Kerry Katona has revealed that she reached out to her ex-husband Brian McFadden’s new wife, Danielle Parkinson, on the day of their wedding with a message for the couple.
Almost two decades after splitting from Brian McFadden, Kerry Katona has revealed that she reached out to the Westlife singer’s new wife, Danielle Parkinson, on their wedding day earlier this month. Kerry, who shares daughters Molly and Lilly-Sue with Brian, said in her weekly New! Magazine column that she had sent Danielle a text on the morning of her wedding – days after it was reported the exes would ‘never be friends’.
“My ex, Brian McFadden, got married earlier this month and I just want to wish him and his wife Danielle a lifetime of happiness,” began Kerry in the column. Following reports that the singer had ‘burned all bridges’ with Brian, she hit back by continuing: “I find it sad though that as he gets married, everyone writes stories about me.
“His wedding has nothing to do with me at all. I texted Danielle to wish them a happy day– it looked like a beautiful celebration and I hope they had a ball,” finished Kerry.
While Kerry’s two eldest daughters were at the nuptials, she didn’t divulge on whether they enjoyed the day or not. Alongside Molly and Lilly, Kerry is a mum to Heidi and Max – whose dad is taxi driver Mark Croft – and daughter DJ, who Kerry welcomed with her late third husband George Kay.
Kerry’s olive branch to Brian and Danielle comes after a tumultuous relationship between the exes, with Kerry previously slamming Brian for being a ‘s**t dad’ to their daughters.
“He was a s**t dad. I’m the one who provides for them.,” she said on a podcast in 2023. Public comments like these have reportedly made their co-parenting relationship strained, a source claimed last week.
A source told The Sun : “Kerry has burnt her bridges with Brian, thanks to years of speaking out of turn. She’s got a heart of gold but a big mouth and that has always been her downfall.
“Kerry has a bad habit of not thinking before she speaks and it’s landed her in hot water with Brian on many occasions. She’ll say something publicly that is either outrageous or something she should have kept private between them and it gets her in trouble.”
However, Kerry said just days before the reports that she would ‘love’ to be friends with him “I wish Brian and I could have stayed friends. Molly went to watch him at a festival last week and I would have loved to have gone with her. It would be great to have a better relationship,” she wrote in her column last week.
Brian rarely speaks about Kerry and went to great lengths not to mention her last year’s BBC documentary, Boybands Forever. In a toe-curling exchange, the interviewer asks him on camera: “Marrying Kerry, you’re sort of…” as Brian quickly interjects: “I don’t want to talk about her, no. Definitely no.”
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