Cheryl Cole will regret that tattoo – and her name change

Cheryl Cole has given ­Ashley Cole, her footballer husband of three-and-a-half years, the boot. What can be learned from this? Well, nobody ever seems to learn that getting a tattoo of your ­inamorata's name is never a good idea, although Cheryl is at least in a ­position to stump up and have "Mrs C" removed from the back of her neck. But does she regret having ditched her birth name, Cheryl Tweedy, before she was as ­famous as she is now? It always seems strange, when women in the public eye make a great play of insisting that their new ­professional name will be their married name. Gail Porter made a huge fuss about becoming Gail Hipgrave, before becoming Gail Porter again. Courteney Cox tempered the impulse by becoming Courteney Cox Arquette. Victoria Beckham . . . well, there's a lot of tattoo removal to consider in that union, plus the fact that no one even remembers who Victoria Adams might have been. The pain of breakup can be too great to bear. And sometimes it's the thought of all that rebranding that hurts most of all.