Kimberley: Im ready to get wed

Posted January 15, 200718 yr

Sorry guys... Bradford pop babe Kimberley Walsh is definitely off the market... and looking forward to marriage with her boy-band beau.

Kimberley, 25, is dating Triple 8 singer Justin Scott and wants a "fairytale" wedding that will "last forever".

The pair met at a gig in 2003 and were signed to the same label. Loved-up Justin has sighed: "We love to stay at home and cook meals together. We're madly in love."

But Kimberley, one fifth of phenomenal chart-topping band Girls Aloud, is not intending to knock the sexy photoshoots and music videos that have made the band famous on the head just yet.

Band-mate Cheryl Tweedy recently tied the knot to Premiership footballer Ashley Cole in a lavish showbiz ceremony, and Justin was reportedly inspired by the big day.

But Kimberley says that while marriage is on the cards, it won't be at the expense of the band, which is currently riding the crest of its popularity.

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She told a national magazine this week: "I think we both want to get to a place where we are a bit more settled in our relationship before with think about that.

"You want everything to be perfect and not be busy working. I've always said that marriage and kids is something I'm looking forward to after the band."

Kimberley and Justin have been together for three years. He has a daughter from a previous relationship and spends a lot of time with her in Bristol.

Kimberley said: "You have to work at things. It's not always easy but you do have to make an effort."

And she's determined to do it right so her and Justin don't become showbiz love casualties. "The divorce rate is ridiculous," she added. "But I really want to believe in the fairy tale that it can last for ever."

However, that doesn't mean Kimberley will abandon her no-nonsense Bradford attitude when she does tie the knot in her dream wedding.

She said: "Just because you're married to someone it doesn't mean you're entitled to have the money they have worked their entire lives to make. Unless you are really bitter, I just don't know why you'd go and do that."

Hopefully, for Kimberley and Justin, it won't come to that. But although she says she trusts Justin and he has never given her any reason to doubt his fidelity, she admits to "keeping five per cent back just to protect myself".

If the worst happened, though, Kimberley has no shortage of admirers. Band-mate Sarah Harding recently shared a snog with Hollywood heart-throb Stephen Dorff, but it was apparently Kimberley who he had his eye on first.

"It is flattering, but it is a bit random that someone would get in touch just after seeing you in a magazine," she said. "I think I would have been a little apprehensive at the thought that he'd think he could just ring up and be like I wanna go out with you' - like room service."

And Kimberley's also not without non-famous - and unwelcome - admirers. She told the magazine: "I had this guy come up to me recently and he scared me. He was shaky and he knew everything about me. I was thinking, do you carry on thinking about me when you get home?"