Four months after their barefoot beach wedding on the Caribbean island of St. John, actress RENEE ZELLWEGER, 36, and her country-singer husband KENNY CHESNEY, 37, have suddenly filed to annul their sudden marriage. In court papers, the Bridget Jones star cited “fraud” as the official reason for the annulment–a legal declaration that the union was invalid from the start–but clarified that the term is “simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny’s character” (though we’re not sure she was around long enough to judge). In plain language, fraud means one partner deceived the other about a matter vital to the marriage, like a plot to gain citizenship–or, perhaps, that the bare feet and cowboy hat weren’t really just for special occasions.
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