Ken Hegan Files for Divorce from Telus

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10-16-2006, 20h35
VANCOUVER (AFP)

Pop diva (and journalist) Ken Hegan has filed for divorce from his Internet provider, after 9 years of marriage, his publicist said.

"Ken Hegan has dumped Telus like a sack of hammers," Susan Saucier told AFP.

Hegan, 29, married Telus, age 16, in 1997. They had two children named "khegan@telus.net" and "treason@telus.net" who both died suddenly after hearing news of the split.

Winner of 26 American Music Awards and six Grammys, Hegan has seen his star dim in recent years amid difficulties in his personal life, including stays in drug rehabilitation clinics.

Telus was one of the hottest email providers in the late 1990s, but has since become better known for sluggish behaviour, crap service, ugly lawsuits and brawls with unions.

Telus was arrested in 1993 for lewd conduct, drunk driving in 1996 and for alleged battery of Hegan in late 2003.

Hegan and Telus recently appeared in a TV reality series, "I Want to Stab My Internet Provider in the Neck with a Fork," on the Bravo network which featured their marriage, warts and all.

Hegan has recently been spotted in public with Rogers wireless. Though Rogers claims they're "just friends," Rogers has quietly adopted Hegan's secret email address: ken@kenhegan.com which was born out of wedlock in 2001.

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