A week ago, Britain’s most married man insisted that he wasn’t cheating on his eighth wife.
Now, he declared that he’s planning a divorce so he can spend Christmas would his ninth would-be wife.
The 67-year-old Ron Sheppard is leaving Weng and will get out to the Philippines to wed a 27-year-old call center worker Cristel Marquez.
Ron secretly chatted up Cristel online after they met 10 years ago. At that time, he was still with his seventh wife.
His previous wife divorced him after 11 years of marriage after he was caught cheating on her with his female masseuse Iza Samontes, 27, on a solo holiday in the Philippines.
He denied the affair, but he has already set his sights on his would-be ninth wife.
Ron, who has eight children through his past eight marriages, has not told his plans to spend the holidays with Cristel to his wife, who is single with no children. His wife, Weng, suspects that he’s going to marry Samontes.
Ron and Cristel met on a Web site called loveawake.com. They said “Hello,” and the rest is history.
He now plans to move to the Philippines permanently to be with Cristel, who he describes to be a nice and caring girl.
The Pampagenean Filipina expressed her desire to marry Ron. She said she has fallen in love with him and it doesn’t matter whether he’s been married eight times.
Ron plans to spend Christmas with Cristel’s family while Weng will spend Christmas with her own family.