Post by DazedOblivion on Feb 19, 2006 23:23:09 GMT 1
The following interview of Gayle Williamson appeared HERE in the Belfast Telegraph on 14 February 2006:
Love, love me do
14 February 2006
Former Miss UK and the soon-to-be Mrs Jim Corr, Lurgan-born model Gayle Williamson (25), talks to Karen Ireland about the impending birth of her first child, planning her wedding - and how she won't be pinning her hopes on a romantic Valentine's Day
This has been such a special few months for me that I don't really want or need any big romantic gestures for Valentine's Day. All the major life-changing events, like getting engaged, planning a wedding and having a baby, have happened to me in such a short space of time that I'm still catching my breath.
You could say I have had my share of surprises and exciting things happen to me, so romance won't be high on the agenda this week - well, not in a contrived way anyhow.
As it happens, I am actually working on Valentine's Day, as a judge in Wedding Journal's Bride of the Year competition. I am looking forward to it, but any notion I might have had of being at home with my feet up is out.
Jim and I are not really into big gestures. It's the small things that we do for each other which are romantic. We appreciate the little things.
My ideal night this year, for instance, would be to come home and find Jim has cooked me a lovely dinner, which he does from time to time. Oh, and there would have to be a really delicious dessert. Being six months pregnant I have a real craving for sweet stuff at the moment.
We will probably give each other a card, but if last year is anything to go by they will probably be bought at the last minute from the nearest garage!
Like I say, we are not really into romance for the sake of it on set dates. I do think there's too much fuss placed on the commercial side of Valentine's Day. Every day should be special in its own way and sometimes the best days come when you are least expecting them.
Our engagement at the end of last year was like that - for me it came completely out of the blue. Jim and I had been together for over a year, having met through friends, and I knew it was pretty serious. We had talked about making a commitment but I thought it would be further down the line.
Jim surprised me when we were out for a meal in Dublin by hiding the ring under a napkin while I was at the toilet. His sister Andrea had helped him pick it and it's beautiful. I couldn't stop smiling and we rang all our friends and family to tell them. I think Jim rang Andrea first to tell her I had said "yes" and loved the ring. The ring, like the proposal, is simple and discreet - that's the way Jim is. He is a very private person and doesn't like a whole lot of fuss.
So no, we won't be doing the big celebrity wedding (we're not planning anything until after the birth) with lots of pictures in magazines. That's definitely not for us. I think a wedding should be about the couple and the people who matter most to them. Anything else just takes away from that. It's a private and personal event.
If we had our way it would just be us and a few close friends and family and we would all go away somewhere, but we haven't really made any decisions yet.
There's the small matter of our baby to think of first. The most important thing for both of us right now is tackling parenthood. I think that is a big enough event for anyone, never mind getting their head around organising a massive wedding.
The baby is due the first week in May, around the same time as Jim's sister Sharon and my step-sister Leanne are both due, so there's a real baby boom in the family.
We are both delighted and really looking forward to becoming parents. I can't wait to be a mum. It's a kind of nervous excitement, but a good nervous. This is the first grandchild on my side of the family, so there's great anticipation. I don't think we will need to buy this baby a single stitch of clothing - my mum and granny have been buying so much. It's spoilt already and it's not even here yet!
My mum, Olga, has been dreaming about her first grandchild for a long time. She has been spoiling me, too, and wrapping me in cotton wool. She hasn't been very well lately, though, and I feel like it should be the other way round.
Having a baby makes me appreciate her and all my family even more, although we have always been very close. I still spend a lot of my time in Lurgan with mum and my step dad, John, and my dad, Noel, is only five minutes away. Jim is away a lot with work, so when I am not with him down in Dublin, I head for home to be spoilt.
Oh, I suppose we are a little romantic after all - we do send each other nice text messages when we are apart and we often head off for the day and have picnics on the beach and stuff. Does that count? Is that romantic enough?
Soon there'll be three of us to do all that and I can't wait. I haven't really been working much during the pregnancy, apart from a few maternity shoots, but I do hope to get back to work as soon as I get my body back into some kind of shape. I'm really looking forward to motherhood, but I want to work as well.
I'm still not really sure where we will be based once the baby comes. At the moment I am all over the place between Dublin, Crawfordsburn and Lurgan. I've just got used to living like this, but I never know where half my things are.
