Kerry's ex to start custody fight

Twice voted mum-of-the-year Kerry Katona faces losing her kids.

And it’s about time too if you ask me.

If Kerry lived on a council estate in Basildon and got up to half the things she has, I’ve little doubt her kids would already be living with their father.

Hopefully her ex husband Brian McFadden’s plans to go for custody of his daughters will be the wake-up call Kerry so badly needs and she’ll pull herself together.

Sadly, though, I doubt it.

What do you reckon? Have your say here.

Comments

[jean doak]

i think brian has a lot to answer for. he took of saying delta was business. kerry had a hard upbring as a child. i think when she married brian she couldnot believe her luck. married with two children and a husband she loved,and then came delta.this is where her sad story begins. so have some compassion for kerry. brian let her down

[Di]

Dear me, Kerry (I've lost the plot) Katona, is going down the pan, just like this country. Her daughters would enjoy a far more stable home life with their father in Australia..

[Mish]

When Kerry was in Atomic Kitten I thought she was great.

Over the last few years she has repulsed me she is everything I despise and I pray to God my boys never ever bring home anything like her.

Why on earth she agreed to Crazy in Love I will never understand she is now rock bottom, spends all her time in bed or popping 'medication'.

Those girls may love their Mum but in my opinion would be better off with their Dad. Kerry appears to spend no time with them anyway.

[Phil Lawrence]

Well done Brian. You have kept your silence long enough and handled the whole situation with dignity. Your two daughters, however, are in real danger and deserve to be taken for their own safety. If Kerry wants to destroy her own life she should be free to do so, but not with her two daughters by Brian watching from the sidelines.

[jay]

phil are you talking about the about the same brian who told lies and said him and delta were just friends, and then left his children before he admitted they were a couple, kerry is no angel but brian is no saint share the blame

[Donna]

I really like kerry but i think shes doing herself no favours, shes been caught that many times doing drugs and seen drunk and in a right state and doing a show like Crazy in love well that should have been a NO NO - her PR guy Max should have seen to that insted of making her look like a bigger loser. I think the girls would be better off with brain and i think kerry should have a good long think, i mean all the crap she had in her life growing up that should be a huge reason why she dont want it for her kids.....its such a shame and like i said i do like kerry but i wish brain all the luck in the world getting them girls.....sorry kerry but you need a good shake girl

[linda]

brian walked away from his children to live a new life and theses two little girls had to change there lifes without him

Kerry needs help and i hope she can trust someone to get this help.

[rose]

I think Brian has behaved very well in keeping quiet when he could have told a lot of nasty things about Kerry. He would make a much better parent than her and should take the children. They would have a terrible upbringing with her, and would end up drinking and doing drugs for sure. Everyone knows Mark married her for her money and the fame - he's a joke and a slob.

[jay]

i hope brian does not get the girls, i pray that kerry gets help. brian is sitting in aussie land while kerry rears the girls, she puts in the works he does the talking. i so wish kerry well. he is an absent father who thinks he can do better. why did he leave his children? only he can answer that but we can guess there was a greater attraction elsewhere so take the halo of brian, and give kerry help instead of grievence

[sharon]

WOW!! Congrats to Brian for wanting his kids now,and to think he moved only half way around the world from them. Great Dad!!!NOT!!!

[jay]

rose. i take it you have a crystal ball as you seem to know how kerry and brians children will turn out if raised by kerry,you can read marks mind and you seem to know him as you are able to remark on his character would there be any chance you could tell us next weeks lotto numbers?

[Lynne]

Marriages end for many reasons, and it is never easy.Where children are involved, it is so much more difficult. We do not know what went on behind closed doors, that led to the break up, but seeing Kerry's behaviour since, you can bet that she was not guilt free. What you have with Kerry, is a woman wallowing in self pity, blaming everybody but herself for her actions, and playing the sympathy card time & again. It is not Brian Mcfadden that we see week in week out in the media, but enough is enough. If Kerry does not want to lose her children, she needs to wake up and look at the life that she is giving them. She has had the income & the priveleges, but has squandered it without thought for what effect it has on them. Wouldn't we all like to check into the Priory when things get tough. As things stand the children need to be in a more stable environment where their needs are paramount. If that is with Brian and his family, so be it. She only has herself to blame

[Wendy]

Kerry might currently be attracting some negative publicity, but is this the Brian McFadden we have already been told; Left Kerry for another woman, then told newspapers that he only married her for the money they were paid from a magazine, got minders to pick the children up when they were only a few years old and bring them over to him in America rather than come and get them himself and has threatened to fight for custody before and get his mother to care for them! Hypocrite!

