Ex-Premier League WAG ‘residing the dream’ with rock star fiance and X-rated Page 3 group chat

An ex-Premier League WAG has opened up about her new life being engaged to a rock star. After marrying and dating footballers, the former Page 3 star shared what has changed.

Leilani Dowding was one of the most famous WAGs of the 2000s after being engaged to former Wimbledon and Northern Ireland defender Mark Williams and later Arsenal Invincible Jeremie Aliadiere.

But the 46-year-old has revealed that despite now being engaged to The Cult guitarist Billy Duffy since March 2020, their life is far from Rock ‘n’ Roll. Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star Sport while on tour in Australia, via OLBG, Leilani said: “I think it’s funny because a lot of people are like, ‘he’s a rock musician, so like a rock star,’ all his friends are, and they just did a tour.

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“We’ve like flown halfway across the world, gone up and done this thing, and everyone will probably think, ‘oh my God, it’s probably like this wild crazy party.’

“But I’d say 90% of them are sober because they drank too much in their youth. The whole party thing or the party image that they have is like non-existent.

“He’s helped a lot of people get into sobriety and AA and stuff. He lives a very healthy lifestyle, so that’s the same as a footballer I suppose.

“He’s really conscious of his health, keeps fit, eats really well. He is a lot older, so his eyes are going, which is great, so I’m getting older and you don’t see my lines as much as if I was still with a younger footballer!”

Leilani revealed how different it is dating a 65-year-old guitarist compared to the Premier League stars two decades ago as she said she’s living the dream and enjoys chatting to her fellow ex-Page 3 girls in a hilariously named WhatsApp chat.

“My fella’s a musician and he’s a songwriter as well, so he still gets royalties, he’s still out touring in his 60s, and that’s not stopped, so I guess that’s probably the difference with a footballer.

“I live on a farm on a small holding. I suppose all my dreams have really come true in terms of that my dreams are not what car I’m driving or what I’m wearing.

“He’s made all my dreams come true, I have my horses at home, I have like 27 chickens, I’m growing flowers, just like the craziest stuff.

“There was another Page 3 called Jakki Degg, who was really big at the time, she was one of my really good friends, and we literally text each other about gardening.

“We’ve got a little WhatsApp group called ‘T*** in the Garden’, and we talk about gardening with all of our other friends and what flowers.

“To think that we were Page 3 girls living this so-called glamorous life and doing the grids, we were involved in loads of sports, and we did all of that.

“To think now that we’re talking about gardening and just stupid nonsense like that. It’s all like it was never what I thought it was, but it’s actually all perfect.”