OHMYGOSSIP — Catherine Tyldesley has cancelled her 40th birthday bash.
The former ‘Coronation Street’ star had hired NVRLAND to organise her upcoming milestone birthday in September but was “blindsided” by the scandal known as Cakegate – which had seen the party-planning company ask the Three Little Birds Bakery in West Yokrshire to take payment “in the form of promotion” – but an insider has claimed that she has now decided to have a “quieter celebration” after the story went viral on social media.
A source told The Daily Mirror on Sunday newspaper: “Cath was blindsided by Cakegate and found the whole thing very upsetting so she’s decided on a quieter celebration. She doesn’t blame NVRLND, but the whole situation left a sour taste so she felt it best to call it off.”
The initial email claimed that the “well-known celebrity” was throwing the party on September 1 – which is actually the birthday of her husband Tom Pitfeild – so she needed an extra cake for her husband as well as 100 small ones but Catherine took to social media soon after the email went viral to deny having any knowledge of the order whatsoever, nor the supposed promotional deal with OK! Magazine.
Speaking in a video posted to Instagram, she she said: “Cake gate?! What? So, I had no idea those emails were being sent. I’m not working with the lovely OK! Magazine on anything that I am aware of. NVRLND are an amazing company, they’ve supplied with me performers in the past. ”
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant – who has Alfie, seven, and Iris, 16 months, with Tom – went on to claim that the party planners had been “completely misrepresented” in the furor and signed off by telling manager Rebecca Severs that she “hoped” she got some publicity for her business as she sarcastically thanked her for causing the press to arrive at her house.
She added: “They’re insane and they’ve been completely misrepresented in this matter. Utterly bizarre, I don’t really know what to say. I mean, I hope the cake lady got the exposure she was craving, whilst I’ve got journalists knocking on my front door whilst my kids are playing in the front room. Dead nice, that, babes, thanks for coming!”
In her initial response email – which has been shared thousands of times on Facebook – Rebecca joked that she was “sorry” to hear that the celebrity client “had fallen on hard times” but claimed that she could not pay her mortgage with social media promotion.
She wrote: “I’m so sorry to hear that your client has fallen on such hard times they can’t afford to pay small businesses their products. Unfortunately as my mortgage provider doesn’t take payment “in the form of promotion on their socials, and my staff can’t feed their kids with exposure on Instagram, I’ll have to decline your very generous offer.”

Source: VacationHunter.Online