Strain: Mark Owen's wife Emma wasn't wearing her wedding ring as the couple returned to their south London home yesterday
The marriage of Take That singer Mark Owen was on the rocks last night after he admitted cheating on his wife ten times.
Owen, 38, was forced to break the news to wife Emma on Tuesday after one of the girls threatened to tell her about their five-year entanglement.
Yesterday he confessed in public to all ten flings, saying: 'I have really let her [Emma] down. Friends, everybody, I feel like I have let everyone down.'
Friends of the couple say it is 'too early' to tell if the marriage can be saved.
The pair have two children - Elwood, three, and Willow Rose, one - but only wed last October after a courtship of five years.
One of Owen's affairs, with accounts manager Neva Hanley, 24, carried on for most of that time, with the lovers sharing a final night together just weeks before his wedding.
Another of their encounters took place a week after the birth of his daughter.
Other infidelities were drunken one night stands while he was on tour with his band.
The star, who admitted his drinking had affected his marriage, tried desperately to apologise to Emma when he came clean on Tuesday, fearing Miss Hanley was about to sell her story.
Friends alleged she had threatened to come to his family home or call his wife.
The singer said yesterday: 'I have been an idiot. It's about me, my mistakes. Nobody else is to blame. I have been living with the guilt.
'It has always been there, you carry it around with you.It held me back in my relationship with Emma. I wouldn't have done any of this if I had my time again.I am halfway through my life now and this, in a way, is a lesson. You've got to learn and that's what I am going to do.'
The shattered-looking star and his wife arrived back at their home in Wandsworth, South London, yesterday after spending the night apart.
A friend said: 'Mark has just dropped an almighty bomb on Emma. She always suspected he was cheating, but he always denied it.
'She is extremely strong-willed and it is too early to say whether she will stay with Mark. She wants to do what is right for the children. She doesn't know what to do yet.
Mark confessed all to Emma on Tuesday - he had an inkling what Neva was going to do -and they did not spend Wednesday day or night together. Emma is devastated, while Mark feels terrible, but this is something he has been dragging around for years. Neva basically stayed as a friend, any time he had a problem, he would be in touch with her, but the relationship went too far.'
Miss Hanley, who was brought up in a middle-class family in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, changed her name from Victoria to Neva when she moved to London to go to dance school.
She appeared in several dance videos and adverts, including one for Cornetto ice cream.
On her Twitter page, Miss Hanley calls herself a 'slightly lost dancer, advert-sellout, fish keeper, explicit cupcake lover and gin junkie'. Yesterday, as the story of her affair came out, she boasted on her page: 'Going to stamp on someone's parade.'
Read more: Daily Mail
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