Love Island and Loose Women favourite Olivia Attwood tied the knot with husband Bradley Dack in June 2023 but before their special day, Olivia was left heartbroken by the football ace
Olivia Attwood married her longterm boyfriend Bradley Dack in June 2023 after a tumultuous romance which led Olivia to go on Love Island in a bid to find a new man after being left heartbroken by football ace Bradley.
The Loose Women star, 34, has been with her husband Bradley, 31, on and off, since the pair first met in 2015 and started dating shortly after. Despite a rocky start to their romance, with Olivia actually leaving the UK to head to the iconic Love Island villa where she fell head over heels for Chris Hughes, the blonde bombshell soon realised that Bradley was the only man for her.
After dating Celebrity Big Brother Chris, 32, for seven months after her stint on Love Island back in 2017, Olivia split up with her fellow islander and eventually made her way back to Bradley in early 2018.
The couple kept their relationship under wraps for several months after deciding to give thing another go, but when the time was right, Olivia announced that she and Bradley were back on and just a year later, the pair got engaged in 2019.
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Trouble in paradise?
Four years after getting engaged, Olivia tied the knot with her dream man Bradley in a stunning ceremony surrounded by friends and family and the wedding was a central event in her reality show titled Olivia Marries Her Match.
While their marriage appears to have gone from strength to strength since then, Olivia has recently sparked concern about her relationship with Bradley after she was pictured without her wedding ring after a party-filled getaway in Ibiza with close friend and podcast regular Pete Wicks, 37.
Former TOWIE star Pete was seen enjoying a yacht trip in Ibiza with Olivia and his pals, and pictures showed himself and Olivia leaning close to each other while soaking up the sunshine on the luxury boat. Pete appeared to have his arms draped around Olivia as she leaned on top of him.
Bradley furious over Pete pics
Following the release of the pictures, Olivia’s husband Bradley is reportedly absolutely ‘furious’ about her Ibiza getaway with friend Pete.
According to insiders, Olivia’s footballer husband, Bradley, 31, was ‘livid’ after his teammates shared the pictures in Gillingham FC’s WhatsApp group. The football ace was reportedly mocked over her trip while he was at home for the team’s recent match.
Bradley’s teammates reportedly “couldn’t resist winding him up”, with the source claiming: “Bradley’s tried to laugh it off, but inside he’s fuming about it.” Reports claimed that Olivia was ‘in the doghouse’ with Bradley after the pictures of herself and Pete partying at Ocean Beach and later on a yacht emerged.
An insider claimed that Olivia and her husband have an unspoken understanding about her partying ways. However, the latest pictures of her and Pete have left Bradley ‘fuming’.
“Olivia will never change, she’s a party girl at heart and has been working so hard this year, she needed some time to blow off steam. The issue now is her public flaunting of her flirty ways. She has a very public profile now so for Bradley her wild partying in Ibiza did irritate and anger him,” the source told Mail Online.
“He definitely had some cross words for Liv but she fully accepts and embraces who she is, flaws and all. Nothing is going on between Liv and Pete, they are friends and it’s completely ridiculous to say otherwise. Olivia and Bradley are happily married.”
On Saturday, another insider told The Mirror that there is no drama. “There is no issue between Olivia and Bradley,” they insisted.
Bradley’s bombshell statement
Bradley made a bombshell statement over the state of their marriage. In recent days, fans of the former Love Island star have been concerned about her marriage.
Bradley has been seen after the pictures emerged, and it’s clear he’s made a strong statement on the future of their marriage. As he stepped off a coach with his teammates to meet fans, Bradley was still wearing his golden wedding band, which was visible for all to see as he put on a brave face.
However, Olivia was seen without her own wedding band as she arrived at her workplace on Sunday.
A source close to Olivia has insisted that she often ditches her ring, but on this occasion, she had a valid reason, with it being cleaned after being covered in sun-cream while enjoying her “feral” time in Ibiza.
Olivia hits back
Olivia has also spoken out on the backlash which she has found herself at the centre of. One fan said on her Instagram page: “I’m afraid for your marriage.” But Olivia, known for not holding back instantly responded: “Don’t be. Worry about your own.”
