Adam Peaty’s brother has been arrested over allegations he sent threats to the the sportsman during his stag weekend.
James Peaty, 34, was questioned by police for two days before being released on conditional bail after allegations he sent Adam, 30, a barrage of verbal threats while he was celebrating his stag weekend in the Hungarian capital of Bupadest.
On Monday, it was revealed Adam’s mother Caroline, 59, has been uninvited from attending his Christmas wedding to Holly Ramsay, 25, as a result of a fallout and he was branded a ‘narcissist’ by his own family over his actions.
But since then a source close to the Ramsays pointed to ‘wider problems’ in the Peaty family which they say lie at the heart of the fallout – and that they are serious.
The insider explained that there have been ‘horrible’ threats of violence against Holly, and Adam, 30, and that police have been involved.
A family source told The Daily Mail: ‘The boys have always been close, and Jamie, who is a builder, even helped Adam renovate his house.
Adam Peaty’s brother has been arrested over allegations he sent threats to the the sportsman during his stag weekend; pictured Adam Peaty
James Peaty, pictured second left alongside his brothers and parents, was questioned by police for two days before being released on conditional bail
‘They’ve always got on, but Adam has changed with his new celebrity lifestyle and family.
‘Now James has a potential charge hanging over his head and his parents have the headache of being disinvited and banned from their son’s wedding.
‘This is so hurtful and distressing for our family.’
Adam was reportedly granted a huge police escort at Manchester airport on Sunday night after flying back home from his stag do.
A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police told the Daily Mail: ‘We arrested a 34-year-old man, from the Uttoxeter area, on 11 November 2025, on suspicion of harassment.
‘The man was released on conditional bail while our enquiries continue.’
Whilst James has not been charged, the family source said it was a ‘desperately worrying time, amid the high profile public dispute.’
His father Mark reportedly said: ‘They’re brothers. They’ve always been close but like any normal family, brothers fight, argue, fall out, make-up and start all over again. But it’s got out of hand.’
Adam and Holly Ramsay’s feud with his family has reached fever pitch after claims of threats of violence against the couple were reported – as their very public row escalates even further
On Monday, it was revealed the Olympian’s mum Caroline (left) has been banned from attending Adam’s Christmas wedding to Holly as a result of the fallout
Adam had allegedly received a barrage of ‘increasingly threatening’ texts and feared a physical assault on his return to the UK.
The Olympian reportedly had to be escorted from a plane by armed police on Sunday after receiving threats on his stag do.
He is said to have been met by five uniformed police officers who flanked him through immigration and baggage reclaim, after the aircraft touched down at Manchester Airport.
They said CCTV was also monitored by authorities for suspicious activity and Adam was escorted from the building into a waiting vehicle.
The police presence came following fears he could be assaulted as shaken Adam initially contacted his fiancée Holly, who then alerted police.
Representatives for Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay have been contacted by Daily Mail.
A friend revealed: ‘The issues that have been reported don’t stem from hen do or wedding invitations; it goes so much deeper.
Holly was clutching a ‘Bride’ phone case when she broke cover on Thursday morning for the first time since her feud with fiancé Adam Peaty’s family came to light
The friend added that Holly’s parents, chef Gordon Ramsay and his wife Tana have been ‘100 per cent supportive’ of them.
A source close to Adam and Holly told The Sun: ‘This feud is heart-breaking from both sides.’
It’s understood the brothers have not been on speaking terms since June. James had been asked to be a groomsman at Adam and Holly’s wedding, but was not invited on the stag-do following the recent row.
A source has said that James was initially upset about Adam’s comments about him in his 2021 book The Gladiator Mindset, where he wrote about James having demons. Tensions are thought to have escalated at Adam and Holly’s engagement party.
Holly was pictured breaking cover on Thursday clutching a ‘Bride’ phone case when she was seen for the first time since her feud with her fiancé’s family came to light.
The sighting came after the Peatys took to social media in force to claim they have been overlooked from the couple’s wedding plans because they are ‘simple people on benefits’, who do not fit in with the Ramsays’ polished look.
Sources close to the situation told the Daily Mail’s Katie Hind that the accusations from team Ramsay have not reflected favourably upon them.
The insider told the Daily Mail: ‘It all seems rather unedifying for Team Ramsay to come out and throw around accusations about a normal, ordinary family like the Peatys.’ The full exclusive report is available to read here.
Adam and Holly’s wedding is due to be held at Bath Abbey at Christmas with guests set to include the newly knighted Sir David Beckham and his fashion designer wife who have been friends with the Ramsays for many years.
The family source said it was believed that the only member of Adam’s family now due to attend the wedding was his sister Bethany, with nobody else being able to afford the hotel costs.
Bethany was the only member of his family at Holly’s hen celebration at Soho Farmhouse, set in 100 acres of the Oxfordshire countryside.
The claims of violence come after Adam’s family accused his camp of ‘body-shaming’ his mother Caroline.
They also insisted he isn’t following his Christian beliefs by shunning his family from their wedding celebrations and accused Adam of sending his mother outfit options because they ‘didn’t approve of her choices’.
The tirade of comments from Adam’s side of the family come after a source close to the situation explained why they were no longer invited to the nuptials.
Speaking to the Daily Mail’s Katie Hind, they said: ‘You only have to look at the picture to see that there is a certain ‘type’, says one person familiar with the party.
‘They all look the same and you wonder if Caroline might have stuck out a bit. She’s a normal woman, not a celebrity. You look at Holly’s Instagram and it’s all so planned, so super-glam and very, very showy. That’s not Caroline.’
