Footballer Cheick Tiote admits he has 2 wives & a mistress- but wife No.1 fainted when she found out on FB

A married Premier League footballer who already has three children by his wife and mistress has just taken a second bride in his native Cote'Ivoire. (pictured with second wife, Doukrou Laeticia )

Cheick Tiote, 28, who earns £45,000 a week playing for Newcastle United, reportedly wed Laeticia Doukrou in a traditional ceremony earlier this month, 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, 25, 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.