28 March 2023 , 20:46
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Kerry Katona has made a heartbreaking admission amid revealing that her fiancé, Ryan Mahoney, is going through the process to adopt her youngest child.
The former Atomic Kitten singer, 42, spoke about Ryan going through the adoption process after her eight-year-old daughter, Dylan-Jorge, revealed she wanted to call him Dad.
Dylan-Jorge's biological father, George Kay, passed away in 2019, with Kerry admitting her daughter was too young to remember him.
Kerry, who married George in September 2014, said the adoption was her daughter's decision.
Dylan-Jorge's biological father, George Kay, passed away in 2019 (kerrykatona7/Instagram)
Ryan is in the process of adopting Kerry's youngest daughter (Kerry Katona)George and Kerry first started dating in 2012, after initially meeting while at school together.
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The pair bumped into each other in Warrington, going to marry two years later when Dylan-Jorge was five months old.
The pair split in 2015, divorcing two years later in 2017 and just two years after their divorce, George died on July 6, 2019, reportedly from a cocaine overdose at the age of 39.
Kerry opened up about her relationship with Ryan and him stepping up to take on a serious role in parenting her children in her OK! magazine column, where she explained that it was her daughter's longing for a father which spurred DJ on to ask Ryan to be her adoptive dad.
Kerry revealed she and Ryan won't be tying the knot anytime soon (Kerry Katona/Instagram)
DJ is Kerry's youngest child (Instagram)"Me and Ryan won’t be getting married any time soon, but when we do, it will be a shotgun wedding in Vegas," Kerry wrote in her column.
"For now, we are going through the adoption papers for Ryan to adopt DJ as I found out she wanted to call him Dad."
Kerry went on to make the heartbreaking admission that her youngest child has no memory of her biological father.
Kerry revealed DJ has no memory of her late father (Ken McKay/REX/Shutterstock)"She doesn’t remember her biological father, George, so I think if it’s something she wants to do, then that’s completely up to her," the mum-of-five explained.
Kerry is also mum to Molly, 21 and Lilly-Sue, 20, who she shares with Brian McFadden.
She also shares Heidi, 16, and Max, 14, with taxi driver ex-husband Mark Croft.