Olivia Attwood reveals wedding to fiancé Bradley Dack is ‘on pause’

Olivia Attwood has revealed her upcoming wedding to fiancé Bradley Dack is ‘on pause’ amid Britain’s ongoing coronavirus restrictions. 

The TOWIE star, 29, told how the couple have done ‘everything they can do’ in terms of preparations but their wedding planner is currently on furlough and their venue is shut due to lockdown.

Speaking on Vicky Pattison’s The Secret To podcast, Olivia said she and Bradley, 27, have discussed pushing the wedding to 2022 but have not made their minds up.

She said: ‘Do you know what it’s just um, it’s a weird one isn’t it? Wedding planning is going well, I’ve got an amazing wedding planner, we’re all systems go… all I can really say now is we’re on a pause? 

‘Like we’ve done everything we can do to this point so the wedding planner she’s on furlough, the venue is shut, we’ve kind of reached a point now where there’s nothing more we can do, it’s kind of a waiting game. 

‘And we’ve been having the conversation sort of the last couple of weeks on and off me and him just saying do we pull the plug on this and push it to 2022 or do we keep waiting? 

‘I’m.. we’ve not made a decision so for me to sit here and say we have would be wrong but I’m as the days go on I’m leaning more and more to pushing it and it’s because, I mean I don’t think any of us thought we’d be in this situation again now.

‘I mean Jesus, you just don’t know and I think even if we could get the wedding over the line in June, with all the legal requirements, it’s like I’m losing the whole build up to it.’

Olivia and footballer Bradley announced their engagement in October 2019 after he proposed during a romantic trip to Dubai.

The former Love Island star also revealed that if things didn’t work out between her and Bradley, she would never date someone in the public eye again.

Olivia, who was previously in a relationship with fellow Love Islander Chris Hughes, said relationships with those also in the entertainment industry can become ‘competitive’ and ‘toxic’.

She said: ‘I think you and me are quite similar in a lot of ways actually but that is… I’m exactly the same I can be.

‘I’m always in competition with myself as well like I beat myself up when it comes to like work and like you say I want everything and I want it yesterday so to have someone who isn’t like that is so essential and like you say he’s not trying to compete with you because they’re in their own lane, doing their own thing so which I think is.

‘I know that Brad is going to be with forever but God forbid anything ever did go wrong and I was back on the f*****g dating scene I would never, ever date anyone from this industry again, ever, like completely swerve that because I think it just gets, like you say it can get very competitive and get kind of toxic and it’s just nice to be with someone who is not.

‘They’ve got their own journey and lane and then you’ve got yours and you can come together and talk about it but you’re not in it together.’

Olivia also discussed her friendship with former Love Island host Caroline Flack, who tragically died in February 2020.  

The reality star described Caroline as a ‘mentor’ who gave her advice on how to deal with being criticised after she emerged from the villa.

Olivia said: ‘I hate even talking about it makes my stomach literally like turn but Caroline was such a mentor for me because she was very protective of me when I came out the villa.

‘I was getting a lot of stick and she’d been in the industry for how many years and obviously she’d had all the haters when she presented X Factor and gone through with the people she dated and she use to give me so many good little nuggets and so many messages that she really put it in perspective.

‘To have someone like her attached to that show who knew first hand what it was like to have people judging you who didn’t know you – that was really, she was a massive support to me and a massive mentor.’ 

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