The former sporting champs are battling over who gets the kids for Christmas.
Still reeling from her marriage breakdown, Lisa Curry is facing even more stress with the approach of Christmas. Like many other single parents around Australia, the former swimming star is nervously preparing to negotiate the pitfalls of the festive season.
Just who gets the children on Christmas morning is a familiar tussle for many split families and, despite their celebrity, it will be the same this year for Lisa and her estranged husband Grant, who have three children together from their 23-year union.
Friends say Lisa, 47 – who has been seen shopping for gifts along Mooloolaba’s string of beachside boutiques – fears she will find herself alone on Christmas Day, thanks to a feud with the Kenny family.
Since her split with Grant in May, Lisa has found herself increasingly isolated from her in-laws, Hayden and Fae Kenny. Sources close to the family say that although Grant’s parents were once supportive of their daughter-in-law and tried to remain neutral in the wake of the shock split, they disapproved of her romance with “love-rat” businessman Adrian Hunter.
“It was the the public displays of affection on Mooloolaba Beach that finally chilled the relationship,” says a local. “The Kennys thought it was so tacky, and were worried about the repercussions for their son and their grandchildren, as well as themselves.
Lisa might be a famous name in Australia, but her father-in-law, Hayden, is Sunshine Coast royalty, and has a reputation to uphold. He and his wife were furious to be embarrassed like that.”
The simmering tensions came to a head several weeks ago at a surf club gathering, with Lisa leaving abruptly, visibly upset at a less than effusive greeting from her father-in-law.
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