It seems that Thierry Henry’s move to Barcelona has placed his marriage on the rocks as his English model wife, Nicole, prefers to live in London than Barcelona.And last weekend, Nicole was noticeably absent when Henry attended the Paris wedding of his friend, basketball player Tony Parker, to Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria.

She is also said to have become progressively less entranced by his famously mercurial temperament. Henry and Nicole looked the epitome of glamorous romance when they appeared together in an iconic Renault TV commercial.

Henry described her as the embodiment of “va-va-voom,” a catchphrase that entered the Concise Oxford English Dictionary defined as “the quality of being exciting, vigorous or sexually attractive”.