Adam Peaty has been brutally branded a ‘narcissist’ by his family after it was revealed his mum was snubbed from his upcoming wedding to Holly Ramsay.
The 25-year-old daughter of Gordon Ramsay and the Olympian, 30, are counting down for their upcoming Christmas wedding, which is set to be held at Bath Abbey.
Over the weekend she hosted her hen do at Soho Farmhouse – which was attended by Victoria Beckham, her own mum Tana, and Adam’s sister. However notably absent was his mum Caroline, with other family members now taking aim at the engaged couple.
The sportsman’s aunt Louise has weighed in, saying her sister is ‘not ok’ and has been ‘broken’ by her son and his fiancée.
She has claimed that Adam is ‘ashamed’ of his brothers, with the family also going so far as to call him a ‘narcissist’ who has been ‘changed’ by money and has ‘forgotten where he came from’.
‘We were sent a save the date and it’s all these country houses,’ a family member told The Sun.
‘I’m on Universal Credit — I can’t afford that.
‘Adam has been changed by money, fame and fortune. He seems to have forgotten where he came from.’
Speaking about what’s unfolded with Adam and his mum, they added: ‘We think he has treated Caroline appallingly. You can hear it in her voice. She’s heartbroken.’
Another source told the publication that while his family were originally supportive of his engagement to Holly, they feel ‘they have been pushed further and further from Adam over the past year’.
‘It seems to some of the family that Adam is more at home with Holly and her folks, while his family has been left behind,’ they claimed.
‘Caroline is devoted to her grandson George and will move heaven and earth to care for him.
‘As tensions have risen, there have been rows and Caroline has always toed the line because she wants to be a part of her grandson’s life. Recently, though, things have come to a head.’
The issue apparently stems from Holly not inviting Adam’s mum Caroline, who supported him in securing three Olympic gold medals, to her hen do party, and now Caroline is reportedly ‘banned’ from their Bath wedding following social media activities.
It is reported that instead Caroline was at home for the weekend looking after Adam’s five-year-old son George.
On Instagram, Adam’s aunt commented on Holly’s old engagement announcement post this week, accusing her of being ‘divisive and hurtful’ towards Caroline, ‘a woman who opened her home and heart to you’.
‘You decided, for whatever reason, not to invite her, your prospective mother-in-law, to your hen night yet Adam invited his father-in-law, your dad, to his stag night,’ she explained.
After listing the people Holly did invite and mentioning messages she’d seen between Adam and his mum, his aunt continued: ‘You have inflicted a hurt on my sister that will take a very long time to heal if ever.’
The Daily Mail reports to have seen messages from Adam to Caroline, in which the sports star ‘stated his intention to disown his family’.
Meanwhile, a source told The Sun they are ‘jealous people desperate to ruin their happy day’.
They added: ‘There are wider problems in the Peaty family.’
While Caroline hasn’t overtly opened up about the feud, she appears to heavily nod to it on social media in recent posts, sharing a number of quotes about being hurt and upset.
‘When you love someone, you protect them from the pain, you don’t become the cause of it,’ her most recent post read today, which Caroline captioned with: ‘The ones I love are the people who hurt me the most.’
Friends rushed to comfort Caroline on her previous posts, one of which said: ‘Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.’
Another, a poem, said: ‘I fear I’ll always love harder / than I’ll ever be loved back.’
Elsewhere, Adam’s aunt claimed Adam and Holly ‘have broken [my] darling sister’ who she says has ‘a heart bigger than China’.
‘I tell her she is too kind sometimes because her feelings can get hurt. As sisters we argue, we don’t speak but we love each other to death. I am very protective of her,’ she wrote.
Adam and Holly confirmed their relationship in June 2023, having met through the youngest Ramsay sibling, Tilly, when she competed on Strictly Come Dancing alongside the Olympian.
Taking to social media earlier this year, the couple announced their engagement.
Speaking with The Sunday Times of Holly, Adam talked about his future bride: ‘She’s been pinnacle [sic] to this moment in my life where I can have peace and I can have that kind of love where it’s not defined by anything else other than the connection that we have. It’s great, and I look forward to the future.’
Adam’s love of the Ramsay family extends to Holly’s high-profile father, Gordon, who he credits for helping him escape ‘three years of hell’ struggling with alcoholism and his split from ex-girlfriend Eirianedd Munro.
Caroline previously reflected on the sacrifices she made to get Adam to Olympic standard in swimming.
‘I’d get up at four in the morning, drive him 40 minutes to Derby, sit and wait two hours while he was training, or go to Tesco, then drive him back again and do a full day’s work as a nursery manager. Then we’d do it again in the evening,’ she recalled in a 2016 interview with Radio Times.
Adam, meanwhile, has opened up about how the pressures of being a sports professional negatively impacted his mental health, as he’s suffered with depression, anxiety, heavy drinking, and ADHD.
He told the Times: ‘It’s been an incredibly lonely journey. The devil on my shoulder [says] “you’re missing out on life, you’re not good enough, you need a drink, you can’t have what you want, you can’t be happy”.
‘I’ve been on a self-destructive spiral, which I don’t mind saying because I’m human. By saying it, I can start to find the answers. I got to a point in my career where I didn’t feel like myself – I didn’t feel happy swimming, I didn’t feel happy racing, my biggest love in the sport.
‘I’ve had my hand hovering over a self-destruct button because if I don’t get the result that I want, I self-destruct.’
Holly’ Ramsay’s representative declined to comment.
A version of this article was originally published on November 11, 2025.
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