Olivia Attwood and Bradley Dack were NEVER really married: Insiders reveal how couple’s lavish wedding – complete with ITV series and her £300k gown – was a ‘sham’… as they tell DOLLY BUSBY shocking reason behind deception

Olivia Attwood looked every inch the shy bride as she walked down the aisle in a £300,000 lace-sleeved dress by Israeli designer Galia Lahav.

It was June 3, 2023, and she was marrying her ‘soulmate’, then Blackburn Rovers footballer Bradley Dack, in a no-expense-spared wedding at the five-star Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge.

The luxurious venue was decorated with 10,000 roses and more than 25,000 individual flowers.

She sat next to her new husband and anxiously signed the wedding registry as her friends and family, including her proud father Kai and mother Jen, watched.

All these emotional moments were luckily caught on camera as the reality star signed a deal with ITV for the 17-episode series Olivia Meets Her Match, spanning three seasons.

Bosses at the network had invested heavily in the influencer, who rose to fame on dating show Love Island in 2017, hoping to make her the next Holly Willoughby, hoping to turn her into ITV’s Golden Girl.

However, Ms Attwood, 34,’s wedding veil indicates there is no official record of the marriage, The Mail on Sunday reported.

Although viewers of ITV’s “wedding special” watched the two lovebirds sign a piece of paper after exchanging their vows alongside Dack’s best friend Ronnie Vint and Olivia’s younger brother Max, records of the union are not registered with the General Register Office, the archive of all marriages and civil partnerships for England and Wales.

Yes, the entire show, which ITV commissioned for a ‘significant’ sum of cash, is a sham.

A source who knows Olivia said: ‘They never married, it seemed it was all about money. Can you believe everything Olivia tells us now? Who knows?

This will be very disappointing for fans of ‘Olivia’. His team brokered the deal, but he didn’t actually get married. You couldn’t make up for it. What a fake, what a big lie to tell your fans. What a joke.”

Last night, Olivia’s friends tried to explain why she misled viewers into believing she was married.

They said that the Bvlgari hotel did not have a marriage license at that time; This doesn’t seem to be the case today, as the hotel’s website boasts that it can accommodate couples. Instead, Olivia’s friends insist they plan to legally get married six weeks after their ‘big day’.

Ms Attwood was photographed kissing KissFM co-host Pete Wicks in a Soho hotel last weekend, just seven weeks after announcing her ‘divorce’ from Mr Dack. We were photographed together in March last year

The friend said: ‘Despite their best efforts, the wedding planner failed to return. [a wedding-certified venue] just in time, so they were given an appointment six weeks after the ceremony to complete the paperwork at a registry office near their home in Cheshire.

‘During these six weeks Olivia revealed a number of false facts which delayed the pursuit of the paperwork.

The friend added that although the relationship lasted over ten years and they were both very much in love, ultimately Olivia could not agree to legally bind their union.’

However, the groom’s reaction was not that satisfactory. When Mr Dack approached the MoS through the press office of his new club Gillingham, it said only ‘no comment’.

There were extramarital clues for eagle-eyed viewers of the show; The document signed by him and Mrs. Attwood includes the date, place of marriage, full names, occupations, etc. Instead of a Marriage Schedule where there should be boxes to save, it looked blank.

The MoS visited the City of Westminster Archive Centre, where every wedding in the UK is documented, but found no trace of Olivia Jade Attwood and Bradley Paul Dack marrying anywhere in 2023 or 2022.

Perhaps the only permanent ink document of the couple’s wedding were the matching tattoos they got on their wedding day. While Ms Attwood had the words ‘Until death’ written on her arm, ‘Separate us’ appeared on Mr Dack’s wrist.

Miss Attwood, who is apparently married, was photographed kissing KissFM co-host Pete Wicks in a Soho hotel last weekend, just seven weeks after announcing her ‘divorce’ from Mr Dack.

For the past three years, the couple has maintained the illusion that they are husband and wife on podcasts and television shows; Ms Attwood added the word “Dack” to the end of her professional name and has since removed it from her social media pages.

The host invited Mr Dack to appear on his personal podcast So Wrong It’s Right in an episode titled: ‘Bradley Dack talks about his life as Liv’s husband.’

He said: ‘You are my most requested guest. It was weird getting ready to interview my husband this morning. ‘What’s it like to be married to an absolute queen?’

Dack replied: ‘Sometimes it’s hard; In many things we are the same, in others we are not.’

Last February, Made In Chelsea stars appeared on Jamie Laing and Sophie Haboo’s Newlyweds podcast, during which Ms Attwood lamented how she found their wedding day ‘traumatising’.

The foursome laughed and shared their wedding stories, as Ms Attwood said during the podcast: ‘Engagement – I could do this a hundred times, it’s so good,’ [but] the rest? No. It felt like my lungs were closing in on me every day.

Viewers of the show saw the two lovebirds sign a piece of paper after saying their vows

While promoting ITV dating show Bad Boyfriends a year ago, she told Buzzfeed: ‘People talk to me and I’m very open about Brad and I and how we got together. ‘I’m an open book and love talking about dating and past mistakes.’

The reality star added about her romantic life: ‘It’s all there for people to see.’

The deception was a major blow for the network, which had praised Ms Attwood on all its major TV programmes; This includes making her a regular panellist on Loose Women and making a brief appearance on This Morning last year.

Mr Dack even appeared on Loose Women and told host Coleen Nolan he wasn’t nervous because ‘we got married on camera’.

Elsewhere, Ms Attwood was also credited with three documentaries, Getting Filthy Rich, The Price of Perfection and Olivia Attwood Vs The Trolls.

Ms Attwood was dating Mr Dack in 2017 but joined the Love Island cast after discovering he was cheating. Photographed together in 2021

Most recently, he hosted ITV’s latest reality show The Heat; It’s a break from the usual documentary format and a step closer to the role of the Love Island presenter, who Ms Attwood is known to have her eye on.

She was with Mr Dack in 2017 but joined the cast of the third series of the popular dating show after discovering he was cheating.

He became known as one of the hottest contestants but rose to fame by teaming up with fellow contestant Chris Hughes. Although they appeared to be one of the show’s strongest couples, their relationship did not last long outside the Majorcan villa.

The couple has been maintaining the illusion that they are husband and wife on podcasts and television shows for the past three years. Taken together last year

However, not before embarking on a fly-on-the-wall reality show with the ITV series, which aired for a series and consisted largely of vicious brawls before the inevitable split in 2018.

She rekindled her relationship with the footballer in 2019 and ITV commissioned Olivia Meets Her Match, which followed the couple after they got engaged in 2020 until their seemingly real wedding in 2023.

The ‘fake’ marriage has undoubtedly been a lucrative one for the couple and Ms Attwood admitted she welcomed Mr Dack back onto her podcast.

Launching the third series of her podcast in February last year, she said: ‘Our first guest is my husband Bradley Attwood Dack guys, I brought you on because you’re a good judge.’

And then, now quite embarrassingly, he added: ‘You and Pete Wicks rate well.’

ITV has been contacted for comment.