Sir Martin Sorrell and wife Cristiana Falcone are about to diversify
WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell wooed wife Cristiana Falcone by requesting a "strategic partnership" – but now it seems the pair have taken their synergies a step further, after it emerged Falcone is pregnant with their first child.
World Economic Forum adviser Falcone – who is also on the boards of Viacom and Revlon – is due in November, according to the Daily Mail. Sorrell already has three sons by his previous wife.
A Radio 4 Profile of 71 year-old Sorrell back in April revealed he fell for Falcone, 30 years his junior, when she whipped out her firm handshake.
"I don't shake hands in a fluffy way – I'm quite firm when I do it," she said. "Apparently that had an impression on Martin.
"I have to say he was quite persistent. For four years I kept my ground [but] eventually had to give in. I even asked him whether I was a strategic partnership or a hostile takeover and he answered, you are surely a strategic partnership." Let's hope Baby Sorrell is a valuable diversification.
WPP didn't comment.