Traitors star Leanne Quigley has been to hell and back in the last two years, as she admits during an exclusive shoot with OK! that the only highlight, was taking part in and winning the hit BBC One show last month, was winning it with Jake Brown.“We’ve had so many moments when our lives were ripped apart - the last two years have been horrific, aside from The Traitors,” says Leanne. “So we want to make the most of every moment.”
After the terrifying ordeal of her twin boys being born prematurely and her fiancee Sophie - a healthy, active 32-year-old at the time, being diagnosed with a fast-growing breast cancer last summer, the army veteran, 28, admits things are looking up, with Sophie hoping to 'ring the bell' on March 5 having got the all-clear last month - and the loved-up pair now planning to tie the knot next summer
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OK! Magazine / The Mirror / David Cummings)The big day won’t take place, they explain, until Sophie’s hair has grown back and she's happy with it - then they’ll book a date straight away. “It will probably be next summer. I do not want a cold wedding!” laughs Leanne's other half Sophie, who explains that, because the couple's sons will still be still small, and Leanne’s younger sister is disabled and unable to travel far, it will likely be local. “We joked we could get married in The Traitors’ castle in the Highlands!", says Leanne. "But like Sophie, I don’t really care as long as there’s family and good vibes."
As for who may come along to their nuptials, she adds, "We’ll definitely invite the Traitors gang, and Claudia [Winkleman], of course! I made friends for life on that show. We don’t go a day without speaking. The WhatsApp group never stops. Soph even has great relationships with their partners.” She adds, “I’ll 100 per cent wear a white dress! And the twins will probably be our ring-bearers. They’ll be three and a half by then, and so cute!”
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PA)Sophie admits she’d always wanted to propose, and that the plan was actually to pop the question during a family holiday to Portugal this year, but her devastating diagnosis last year prompted her to do it sooner. “I’d no clue what was going to happen, so I thought, ‘Let’s do it now. I had my first chemo on a Friday, booked a hotel in the Lakes the day before, booked a little boat and popped the question there.” Leanne recalls, “It turned the whole weekend around. We had wedding planning to look forward to, rather than just doom and gloom.”
Exciting wedding preparation aside, the couple, who welcomed non-identical twins Hudson and Harley on January 2023, through IVF - with Sophie’s eggs and donor sperm - and hope to use some of Leanne's prize money to try for another baby, say they are enjoying the simple things.
Enjoying family life in their cosy home in North Wales, which is a five-minute drive from the closest beach, half an hour from Snowdon, Leanne admits, "It’s so nice to feel normal again. Life’s not been normal for a long time" as Sophie adds, “We’re focusing on enjoying our future together as a family now. We feel unbreakable.”
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