[Claire]

Brian McFadden is not the angel he proclaims to be. I am sure we all remember that this wonderful father! left Westlife to spend time with his family, he then has 1 number one hit and all of a sudden he dumps his wife and kids, gets it on with Delta whats her face, disappears to New York and then Australia denying any knowledge of having a relationship with Delta. Kerry Katona has a breakdown which is quiet naturally in response to the breakdown of a marriage she thought was ok. Where was he when she went through this, where was he for the kids. Sorry, yes Kerry may not project herself in the best light and some of the things she has done she is bound not to be proud of, but come on at least she has been there for the kids, where's he been. Oh yes I remember in Australia with the fiance. Even Xmas the other year he was suppose to have the kids in Ireland, he was with Delta somewhere and the kids stayed with his MUM!!! Sorry I do agree Kerry has leeches hanging around but Brian is no angel and can't come out and say she is unfit when he has never put them first. Trying to salvage his failing career which went down the pan because he dumped Kerry is hardly a reason to come running out wanting custody of children that in all fairness he hasn't shown much interest in during these years.

Kerry thought Brian was the love of her life and was obviously devastated when he dumped her, she fell apart, yes in front of the kids but she is only human and I am sure other people have reacted in the same way but obviously not in the public eye.

[Rachel]

Brian should NEVER get custody of those girls. It's kerry that has brought them up and kerry that has been there for them while Brian Mcfadden has been off round the world living it up with Delta. Yes kerry has done drugs but she has never done it in front of the girls and she turned to the drugs as a result of her break up which Brian is also partly to blame for. And yes she drinks and smokes but so does Brian. He is no saint.

[John]

Niether of them deserve custody of those children, they have both used their kids for years now. Brian is more worried about his career than anyhting else and Kerry is more concerned about getting media attention.

[Claire]

I think its a real shame for Kerry. She gets so much stick from "perfect" people its unbelieveable. she did make mistakes in the past but she held her hands up and admitted those. I think Kerry could do alot more to help herself but we only see a fraction of her goings on i think she will be a great mum to all her kids and in my opinion if Brian loved his girls that much why the heck isnt he closer to them instead of being shacked up with Delta in Australia???? He left his family behind so he dont deserve them now!

[Chris]

As with the papers Mtv will only show the parts of the program they think makes good tv.While i appreciate Kerry was maybe a bit stupid to do the show,She does not deserve to have her kids taken from her by a guy that in an interview said that having his kids was like getting a pet dog(that has always stayed in my mind).Now maybe that was yet another made up story but he has hardly been a role model and couldn't have moved further from his kids if he tried. Maybe if he had stayed instead of running away he could have seen his kids more.So easy to blame the other parent when your not around.
Maybe if people helped Kerry instead of bad mouthing someone that has had an awful upbringing things would be different.Brian drink,smokes who knows has done drugs maybe, so what makes him so perfect or is this just another ploy to be back in the public eye again......has he a new record coming out i wonder??

[Mandy]

Kerry, if you are reading this look what you have! Believe it or not these people all care about whats going to happen to you and your children, despite not even knowing you personally. Thats not bad, however there will only be four people that will always love you completely an unconditionally, and thats those kids of yours. If you ever had a chance to stand up and fight for something then it has to be now. Keep going girl, I believe you can sort yourself out, every day you wake up still breathing is another chance to turn it all around. Be strong for them, As a mother and you dont come first anymore, everything you do reflects on those kids and their lives, so stop, take a look and make the steps you need to take to make them feel safe and secure again. All you need to do is love them and show them how much they mean to you. Never forget how good they can make you feel. Even with no money or fame you can do that. Only a mother will understand what you feel deep inside for those kids. I know I would fight tigers for mine. I sure you could fight Brian McFadden. XXXXX

[anon]

Molly and Lily-Sue may appear to spend little time with their mother if Kerry has asked that they not be filmed, after all they are not Mark's children.

Brian has tried before to get custody and failed. Funny how he's trying again now just as he reappears on the music scene with a new album to plug.

Kerry may not be perfect but at least she's looking after the girls herself unlike Brian who's plan is to win custody for his mum to look after them.

[Larianna]

Brian tried last year to take the custody, but failed and told he had to wait till April this year to apply for it again and that is what he is doing. It has NOTHING to do with the album out or anything, he just had to wait to be able to apply for the custody.

