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Noughties millionaire playboy who dated Bianca Gascoigne and Jodie Marsh and was engaged to Katie Price before she famously dumped him for Peter Andre during their I'm A Celeb stint now leads a VERY different life

Noughties millionaire playboy who dated Bianca Gascoigne and Jodie Marsh and was engaged to Katie Price before she famously dumped him for Peter Andre during their I'm A Celeb stint now leads a VERY different life

Daily Mail​15-06-2025
Son of a millionaire, Scott Sullivan, once dated a string of noughties glamour models - but now leads a very different life.
Scott, who was famed for his two-year relationship with Katie Price, also dated Bianca Gascoigne and Jodie Marsh.
Katie dated Scott Sullivan back in 2002 for two years but their relationship came to an explosive end during her appearance on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!.
She became engaged to the businessman when he gave her a ring just before she was about to enter the jungle in 2004.
But the glamour model went on to strike up a romance with her now ex-husband Peter Andre during their time together on the ITV reality show.
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At the time, Scott had been left furious with Peter's flirty displays towards Katie and threatened to 'punch his lights out' ahead of flying out to Australia where the reality series is filmed.
The model previously said she was first attracted to Scott because 'he ignored her when they first met'.
Following the breakdown of his relationship with Katie, Scott went on to date her nemesis Jodie Marsh, before finding love with Bianca five years later in 2009.
He had seemed pretty taken with the former Celebrity Big Brother star and was quoted in 2010 talking about his plans to propose to Bianca that year.
Proving that Made In Chelsea's convoluted love triangles aren't just onscreen, Funda and Scott then began dating in 2016, a year after he was linked to her love rival Caggie Dunlop.
Caggie had confirmed her romance with the dark-haired hunk via Instagram in 2015, with sources claiming at the time that she had been 'embarrassed' over Scott's 'colourful' dating history.
A source had told The Mirror at the time: 'Caggie is really into Scott, but she is a Chelsea girl at heart and she'd rather no one knew about his colourful love life.
'He's a wealthy guy and he has talent but there are too many embarrassing pictures of him leaving clubs with glamour girls for her liking.'
Now happily married to his Made In Chelsea star wife Funda Önal, he has traded his partying ways for a much quieter life at home with his family
Meanwhile, it seems Scott fell for Funda months after his split with Caggie, sharing the first picture of his wife to Instagram in May 2016 - a month after posing with her Made In Chelsea ex Spencer Matthews.
Now happily married, Scott has traded his partying ways for a much quieter life at home with his family.
After meeting model and dancer Funda in 2015, Scott popped the question the following year during a romantic trip to a Malibu vineyard.
The couple went on to marry in 2017 before welcoming their first child, a daughter in 2018. Just last week they revealed they are expecting another child.
Scott's Instagram feed shows snippets of his jet set life as a Private Jet Charter, as he shares photos from various tropical locations.
According to his Instagram account, he is the founder of SHY Aviation which works to help customers reach 'exclusive and remote destinations that commercial flights cannot reach' via private jet and helicopter.
Scott also owns SHY Lifestyle which is advertised as 'providing luxury travel experiences and lifestyle management services.'
Although he keeps is family life mostly under wraps, he did share a stunning black and white photo of himself and his wife last week to announce they are expecting their second child.
'A new Soul among us,' he wrote while cradling Funda's growing baby bump.
Another post from 2019 shows him walking through London hand-in-hand with his daughter.
Despite his much more private life, Scott is still mixing in celebrity circles with photos showing him enjoying trips abroad with close friend Ed Westwick.
In another photo, the pair can be seen practising Brazilian jiu-jitsu together alongside their instructor.
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