Adam Peaty is set to marry Holly Ramsay, who is TV chef Gordon’s daughter, but his mother Caroline, a former nursery manager, has not been invited to the wedding
Adam Peaty’s family have been defended as “a normal hard-working bunch” in the bitter row surrounding his fiancée’s decision to snub his mother.
Sources have described those backing Holly Ramsay — such as her fans — as “unedifying” for taking aim at Adam’s family. It was brazenly suggested Holly, a 25-year-old model, had banned Caroline, 59, from her hen do because she “might have stuck out a bit”.
Now insiders close to Team Adam claim the group are just a “normal, ordinary” family who haven’t the influence or media access the Ramsay clan has. One source said: “It all seems rather unedifying for Team Ramsay to come out and throw around accusations about a normal, ordinary family like the Peatys. They (Ramsays) are able to look after themselves — they get the media, the fame game and have the staff in place to deal with these kinds of public feuds.
“The Peatys don’t. They are a normal hard-working bunch who have suddenly found themselves up against one of Britain’s richest and most influential families. It is all very sad, and there are two sides to every story. But you have to wonder if it’s a straight up-and-down case of Holly and Adam ditching his family.”
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Caroline, a former nursery manager from the market town of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, had initially been invited to the wedding, it is thought. However, it is believed the row started when Caroline purchased a dress for the big day — only to be told Holly and Adam didn’t approve of it. They allegedly offered to buy her another outfit to wear that they would choose.
They planned a trip to Bath to find the new dress, but that fell apart after a recent knife attack in Cambridgeshire caused train cancellations, leaving Caroline and her husband Mark unable to travel.
Caroline was then not invited to the hen do, a lavish ceremony in Oxfordshire, and instead babysat her grandchild — from Adam’s previous relationship — at home. This — and the wedding snub — appears to have caused anger among those close to mum-of-four Caroline.
Yesterday, Adam’s aunt, Louise Williams, took aim at her in-laws, writing on social media: “The difference between me and a lot of people is that I’m not afraid to be disliked. I don’t give a f*** who you are supposed to be, think you are or who are you are connected to.”
The Daily Mail reports the Beckhams will attend the wedding next month at Bath Abbey, as the Ramsays and David’s clan have always been close. One of Holly and Adam’s friends told the publication the feud “smacks of the way Nicola Peltz has been accused of being the reason for Brooklyn Beckham cutting his parents off”.