What a plonker: Dad’s verdict on son who wed after 17 hours
THE father of a man who married in Las Vegas 17 hours after meeting a sexy blonde branded his son “a plonker” yesterday.
But Peter Bond admitted he had done a similar thing himself, marrying his second wife, a Russian, after meeting on holiday.
His son Nick wed American Alex Gabrielson after a night of tequila and vodka Red Bulls.
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Nick, 30, proposed to Alex, 23, three and a half hours after striking up a conversation when he accidentally spilt a drink on her.
Peter, 63, said: “He is a plonker.What I think of him doing this cannot be published. He is 30, for goodness sake. I thought he’d think it through. He just says she is so fit, so lovely.” But he admitted he wed his second wife, Luba, after a holiday romance. He said: “Nick says he takes after me but me and Luba waited four years after that before we wed.”
Peter has yet to speak to his daughter-in-law, who is a TV presenter in her native Minnesota.
He said Nick, a financial adviser with two children – Harry, nine, and Phoebe, eight – from his first marriage, is “easily egged on”.
Father and son live two doors apart in Cheam, Surrey. Alex will visit in two weeks’ time.
Peter said: “Nick’s a good-looking guy, that’s his trouble.”
Yesterday Nick was referring all calls to a “publicist”.