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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett who has called getting married 'a waste of time' and 'beyond tragic'...ties the knot with his Brazilian lover

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: He's been contemptuous of convention since at least the age of seven, when he learned he'd have to leave behind his favourite piece of clothing - a red tweed skirt.

Now, I can disclose, the actor, whose greatest box-office success was as Julia Roberts's gay chum in My Best Friend's Wedding, has figuratively waltzed down the aisle with the man with whom he's discreetly shared his life for years, a Brazilian accountant called Henrique. 'I think making it a legal contract is very, very damaging to a relationship,' reflected Everett, who, in his wild youth became entangled with John Hervey, later the 7th Marquess of Bristol, who died of Aids aged 44, having blown £35 million on drugs, rent boys and other amusements. Barely a month ago, the daughter of late racing driver Johnny Dumfries — more formally, the 7th Marquess of Bute — was joined by Sienna Miller, Poppy Delevingne and Lady Mary Charteris as she celebrated her 25th birthday in such uninhibited style comparisons were made with the decadent excesses of Emerald Fennell's hit film, Saltburn.

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