Kerry Katona has revealed that she sent a message of congratulations to her ex-husband Brian McFadden and his new wife Danielle Parkinson on their wedding day earlier this month
Nearly twenty years after parting ways with Brian McFadden, Kerry Katona has reached out to the Westlife singer’s new wife, Danielle Parkinson, on their wedding day.
Kerry, who is mother to daughters Molly and Lilly-Sue with Brian, revealed in her weekly New! Magazine column that she sent Danielle a text on her wedding morning, just days after it was reported that the former couple 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,” Kerry began in the column. Responding to reports that she had ‘burned all bridges’ with Brian, she retorted: “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,” Kerry concluded.
While Kerry’s two eldest daughters attended the wedding, she didn’t comment on whether they enjoyed the day or not. In addition to Molly and Lilly, Kerry is also mum to Heidi and Max – whose father is taxi driver Mark Croft – and daughter DJ, whom Kerry had with her late third husband George Kay, reports the Mirror.
Kerry’s gesture towards Brian and Danielle follows a rocky relationship between the former couple, with Kerry previously criticising Brian for being a ‘s*** dad’ to their daughters.
“He was a rubbish dad. I’m the one who provides for them,” she declared on a podcast in 2023. Such public remarks have reportedly strained their co-parenting relationship, a source claimed last week.
An insider 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, just days before these reports, Kerry expressed her desire 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 penned in her column last week.
Brian seldom discusses Kerry and made a concerted effort not to mention her in last year’s BBC documentary, Boybands Forever. In an awkward exchange, the interviewer begins to ask him: “Marrying Kerry, you’re sort of…” but Brian quickly interrupts: “I don’t want to talk about her, no. Definitely no.”
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