CELEBRITY Big Brother star and Olympian Ashley McKenzie has married his TikTok influencer fiancée.
The athlete and Danish beauty Laura Melander Heitmann tied the knot in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday.
Olympic Judo athlete Ashley McKenzie has married TikTok star Laura Melander Heitmann Credit: Instagram/lauramckenzieeeee
Ashley pictured competing at the Rio Games in 2016 Credit: Getty Images – Getty
Ashley credited their shared experience with ADHD as the thing that brought them together.
He said: “We connected straight away, and I think part of that was because we both live with ADHD and understood each other in a way that not everyone does.
“Navigating life together has only made us stronger as a couple.”
Ashley called the nuptials “one of the best days of my life.”
He added to the Mail : “I never had any doubts that Laura was the person I wanted to marry.’
Laura said: “He’s not only good-looking, but he’s so funny too! He puts a smile on my face every single day, and I can’t wait for us to keep making more memories together.”
Before finding love with Laura, Ashley was engaged to French judo star Automne Pavia, with whom he has daughter Lana-Rose.
Ashely’s judo media career ran alongside his sporting one. He appeared on CBB in 2012, finishing fifth. He later went on to appear on Ex on the Beach, The Challenge, and Channel 5’s Celebs on the Farm.
The decorated judoka won numerous medals for Great Britain including gold at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and two European bronze medals.
He was defeated in the second round at the London Olympic Games in 2012 and four years later in Rio he went out in the third round.
to his Olympic dream at the Tokyo Games in 2021 where he was eliminated in the first round by Azerbaijani Karamat Huseynov.
After the loss, he said: “At the moment, I’m mostly sad.
“I’ve put in a lot of work for this one tournament.
“Loads of things went wrong when I got over here, and I just pushed them aside and I tried to not let them affect me due to Covid and stuff like that.”
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