These celebrity couples were extremely briefly married

I can still burst out laughing when I think of Cheryl's line from Gooische Vrouwen. “Show off your dress, how many times do you get married in your life? Two, three times? Well then.” Dear Linda, could you please make a new season again?

In Hollywood, this quota certainly applies, although the time span in which ‘forever and always and until death do us part’ is a bit shorter than ours. Let me go through some low points with you.

1. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries 72 days of marital happiness.

That's a kind of honeymoon roll.

2. Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas

Jeremy was a bartender and given Drew's somewhat thirsty nature, she had a huge click with him. For a while. The fairy tale lasted 29 days. Still quite far from the cotton wedding (a year). 16,824 hours to be exact. After that, Drew got married again. Tom Green was also not a keeper after five months, and with Will Kopelman, although she had two daughters, they separated in 2016.

3. Britney Spears and Jason Alexander

Britney is also quite a recidivist when it comes to marrying and divorcing. Her marriage to Jason Alexander lasted 55 hours. But yes, think: teenage love, Las Vegas, a lot of ‘who cares’, drinking, waking up, hangover and thinking: ‘that wasn’t such a good plan after all’. Then came a yes to Kevin Federline, followed by a firm ‘no’ and a proposal from Jason Trawick that never really went anywhere.

4. Zsa Zsa Gabor and Felipe de Alba

Oh, if you've been married nine times like Zsa Zsa (a world star back in the days), then there can certainly be a quickie in between. Her marriage to Felipe de Alba lasted less than a day. Now I was quite curious about how long her other marriages lasted. That varies from a year to seven years, with an honorable mention for her last husband Frédéric, with whom she was together for thirty (!) years and really fulfilled the phrase ‘until death do us part’. But this man was also named ‘Von Anhalt’ by his last name. He lived up to that.

5. Axl Rose and Erin Everly

She was the one for whom he wrote the beautiful ‘Sweet Child of Mine’. It took some pressure to drive her to marriage after four years of dating (I believe I read that he even threatened suicide if she didn't), but all in all, it was not a match made in heaven. After 29 days, the marriage was off. But it was a beautiful song, that it was.