BME:  How did you decide what exactly to cut off?
GILLIAN:  That was obvious — it had to be our ring fingers. We were both just out of rough relationships, and wanted to both reclaim and be rid of those fingers... this has a permanence to it as well. You can take a ring off your ring finger, but you can never put your ring finger back on once you take it off. It’s something that will last forever — it’s a physical testament to how much I actually do love him.
CLIVE: And if we ever break up we’ll just tell people it’s a permanent shocker.
Think about it...
BME: Did either of you have an interest in amputation before this?
GILLIAN: No, and to be honest I never thought I would do one, but I think it’s one of those things that’s hard to understand until you feel it. It just sort of happened, and it feels right.
CLIVE: Like our love.

Diamonds are out. The deBeers control of the market for tetra-carbon be damned, people are coming up with new and more insane ways to show their commitment to each other.

I put my ring finger in Clive’s mouth and he put his ring finger in my mouth with our teeth resting right on the last joint. We looked in each other’s eyes, nodded, and bit down as hard as we could. It was a little disappointing because we couldn’t actually get all the way through, but we did pop the joint open and tear it a little. We cut the rest, just some skin and the tendon, the normal way.

Don't miss the pictures.

Update: This had been an April Fool's joke. Good one..