Rio Ferdinand’s girlfriend Kate Wright signs up with new celebrity agent to relaunch showbiz career – six months after quitting Towie
RIO Ferdinand’s girlfriend Kate Wright has signed up with a new celebrity agent to re-launch a career in showbiz, fitness and lifestyle – six months after she quit Towie to be with the ex-England player.
The blonde beauty has signed with Vicky Pattison’s agency Mokkingbird in the hope she can become a successful daytime TV star.
She has been dating Rio since January 2017 after meeting through friends in Dubai.
It comes after Rio, 39, lost wife Rebecca, who he had three children with, to cancer in 2015, aged 34.
Kate, 26, has thrown herself into taking on the role as their step-mother.
A source said: "Kate needed time to adjust to her new family life and concentrate on them. She to step back from showbiz life and allow a period to adjust, but now she feels ready to return to the TV industry and work again.
"However she's not interested in reality shows and wants to focus more on daytime."
Kate shot to fame in the Essex-based ITVBe reality show in 2015 as lothario Dan Edgar's on-off busty bombshell girlfriend, but left last summer to concentrate on family life.
Speaking last year Kate said: "I'm taking a step back from the public eye. My priority right now is Rio and the family."
Kate had previously admitted that she found it tough filming with her ex Dan on Towie.
Speaking on This Morning last year she said: “Dan, my ex, is on the show and it’s really awkward.
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"I just don’t think it’s a normal situation to see someone everyday, we work together, but we don’t really get on, we just sort of avoid each other the best we can at filming.
“I do think it’s hard having a relationship on the show, everything’s heightened and you see each other everyday.
“Even if you have a little tiff, you know you might ignore someone for a day, but you have to then see them at work on set everyday, so it is difficult."