Adam Ramsay-Peaty: I’ll forgive my family when they become better people

Alice LilleySun, August 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM UTC

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Adam Ramsay-Peaty ‘wants to get to a place’ where he feel his parents have ‘improved as people’ - Marko Djurica/Reuters

Olympic swimmer Adam Ramsay-Peaty has said that he will only forgive his family when they become better people.

His family feud became public in November after tensions flared over his wedding to Holly Ramsay, the daughter of TV chef Gordon Ramsay. He has now incorporated Ramsay into his surname.

He says he wants his estranged family to “improve as people” before he forgives them and resumes contact with his parents.

Adam and his wife kiss after the swimmer receives his 100m breaststroke bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games - Quinn Rooney/Getty

Ramsay-Peaty, who in July secured a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke, bronze in the 100m breaststroke and silver as part of England’s mixed 4x100m medley relay team in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, had banned his mother from attending his wedding ceremony after a row over his wife-to-be’s hen party.

His aunt Louise Williams described the decision not to invite his mother, Caroline, to the hen party at Soho Farmhouse in Chipping Norton, Oxon, as “divisive and hurtful”.

The three-time Olympic champion, 31, who was raised Catholic, started attending an evangelical church in 2023 and has since spoken of his faith, describing himself as “a very religious man”.

“For me, as a Christian, there has to be forgiveness,” he told The Guardian. “It doesn’t mean you have to forget, but forgiveness takes time. I’m not saying that it won’t get better, but it has to come from a place where I feel like they’ve improved as people, in a sense, and opened that communication up.”

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Mrs Peaty, 60, a former nursery manager, told the Daily Mail that she worried her son had been pulled away by the Ramsay family and was “in Gordon’s clutches”.

“I can’t help but feel like they are pulling him away from me. Their family is very insular,” she added.

The couple got engaged in 2024 while on holiday in Crete

Last week, Mrs Peaty raised hopes of a reunion when she posted on Instagram: “We continue to support Adam from afar. He’s our son whom we love, whom we supported to reach his aspirations. Our love, our time, our sacrifices were given freely with no expectation of financial reward.”

The Ramsay and Peaty families first met through Tilly Ramsay, Mrs Ramsay-Peaty’s sister, after the television presenter, cook and social media influencer appeared with the Olympian on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021.

The newly married couple are expecting a daughter in December and the Olympian already has a five-year-old son, George, from a former relationship.

Adam with parents Mark and Caroline basking in his gold medal triumphs. The swimmer is now in a family feud

He said his “thick skin” had protected him from the scrutiny that the feud had fuelled on social media and in the press.

But he admitted he was concerned about the impact of the highly publicised family conflict on his wife and future child.

He said: “I care about my wife, I care about my son. I care about the relationships that people think I have, but that’s my private life.”

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