Sarkozy ‘no time’ for rumours about marriage

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday he did not have half a second to lose on media speculation about the state of his marriage to supermodel-turned-popstar Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

Rumours have swept the internet and press this week that Sarkozy and Bruni, who married in 2008 after a whirlwind romance, were both having extra-marital affairs. Bruni has said her husband would never cheat on her.

Asked by a French journalist to comment on the rumours during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London, Sarkozy looked distinctly unimpressed.