Caroline Peaty was devastated, it is thought, after she — and other members of the family — were banned from Adam and Holly Ramsay’s wedding at Bath Abbey on Christmas Day
Adam Peaty’s mum is said to have found huge support — amid the wedding snub row — through what would seem an unlikely source.
Although the Olympic swimmer split from ex Eirianedd Munro three years ago, she and Caroline have maintained contact and Caroline regularly spends time with her grandson George, whom Eirianedd had with Adam in 2020. Caroline, 59, recently left a sweet comment on her latest Instagram post, which featured a collection of snaps of what looked to be a family member’s wedding day.
The exchange is understood to reflect Caroline and Eirianedd’s close relationship as one source has stressed the 27-year-old woman, whom Adam met when he was training at her university, is “chalk and cheese” from Holly, the daughter of TV chef Gordon.
They added: “Caroline and Eirianedd always stayed in touch. Caroline adores her grandson and he has been the bond between her and Eirianedd. Adam and Eirianedd had a more normal life, it wasn’t A-list like his is now. There weren’t the kind of problems between them all that there are with Caroline, Adam and Holly.
“Caroline is devastated, so it’s nice to see her having any support like this. You couldn’t find two more different women than Holly and Eirianedd. They are chalk and cheese.”
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Caroline, a former nursery manager, and some of her family members have been uninvited from the couple’s wedding, which is set for Christmas Day at Bath Abbey. This led to Adam and Holly, who got engaged last year, being branded “divisive and hurtful”.
Mum-of-four Caroline, of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, was also not snubbed for Holly’s hen do because it is said the content creator feared she “might have stuck out a bit” at the party.
Photographs shared on Instagram, including by Posh Spice, show the hen party at the super-exclusive Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire was a glitzy affair. The smiling women are seen with cocktails and champagne to celebrate Holly’s last days before she ties the knot to the athlete.
But the row has reportedly upset Caroline, who got up at 4am every day for years to take her boy to the pool, helping him to become a triple Olympic champion. She was close to Eirianedd when Adam dated her, having met as young adults at Loughborough University.
The Daily Mail reports Caroline posted: “Your mum looks beautiful as do u all x” as a comment under Eirianedd’s rare Instagram uploads. Eirianedd, who lives in Wales with George, her sister and other family members, responded to the comment: “Doesn’t she, thank you”, with a red heart emoji.
The source said it was the support Caroline needed amid the dispute, which left her “crying all the way home” after dropping George off at Eirianedd’s house following her night babysitting. She had said: “I got home and told Mark [her husband] that for the first time in my life, I felt I didn’t want to live. That’s how low this has made me. I’m a strong woman and I can get through anything, but this has broken me.”
