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Indecent Proposal?
Has Sarko asked Carla Bruni to marry him? Say it ain't so!
Mothers, eh. Where would we be without their wisdom and indiscretion? Only yesterday, President Nicolas Sarkozy's maman weighed into the media frenzy surrounding her son's relationship with former supermodel Carla Bruni, claiming she was a nice enough lass but that she'd had it with brides. No more weddings, Nico, she warned.
And now La Bruni's mother has hit back with her view: Not only is the French President besotted with his new girlfriend's feline charms, but he has asked her to marry him - just two months after his divorce from Cécilia.
Has Sarkozy gone mad?
According to the Telegraph, Carla's mother, Marisa Bruni Tedeschi, hinted to Italian paper La Stampa that the relationship was serious. Other sources claim that Sarkozy has proposed to La Bruni, and has given her until the New Year to respond.
Who knows the truth of the matter? French newspapers are still unsure of their new-found freedom in reporting on the President's love life. Italian papers are notoriously excitable when it comes to love stories. Carla Bruni's mother, who is reported to have responded to the news with the words, "Oh, I'm very proud but don't ask me to say any more; I absolutely cannot. I promised. We mamas always end up gossiping too much" is no loose-tongued peasant mama, but an aristocratic concert pianist.
We know he's known as Speedy Sarkozy, but if true, this is ridiculous. He's only known her for a month!
EURSOC reckons that Sarkozy could be the best thing to happen to France since Brigitte Bardot slipped into something more comfortable on a beach near St Tropez fifty years ago. But proposing marriage to the first woman he meets on the rebound? And Carla Bruni at that, who is on record not only as finding monogamy boring but who literally puts details of her previous love affairs "on record" in her second career as a singer-songwriter?
Sarkozy really ought to avoid being led by his Old Chap if he is to lead France. He is a formidable fellow, and it is lonely at the top, but does the poor man have no close male (or female) friends with the courage to say, "Nicolas, old boy. Mme Bruni isn't really a suitable consort for a President. Particularly one who has proved himself emotionally fragile when it has come to women in the recent past."
