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Britain’s most married man has been disowned by two of his daughters because of his plans to wed for a ninth time.

Serial bridegroom Ron Sheppard, 67, intends to marry a Filipino call centre worker 40 years his junior.

The wrinkly Romeo proposed to Cristal Marquez in a karaoke bar in her home town in the Philippines on New Year’s Eve.

He wants to adopt Cristal’s son Miguel, seven, and get a quickie divorce from eighth wife Weng, 37, who is a trainee nurse.

Police were called to a domestic incident at Ron and Weng’s home in Somerton, Somerset, on Sunday.

The couple had been sleeping in separate rooms but Weng has moved out to stay with friends since the bust-up.

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And Ron’s latest marital merry-go-round has proved the final straw in his relationship with the eldest of his eight children.

Daughter Sue Feldt, 48, one of three children from his marriage to first wife Margaret, has finally had enough.

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She said: “I am ashamed to call him my dad. I have disowned him and he will die a lonely old man because he has destroyed his family who used to worship him.

“The girl he is engaged to is 27 - he has got several kids older than her.

“What I would say to Cristal is: ‘Run! Run quick in a different direction to my dad’. I want the world to know this man is not what he claims to be.

“Dad tells each bride-to-be he loves them to the moon and back. But he has probably already got his sights set on another lady down the track.

“I know it sounds horrible but that’s the pattern.

“He gets married and then he gets bored and then he goes on dating sites. Weng told me she saw the emails.

“I don’t know what made him marry all these ladies. He says it’s true love.

“But when does it stop? When does he say enough is enough?

“I’m hurting because we’ve never really had a dad who has been there for us.

“It’s not about money. We’ve never had a role model to guide us and show us right from wrong.

“He’s just had one marriage after another and there’s been so much pain and stress, so many tears.

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“I don’t know why they fall for him. That is the million dollar question. What has Ron got that they want? It’s not money, but Ron is very good at telling a story. Anybody will believe anything Ron says – he is that good.

“Weng is a very beautiful lady who I thank for putting up with my dad.

“But he has been going on dating sites looking for ladies.

“I can remember as a small child how my dad filled me with promises which he broke. He hardly ever bought us a Christmas or birthday present.

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“I can still picture myself, aged five, sitting by the window crying and waiting for him to come home from work – but he never showed up.

“There was one occasion when my school was doing a French exchange and Dad said he would pay for me to go.

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“But when the day came to part pay he said he couldn’t afford it.

“Ron’s parents ended up paying for it which was really nice.

“On my 16th birthday dad said he would buy me a special coat which was in fashion – but it never happened.”

Twice divorced mum-of-four Sue works as a school crossing supervisor in Townsville, Queensland, after emigrating to Australia, 22 years ago.

She said: “With my friends it’s like a joke – but it’s embarrassing and at the end of the day it’s not a laughing matter.

“When Ron was married to my mum he joined the army and later became a Bluecoat entertainer at a Pontin’s holiday camp where he worked with Shane Richie and they became friends.

“Mum kicked him out because she was sick of all his antics.”

Ron – author of a book called Lord Of The Wedding Rings” – has also fallen out with his youngest daughter.

Kelly-Marie McMullen, 32, from St Austell in Cornwall, a married mum-of-two, said yesterday: “He might be Britain’s most married man but he is also Britain’s worst father. I think he is vile. I was 18 months old when he and my mum Kathy were divorced.

“My mum thought she was Ron’s second wife when she married him – it turned out she was the fourth.

“He has let me down all my life.

“I remember him coming to see me when I was about seven - we were on a double decker bus and Honey I Shrunk The Kids was on at the cinema.

“He promised me a doll’s house and said he would see me next week.

“I waited for him at the train station with my mum but he never showed up. I was heartbroken.

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“I haven’t seen him since last summer and our relationship is finished now.

“He rang me the night before my wedding on September 19 last year and threatened to gatecrash the ceremony because I had not invited him.

“My dad said he was on his deathbed, because of Parkinson’s Disease, and his last wish was to give me away because he had never given away any of his children and I was his youngest daughter.

“I was afraid if Ron came along he would cause a nuisance and make comments during the vows when I was being given away by my stepdad who brought me up after marrying my mum when I was five.

“II was a nervous wreck on the day of the wedding because I was worried Ron would turn up.

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“All of us were on edge thinking he was going to barge into the church in front of 200 guests.

“I didn’t want him to give me away because he had not earned the right.

“Earlier this week he left me an answerphone asking me to take a DNA test because he thinks I’m so evil I can’t be his – that was the final blow.”

It was Kelly-Marie who called police on Sunday because she was worried about Weng.

Last night she said: “I would only go to his funeral to make sure it was actually true he had died. I’m not saying I wouldn’t be upset because he is my biological father

“But from the age of five I made up this picture of my wonderful dad and when I went to meet him when I was 18 I was massively disappointed.”

I just can’t live on my own, says Ron

Ron Sheppard was yesterday weighing up the options in his tangled love life – should he stick with eighth wife Weng or move on to number nine?

Of his Filipino fiancee Cristal, 27, with whom he spent Christmas in the Phillippines, he said: “I don’t know whether I’ll marry her. She wants to live in the Philippines and I’m not sure.

“But if Weng wants to get on with her life without me then I’ll carry on with Cristal.”

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Ron said a row with Weng exploded after she read in the Sunday People how he wanted to marry Cristal.

He said: ‘We had a big row. Weng went out of the room, came back with a hammer and smashed my phone.

“We were struggling and I pushed her neck to get away. It’s all in the police report. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing and it just got all over-heated.”

He added: “Weng and I are talking again. At the moment we’re in the process of getting divorced but it’s looking like we might get back together.

“She’s bought me a new tablet, we’ve had lunch together at McDonalds, she’s told me she loves me and I’ve said I love her.

“She comes here. She’s cooking for me, ironing for me – she comes in every day. We’re building it back up and I’ve got to earn her respect and trust again.”

Ron said most of his previous wives were just friends that he loved.

He said: “They gave me security in my life. I can’t live alone.

“I just want to be loved and to have someone to care for.

“I have apologised to my children that I couldn’t always be there for them. But I don’t believe in staying in a relationship for the children. It makes things worse.”

Here come Ron’s brides

1966: Margaret. Had three children and split after three years.

1973: Jeanette. They separated after a year.

1976: Lesley. They had two sons before Ron left in 1981.

1982: Kathy. They had a daughter and divorced in 1986.

1986: Sue. They had two sons and divorced after five years.

1999: Usha. He split with his Singaporean wife four years later after cheating with his next bride on holiday in Thailand.

2003: Wan. Returned to Bangkok, homesick, after 8 months.

2004: Weng. She moved out of the marital home after a bust-up last weekend.