Jones, 31, had struggled with the "whirlwind" nature of their era-defining love while Cotton, 27, realised that he was just not the man for her. This three-month timeframe, naturally, has nothing to do with the length of time it takes Heat magazine to get bored of celebrity couplings unless there is a wedding ring or a pregnancy to show for it. Oh no. Not at all.

But it's now left for us to pick up the pieces of our lives, dulled by the cruel awakening in our once-optimistic hearts that a love affair conducted almost entirely across the pages of the tabloids really was 'the one'.

All we're left with (apart from our precious memories) is the realisation that we've just witnessed Kramer Versus Kramer as dressed by Topshop.

by HorseWorm