Three weeks before the drama, Olivia shed light on her marriage, admitting she had been a “bad girlfriend” towards her husband, Bradley. While promoting her new show, Bad Boyfriends, she said she “could be on Bad Wives.”
“For ages, I had the crown in our relationship. I was carrying us on my back for a long time,” she told the press, adding: “He’s coming for my throne. In his early days he was doing his football and he was always out. And now I’m the one that’s filming seven days a week and he has to help me more. I miss football games because I’m working. I’m evil.
“He says, ‘You save all your nice personality for work and then you come in like, ‘Where’s my dinner?'”
Olivia admits her marriage is ‘far from perfect’
Olivia has also said that their marriage is far from perfect. Speaking to the Mirror, Olivia said: “Brad and I do have a lovely relationship. But also, I’m not perfect, he’s not perfect, it’s not the perfect relationship. But it’s a good relationship.
“That’s the thing that we all learn. There is no such thing as perfect. If you leave someone because of a certain set of issues, you’ll find someone with a new set of issues.”
Cheating nightmare
Before they rekindled and tied the knot, Olivia dumped Bradley and called off their relationship when she discovered that the football ace had cheated on her. In an act of revenge, she joined Love Island in order to make her ex jealous as she snogged and did ‘bits’ with men in front of the nation.
Olivia has confirmed several times that her motivation to go on the show was derived from making Bradley jealous and making him regret cheating on her.
Opening up about the moment she discovered Bradley had been unfaithful, Olivia said: “Anyone who has been cheated on knows it’s just the most horrible thing. Brad and I hadn’t met each other’s families at that point but we were dating. I was deeply shocked.”
Explaining the situation, the former ring girl revealed it was before her scheduled appearance at the 2017 Formula 1 Grand Prix when everything came to light. Olivia got a phone call from a blocked number, only to hear the voice of someone claiming to be Bradley’s girlfriend.
Chilling phone call
Opening up about how she finally discovered Bradley had cheated, Olivia told Mail Online: “I’ll remember that phone call for the rest of my life because it was so traumatic, chilling almost because you’re having an out-of-body experience.”
“When you hear that, your brain starts to try to put it all together, thinking, “How? Where? When? ” Your mind just starts going into overdrive. The next day I was on the F1 track looking all gorgeous with everyone kind of drooling over me.
“But inside I wanted to cry because I just felt so ugly and kept asking: ‘Why do I keep getting cheated on? I can’t even get a guy to keep it in his pants. It was a horrible feeling. But it made me realise I couldn’t miss out on the Love Island opportunity again. Luckily, they still wanted me.”
Rocky reunion
After receiving the phone call, Olivia decided to end her relationship with Bradley once and for all. She then went on Love Island and met Chris, but their romance wasn’t meant to last.
After releasing that she still loved Bradley, Olivia decided to give it another go with her ex-boyfriend. However, it got off to a very shaky start.
Olivia candidly revealed her reunion with Bradley post Love-Island ‘was rocky’. She explained: “I try to be honest, as people think post-Love Island he and I just got back together and there you go a fairy tale. But it wasn’t.
“The first six months of dating were pretty shaky because we both had our guard up. I was navigating being out of Love Island; he was at a new football club. We were getting to know each other again.”
“It depends how motivated you are. Talk is cheap but you have to show the commitment. We’d have building blocks, then we’d keep having little setbacks, and then eventually you get to a place where you have a foundation.”
Who earns more in the marriage?
Since coming third in Love Island in 2017, Olivia has been busy making money by fronting a string of ITV series, including Getting Filthy Rich, The Price Of Perfection, and Bad Boyfriends, for which she has reportedly been paid £350k each.
The TV star also receives several thousand per appearance as a Loose Women panellist whenever she appears on the ITV daytime show.
Her new Sunday-afternoon Kiss radio show, The Sunday Roast with TOWIE’s Pete Wicks, is also believed to be paying an eye-watering six figures per year and it has recently seen a huge surge in people tuning in.
Olivia also has a £150k collaboration with Abbott Lyon jewellery and has just signed another six-figure deal to become a face of make-up brand Maybelline.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that Bradley earns £4,500 per week and £234,000 per year playing for Gillingham as a AM C. His net worth is reportedly said to be £5,174,000.
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