If there’s one thing a bride wants for their wedding, it’s good vibes. So, it’s no surprise Olivia Attwood has decided to postpone her wedding to Bradley Dack again after telling fans that Grantley Hall – the Yorkshire venue they’d picked for their nuptials – was giving her a “bad vibe”.
The 31-year-old Love Island star told her Instagram followers, “My gut was telling me something was off. Had to lose the deposit and everything, but I know it was the right choice… I have my eye on a new venue.”
Olivia got engaged to footballer Bradley, 29, three years ago, but the pair have been plagued by multiple problems when it comes to actually getting up the aisle. So much so that we’re now told Olivia is worried they are cursed.
“Olivia is gutted – she’s starting to worry the wedding is suffering from some sort of jinx,” says heat’s insider. “She really thought she’d found the perfect venue with Grantley Hall. It looked amazing and seemed like the perfect place to tie the knot. Olivia has always dreamed of a fairy-tale wedding and she thought this was the ideal space for that to play. But then she just started to get feeling in the pit of her stomach that she couldn’t ignore. Now she’s got to find somewhere else – Olivia feels like she’s going round in circles a bit.”
Olivia and Brad met in 2015 and dated for three months before things fizzled out and Olivia became the star we know and love on Love Island. After splitting with her co-star Chris Hughes, she and Bradley rekindled things, and got engaged in 2019. They now live together in Cheshire with their two dogs.
While the star had originally wanted to get married abroad, COVID lockdowns scuppered that – and then she put the brakes on their 2022 marriage plans, with Liv saying, “It’s nothing to cry about – we still want to get married at some point, but we just felt like next summer, Brad really needs to be focused on his return to football [he’d been injured] and I’ve got a lot on my plate, work-wise.”
Our source says, “It’s tough, because Olivia and Bradley basically only have a four or five week window to get married. Bradley has limited time off from football in the summer, but that’s the most popular time of year for people to get married, so there’s always a massive race to book the perfect venue before someone else. Olivia has told friends she is now going to look into options overseas again, because there is a lot more choice.”
Despite the setbacks, pals say Olivia is remaining positive. “She’ll marry Bradley one day. They’re soulmates and, at the end of the day, as long as they are together that’s all that matters,” our insider shares. “Bradley is also relaxed about waiting, because he knows how important it is for Olivia to find the right venue. He’s very much letting her organise things and will give it his blessing if Olivia is happy.”
While Olivia didn’t expand on the “bad vibe” she was getting from her chosen venue, in typical Liv fashion she did joke that she “couldn’t bear how many people had booked it after us, if everyone else has it, I don’t want it,” adding, “Apart from men… always gone for the ones everyone’s had.”