Trouble may be brewing in the marriage of Westlife star Bryan McFadden and his wife of four months, former Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona. At the root of the problem is an exotic dancer’s claim that she had a tryst with the pop hunk on his stag night, just weeks before his ultra-romantic Irish wedding.
Lap dancer Amy Barker also says Bryan offered her £15,000 to keep the encounter under wraps – and though Westlife’s management says newlywed Kerry is “fine” about the allegations, reports indicate the contrary.
Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper says the 21-year-old has taken time out from her current stint hosting the ITV1 game show Elimidate, which takes her to exotic locales all over the world, to fly back to Britain in hopes of clearing the air in her marriage. Bryan is currently touring England with Westlife, while Kerry has just finished taping the Bahamas edition of her dating show. The programme’s crew is reportedly now in Las Vegas, the location for the next episode, awaiting her return.
“So far she is giving Bryan the benefit of the doubt,” a source told the Mirror. “But…if the stag night tales are true, Kerry doesn’t feel she deserves to be treated like that.”
The couple married in January 2002 and have an eight-month-old daughter, Molly.