Love Island and Loose Women star Olivia Attwood fronts a new ITV2 show Bad Boyfriends which takes inspiration from her experience with footballer husband Bradley Dack
Olivia Attwood hasn't had a fairytale relationship with husband Bradley Dack.
The footballer cheated on the Love Island and Loose Women star during the early days of their relationship, but they still tied the knot. Now Olivia's fronting a new ITV2 show, aptly titled Bad Boyfriends as she channels what went down in her own relationship.
Her Love Island appearance actually came after she discovered Bradley had cheated on her, but after leaving the villa with Chris Hughes, the former couple eventually rekindled in 2018 before getting married only last year, putting the past behind them.
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ITV/REX/Shutterstock)She's now opened up about the moment she found out Bradley had cheated, speaking to MailOnline as she promoted Bad Boyfriends. "Anyone who has been cheated on knows it's just the most horrible thing. Brad and I hadn't met each other's families at that point but we were dating. I was deeply shocked," she explained, remembering the hearbreaking ordeal.
She was set to appear on the grid at the Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2017 when she received a phone call from a no called ID number, with the person saying they were Bradley's girlfriend, despite them being together. "I'll remember that phone call for the rest of my life because it was so traumatic, chilling almost because you're having an out-of-body experience. When you hear that, your brain starts to try to put it all together, thinking, "How? Where? When?" Your mind just starts going into overdrive," she explained.
"The next day I was on the F1 track looking all gorgeous with everyone kind of drooling over me. But inside I wanted to cry because I just felt so ugly and kept asking: 'Why do I keep getting cheated on? I can't even get a guy to keep it in his pants."
"It was a horrible feeling. But it made me realise I couldn't miss out on the Love Island opportunity again. Luckily, they still wanted me." But after appearing on the huge reality show, Olivia and Bradley made their way back to each other, but it wasn't an easy ride.
"It was rocky. I try to be honest, as people think post-Love Island he and I just got back together and there you go – a fairy tale. But it wasn't. The first six months of dating were pretty shaky because we both had our guard up. I was navigating being out of Love Island; he was at a new football club. We were getting to know each other again."
She said that "trust is something you have to earn" and admitted "people can change". Opening up further, she concluded: "It depends how motivated you are. Talk is cheap but you have to show the commitment. We'd have building blocks, then we'd keep having little setbacks, and then eventually you get to a place where you have a foundation."
