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| | Carling testimonial hit as friend leaves fund-raising team |
 | | Carling, as well-known for the collapse of his first marriage over his friendship with Diana, Princess of Wales as he is for his rugby, split with Ali Cockayne, the mother of their 11-month-old son, Henry, weeks before their planned wedding. |
 | | Carling, 32, who was associated with Miss Cockayne, 29, for two and a half years, is reported to have begun a relationship with Lisa Cooke, the estranged wife of David Cooke, a former rugby international with whom he has played. |
 | | A high level of empty seats will be seen as a very public rebuke to Carling, although rugby fans may decide that a tangled private life is irrelevant when considering past successes of the sportsman. |
| www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/09/26/nwily26.html (776 words) |
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