Then: BRIAN said that Molly and Lilly weren't going to be in that idiotic show of a hasbeen crack muppet. If it'd been Kerry, then all of her kids would've been showed alot in the show. Not only the poor child that has an idiot for a father. I can't for my life understand why Kerry stays with that discusting idiot.

Brian and Kerry's marriage had been over for a long time before they split up. I doubt it has to do anything with Delta and even if it had; so what???? It is not the first time a guy leaves his wife to be with someone else and it won't be the last time. He might not have done right, but I am sure that it was better than to stay with that miserable cow he was married to.

And for Brian saying getting Molly was like getting a dog. Geez.. ppl really do take things literally!!!! It doesn't mean he saw the poor child as an animal! He meant that he never thought on the responsibility that came with the child and that it would've been a bit hard at the start but then it'd go easy!! Atleast he was honest and admited what he thought and that he wasn't really prepared to have the baby! BUT he loves his daughters and they are better off with him and Delta (and his mother) where they will have a real upbringing away from a mother that ends up at the priory once a year and that does almost everything to end up in the tabloids!!

Go Brian!! I hope you win!

[kel]

Maybe Brian should help and support Kerry get better, none of us know the reasons for the breakdown of the marriage.
He should come back over here and support Kerry and his children, if he was really that worried about his girls e would never have moved so far away from them!!!
Kerry should really concerntrate on getting her life back on track for her kids sakes, yes she had a bad childhood but that should give her more reasons to give her children a better life than what she had!!

[Olive]

I think as most people Brian McFadden deserted her when the children were very little, if he thought anything of his children, he would not want them to be taken from there Mother, no one can replace a Mother!! and this will do more harm than good to the children, as going to Australia they would never see her it is too far away. If he really wants custody he has to live near so that the children do not lose contact with the person that has brought them up for quite a few years on her own.

[Jenny]

Brain is a sad excuse for a father. Why does he wish to splash his business all over the papers? If he wants to do the best for his kids he should be doing it behind closed doors. Even though I feel sorry for Kerry and think she needs good friends and family behind something I think she lacks, her and Brain both need to grow up and put their kids first and stop all this now. After all they are both adults.

[Tammi]

Brian should have sought the help of an attorney ages ago. The behaviour of his X has been nothing short of disgusting.
She has proved that staying in the spotlight and accumulating a fortune mean more to her than giving her kid's the stability needed in their young lives

[Helen Faulkes]

If Brian gets custody,all well and good, but who will rescue Heidi and Max? Something needs to be done about Kerry and her free-loading husband. Where are Social Services when they are needed?

[mrsq]

For 15year's my husband and i have tried for a child.I find this makes us so angry when to many people are having children and abusing the privilege of having a child/family..
i agree on if brian take's his two children what will happen with the younger two children..
where is this country coming to..faliure i see and i just hope my life has been lived to the full before we really lose all that we lived for..

[helen]

Is it any wonder this country is the way it is??? Not one ounce of compassion or empathy here! this woman has a MENTAL ILLNESS. If she had cancer or aids people would show nothing but support! every day iam dismayed at the ignorance of fellow human beings. God forbid any of you ever have to live with a mental illness.

[angela]

i think it is so sad watching the fly on the wall.kerry and mark are never with there children never playing or spending any time with them when you see them they are with the child minder thank god for her

[Larianna]

Helen: Kerry used to get loads of sympathy from people. Even I used to feel sympathy for her, but she lost that priviledge when, instead of do something to gain a stable life, she does NOTHING to try and deal with the mental illness she has. Instead of going to a shrink and doctor like she should do, she continues to live her life like she has done nothing wrong.

Whenever something goes wrong in her life, she blames the people around her. When she became a druggie it was Brians fault. She having a nervous breakdown, her mothers fault.. etc.. She never does anything wrong. The last thing that happened was that her poor son got born 5 weeks to early, but that has nothing to do with her living a stressful life, eating totally wrong, smoking like a chimney and drinking alcohol.. noooo it was Brians fault...

Many of her fans has started to get tired of her because of this. Instead of living the life she does now, she should kick out that lousy thing she has for a husband and try and live a quiet life until she is healthy enough to deal with the life she used to have!! Much of what has happened to her, she has herself to blame and noone else but she is too selfcentered and egoistic to see that. Her kids would do better without her around as things are now.

I am not saying that I am perfect, but I can atleast admit when I've done wrong and I don't blame everything that goes wrong on someone else! I am not either saying that Brian is perfect but he, atleast, managed to deal with his problems. From going to be a popstar that lived on alcohol and being totally depressed and losing the will to live, he has become clean and healthy and he doesn't blame his problems on anyone else.. He admits that hes done wrong.

