She had not fallen for a hunky young pop singer called Benjamin Biolay and, "non", her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, was not being comforted by a young minister-come-karate champion called Chantal Jouanno.
Then there was the palaver caused by his mother, Vikki Harber, who claimed ahead of the Edgbaston Test that Johnson had been stolen from her by his karate-champion fiancee Jessica Bratich.
The rumors, which seemed like an especially exaggerated joke at the time, had Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the president's wife, engaged in an affair with an old friend of hers, another singer, while Mr. Sarkozy was supposedly involved with a married, karate-champion junior minister.
The three-times karate world champion (in the shotokan discipline) and former child star (alongside Jessie J in the West End musical Whistle Down the Wind) fears nothing and no one.
Karate world champion and Essex homecomer Anne-Marie channels Adele at Fabric during her all-too-short Street Stage set on Saturday.
