Adam Rickitt has been loved up with wife Katy for nearly eight years – and they have the sweetest story of how they met.
Their paths first crossed when Good Morning Britain correspondent Katy went to interview former soap star Adam in 2011.
What was supposed to be a 30-minute interview at an animal rescue centre turned into a five and a half hour chat as they got on so well.
Ex- Coronation Street and Hollyoaks heartthrob Adam later revealed it was “love at first sight” for him.
And after knowing her for just one day, the now 44-year-old rang his mum to tell her Katy was the woman he was going to marry.
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His wishes came true three years later when the couple tied the knot in a winter wonderland wedding in December 2014.
But although Adam says he immediately knew Katy was ‘The One’ for him, he wasn’t sure she felt the same.
Katy revealed she “felt it too” but “panicked” at the start of their romance as things moved so fast.
“The reason he says it was [love at first sight] for me and not for her – it actually was for me as well,” the 38-year-old told Loose Women.
“He told me pretty much straight away ‘I love you’ and then introduced me to his mum within a week without telling me about it. I almost slightly panicked a bit.”
At first Katy thought she might be being love bombed and questioned if that was just what Adam was like.
She explained: “I thought, ‘Is he just saying this? Is this what he’s like?”
But after the couple dated for a few more weeks, Katy realised that what you see with Adam is what you get.
“It became pretty apparent to me that he meant everything he said,” she shared.
“The first time we met, I remember thinking, ‘we’ve been here an hour’ and then it was five hours. It just felt like the whole world stopped.”
Although the couple, who live in Cheshire where Adam now runs a pub, are happily married, their romance hasn’t been without heartache.
Adam is unable to have children due to an autoimmune disorder he was diagnosed with when he was just 22.
The actor suffers from Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), which according to the NHS is a type of arthritis.
In Adam the long-term condition affects his spine and can cause other areas of the body to become inflamed. It can also cause male infertility.
When he met Katy he feared it would ruin their relationship as she seemed so family orientated.
Opening up about his infertility on Loose Women, Adam said: “I always thought I was going to have fertility problems. I never pictured myself with children. I could never explain to you why.
“Katy comes from North Yorkshire and a big family orientated family, so I did say to her very early on, ‘I’m not sure what my fertility is going to be like.’”
When it got to the point of them getting engaged, Adam got himself tested – but the results were not the words he wanted to hear.
He shared: “The doctor said you usually have one hundred million sperm in ejaculation – you have three.
“I had zero fertility which was scary because to say to someone ‘I’m not sure well be able to have children’ was really nerve-wracking. I was worried I’d be denying her something.”
But Katy is so in love with Adam that when he told her she “didn’t bat an eyelid”.
Explaining her stance on the sensitive subject, she said: “I married Adam and anything that came after that is a bonus... I love him and what happens thereafter, happens thereafter.”
The couple have decided not to go down the IVF route and are happy living life together and being mum and dad to their four pet dogs.
“We knew it would be a difficult and unlikely process because of the position we’re in, so we decided to make use of the other things we can do,” Katy said.
Adam added: “There are parts of life we’ll miss out, we’re not naive.
“We tried to experience things other people couldn’t – careers. I love acting, Katy loves presenting and journalism, we have a business together, we have the dogs, so we don’t feel like we’re lacking in giving our love to something else.”
The couple were recently victims of a Barclays bank scam in which they were defrauded out of almost £50,000.
Luckily they managed to get the money back, but have issued a warning to the public to be vigilant in case it happens to them too.
Adam said he felt “stupid” for getting tricked by the scammers who “knew everything about him and his history with the bank” and struggled to look his wife in the eye afterwards.
Sharing their story on Good Morning Britain, Katy said: “The reason we wanted to come on today is to try and help anybody – even one person – not get scammed.
“So if your bank rings you, hang up the phone and call the number on the back of your card so you 100 percent know you are getting through to your bank. We’ve learnt that the hard way.”
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