Kerry Katona: 'I'm a strong believer in marriage'

Kerry Katona: 'I'm a strong believer in marriage'
Kerry Katona: 'I'm a strong believer in marriage' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Kerry Katona has insisted she still believes in marriage, despite being divorced twice. The 30-year-old single mum-of-four is seen swearing off men for life in the first episode of her new reality TV show Kerry Katona - The Next Chapter - which begins on ITV2 at 9pm on Wednesday night - but since filming she has found love with property developer Dan Foden, 28, who appeared on the ITV show Take Me Out. Kerry said: "I'm a completely strong believer in marriage, I'm really old-fashioned like that. "That was filmed over six months ago, that show. I wasn't out looking for a relationship, these things just happen, don't they?" The reality TV star, who is mother to nine-year-old Molly and eight-year-old Lilly-Sue from her first marriage to former Westlife star Brian McFadden and four-year-old Heidi and two-year-old Max from her second marriage to Mark Croft, said she had given up partying to spend more time with her children. Kerry said: "My kids are my best mates. I'm a single mum with four kids, working my bum off to try and give them a good school and I think it shows. "I had a reputation for being a party animal, blah, blah, whatever. But when I go to these awards and things like that I don't ever go to the after-show parties, I tend to go straight home to the kids cause you've got the school run in the morning."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.