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AMIR Khan and his wife Faryal Makhdoom are reportedly separated and living apart after he was caught in a sexting storm.The boxing champ and Faryal are understood to be currently splitting their time between Dubai and Britain while she decides what to do next.
Amir Khan has separated from his wife
The move is the latest scandal to rock the couple’s ten-year marriage.
A source close to the Khan family told MailOnline: “Faryal is taking time to think about whether or not to walk away.
“She’s going through a very difficult time and choosing to focus on her children while she and Amir continue to co-parent.”
It comes after The Sun revealed how Amir had begged bridal model Sumaira to send him revealing pictures.
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The boxer also tried to meet up with the 25-year-old after first contacting her in May to compliment her tattoos.
He told her in one message: “look good on g string” and suggested she had a boob job.
Weeks later Khan — who married Faryal in 2013 — posted a snap online of himself with his US model wife and daughters, saying: “10 years later.”
He later revealed he was willing to have therapy to stop him sexting other women.
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Khan also issued his wife an apology after she asked him, “If you have a diamond at home, why do you want to mess around with rocks and stones?”
The I’m a Celebrity star also whisked Faryal off on a romantic trip to Mykonos in the wake of the scandal.
She later released a bombshell statement on Instagram slamming Sumaira.
Faryal said she was refusing to “play out my marriage publicly” but had released a statement “after a long week of accusations, slander and harassment”.
She has also claimed she has been victim of a “hate campaign” and accused a representative of Sumaira of trying to “tarnish” her reputation.
And Faryal addressed how she has “bared the brunt of many scandals and embarrassing events”.
She said: “I am being criticised for being Amir’s wife, for still staying with him knowing his ‘track record’.
“This is the man I am married too and have three young children with. The whole world is aware of his track record, his reputation precedes him, why would you as a single woman want to engage in a conversation with him at all?’
“My focus is my children and shielding them from all that is happening. I am simply a mother trying to do what’s best for her children and that is all I am willing to pour my energy into.”
Amir and Faryal wed in a £1million bash at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 2013.
In 2014, they welcomed their first child, daughter Lamaisah, now nine.
They also have daughter Alayna, five, and three-year-old son Muhammad.
The couple previously split in 2017 after their marriage continued to be dogged by cheating rumours.
At the time, Faryal slammed the former light-welterweight world champion for repeatedly sleeping with other women.
Khan hit back by claiming his wife had slept with Anthony Joshua, which the boxer has always denied.
More recently, the couple starred in BBC series Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton, which finished its third season earlier this year.
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The Sun Online has contacted a representative for Khan.
Khan was caught sexting model Sumaira
Faryal and Khan after they were married in 2013
The couple’s marriage has been dogged by cheating rumours.Credit: SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett
The pair recently headed to Mykonos on a romantic break
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FOR THE last five years any knowledgeable boxing fans would tell you the fight they most wanted to see was Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford against Errol Spence Jr.With the unbeaten super-stars contracted to rival promoters it seemed – once again – the sport was going to be robbed of yet another dream fight.
Terence Crawford takes on Errol Spence Jr. this SaturdayCredit: The Mega Agency
Errol Spence Jr. faces Terence Crawford in his primeCredit: Getty
Fortunately Crawford decided to break away from Bob Arum’s Top Rank organisation to become a free agent and frustration rapidly turned to elation.
At least we didn’t have to wait until either was past their sell-by date like Manny Pacquiao was when he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr, eight years ago.
It certainly didn’t take Crawford long to agree to meet Spence and their mouthwatering match-up takes place on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Terence revealed he actually got on the phone to Errol to ensure the biggest fight in boxing got made.

Crawford was the undisputed world light-welterweight champion before moving up to win the WBO welterweight crown five years ago.
And if he should beat Spence, who holds the WBC, WBA and IBF 10ston 7lb championship belts he will become an unprecedented two-division unified champion.

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These days many world championship confrontations are one-sided foregone conclusions long before the sound of the opening bell.
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This kind of epic locking of horns with the best clashing with the best happens once in a generation.
The T-Mobile Arena will host the bout between Errol Spence Jr. and Terence CrawfordCredit: Alamy
But attempting to find the winner between Crawford and Spence has divided opinion on bother sides of the Atlantic.
Over in the States they call this a ‘pick-em fight’ and this is reflected in the betting odds. Crawford is the slightest of favourites at 8/13 with Spence an 11/8 chance.
Both have impeccable records. Crawford, 35 on paper has the more impressive of the two having KO’d 30 of his 39 victims while Spence, 33, has blasted out 22 of his 28 opponents.
Neither are in the first flush of youth and they haven’t been very active in the last couple of years – Crawford has been in action just twice in the last 20 months while Spence has been in the ring only twice in the last 2 yrs 8months.
Errol was sidelined for a long period after crashing his Ferrari at high speed. Not wearing a seatbelt, he was catapulted out of the car ending up in intensive care.
Errol Spence Jr. will put his world titles on the line in Las VegasCredit: The Mega Agency
Miraculously he didn’t break a single bone in his body and though Dallas police charged him with being drunk in charge he avoided jail and was put on probation.
He said “Our fight will be the most anticipated and action-packed fight boxing has seen in the past 30-40 years. this definitely is a legacy fight.
“It will be a battle of wills and it will depend on who can break who down. I know he’s not as durable as me.”
Both men are are equally skilful, strong and powerful though Spence a natural welterweight is much the bigger- one of his few advantages – and he probably has the better defence.
But Crawford is the ultimate switch-hitter – he is just as devastating whether he’s fighting southpaw or orthodox and Kell Brook and Amir Khan who were both beaten inside the distance by him will testify to that.
Terence Crawford is bidding to become the undisputed welterweight world championCredit: Getty
Sugar Ray Leonard-Roberto Duran I in Montreal and Leonard-Tommy ‘Hit Man’ Hearns I in Las Vegas, at the beginning of the1980’s were the two greatest welterweight fights I covered for SunSport.
If Crawford-Spence turns out to be only three quarters as good as those two pulsating wars, fans will have the pleasure of seeing a a classic.
Crawford said “This fight puts a stamp on everything I’ve ever accomplished in the sport. This is the fight boxing needs.
“This fight boils down to who has prepared the best and on fight night who is on their A-plus game. Watch me fry this fish.”
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Because I believe Terence is just that bit more versatile I take him to get a paper-thin points victory and return to Omaha laden with three more belts to add to his enormous collection.
Crawford-Spence can been seen in Britain on TNT Sports PPV in the early hours on Sunday for £19.95. More