CATHERINE’S
SUIT:
MARK
MELIA.
SHOES:
KURT
GEIGER.
RING:
DAVID
M
ROBINSO
WHITFIELD
&
WARD.
CANE
&
TOP
HAT:
THE
COSTUME
DEPARTMENT
PUTTING ON THE RITZ WITH HUSBAND TOM PITFIE
TELLS WHY HE IS HER PERFECT TEN AS THEY PRA
‘STRICTLY’ MOVES AHEAD OF HER DANCING DE
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get your dancingman,canhelift
me up and spin me around?’ So
that was the first thing I asked
Johannes to do.
“As soon as that Strictly music
comes on, Alfie won’t sit still – his
snake hips are way better than
mine,” Catherine adds, laughing.
“And he’s obsessed with The
Greatest Showman. I think Tom was
hoping for a golfer or a rugby
player, but Alfie is a performer.”
Doting dad Tom, 33, adds:
“Everyone says how much Alfie
looks like me, but personality-wise
he is Cath through and through
with her wicked personality and
love of drama.”
Catherine and Tom started
dating in 2014, after being
introduced at the gym, and
were engaged six months later,
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