Abbey Clancy has revealed she was left "so upset" when husband Peter Crouch ended their romantic getaway early, departing the following morning to attend a suit fitting.
The couple discussed the trip on their Therapy Crouch podcast, explaining how what was meant to be an intimate retreat became dominated by an unexpectedly long shopping expedition.
A marathon trip to a tile shop
Peter revealed they had spent hours travelling to Harrogate to visit a tile shop. The former Liverpool striker said: "We're four-and-a-half hours in a car to Harrogate, to go to this tile shop, Lapicida. Am I saying that right? I thought it was a defensive midfielder, but yeah, we went there. Four hours there, six hours in the shop."
Abbey, who is originally from Liverpool, summed up the experience: "Decisions, decisions, decisions."
Peter added: "No joke, six hours in there. Oh God. Never seen anything like it", reports the Liverpool Echo.
A 'mucky' night at Grantley Hall
Abbey had hoped the journey would still allow them some quality time together away from their children. She said: "I tried to entice Pete, like, you know, let's have a romantic night away. We stayed at, what was it called? Grantley Hall?"
Peter was impressed by their accommodation, responding: "Oh, what place? Oh my God. What a place."
Abbey described the hotel as "phenomenal" before being asked whether they had enjoyed the "mucky night away" she had planned. She said: "Well, it was mucky because there was pizza all over the bed. We got so p****d and then got a pizza room service and sat in bed and ate it, so yeah, you could call it dirty."
Peter said the hotel had compensated for the unusual evening, adding: "It was like a beautiful place. It made up for it. We had a few drinks."
An early departure and a missed eclipse
However, Abbey admitted she was disappointed when Peter had to leave the next morning. She said: "I was so upset that you left early the next morning. He got the train home because he had to go to the suit fitting, and so I had a breakfast for one before I went to the molding factory."
The couple also recalled watching an eclipse during their visit, though Abbey confessed it was not the remarkable event they had hoped for. Abbey said: "And it's just the setting. We watched the eclipse together. Well, kind of. It didn't really happen, did it?"
Peter replied: "Well, we just, we had the glasses."
The disclosure follows Abbey's previous account of a more serious row with Peter, which led her to initially plan to give birth without him present. Speaking on Therapy Crouch with close friend Liberty, Abbey recounted the falling-out with Peter just before their son Jack's arrival.
She said: "I left for the hospital on my own. So I left the house and said, 'You are not coming.' So I was like, 'Pete's not coming.'"
She also told him: "You're not allowed to be at this birth, you're not even coming."
Eventually, Abbey allowed Peter into the delivery room after asking Liberty to be her birth partner, while Liberty remembered briefly stepping aside, thinking the disagreement had been resolved. "I know. Yeah, I did. Missed it," she said.
Catch Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes tonight (Friday, August 28) from 7.30pm to 8pm on ITV.
