Wait over for chaste Jason Stevens

By Angela Thompson
Updated November 5 2012 - 11:50pm, first published January 7 2010 - 10:16am
Jason Stevens relaxes at home. Photo: HELEN NEZDROPA
Jason Stevens relaxes at home. Photo: HELEN NEZDROPA

Former Cronulla forward Jason Stevens will be free to break his premarital celibacy vow today - his 37th birthday - when he weds former Figtree belle Rebecca Ford at a church ceremony in Darlinghurst. The story of the young footy star who publicly renounced premarital sex in search of a more meaningful existence has long fascinated Stevens' public. The happenings of his bedroom became official public property in 2002 with the release of his self-published celebration of celibacy before marriage - Worth the Wait, And Why The Sex Is Better.In the flurry of media interviews that followed, Stevens explained he had come to normalise a string of meaningless sexual encounters before committing to True Love Waits - the worldwide celibacy movement - late in 1995.In 2004, the Mercury asked if he ever tired of the publicity directed at his sex life, or lack of it. "I'm looking forward to when the publicity centres on my wife - the fact that she's come and it was worth the wait," he replied.Some in Wollongong will remember Ms Ford, an aspiring children's presenter, from local television ads in the 1990s. She worked as an administration assistant at WIN Entertainment Centre from 1998, a year after graduating from St Mary Star of the Sea College.

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