As his ex-wife Kerry Katona is caught taking drugs in the same house as their young children, Brian McFadden looks set to finally fight for custody of his daughters.
During the time we’ve come to know him as Delta Goodrem’s other half, it’s sometimes been easy to forget that Brian McFadden had a very public family life before they met.
As one half of a pop super couple — he was with Irish boy band Westlife and married to Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona — Brian was one of the UK’s biggest names. Indeed, when he and Delta fell for each other in 2004, she was painted in the overseas press as having stolen Kerry’s man.
But time has not been kind to Kerry, 28, who was declared bankrupt last year and resorted to sharing every sordid detail of her life with reality TV audiences to make money. It has even been reported in the UK’s Mirror that she may have spent Brian’s maintenance payments for his kids on drugs.
But last week, she hit a new low. With cameras catching her every move, Kerry used a £20 note to take what appeared to be cocaine. It’s believed her children with Brian — Molly, 8 this month, and Lilly Sue, 6, — were in the house with their nanny at the time.
But this latest scandal has one big difference. Instead of maintaining the silence he has routinely kept since relocating to Australia with fiancée Delta in 2007, Brian’s camp fired a pointed leak to London’s Daily Mail newspaper.
“He is talking to Delta and is also consulting his lawyers to see what arrangement they can come to about his kids … he no longer wants them to stay with Kerry,” the paper quoted a source as saying. “He no longer feels they’re safe with her.”
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