When former bank worker Kate Wright joined ITV reality show The Only Way Is Essex in 2015, she was refreshingly comfortable embarrassing herself on television.
A close friends of ex-car dealer and TOWIE star Gemma Collins, Kate was in an on-off relationship with handsome electrician Dan Edgar at the time, and happy, as her colleagues tell me, to be ‘rinsed’ by the programme in exchange for fame.
Only everything changed when she caught the eye of former England footballer Rio Ferdinand at a beach club in Dubai, by then a father of three.
The pair met some months after the death of Rio’s
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