Olivia Attwood and her husband Bradley Dack are selling their £1 million Cheshire mansion and relocating to London, a move their camp says is driven by logistics and work commitments rather than relationship breakdown.
Insiders told the Daily Mail the couple, who have faced what media outlets described as a "challenging six months," decided to put the property on the market because both are now primarily based in the south of England. Attwood's television schedule includes presenting roles and frequent appearances in London on shows such as This Morning and Loose Women, while Dack signed for League Two club Gillingham last year, requiring him to be closer to Kent.
A source said the Cheshire house "is completely pointless" to own while the pair live and work in the capital and surrounding counties. The insider added that the plan is to secure a larger residence in London for the short term and later purchase a long-term home in Surrey. The source also noted that the property has often been left empty and that the couple have spent heavily on security since a July break-in was thwarted by private security and dog teams.
Attwood has acknowledged the strain a busy schedule has placed on the marriage but has denied that the sale signals an imminent split. Speaking to The Sun, she said she would make any major announcement herself on social media and said she and Dack were trying to find more quality time together amid demanding work commitments. Tabloid coverage earlier this year highlighted a controversial set of photographs from Ibiza in which Attwood was pictured with a friend, a development she later said understandably upset her husband.
The couple moved to Cheshire when Dack played for Blackburn Rovers, the source said, and have since adapted plans as his career moved nearer to London. Insiders stressed the sale is intended to reduce the extensive travel both have been undertaking — Attwood has described spending "hours each week" on trains — and to create a single family base closer to their current workplaces.
Attwood publicly described the burglary in July, saying thieves smashed a second-floor window and that her security team responded quickly. She said items were taken but that the intruders did not achieve their apparent objective. The episode factored into the couple's decision-making, according to the source, who said the theft increased their spending on security and heightened concerns about an often-empty property.
Separately in entertainment news, former pop star and television personality Kerry Katona has detailed a difficult childhood and an early near-turn to escorting during a wide-ranging interview on Paul C. Brunson's podcast We Need To Talk.
Katona, 45, said she considered becoming an escort at 16 before pursuing Page 3 modelling. She told Brunson that her mother had circulated a portfolio that led to offers of topless photographs and that at times she felt pushed into situations she later regretted. Katona said some of those early images resurfaced and caused problems after she became famous, and she later returned to adult content via OnlyFans.
She recounted a turbulent upbringing involving domestic violence, saying she and her mother entered a form of witness protection and were moved to a refuge in Manchester. Katona described having to be homeschooled for a period because her safety was thought to be at risk, and she said she was later told by a foster carer that a man she feared as a child was her biological father.
Parts of Katona's interview are emotional and graphic, reflecting long-standing revelations the former Atomic Kitten singer has made about her family life in recent years. Part one of her appearance on We Need To Talk was released this week and part two was published on Sept. 9.
Both stories follow a pattern familiar in celebrity coverage: public figures navigating intense work schedules, security concerns and long-running personal histories under media scrutiny. Representatives for Attwood, Dack and Katona did not immediately respond to requests for additional comment beyond the interviews and statements published in the press.