Adam Peaty

You think? I thought they were well matched or in some pics that he was punching both with her and his ex.
They do seem loved up regardless of who's more photogenic at any given point.

Holly is definitely punching, he's way hotter than her.

His ex seems like a nice girl with their sons interests at heart, they broke up it happens.

Adam also seems like a nice lad, can't say dating holly is a celebrity relationship? Her dad's famous but what she known for? Though They seem happy leave them be.

It's no ones business but theirs!

Least we forget Adam was having mental health issues. The ex may be very happy that he has moved on to someone else that can deal with his issues. She is now free as a bird!

I read the generous message that Adams ex posted. She seems a lovely lady...

"All the childcare" = five minutes when he probably asked to sit on his dad's girlfriend knee. Because making a tiny child sit on the knee of someone they hate is a brilliant idea at a very public event. Yup, I'm sure Ramsay family arranged it as a PR opportunity.

Maybe the child likes the new girl better than he likes his grandmother and asked to sit on her knee?? I don’t know if you’ve met many 3/4 year olds, but they’re usually quite vocal about who they prefer to sit with.
In any case, we have no idea who is doing ‘all the childcare’, as we only see the very small snapshot when they’re sitting poolside.

His mum is there — the child’s grandmother. Yet the (very) new girlfriend seems to be doing all the childcare…
Smells like PR to me.

Thank you everyone for answering my ponderings around tattoo timings! My DH was just telling me to shut up and concentrate on the swimming and not the fit bodies when asking him last night 😂

For all we know, the ex has happily given her blessing to it all. She has obviously given permission for the child to be in Paris, and it’s fairly obvious Adam himself couldn’t be caring for the child while he was swimming, so I assume she knew the child would be there with the new girlfriend.

How was she parading him? He was sitting with her and his family. Would you rather if your tiny child asked their dad's girlfriend for a cuddle that she pushed him away?

I think his ex has been very dignified, but I find the way the new girlfriend has acted with his child insensitive. She’s not his mum and they’ve only been going out a year so hardly his step-mum even.

I would hate another woman parading my young child around like that as if he’s hers!

He's had a lot of the tats for a number of years, they all have special meanings. I believe he got the big lion done after 2016 Olympics. I think he has the Olympic rings somewhere, and Poseidon.
He was staying in the same hotel in Turkey as us with some of his entourage a few years back. He was so lovely, teaching the kids how to dive into the pool properly.

Ah it all makes sense now - why Gordon Ramsey was interviewing him on the bbc tribute thing yesterday and why the mother of the child wasn’t playing tribute as was his mum dad and other relatives.

All athletes have scheduled breaks - he will time getting the tattoos with his scheduled breaks I imagine.

I wish the people in my life who are co-parenting could be as generous to their parents of their children as these two seem to be!

It’s well documented that his mental health and alcohol battles meant that he didn’t get in the pool for a long time… he says he could barely make it out of bed. I doubt he took a few months off swimming just for his tattoos to heal.
And even if he did… even more kudos to him for his amazing success in the pool, if he could manage that with taking regular tattoo breaks!

I don’t follow swimming (or any sport) but I understand he’s had or currently has mental health issues. I also read one post here that mentioned when he was struggling to get out of bed.

Honestly, anyone who gets through all that deserves so much praise. I’m glad MH issues are spoken about so much more now, and if people like him add to that (famous, speaking publicly) then all the better.

And I love seeing ex’s speaking well of each other. Why not? They liked each other well enough to have a relationship. To still like each other after that has ended is brilliant.

And yes, you can’t swim for some time after getting a tattoo so I imagine the minute he thought he wouldn’t be swimming any more that was the first thing he went for!

He also broke his foot at some point between the last olympics and this one, so he could have got at the tats done while he was in plaster.

Yes, Holly was not the other woman!
From his days in strictly, it was obvious Adam relationship with his ex was failing. She got pregnant very quickly after they met, any woman deciding to keep a baby in those circumstances are aware they could end up a single mum.

Pook swimmers take a few weeks off training after big meets so they'll be done then.

Some will take 2-3 months off after the olympics/ paralympics.

Training is done is phases and cycles.

He went off the rails and totally lost it for a big chunk of time - that's when he could have had the tattoos done

It was great to see him do so brilliantly after effectively having a breakdown

And agree his ex may well be delighted to be shot of him and have anew boyfriend too. They were ridiculously young when thy got together and tried to make an accidental pregnancy work. Hardly anyone would have succeeded whoever they were

girlfriend44 Saying hes "just a swimmer" is like saying Andy Murray plays a bit of Tennis every now and then! FFS the mans part Human part Dolphin! He is from a modest background and his Mother got up at 4 am to take him to training! As he said he could have ended up drinking with his mates ,Instead he is a national treasure .Why cant he have Tattoos either ? His body his choice !

Actually I was wondering about this when I was watching last night. Surely getting his tattoos did affect his ability to swim? I thought there were rules around how long to stay out of submerged water when getting a new tattoo? Like trying to keep it out of submerged water for weeks?

Led me to think where on earth he has found the time to build up so many tattoos and keep up a training schedule?

Not the point of the thread, I know!