely and the results proved they often were, reports Margaret Carragher

WE’VE all seen them — papped at glitzy award ceremonies, or on private yachts or planes, or occasionally as the subject of cautionary “And finally…” snippets on the evening news.

Frequently at opposite ends of the age and/or beauty spectrum, unlikely couples are characterised by their, well, very unlikeliness: think Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, Joan Collins and Percy Gibson, Zsa Zsa Gabor and just about anyone. And of course the recently wed, 85-year-old Spanish Duchess of Alba and her toyboy husband Alfonso Diez.