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Katherine Ryan and Tyldesley Shine at Alton Towers!

Katherine Ryan and Catherine Tyldesley looked in good spirits as they led the stars at the launch of Bluey The Ride at Alton Towers on Saturday. Comedian Kather...

Katherine Ryan and Tyldesley Shine at Alton Towers!
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Bintano News

March 28, 2026

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and looked in good spirits as they led the stars at the launch of Bluey The Ride at on Saturday. 

Comedian Katherine, 42, was all smiles as she enjoyed the ride with her three-year-old daughter Fenna. She was also joined by her son Fred, four, and Holland, five months, and her partner Bobby Kootstra.

star Catherine, 42, wrapped up in a kahki coat as she enjoyed one of the rides with her three-year-old daughter Iris.

The soap actress was also joined by her husband Tom Pitfield and their  11-year-old son James. 

Also in attendance was who opted for a white trench coat and a matching zip-up jumper as she was joined by her eldest daughter Polly, nine.

brought along her six-year-old daughter Loretta Rose while fellow star was joined by her son Brody, four.

Katherine Ryan enjoyed the ride with her three-year-old daughter Fenna at the launch of Bluey The Ride at Alton Towers on Saturday

Coronation Street star Catherine, 42, wrapped up in a kahki coat as she enjoyed one of the rides with her three-year-old daughter Iris

Rounding out the guests was The Traitors series two winner Leanne Quigley who was joined by her fiancée Sophie Jones and their twins Hudson and Harley.

The outing comes after Katherine poked fun at her ' addiction' as she enjoyed a family holiday with her four children earlier this month. 

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The comedian  shared a hilarious Instagram clip of her son Fred, four, Fenna, three, and her new baby Holland, four months, all piled onto a double buggy as she wheeled it through the resort.

Katherine, who is also mother to daughter Violet, 16, shared a tongue-in-cheek caption joking that her large brood was 'an advert for condoms.'

Praising the double buggy she'd brought on the holiday, Katherine captioned the post: '@bugaboouk enabling my fertility addiction.'

Sharing another clip of her children she added: 'Truly all-star performance from the donkey this holiday. We [heart emoji] @bugaboouk #notanad #butsortofanadforcondoms.'

Katherine welcomed her baby daughter, her third with her husband Bobby Kootstra, in October, but star recently broke her years-long silence on the father of her 16-year-old daughter.

The comic, who has never disclosed the identity of Violet's father, tore into him recently as she admitted she no longer feels the need to bite her tongue since Violet is old enough to 'see for herself'.

'I've been careful never to s**g him off just because I don't think it's the right thing to do,' Katherine said on the Juicy Scoop With Heather McDonald podcast.

The soap actress was also joined by her husband Tom Pitfield and their 11-year-old son James

Katherine was also joined by her son Fred, four, and Holland, five months, and her partner Bobby Kootstra

Lydia Bright brought along her six-year-old daughter Loretta Rose while fellow TOWIE star Georgia Kousoulou was joined by her son Brody, four

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Also in attendance was Amy Childs who opted for a white trench coat and a matching zip-up jumper as she was joined by her eldest daughter Polly, nine

Chris Robshaw and his wife Camilla Kerslake attended with their sons Wilding and Hunter

Rounding out the guests was The Traitors series two winner Leanne Quigley who was joined by her fiancée Sophie Jones and their twins Hudson and Harley

'And I really protected him while my daughter was young. I would never say anything bad about him.

'But now she's 16, she can see for herself that unfortunately, he's not a bad person, but he's never made any sacrifices, never paid anything for her, just kind of texts her, which I think is breadcrumbing.

'Like, "Hey, love you. How are you?" Which is better than no contact. But he hasn't been the type of dad that you would want for your daughter.'

When asked directly if he is involved in Violet's life, she replied, 'Not really.'

Katherine has previously only discussed co-parenting Violet in carefully measured terms. In her 2019 Netflix special Glitter Room, she said: 'He's my child's dad, and for that reason I shall never say a bad word about him.'

But speaking on the podcast, the mum of four did not hold back her true feelings about Violet's father - and even joked she would excel at his level of low-effort parenting.

'I think I would be a great dad. Like, a non-contact parent. Because it's so easy,' she said.

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The Duchess star, who also has three younger children with her husband and fellow Canadian, Bobby Kootstra, 43, added: 'All you have to do with a teenage girl is drive to the mother's house, send her a text, and go, "Do you want to come get a Starbucks with me?"

'It's all they have to do. "If not, I'll go get you a Starbucks. I'll drop it off. You come to the car, I'll give it to you, say, "Hey, how are you? I love you. Here's your Starbucks, bye." No pressure.'

She continued: 'I've heard so many dads go, "Well, she's using me for rides. I don't get anything back." The flow goes one way - parent to child. There's nothing they [children] can do wrong. Just make yourself available, make some type of sacrifice.

'Unfortunately, my daughter doesn't have the dad that I would want her to have.'

She married businessman Bobby, her Canadian high school sweetheart, after they reconnected in 2018 while she was filming an episode of the BBC ancestry series Who Do You Think You Are? in her home town of Sarnia, Ontario. 

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