In China, it has been the year of the tiger. And 2010 was no different on this side of the world, as the golf star hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The full extent of Tiger Woods’s infidelity was revealed after a car crash at the end of last year.
It was later claimed he had enjoyed more than 120 affairs, as woman after woman came forward with X-rated texts and tales.
The sportsman carted himself off to sex rehab before his wife walked out on him in August – with a reported £38million in her pocket.
While Tiger was the most prolific cheat of the year, the biggest split on this side of the Atlantic belonged to Cheryl and Ashley Cole.
The X Factor star finally pulled the plug when the Chelsea player featured in some incriminating sex text pics.
The game was up when five women came forward to reveal they’d had a little bit of Ashley.
The Girls Aloud star fled to the US and put the divorce papers in the post. Joining Cole in the sin bin was his club captain, John Terry, after a court injunction was lifted to reveal claims the married England skipper had slept with team-mate Wayne Bridge’s ex, Vanessa Perroncel, who denied the affair.
Wayne Rooney was the next big name to fall, when it was alleged the Manchester United striker cheated on wife Coleen with two prostitutes while she was pregnant with their son.
And a third England striker tripped up in the summer, after it was revealed Peter Crouch had done the dirty on Abigail Clancy with an £800 prostitute in Madrid.
But it wasn’t just randy footballers caught with their pants down. Doe-eyed Take That singer Mark Owen confessed to enjoying ten affairs and being an alcoholic.
He checked in to rehab in March and was taken back by his wife, Emma Ferguson, despite a lengthy fling with charity worker Neva Hanley.
Pop rivals Boyzone were also hit. Squeakyclean Ronan Keating turned out to be a rat when doting wife Yvonne unearthed an affair with dancer Francine Cornell.
After a string of grovelling public apologies, it looks like Keating might just save his 12- year marriage.
Another ‘clean-cut’ husband in the doghouse was Family Fortunes host Vernon Kay, who admitted sending filthy messages to a string of women behind Strictly host Tess Daly’s back.
Sex texts also landed comedian Jason Manford in trouble. The presenter’s new job on The One Show ended after he admitting getting ‘a bit saucy’ with some girls on Twitter and Skype while his wife was expecting their baby.
Back in Hollywood, and Sandra Bullock was rocked when her hubby, Jesse James, was exposed for sleeping with tattooed vixen Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee in his bike shed.
The bad news came hours after Bullock celebrated her first Oscar win in March.
And it wasn’t just the fellas who couldn’t control themselves, as Liz Hurley was busted enjoying a 48-hour dirty weekend with cricket great – and notorious ladies’ man – Shane Warne.
