EXCLUSIVE: Traitors star Leanne Quigley would tie the knot with fiancée Sophie right now, but after her partner’s heartbreaking cancer battle, she wants to walk down the aisle with her own hair grown back
The Traitors winner Leanne Quigley has revealed she would marry fiancée Sophie Jones “today” if she could – but they will wait until Sophie’s hair totally grows back, following her gruelling cancer battle.
Leanne, 28, a former soldier from Holywell, North Wales, who appeared as a Faithful in the third season of the show, says, “I would get married today if I could. But Soph has been going through her hair growth journey. As soon as she feels comfortable and ready, then we will get married. Ideally, it will be the end of next year or maybe the start of 2027.”
Speaking exclusively to the Mirror at the British LGBT Awards 2025 at The Brewery, London, Leanne adds: “Sophie’s doing great. This is the first thing she has been able to come to with me without having to wear a wig. It feels very special.”
Of their plans to tie the knot following their 2021 engagement, she says: “I would have to be close to home. We took the twins abroad on holiday and it’s not the most stress-free of experiences – so it will be as close to home as possible!”
Sophie, also a former army recruit, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer last year, just weeks after Leanne finished filming on the BBC show, after finding a lump in her breast.
Thankfully, after a journey which Leanne previously told the Mirror was ‘utterly terrifying’ as initially they ‘didn’t know if she’d live’ – Sophie was given the all-clear, earlier this year.
Leanne is happy and looking to the future, but admits, it’s been ‘the worst time of their lives’. “We went from a huge high to the lowest blow. She was going through treatment then The Traitors came out, so it was quite turbulent. But we are very lucky.”
Now the TV star, who shares twin sons, Harley and Hudson, 2, with her partner, who gave birth to their boys, would also like to start IVF soon and expand their family
“We’ll probably try next year. There’s no guarantee it will work, so I think the sooner the better. But I would like the kids all to be close in age, I would definitely want to drink at the wedding though, so I think we’d have to wait.”
Leanne has also toyed lately with the idea of rejoining the army part-time, which she misses a lot, but says taking on risks in dangerous warzones would be a different ballgame, now she’s a mother.
She says, “I was chatting to my mum the other day and I asked her if I should join the Reserves again, which is basically going back part time. It is a big thing, leaving. I was there for 12 years – we were like a big family.
“It is different now, though. Before, I was fearless. I wasn’t scared of anything. Now I am a mother, I am scared of everything. Everything I do, I think about them.”
The turbulent and fast-changing situation in the Middle East makes it an even more terrifying prospect, admitted the bubbly blonde.
”I’m not going to lie, it is pretty scary. That’s why there’s an element of me wanting to join back up so I know what’s going on and can help in some way. But now I am a mum. I am scared of everything and just want to protect them.
She adds, “In one way I want to go back more because I’m worried the shit is going to hit the fan and I want to do what I can. And in another way, it makes me want to go back less because I need to be here for my family.”
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