[Ann]

Brian is a hypocrite! All I can say is people who have lived in glass houses should not throw stones. Brian disgusts me not Kerry.

[Steph]

Who does Brian think he is some saving grace for those girls. If he hadn't treated her the way he did by leaving like he did for Delta maybe Kerry wouldn't be in this predicament. He is the selfish one instead of 'helping' Kerry he wants to knock her confidence even more hasn't done enough already. He can see that she is now married to a no hoper, he should be helping not destroying her. If she was such a bad mother then why have social services not become involved, he can say what he like from 1000's of miles away why isn't he here. Brian shut up and be there for Kerry as its you who is destroying your kids as i assume they can read and their friends will say things at school.

[mel]

kerry katona is a low life scum bag. mental illness!! what a joke. It is an excuse to try and justify the fact that she is an unfit mother and a loser.
She is a slob and those poor children should be taken off her.
I hope Brian gets them. No judge should ever let them stay with Kerry.

[Daniella]

IF he cares so much for his little girls...Why did he move to Australia in the first place?

[Fandabbydozie]

Brian has a cheek trying to take the girls off Kerry....he didn't think of them when he was lying and cheating then he ran off to Australia, he wasn't thinking much of the kids then, He should of stayed and spent more time with the kids,
He must have a single or something coming out

[Jess]

I hope something is sorted out soon for the sake of these kids. At the end of the day they're victims in this case. Brian is over the otherside of the world, and more than likely, hardly sees them. Kerry is a mess and craves fame all the time. Meaning neither of them have much time for their kids. Their kids do not seem to be their main priority in both cases and should be. Both parents come across as selfish, self-indulgent people putting their needs before their children.
I'm surprised a judge would award custody to either parent. Both Brian and Kerry need to think about where their priorities lie or these children are the ones who are going to suffer.

[Melissa D]

poor kerry.if Brian love the girls so much y did he move to AUSTRALIA in the first place? he should have stayed in england and bin a dad to them? hope kerry gets the girls.

[davaa]

Brian Let her down. He is responsible for her! He broke her heart . He is a horrible man.

[stef]

A few years ago when Kerry and Brian split up i disliked brian alot because he lied and then left his kids. If he has known for such a long time that Kerry was an unfit mother why did he not move back to England so he could be near them. Especialy after he didnt get custody last year! I think that Kerry does have a lot of problems and if she wasnt getting hammered daily in the press she would be more able to get help and come through a better person. Good luck kerry xxx

[karen]

I hope and pray to god that Bryan gets his girls. They need security and love not the life they are living now. Those girls need there dad more than ever. I hope Bryan does get them, Im sure many of us are 1000% Behind Bryan and wish him luck. Its good he has finally spoken out.

[thomas]

it's not before time bryan is taking action he should have done so a long time ago

[Marlean]

I think 'Crazy in love' was the craziest mistake Kerry and new husband could have ever decided to do. I was never really a big fan of kerry, but I did not dislike her. However, her show is quite disturbing to watch; but saying that if we planted a camera in our homes to watch and record everything we do, I would suspect that many of us would not appear as good as we think. I believe that many of us adopt the way we were brought up and mirror this in the way we bring up our children and if our own up bringing was less than desirable, the job of bringing up children becomes even harder. Brian left kerry with two little girls and set up home on the otherside of the world. He did not think about those little girls when he was wooing Delta, I can guess what he was thinking about. He has a duty to those little girls and now he wants to rip them away from their mother to live with him in Austrailia. He met and married Kerry and he knew how vunerable she is/was but that did not stop him from dumping her unceremoniously. I think he should be charged with neglect and fined for abandoning his children. Kerry might seem unstable at times but she has been through alot and Brian upping and leaving did not help. And now he is all settled and happy he now wants his girls. He is no more responsible than kerry and no I dont think he should get custody but share custody with kerry. If kerry had met someone whilst she was married to him and decided to up and leave she would of been blasted by all and sundry.

From a concerned realist.

[paula]

i feel really sorry for those girls, having to live with that selfish pig mark. kerry needs to wake up and get herself sorted out for her own sake and the childrens. those poor girls are going to have a childhood like kerry has had, and then they are going to end up just like she is now. Pat, kerrys stepsister seems to really care about her so i wish she would give her a good shake instead of pussyfooting around her. And as for brian getting custody of the girls, whats the point in uprooting them to live with a woman who has said in an interview, that she "finds it hard to connect with the girls". Social services really should be getting involved here, for the sake of those 2 little girls.

