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Dennis Rodman & Carmen Electra

Section: Romance

Signa Butler, CBC Sports

In the late 1990s, there wasn't a more wild and wacky pseudo celeb-athlete combo than basketball rebounding king Dennis Rodman and Baywatch babe Carmen Electra.

The dynamic duo, always of the on-again, off-again variety, turned it waaaay on in 1998 when they got married in Las Vegas six months after they began dating.

Holy matrimony did not agree with Rodman, or the Worm (as he was once known). Nine days after the wedding, the then 37-year-old Rodman filed for an annulment claiming that he was of "unsound mind" and was tricked into saying "I do." The phrase "unsound mind" coming from a man who died his hair every colour, covered his body in tattoos and piercings and married himself while wearing a wedding dress somehow doesn't carry much cred.

Rodman later rescinded the request and claimed he loved Carmen with "all his heart." She filed for divorce in April for "irreconcilable differences." They couldn't stay away from each other, however. Almost a year after they got hitched, the pair were arrested on domestic violence charges after a screaming and fighting match in their hotel room.

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