Premier League: Newcastle’s Cheick Tiote weds second wife in Ivory Coast

Newcastle United star Cheick

Toon star Cheick Tiote has married a second wife in his home country of Ivory Coast.

The 28-year-old player is already married with two children to first wife Madah, 25, and live in a luxury home in Ponteland.

But the £45,000-a-week player wed again during a ceremony in his West African home last month.

As a devout muslim, Islamic law allows the footballer to marry up to four women at any one time.

He is understood to have married his Ivorian bride, Doukrou Laeticia, shortly before the kick off the new Premier League season.

The wedding took place in Abidjan, which is the primary economic centre of the Ivory Coast.

Tiote’s agent confirmed to the Newcastle Chronicle that he had married.

Jean Musampa said: “I can say that he did get married and that it is his second marriage.

“This is nothing unusual. He is a muslim.”

Tiote, who joined the Magpies in August 2010 for a fee of £3.5m after he was granted a work permit, has returned to the North East to play for the club following the wedding.

The player’s first wife joined him living in Tyneside back in 2010. The couple have two children together.

A year later, Newcastle announced that Tiote had signed a new six-and-a-half-year contract, keeping him at the club until 2017.

On signing the deal, Tioté said: “The experience of playing in the Premier League has been better than I ever hoped it could be.

"This is a great club and the fans have been brilliant – I have never known support like it.”