Bookies pay out on Cheryl Cole marriage breakup bets

PUNTERS who backed Cheryl and Ashley Cole to split this year were told yesterday they could cash in their betting slips in the wake of lurid headlines relating to the Chelsea player’s alleged infidelities.

Bookie William Hill decided the relationship was irretrievable just days after X Factor judge Cheryl performed at the Brits without her wedding ring.

Spokesman Rupert Adams said a string of allegations linking her husband to other women had left bookmakers convinced the couple’s marriage would not survive.