Our priority is to get settled. One thing's for sure, though - I'm sure I will still be spending a lot of time in Lurgan, where there's a queue of babysitters already lining up!
Love, love me do
14 February 2006
Former Miss UK and the soon-to-be Mrs Jim Corr, Lurgan-born model Gayle Williamson (25), talks to Karen Ireland about the impending birth of her first child, planning her wedding - and how she won't be pinning her hopes on a romantic Valentine's Day
This has been such a special few months for me that I don't really want or need any big romantic gestures for Valentine's Day. All the major life-changing events, like getting engaged, planning a wedding and having a baby, have happened to me in such a short space of time that I'm still catching my breath.
You could say I have had my share of surprises and exciting things happen to me, so romance won't be high on the agenda this week - well, not in a contrived way anyhow.
As it happens, I am actually working on Valentine's Day, as a judge in Wedding Journal's Bride of the Year competition. I am looking forward to it, but any notion I might have had of being at home with my feet up is out.
Jim and I are not really into big gestures. It's the small things that we do for each other which are romantic. We appreciate the little things.
My ideal night this year, for instance, would be to come home and find Jim has cooked me a lovely dinner, which he does from time to time. Oh, and there would have to be a really delicious dessert. Being six months pregnant I have a real craving for sweet stuff at the moment.
We will probably give each other a card, but if last year is anything to go by they will probably be bought at the last minute from the nearest garage!
Like I say, we are not really into romance for the sake of it on set dates. I do think there's too much fuss placed on the commercial side of Valentine's Day. Every day should be special in its own way and sometimes the best days come when you are least expecting them.
Our engagement at the end of last year was like that - for me it came completely out of the blue. Jim and I had been together for over a year, having met through friends, and I knew it was pretty serious. We had talked about making a commitment but I thought it would be further down the line.
Jim surprised me when we were out for a meal in Dublin by hiding the ring under a napkin while I was at the toilet. His sister Andrea had helped him pick it and it's beautiful. I couldn't stop smiling and we rang all our friends and family to tell them. I think Jim rang Andrea first to tell her I had said "yes" and loved the ring. The ring, like the proposal, is simple and discreet - that's the way Jim is. He is a very private person and doesn't like a whole lot of fuss.
So no, we won't be doing the big celebrity wedding (we're not planning anything until after the birth) with lots of pictures in magazines. That's definitely not for us. I think a wedding should be about the couple and the people who matter most to them. Anything else just takes away from that. It's a private and personal event.
If we had our way it would just be us and a few close friends and family and we would all go away somewhere, but we haven't really made any decisions yet.
There's the small matter of our baby to think of first. The most important thing for both of us right now is tackling parenthood. I think that is a big enough event for anyone, never mind getting their head around organising a massive wedding.
The baby is due the first week in May, around the same time as Jim's sister Sharon and my step-sister Leanne are both due, so there's a real baby boom in the family.
We are both delighted and really looking forward to becoming parents. I can't wait to be a mum. It's a kind of nervous excitement, but a good nervous. This is the first grandchild on my side of the family, so there's great anticipation. I don't think we will need to buy this baby a single stitch of clothing - my mum and granny have been buying so much. It's spoilt already and it's not even here yet!
My mum, Olga, has been dreaming about her first grandchild for a long time. She has been spoiling me, too, and wrapping me in cotton wool. She hasn't been very well lately, though, and I feel like it should be the other way round.
Having a baby makes me appreciate her and all my family even more, although we have always been very close. I still spend a lot of my time in Lurgan with mum and my step dad, John, and my dad, Noel, is only five minutes away. Jim is away a lot with work, so when I am not with him down in Dublin, I head for home to be spoilt.
Oh, I suppose we are a little romantic after all - we do send each other nice text messages when we are apart and we often head off for the day and have picnics on the beach and stuff. Does that count? Is that romantic enough?
Soon there'll be three of us to do all that and I can't wait. I haven't really been working much during the pregnancy, apart from a few maternity shoots, but I do hope to get back to work as soon as I get my body back into some kind of shape. I'm really looking forward to motherhood, but I want to work as well.
I'm still not really sure where we will be based once the baby comes. At the moment I am all over the place between Dublin, Crawfordsburn and Lurgan. I've just got used to living like this, but I never know where half my things are.
Our priority is to get settled. One thing's for sure, though - I'm sure I will still be spending a lot of time in Lurgan, where there's a queue of babysitters already lining up!
