Christine Bleakley Denies Wedding Day Bribes

Posted: 10/04/2012 07:15 Updated: 10/04/2012 07:15   WENN

Christine Bleakley is no wedding crasher - the TV presenter has denied bribing couples with cash to tempt them to give up their wedding venues.

According to newspaper reports in the star's native Ireland, Christine's mega-rich fiance Frank Lampard has offered £100,000 to a couple in an attempt to get them to switch their wedding day at Galgorm Manor hotel, near the former Daybreak presenter's family home in County Antrim.

The Chelsea player is also alleged to have offered to pay off another pair's mortgage if they cancelled their wedding at another venue.

But a fuming Christine has been left baffled by the rumours - insisting she'd never try and ruin someone else's big day to get her own way.

She told The Sun: "I'd never in a million years ask someone to move a wedding. Stuff like that makes you out to be a horrible person.

"One hotel even put out a story that I'd paid for an Italian restaurant to be opened in their venue because I wanted that food. I'd never get married there!

"I honestly don't care whether the napkins match the colour of the bridesmaids' dresses. I just want a low-key, relaxed day surrounded by the people I love."

The presenter has already denied reports she will sell snaps of her wedding day to the press.

Speaking to Fabulous magazine, she said: "It'll be a very personal day, so we won't be selling it to a magazine. Absolutely not. Frank and I are both incredibly conscious in front of a camera, and besides anything else, it would be my parents' worst nightmare. My family are so not in this world and it wouldn't be fair on them."

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15:59 on 11/04/2012
She has a history of this. As a wedding crasher, we know a lot of others that do the same and we share our secrets. Its a fun hobby.
03:49 on 11/04/2012
I was told a good while ago that this was happening - Friend of a friend and all that. Their wedding, honeymoon and mortgage has been paid for, for swapping their wedding date. I Absolutely do not blame them at all - what a good start to married life. Just wish Lamps and Co wouldn't deny it. I know she gets a rough time in the press, but stories like this make her look far worse for lying.
23:44 on 10/04/2012
she's such a control freak that i wouldn't be surprised that that had happened!
18:48 on 10/04/2012
Have had a pamper day at this hotel ................great venue I am sure anyone would take the money to change a day of their wedding, I suppose with matches he plays and her work they are limited to dates they can choose which suit them both.
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Barbara Longstaff
18:36 on 10/04/2012
Wonder if any couple would turn down £100,000 for change their Wedding Venue, I know I would. Amazing what money can buy.
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19:14 on 10/04/2012
You WOULD turn it down? Typo or are you very rich?
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Barbara Longstaff
19:26 on 10/04/2012
Yes I loved my husband and nothing would ever tempt me not to have married him. Unfortunately he died 9 years ago but we have a lovely marriage. £100,000 would never have tempted me to have altered our wedding day or venue. It was not a typing error either.
16:51 on 10/04/2012
If they offered people £100,000 to change venues I bet they would bite their hands off, that sort of money goes a long way to the average newlywed couple.
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No likey? Not bovvered !
13:51 on 10/04/2012
This has been going round for months,well before xmas -rumour and thats all
12:42 on 10/04/2012
I'm from Northern Ireland and the only exposure I've had to her has been in the press and its always been negative bitching about her when she hasn't even done anything.
11:25 on 10/04/2012
For goodness sake, leave the girl alone to get on with her life instead of all the nasty bitching. I'm so glad i don't have friends like you who say "I hate her, she's this, she's that............". Get a life! What has the girl done on you? Really? I bet if you met her, you'd likely change your mind as she seems to be a lovely person. Until someone does me wrong, I have no reason to have a go at them. Some of you should think about that a little bit more
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10:07 on 10/04/2012
A bribe is "money or favour given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust"

A Payment to someone to change the date of their wedding is not a bribe -it is a simple commercial and legal transaction
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10:03 on 10/04/2012
A bribe is defined as:- Money or favour given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust"

Clearly this not the case if someone is offered money to move the date of of thier wedding to suit another person.
09:27 on 10/04/2012
i was told by a reliable source several months ago that a couple had signed an agreement to swap wedding dates and their mortgage would be paid and their wedding and honeymoon would also be paid for.
16:51 on 10/04/2012
Well if that is true they are a very lucky couple.
08:51 on 10/04/2012
When I saw the headling thought the story was going to say that Frank was bribing Christine not to marry him.
09:16 on 10/04/2012
Thanks my first laugh of the day !!!
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