[AM]

I think that he should get custody of the other 2 kids as well!
She's and awful human, she should be tagged and put in a zoo....she's just white trash that shouldn't be glamourised.
Saying all that I do like watching her....it makes you feel that your life is so good!

[Larianna]

Why are everyone assuming he is gonna move Lily and Molly to Oz? He has a main base in London where he lived up until end of last year, when he went over to Australia to work on his album and to start to promote it. When that is done, he's maybe moving back to London again.

And by him abandoming his little girls. I see it better that he moved away from Kerry otherwise he would've still been an alcoholic and she would've been a crackhead. Is that an invoroment for small girls to grow up in? NO!
He does take care of his girls the best way he can and is allowed to do. Whenever he wants to have them longer, Kerry says no or she overreacts and blames everything on Brian. We do not know everything that goes on beteween Brian and Kerry and I doubt we ever will find out, but there is a good reason to why Brian "abandomned" his daughters and to why he now wants the custody.

[Stacey]

Its easy for us to judge and pick sides but in reality we dont know either Kerry or Brian.
Yeah Kerry has dabbled in drugs in the past which she freely admits, but that doesnt mean her children are going to follow in her footsteps by living with her.
Coming from a broken family myself and now being with my partner who has two children of his own, i find it a real shame that 2 adults cant put their petty he did, she did squabbles to rest and think about the hurt and damage a custody battle could leave the children with. They are old enough to realise that something would be going on betweeen their mother and father, the two people they look up to and love.
No child deserves to have an absent parent which this will most probably result in.

[sharon]

There is no way I think Brian McFadyen should get full custody of his 2 kids!! For a start it would not be fair on the kids to be taken away from their mother to go and live in Ireland with their gran because believe me thats where they would end up!! Theres no way Brian would take them to Australia to live with him and his Fiance Delta. Secondly, it would destroy Kerry if her 2 girls were taken from her, as she knows how it feels to grow up without her mother around so im sure she won't want her girls to grow up without her.

I do think that Kerry has problems and needs help to get her life back on track, but she needs to get away from that sad excuse of a husband of hers!! and learn to be on her own with her kids. I don't think she will ever gat back on track as long as she stays with Mark Croft!! He is always going to bring her down and by the way he speaks to her, he is just a total sleeze. I do believe that he has been unfaithful on several occasions and would still be unfaithful if he got the chance, he enjoys being in the press and being with Kerry allows this. Without his wife he would be a NOBODY.

Brian has done enough damage to Kerry!! leave her and the girls as they are because after all if it weren't for you, she would never be in the state she's in!!!!!!!!!

[lynn]

It was Kerry that finished the marriage in Aug 2004, then Brian got with Delta Dec 2004.

Since then Kerry has lied and lied and now Brian is actually telling his side and kept his dignity for the last 4 years.

Kerry Katona is a disgrace & Brian is a wonderful compassionate human being.

[Debbie]

I think everyone needs to get off kerrys case and leave the poor girl to live her life as she wishes as for that brian mcfadden he needs to get a grip them kids are fine with ther mother if they were not being looked after they would have already been taken from kerry so what right has he got to say she is an unfit mother he aint exactly farther of the year is he and he only slags kerry off to get in a paper

[jenny]

Listen, brian getting together with delta a million was obviously not the best thing in the world but for gods sakes that is no excuse put your kids through such a terrible life. Things like that happen to people with alot less opportunities than kerry and they cope. GO BRIAN!!

[B Mcmanus]

Has anyone thought of kerrys other children not just the ones she's had with Brian, to split the family up is a disgrace especialy if they go to Australia to live. Kerry needs to get help and Brian should be living closer to giver her support with his daughters not sending them to his mothers in Ireland.
Family life seems to be a thing of the past these days its very sad.

[michelle]

Kerry, you blame your present condition on your upbringing; your mum had mental health probs, took cocaine and abused alcohol,you went to several schools etc. I know you love your children but arn't they going through exactly the same situation with you? Are you concerned they may end up like you?

[angela]

ITS ABOUT TIME...Brian started custody proceedings after all the allegations what good father wouldnt kerry is a pathectic excuse for a mother she needs to seriously grow up...kerry says all the things that are wrote about her are lies..what a load of twaddle theres no smoke without fire an if they were false why hasnt she started court proceedings against the people who write about her THINK of your kids kerry they shud be ur priority not that pathectic man you have shacked up with