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Love on the roumormill
(by Sissel Fantoft and Vidar Kvalshaug, photo by Tomm Christiansen)

The roumors of a love affair between Aqua-Lene and Morten Harket seem like
going on forever. Acording to the English newspaper Daily Star, Lene has
confirmed her love for Morten. Niklas Anker from Aqua's record label in
Copenhagen has called the interview a lie.

Lovers?:

Morten Harket and Lene Nystrøm refuse to comment the ongoing roumors about
a love affair. But allready at the Spellemann-show (personal note: it's the
equal to The Brits Awards in Norway) showed that they had a good eye to one
another.

Se&Hør (personal note: Norways biggest gossip magazine) reports in it's
latest issue
the alligations from Daily Star, a paper that isn't regarded to be amongst
the serious ones in Britain. "Morten makes me very happy- and yes i love
him", Lene is supposed to have said.

No Secret

- I have not spoken to Lene myself, but with someone that knows her very
well, confesses the reporter Rav Singe at Daily Star, who wrote the story.
-It is no secret anymore that Lene and Morten are involved, says Singe to
Dagbladet.
The whole mid-section in the newspaper, thurday was filled with alligations
on the love affair between Norways two biggest international starts ever.
-I am one hundred per cent behind the claims, says Singe.
Daily Star is a very small paper in British comparison, with an barely 600
000 daily copies.
Earlier, the paper has made it self noticed by securing the copyright of a
story from the US of a girl who was going to have sex with 300 men on one
day.
-It is only lies and humbug. Lene has never commented on the roumors about
herself and Morten, and sertinaly not to a newspaper such as Daily Star,
says a dispaired Niklas Anker, at Aquas record label Universal in
Copenhagen.
-This is fantasy from one end to another. If Lene would choose to tell
about her personal life, she would never choose such a newspaper to do it
in.
But is there any truth to the roumors?
- I will not comment on that.
(personal note; this was a stupid question from Dagbladet as they knew he
could not answer anything else then what he did, and the only valid reason
for the question was to keep the roumors going)

Only law

Morten and Lene have consecuently refused to comment the roumors. Questions
to Morten Harket is promptly directed to laywer, Oscar Ihlbæk, who assists
Morten and Camilla Harket in their divorce procedures.
-I will only comment on legal matters, says Ihlbæk.
The massive amount of roumors around Morten and Lene started at the
Spellemannprisen (personal note; se above for a recap of what this is
about) where Lene gave Morten a kiss during the seremony. A couple of weeks
ago MTV broke the news and said that they had very good sources who said
that the affair was a fact.
But still, no one has yet to get the two superstars to speak up.


Translation by Kenneth Heen Nilsen (ablover@online.no)