Brian McFadden discusses his two divorces after being married to Kerry Katona and Vogue Williams
Brian McFadden has opened up about his two divorces as he prepares to get married for the third time.
The Westlife singer, 42, was previously married to Kerry Katona and then Vogue Williams, but both marriages failed.
He and Kerry married young, when Brian was 22, and had daughters Molly and Lilly-Sue together.
But the marriage was not to last after it was revealed that Brian had cheated on Kerry at his stag party with a lap dancer, leading to a bitter split.
Speaking to Closer, he said: ‘You live and learn, you go through life living and learning! Getting married is a great thing, but if the marriage doesn’t work out, there’s nothing wrong with walking away from each other.
Split: Brian McFadden has opened up about his two divorces after being married to Kerry Katona (pictured together in 2003) and Vogue Williams as he prepares to marry a third time
Marriage breakup: Brian later married Vogue (pictured earlier this week) in 2012, but their marriage was also unsuccessful and they separated after three years of marriage
He continued: ‘I don’t regret any of my marriages or any of my relationships. Everything I’ve been through in my life has led me to where I am today. Now I am happier than ever.
Brian married Vogue in 2012, but their marriage was also unsuccessful.
They separated in 2015 after just three years of marriage. And now she’s getting ready to walk down the hall for the third time with physical education teacher Danielle Parkinson.
It comes after Brian became a father again in 2021 when he and Danielle welcomed their baby daughter Ruby via IVF.
They had suffered fertility struggles which saw Danielle have two miscarriages.
In September, Brian revealed that he was hoping to have another child with Danielle.
Brian and Danielle plan to use a fertile egg from their IVF treatment to try again soon.
Explaining “we’re probably going to wait a few more months,” the star described parenthood as “the most incredible experience of my life.
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‘Let’s try it in a few months’: In September, Brian revealed he hoped to have another child with Danielle (pictured together)
chatting in FUBAR Radiothe singer detailed his plans to become a father for the fourth time, explaining: “Yes, absolutely, we had IVF treatments to have Ruby.”
‘We had four fertile eggs, the first two were implanted and aborted, Ruby was the third and the fourth is the strongest. We’re probably going to wait a few more months and then try that last egg.
Noting the 19-year age difference between his youngest and eldest daughter, Brian admitted that he now has more time to be a hands-on father, sharing that he “missed a lot” from Molly and Lilly’s childhood.
‘She is [Ruby] amazing, she’s amazing, obviously I have three girls. But Molly and Lilly are twenty-one and nineteen, and when I had them both, I was at Westlife, so I didn’t have time.
“We didn’t have Facetime or video calls back then, so I missed them a lot, their first steps, their first words, I missed a lot of that,” she explained.
Continuing: ‘I’m seeing absolutely everything with Ruby, I’m with her pretty much every day, she comes everywhere and if she doesn’t come I can Facetime and I can talk to her and see her.
“It’s just been the most amazing experience of my life, and I wake up every morning so excited to see it.”
Brian and Danielle welcomed Ruby via emergency C-section in May 2021, with the PE teacher previously sharing that if she welcomed another child, she would have “every pain relief.”
chatting with OK! in 2021, she explained, she said the gas and air “didn’t touch the sides” and that if she has another child she’ll have an “epidural” and “every pain relief.”
Explaining her latest delivery, she continued: “There was a queue for the theater so I had to go through these contractions, which were horrible.” She was in so much pain and she was desperate for pain relief.
Brian gushed, “It’s been the most amazing experience of my life, and I wake up every morning so excited to see it.”
While they have been focused on parenthood, Brian and Danielle have also tried to get married, with their wedding day being delayed three times.
Brian explained on Fubar Radio: ‘We were getting married in South Africa, then the first wave of pandemic hit so we had to cancel because everyone was in lockdown. Then it all went up and we had to go back into lockdown so we called it off again.
He continued: “Third time, we were told we could go to South Africa and have the wedding, but South Africa was on the red list, so we would all have to go to hotel quarantine on summer vacation…
‘That would be a sexy honeymoon, wouldn’t it?
Being in a beautiful vineyard in Africa and then spending two weeks in a Holiday Inn at Gatwick airport getting Margherita pizzas under the door. No, thanks.’
The couple is now set to say ‘I do’ this year, two years later than originally planned.