After a year of staying, Andy Carroll received a red card on Friday after being photographed asleep next to a blonde waitress while on holiday in Dubai, weeks before his planned wedding to Billi Mucklow.
The footballer’s long-term future prone to injury to the former TOWIE cast member is now shrouded in uncertainty, with the damning selfie shattering what appeared to be a solid nine-year relationship.
With his impressive frame, Andy, 33, had already established himself as a talented Newcastle United children’s club striker before confirming his relationship with television personality Billi, 34, in 2014.
Long-term: Andy Carroll has been in love with Billi Mucklow for nine years, with the couple who got engaged in 2014 and finally got ready to get married next month.
Billi rose to fame in reality star TOWIE in 2011, but left reality TV two years later to run a Bikram yoga studio in Essex.
He started dating the athlete in the summer of 2013, but they kept their relationship a secret until the following February.
It would be a turning point for the footballer: he was then on loan at London club West Ham United after moving from Newcastle to Liverpool on a £ 35m deal.
With Billi’s stabilizing influence playing a major role, the bustling off-field crossings that threatened to overshadow a career already hampered by a catalog of injuries were reduced.
Hooked: but this week images emerged showing the West Brom striker, once Liverpool’s most expensive Premier League transfer, in a bed with blonde bar manager Taylor Wilke on Wednesday night
In fact, nightclub fights, nights of alcohol, and allegations of off-field assault soon came to mind when Andy underwent some sort of brand change, a change that is largely over. he owed his partner.
In statements in 2019, the footballer credited Billi with helping him change his lifestyle.
“I have no doubt that I was a fool when I was here, and I certainly was a fool for a couple of years later,” he told nufc.co.uk.
“But I met my lady, and now we have four children living at home, we have animals, we have responsibilities. There is no more behavior as it was, you know. I was stupid, I was young and I got carried away with the lifestyle he had.
‘It’s completely different now. I’m actually a father, I’ve grown up and I have responsibilities, so … I have a purpose. ”
Happy family: Billi and Andy share the children Arlo, six and Wolf, four and their 15-month-old daughter Marvel with Andy’s children, Emilie Rose, 12, and Lucas, 11, in a relationship previous.
Future bride: It seems that the couple has been encouraged to prepare for their big day, before the photos are published in Dubai.
Billi and Andy welcomed the first of two children they share, son Arlo, who is now six years old, in June 2015, and the couple confirmed the news on social media shortly afterwards.
Her second child, son Wolf, arrived two years later in November 2017, leaving Andy, who was already the father of 11-year-old daughter Emilie, and son Lucas, again, of a former relationship, was the father of four children.
He would be Billi’s third child. The former TOWIE star also shares daughter Penelope Blu with ex-boyfriend Daniel Harris.
Back: The couple have been together for about nine years and have been waiting for a major engagement since 2014.
The couple’s wedding, now in doubt, had been a long time coming, and Billi admitted that they had initially planned to exchange vows in the summer of 2015.
Talking to OK! “I wanted to spend a few months enjoying Arlo when I was a baby before we started dealing with wedding things. I definitely want a mass wedding, though.
They made a home for themselves and their children at their Essex mansion, called Carroll Castle, which fans ridiculed relentlessly when they shared pictures of their home on social media.
Unique Taste: They made a home for themselves and their children at their Essex mansion called Carroll Castle, which fans relentlessly teased when they shared pictures of their home on social media.
A “STEN do” timeline by Andy and Billi
Wednesday, May 18: Billi and his friends travel to Heathrow to fly to Dubai. As MailOnline has already reported, Billi is missing two of his bachelorette parties because one of his closest friends is considered unfit to fly after consuming too much alcohol.
Sunday, May 22: Billi posts a series of pictures of her in Dubai on her Instagram, including one with a green top enjoying a glass of a cup with the words “Mrs Carroll” next to it. She and her bachelorette party share a photo by the pool, all in white shirts with the words “drunk in love” written on their backs. Carroll, who has just been released by West Bromwich Albion, arrives in Dubai with a group of about 15 friends, including Newcastle United defender Paul Dummett and goalkeeper Mark Gillespie.
Monday, May 23: Billi posts a photo of her and her husband to be together in Dubai. “STEN – Hen Party Crasher @andytcarroll,” Billi captioned the photo, showing her in a polkadot suit and him in a black shirt. She later shared pictures of herself at the airport, grabbing food before returning home to the UK. Photographs show Billi arriving at Heathrow on Monday.
Wednesday, May 23: Andy, who is staying at the Fairmont Hotel for £ 500 a night, is partying at a Cove Beach club with other people, including the hotel’s bar manager: Taylor Jane Wilkey. She later tells The Sun that after a “very drunk” day, she and a friend returned to their hotel. She takes pictures inside the hotel, which she says were sent to friends in the UK and leaked. He tells The Sun that nothing happened between them, but close friends of Billi and Carroll describe the photographs as “embarrassing.”
The couple had announced their engagement in November 2014, after Andy had asked him the question during a small romantic getaway in Rome, Italy.
Earlier this month, Billi and her friends went to Dubai to fetch her hen, which was “knocked on the door” by her fiancé after arriving in the United Arab Emirates towards the end of the trip. of his girls.
The enchanted future woman shared a happy photo of the couple as they enjoyed dinner, while renaming their hen party as “STEN do.”
However, on Wednesday, Andy was photographed sleeping next to a blonde beauty Taylor Jane Wilkey while in Dubai at his bachelor party, which followed the ‘STEN’ celebrations.
Photographs show that the recently released West Brom striker – who was a British record signing at the time of his move to Liverpool – fainted in a bed next to the 27-year-old bar manager.
Others show Taylor wearing her father of four’s personalized bathrobe with “Andy Carroll” embroidered on her chest.
The bar manager, who says the images were leaked to Snapchat after sending them to his friends in the UK, insists that nothing sexual happened to the 6ft4in striker. “It was all a bit of totally innocent fun,” he told The Sun.
However, Andy and Billi’s friends told the newspaper last night that the images were “embarrassing” so close to their wedding, which will take place in just two weeks after an eight-year engagement.
According to The Sun, Andy was partying at Cove Beach Club with Taylor when he invited her and a friend to his hotel suite for a later party.
She told the Sun: “It was a later party. We all went back to her hotel.
“I didn’t sleep with him, it wasn’t like that. There were three of us in the room.”
Taylor, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire but now working in Dubai as a bar manager at a high-end hotel, described his time with Carroll as “very drunk” and said the striker was “drunk”.
In early May, Andy shared his enthusiasm for the wedding with a romantic image of him hugging Mrs. Mucklow.
He subtitled it: “When you have it, it doesn’t matter what happens !! # 5 weeks ❤️ @billimucklow ‘
Still, at the moment, according to reports, Billi “has no plans” to cancel the wedding, after his farewell crossings.