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Footballer Andy Carroll has been pictured asleep on a bed next to a blonde bar manager just weeks before his wedding to reality TV’s Billi Mucklow.
The former England striker, 33, reportedly boozed with Taylor Jane Wilkey in Dubai – where he had flown to in order to ‘gatecrash’ his fiancee’s hen party with his own stag-do.
Pictures show the recently released West Brom forward – once Premier League side Liverpool’s most expensive transfer – on a bed with Ms Wilkey.
Others show the 27-year-old wearing the father-of-four’s personalised bathrobe with ‘Andy Carroll’ embroidered on the chest.
Friends of Carroll and his fiancee Ms Mucklow – a reality TV star who once featured on The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE) – told The Sun the pictures were ’embarrassing’ so close to their wedding.
However Ms Wilkey, who says the pictures were leaked on Snapchat after she sent them to her friends back in the UK, insists nothing sexual happened with the 6ft4in forward.
‘It was all just a bit of entirely innocent fun,’ she told the paper.
It comes just two weeks before Carroll and former TOWIE star Ms Mucklow are set to wed.
The reality TV star was said to be enjoying her hen-do in Dubai when Carroll and his friends flew over to ‘gatecrash’ with their own pre-wedding party.
Pictures show the West Brom forward – once Premier League side Liverpool’s most expensive transfer – on a bed with Ms Wilkey
Others show the 27-year-old wearing the father-of-four’s personalised bathrobe with ‘Andy Carroll’ embroidered on the chest
Ms Wilkey, from Scarborough, north Yorkshire, but who now works in Dubai at a high-end hotel, described her time with Carroll as ‘really boozy’ and said the striker was ‘steaming drunk’
Friends of Carroll and his fiancee (pictured here together) – a reality TV star who once featured on The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE) – told The Sun the pictures were ’embarrassing’ so close to their wedding
According to The Sun, Carroll was partying at the Cove Beach club with Ms Wilkey when he invited her and a female friend to his hotel suite for an afterparty.
She told the Sun: ‘It was an afterparty. We all went back to his hotel. I didn’t sleep with him, it wasn’t like that, there was three of us in the room.’
Ms Wilkey, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, but who now works in Dubai at a high-end hotel, described her time with Carroll as ‘really boozy’ and said the striker was ‘steaming drunk’.
Carroll met his fiancee in 2013 and the pair got engaged a year later. He has two young children with Billi and two from a previous relationship.
Ms Mucklow flew back to the UK on Monday morning leaving Carroll and his friends behind.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Carroll and Ms Mucklow for a comment.
The photographs come just days after Carroll was released by West Bromwich Albion following a disappointing season in the Championship for the West Midlands-based side.
The striker made 14 appearances for the club, scoring just three goals this season.
Once one of England’s most promising strikers, Gateshead-born Carroll rose up through the ranks at his boy-hood club Newcastle united.
An imposing 6ft4in striker, Carroll caught the eye of then Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish.
The Anfield legend was hoping Carroll could replace outgoing striker Fernando Torres who left for Chelsea in a £50million deal.
In 2011, Liverpool signed Carroll for a reported £35million – then the most expensive fee ever paid for a British footballer player and also the club’s then record signing.
Carroll made nine England appearances around this time, scoring two goals for the national side
Carroll signed for Liverpool in 2011 for a reported £35million struggled to fit into Liverpool’s system – and was outshone by fellow new signing Luis Suarez – and after two season he was loaned out to fellow Premier League side West Ham
He also made nine England appearances around this time, scoring two goals for the national side.
But he struggled to fit into Liverpool’s system – and was outshone by fellow new signing Luis Suarez – and after two season he was loaned out to fellow Premier League side West Ham.
Carroll found his form again with West Ham’s more direct style of play, scoring 33 goals in 126 appearances with the London side.
But he was hampered by a series of injuries, eventually being released before returning to Newcastle.
He later signed for Reading, before joining West Brom on a short-term contact in January. However he was released earlier this month following a disappointing season with the Baggies.
