Jorgie Porter explains why she's yet to marry fiancé four years after engagement

Daily Mirror

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Hollyoaks actress Jorgie Porter, who has son Forest and daughter Peony, has candidly opened up on motherhood and plans to marry Oliver Piotrowski after a four year-long engagement
Soap actress Jorgie Porter has revealed she still is yet to plan her wedding to beau Oliver Piotrowski, despite getting engaged four years ago.
Hollyoaks star Jorgie, 37, announced her engagement to her real estate developer beau Oliver towards the end of 2021. She shared the joyous news on her Instagram at the time, posting a photo of herself with Oliver flashing her huge new rock. She simply captioned the post: 'OMG.'
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Four years on, the pair have welcomed two wonderful children together; Forest, two, and Peony, who was born in December. In an exclusive chat with the Mirror, at the Pro Am Padel tour launch event, Jorgie revealed why the pair are yet to walk down the aisle and say 'I do'.
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When asked if there are any wedding plans, Jorgie jokes about her lengthy engagement. 'How long? Four years I think! I didn't plan this,' she quips.
The soap star mum then reveals why there is yet to be wedding bells for her a Oliver. 'No I'm stupid at planning, I'm a bad planner,' she confesses. 'Because whenever I've had Hollyoaks work we never are scheduled so I never know what day it is. We even work on Saturdays. You can ask me now what day it is, I don't know. I don't know the day, the month, because you have to always be ready to work because they can call you up because…
'So planning for me is just… I'm waiting for the wedding to come to me I think. It'll just come when it's ready. Maybe a padel wedding, I'm joking!,' she quipped while at the Pro Am Padel tour event.
Jorgie gave birth to Peony in December and has candidly admitted to the Mirror that motherhood to two children is very different than it is to being a mum to one.
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When asked how she's finding the new phase of motherhood, Jorgie tells the Mirror: 'It's hard. Nobody tells you that it's the hardest thing in the world because you've got a toddler that wants all your attention and you've, obviously, got a little baby that's attached to you, literally that is another level of mum-ness. It is hard. We're in the trenches, this is the trenches we're deep in there.'
Juggling two children is tricky for a number of reasons, but Jorgie reveals she finds her son Forest's jealousy particularly difficult – but is making slow progress helping her eldest adjust to the new family dynamic. She explains: 'Honestly, it's great but I think there's jealousy bits when the toddler is like, 'you're my mummy, get off this one, put her in the carseat', like, 'No Forest, we're cuddling her'.
'It's tricky because he can't understand that I'm her Mummy, too. But he does know, it's weird. It's very hard to navigate. It's going there, it's brilliant. I think there's everyday you go, 'Oh that's a win, that's brilliant, we're out together in a pram, we did it'. So it is going well.'
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