THEY couldn't have been more different. One is from a British working-class background, and plays the quiet housewife, happy to let the husband bask in the spotlight.

The other is a high-profile French-born lingerie model who has travelled the globe, acted in movies and graced glossy fashion magazines the world over.

But now the lives of the two women - housewife Toni Poole and model Vanessa Perroncel - are so intertwined that they have become fodder for the British tabloids.

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