ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 15, 1995                   TAG: 9502150087
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short


THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Roseanne, wearing a red velvet dress to a Valentine's Day ceremoney, married her former bodyguard, Ben Thomas, on Tuesday.

The event was held amid tight security. Wristbands identified the 150 guests invited to the ceremony at Caesars Tahoe in Stateline, Nev., and to the reception afterward at Planet Hollywood.

The wedding was performed in a restaurant hastily redecorated for the ceremony because the guest list was bigger than the resort's chapel.

Roseanne, 42, underwent in-vetro fertilization in November and later bared her bandaged belly on David Letterman's show. The in-vitro procedure used four eggs from Roseanne and Thomas' sperm.

Roseanne's efforts to conceive when she was married to Tom Arnold were unsuccessful. They were divorced in November after nearly four years of marriage.



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