Ex-England footballer Jermain Defoe ‘splits from his wife’ just months after their £200,000 wedding

Ex-England footballer Jermain Defoe has split from his wife just months after their £200,000 wedding, according to reports.

The former Spurs and West Ham star  – who married just over six months ago – spent his Christmas on the Caribbean island of St Lucia while his wife Donna stayed home in Glasgow. 

Defoe, 40, has recently been pictured without his wedding ring while Donna has gone back to using to her maiden name of Tierney online.

The 40-year-old has also unfollowed her husband on social media and neither has posted about one another for more than eight weeks. 

Jermain Defoe, 40, pictured middle spent his Christmas on the Caribbean island of St Lucia while his wife Donna stayed home in Glasgow

His wife Donna has gone back to using to her maiden name of Tierney on social media

They have both removed pictures on Instagram of the OK! Magazine front cover which starred their wedding from last June.   

The Sun on Sunday revealed Defoe had begged a nurse for sex just a month after getting married.

A source told the Sun said: ‘The marriage seems to be in trouble. You would think they would want to spend their first Christmas together as husband and wife but they haven’t so things aren’t looking at all good.’

For nearly two months there has been a noticeable silence. 

Mr Defoe has only posted pictures of himself without his wedding ring and with no mention of his wife

Mr Defoe has only posted pictures of himself without his wedding ring and with no mention of his wife.

Donna has only posted pictures of herself and her family and wished her 8,000 followers: ‘all the love and happiness in the world’, beneath a picture of her 12-year-old daughter unwrapping Christmas presents. 

Donna suggested in an Instagram story that she was glad to see the back of 2022 — and was “looking ahead” to the New Year.

 The Mail Online contacted Mr Defoe’s agent for a comment.