This is the media mogul\u2019s second proposal in 12 months. Us mortals can only speculate about his mesmerising dating secrets <\/p>\n
At last, some happy news. Rupert Murdoch is engaged<\/a> \u2013 and for the second time in less than a year. I know! Despite being 93 next Monday, he\u2019s getting engaged even more frequently than serial sex killers serving life sentences. Those betrothals, of course, tend to happen entirely by letter, but as far as we know, Murdoch\u2019s latest love match is a real-world union. His fiancee is Elena Zhukova, 67, a retired biologist who also previously served as mother-in-law to Roman Abramovich. In the absence of an official engagement photo, just sub in that image<\/a> from Alien 3 where the slavering alien corners Ripley in the infirmary. And please remember \u2013 the Fox News chairman emeritus\u2019s lifelong commitment to irreverent stories about people\u2019s private lives means the above is precisely how he wants his latest chapter to be covered.<\/p>\n As mentioned, this is Murdoch\u2019s second proposal inside 12 months, his previous engagement enduring just a fortnight. Hand on heart, I was surprised he couldn\u2019t make it work<\/a> with that last one, a former dental hygienist\/evangelical prison chaplain he met in one of his gardens, who had successfully dismissed a case of \u201cfinancial elder abuse\u201d brought by one of her previous stepchildren. She seemed so perfect. Back at the time they announced their intention to wed (not hugely long after Rupert reportedly told Jerry Hall via email that he was divorcing her<\/a>), he gibbered out some hilarious interview<\/a> to his own New York Post, in which he claimed: \u201cI dreaded falling in love \u2013 but I knew this would be my last.\u201d<\/p>\n Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the media mogul\u2019s second proposal in 12 months. Us mortals can only speculate about his mesmerising dating secrets At last, some happy news. Rupert Murdoch is engaged \u2013 and for the second time in less than a year. I know! Despite being 93 next Monday, he\u2019s getting engaged even more frequently than serial … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}