Tiote’s wife collapses after footballer marries second wife

Cheick Tiote’s wife, Madah, 25, reported fainted last month when she learnt the Newcastle midfielder had married a second wife in Ivory Coast.

Tiote, 28, who earns £45,000 a week at Newcastle United, reportedly wed Laeticia Doukrou in a traditional ceremony in September, saying taking another wife was ‘nothing unusual’ given he is a Muslim.

But news of the second wedding came as a surprise to his first wife, Madah, who is said to have only found out about it on Facebook. Madah, who lives with Tiote and their two children in a £1.5m house in a village outside Newcastle, reportedly fainted with shock when she saw the photographs of her husband marrying another woman.

Meanwhile the midfielder also has a one-year-old child with mistress, 33-year-old Zimbabwean Nkosiphile Mpofu, known as Nikki.

His agent Jean Musampa confirmed the reports, saying, “I can say that he did get married and that it is his second marriage. This is nothing unusual. He is a Muslim.”

The first Mrs Tiote is now said to have forgiven her husband, but his 33-year-old Zimbabwean mistress, Ms Mpofu, is believed to have recently ended her three-year affair with the footballer after he allegedly promised to make her his wife.