Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas to 'renew vows'

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas said to be planning second wedding

Catherine Zeta-Jones reportedly plans to renew her vows with husband Michael Douglas.

The couple want to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary on 18 November with a huge bash in New York.

'Michael is very weak with his chemotherapy and radiation treatment, but this is something he is determined to do,' a source tells the Sunday Express.

'He was in tears when Catherine suggested they take their vows again and sees it as a wonderful expression of their love.

'Mike's a fighter and he has promised himself he'll be strong enough for their second big day.'

Michael, 65, and Catherine, 40, got married at New York's Plaza Hotel in 2000.

They are parents to Dylan Michael, 10, and Carys Zeta. 7.

In August, Michael announced he was having treatment for throat cancer.

Michael Douglas enjoys a long, long lunch with Catherine Zeta-Jones... then flakes out

An afternoon of good food, good wine, blazing sunshine and a stunning wife on his arm proved too much for Michael Douglas yesterday.

After a long, wine-filled lunch with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and a few close friends, the Wall Street actor appeared to struggle to keep upright at the table.

Dressed down in a T-shirt and shorts, it appeared the combination of alcohol and humidity had left the Oscar-winning actor a tad weary.

Something funny Catherine? The actress laughs as husband Michael buries his head on her shoulder after a long lunch yesterday in Portofino, Italy 

As his glamorous wife Catherine, 38, laughed and talked with their male companions, Michael looked increasingly worse for wear as the meal wore on.

By the time everyone had finished eating, the 63-year-old had fallen asleep on the Chicago actress' shoulder.

 

The millionaire pair have been cruising the Mediterranean this week on a yacht and after starting their trip off in St Tropez, the pair moved on to Portofino, Italy.

After their lengthy lunch, the couple retreated to their luxury yacht where Michael soon crashed out on one of the comfy sofas.

A kiss before snoozing: Michael snuggles up to Catherine

Rather sensibly given his slightly sunburnt face, Michael threw a towel over his face to protect his sun from the 82 degree heat.

The Mediterranean cruise is proving the perfect chance for the couple to enjoy some alone time, after they presumably have left their two children Dylan, seven; and Carys, five, at home with relatives.

Michael and Catherine, who have been married for over seven years, are enjoying a well-earned break after both filmed a string of movies over the past year.

The actor has a completed a succession of films due out for next year, including The Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past and Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.

Meanwhile, Catherine recently wrapped romantic comedy The Rebound and has another three projects lined up, including a biopic of late Hollywood bombshell Lana Turner.

Drink up: Dutiful Michael Douglas tops up his friends' wine glasses earlier in the afternoon

My night with TWO Mrs Robinsons at age 16

He has delivered some of the most sizzling performances ever seen in Hollywood. From Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close to Basic Instinct with Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas has never failed to impress.

And in real life he famously persuaded Catherine Zeta-Jones, 25 years his junior, to become his second wife.

Now the star reveals he learned his romantic skills from two married women who seduced him when he was a naive 16-year-old.

As the son of film idol Kirk Douglas, Michael was regarded as Hollywood royalty. The two women were ‘friends of my mother’s’, the 65-year-old actor says in a magazine interview. ‘I was 16, they were 30.’

Douglas does not identify the women as his mother, actress Diana Dill, still does not know about her friends’ adulterous exploits. ‘I wouldn’t want to get any of them in trouble,’ he said. ‘Though they’re probably dead now.’

Growing up in the Sixties, Douglas did not find such episodes shocking. Indeed, his sexual initiation, he says, reminded him of the film The Graduate, in which the young Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, is seduced by the middle-aged Mrs Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft.

In the interview, to be published in the May edition of US magazine Elle, Douglas details further escapades from his university days. ‘I remember one woman who’d been pursuing me, and I’d gone back home and was in bed with another lady,’ he says.

At an unbelievably inopportune moment, the first woman popped out of the closet. Let’s just say that took care of the rest of the night.’

'He found himself outshone on occasion, however, by his father – whom he describes as an ‘outrageous flirt’.

‘In the years before I met Catherine, there were a couple of ladies who met him to whom he gave his most impressive showing,’ he says.

‘When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple of leading ladies to whom I wish I’d expressed how I felt, rather than being too cool or too shy.’

Douglas says they include Austrian actress Senta Berger who, shortly after they met, married another man.

When Douglas first met Miss Zeta-Jones, he seemed anything but shy. His opening comment, as he has often recalled, was: ‘I want to father your children.’

‘That’s not a line I’d used before,’ he tells the magazine. ‘But I don’t know if I’d ever been so inebriated on a first date.’ For the next year, however, they hardly kissed. ‘I was a ridiculous gentleman,’ he says.

Asked if there is a woman with whom he would like to have a one-night stand – provided his wife gave him permission – Douglas says: ‘Boy, oh boy. I’ve always liked Tina Turner.’

Whom does he think his wife might choose in a similar situation? ‘Sarkozy would be pretty interesting.’

In Douglas’s latest movie, Solitary Man, which is out next month, he plays a fiftysomething who tries to pick up younger women by saying he’s ‘gifted in ways no 18-year-old is’.