Adam Peaty has reportedly banned his once beloved mum Caroline from his wedding to Holly Ramsay – with a source claiming he feels ‘ashamed’ of his working class roots
For years Adam Peaty’s mum Caroline would get up at 4am to drive him to training in Derbyshire, 40 minutes from their Staffordshire home. It’s a journey she would make every day – even though she hated driving – so her beloved son could fulfil his dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer for Team GB one day.
Nursery manager Caroline would then go and do her day job, before doing it all again in the evening. Money was tight at times for the working class family and the 59-year-old and her husband Mark, 65, are even said to have gone into debt to help fund their son’s career.
It paid off as at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Adam won his first gold medal. Such is his talent, the 30-year-old is now considered to be the world’s greatest breaststroke swimmer in history and has a total of three Olympic golds, eight world titles and a string of world records under his belt.
But since Adam met wife-to-be Holly Ramsay two years ago – the 25-year-old daughter of world renowned chef Gordon Ramsay – the relationship between him and his once tight knit family has reportedly soured.
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Adam is said to have been “seduced by the fame and glamour” of the Ramsay clan and distanced himself from his doting parents – despite his coach Melanie Marshall once declaring that “without the support of his parents, Adam wouldn’t have gone to Rio”.
Yet a month before he is due to marry Holly in a lavish ceremony at Bath Abbey over Christmas, Adam has reportedly banned his parents from attending his wedding or having any involvement with his big day.
It’s even said he has threatened to stop them seeing their five-year-old grandson George, who Adam shares with his ex-girlfriend Eirianedd Munro, and any future children he might have with Holly.
The rift worsened when Caroline wasn’t invited to Holly’s posh hen do at Soho Farmhouse, despite her own mum Tana Ramsay being there, as well as close family friend Victoria Beckham. The move is said to have left Caroline “heartbroken” after she had “opened her heart and home” to Holly.
A source claimed the change in Adam’s behaviour is “partly because Adam doesn’t feel his family is good enough for the new one he is now part of.”
They told MailOnline: “Adam has changed so much since he’s been with Holly. She comes from a celebrity world, while his parents do not, and his ego and self-importance have grown. He’s no longer the lovely boy next door we all remember.
“Caroline and Mark put Adam’s career above everything and supported him through thick and thin so for their relationship to have crumbled is so upsetting. They feel that Adam started to grow distant from his family after he met Holly and they started to become more serious.
“There is a feeling that money is an issue. His family are working class and proud – it’s a stark contrast to the Ramsay family, and some members of the family have said it feels like Adam is ashamed of them.”
A “devastated” Caroline “doesn’t know what she has done wrong”, according to the source and “now she’s not coming to the wedding”. The only family member thought to be attending is Adam’s sister Bethany, as the cost of the hotel is reportedly too much for the rest of them to afford. This is despite Adam being a millionaire.
And if it weren’t for his mum, Adam might never have been offered a celebrity spot on Strictly Come Dancing, where he met his future wife Holly backstage as her sister Tilly competed on the same series as him.
Caroline’s sister – and Adam’s aunt – Louise Williams, has since vented her anger at influencer and nepo baby Holly, who she accused her of being “divisive and hurtful” in a public social media post.
She wrote: “@hollyramsayy I’m so glad that you had a great hen do. As a bride, you deserve that. However, as a person you were divisive and hurtful towards a woman, who I have loved and continue to love deeply.
“A woman who opened her home and heart to you. You decided, for whatever reason, not to invite her, your prospective mother-in-law to your hen night yet Adam invited his father-in-law, your dad, to his stag night. You invited your mum (quite rightly) and even your mum’s assistant, your sisters, your friends, my niece, but not my sister, your future mother-in-law.
“I have also seen messages passing between her and Adam about this and other matters and, quite frankly, I expected better of you and definitely of Adam. You have inflicted a hurt on my sister that will take a very long time to heal if ever.”
Caroline has responded to the fall out in her own Instagram post which said: “Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.” The Mirror has contacted reps for Holly and Adam for further comment on this story.
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Source: Mirror
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