More about the jaw-dropping reason Holly and Adam banned his mum from wedding and hen do can be read in Katie Hind’s exclusive Mail+ article here.
In the hours after the comments were revealed, Adam’s family reacted to the reports on social media as they accused the person who made them of body shaming.
The day before, Adam’s aunt Louise had weighed into the feud, and said of her sister: ‘She’s not ok at all. Holly and Adam have broken my darling sister.’
She claimed Adam is ‘ashamed’ of his brothers and then bizarrely shared pictures of Holly at the hen do on her Threads account.
Adam’s family branded him a ‘narcissist’ and claimed he has been ‘changed’ by money and ‘forgotten where he came from’.
Another source told the publication while his family were originally supportive of his engagement to Holly, they feel ‘they have been pushed further and further from Adam over the past year’.
Holly failed to invite Adam’s mother who helped steer him to Olympic glory. Caroline instead stayed at home in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, looking after her grandson George
The Peatys have taken to social media in force to claim they have been overlooked from the couple’s wedding plans because they are ‘simple people on benefits’, who do not fit in with the Ramsays’ polished look (pictured Adam with his mother Caroline)
They said: ‘It seems to some of the family that Adam is more at home with Holly and her folks, while his family has been left behind.
‘Caroline is devoted to her grandson George and will move heaven and earth to care for him.
‘As tensions have risen, there have been rows and Caroline has always toed the line because she wants to be a part of her grandson’s life.’
Shocked family members have spoken out against Adam, with Caroline’s sister saying: ‘he’s said the most vile things a son can say to his mother.’
Adam is said to have had his head turned by Holly’s fame and money – and now feels ashamed of his own working-class family who made huge sacrifices and shelled out hundreds for his swimming lessons growing up.
On Monday, Adam’s aunt accused Holly Ramsay of leaving her mother-in-law Caroline ‘broken’ by failing to invite her to her hen do.
The daughter of Gordon Ramsay welcomed her mother Tana, Victoria Beckham, Adam’s sister Bethany and many more to her pre-nuptial celebrations at celebrity hotspot Soho Farmhouse – yet has reportedly left Caroline ‘broken’ with the snub.
Social media has erupted with anger from Adam’s family, after Caroline shared posts voicing her heartache, leading to her sister Louise Williams, who uses the Instagram handle @Loobylou, and their Aunty Jan weighing in on the ‘s**t show’.
When Holly failed to invite Caroline, who helped steer Adam to Olympic glory, to the party, she was left languishing at home in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, looking after her five-year-old grandson George – Adam’s child with ex-girlfriend Eirianedd Munro.
Caroline took to Instagram on Monday to share a cryptic image reading: ‘When you love someone, you protect them from the pain, you don’t become the cause of it.’
She captioned the post with: ‘The ones I love are the people who hurt me the most.’
The post was soon flooded with comments and likes from the Peaty family, including Aunty Louise detailing the apparent reasons why there was a hen do snub as well as comments about Adam’s brothers and their mental health problems.
She wrote: ‘They banned her because she would not apologise re the cancellation of the Bath trip because of the train cancellation and Caroline’s refusal to turn her back on her son’s, his brothers who both suffer from adhd and mental health problems and whom Adam considers to be an embarrassment…
‘However it was ok for Adam to make money off his brothers problems in his book. Can I ask I don’t know if you are a mum but would you turn your back on two sons who needed you to remain in favour with a celebrity?’
Her reference to a trip to Bath comes after it was revealed that his parents were invited to the wedding, along with other family members, and Caroline excitedly bought a dress.
But, according to the source, the star and his fiancée didn’t like the ensemble so offered to buy her a different one of their choice. The Peatys had been gifted train travel and accommodation to visit Bath to go shopping, which they accepted.
The planned trip never happened because services going south were either delayed or cancelled due to multiple stabbings on a train in Huntingdon two weeks ago.
The source said: ‘Caroline and Mark couldn’t make the journey and instead of rearranging it, Adam went mad they had missed it and moaned they had wasted his money and he wouldn’t be able to get a refund…
‘For goodness sake, he’s a multi-millionaire. It’s all so sad, not one really knows what goes on behind closed doors. Adam doesn’t really want or need his family anymore. It is heartbreaking to see this once normal, close-knit family fall apart.’
Louise’s tirade did not stop there, as she launched into another defence of her sister, who she insisted had ‘a heart bigger than China’.
The previous day, Louise blasted Holly over the snub to her future mother-in-law who had ‘opened her home and heart to you’, saying it had inflicted ‘a hurt on my sister that will take a very long time to heal if ever’.
Her post stated: ‘@hollyramsayy I’m so glad that you had a great hen do. As a bride, you deserve that. However, as a person you were divisive and hurtful towards a woman, who I have loved and continue to love deeply.
‘A woman who opened her home and heart to you. You decided, for whatever reason, not to invite her, your prospective mother-in-law to your hen night yet Adam invited his father-in-law, your dad, to his stag night.
‘You invited your mum (quite rightly) and even your mum’s assistant, your sisters, your friends, my niece, but not my sister, your future mother-in-law.
‘I have also seen messages passing between her and Adam about this and other matters and, quite frankly, I expected better of you and definitely of Adam. You have inflicted a hurt on my sister that will take a very long time to heal if ever.’
Adam was branded a ‘narcissist’ by his furious family after it was revealed he banned his mother from their lavish wedding
Louise threw herself wholeheartedly into the conversation about the feud
She insisted Adam was ’embarrassed’ by his family and his brothers’ mental health problems
The post is said to have deeply upset Holly and world champion swimmer Adam who have been dating for more than two years.
A source close to the Peaty family revealed that the swimmer had left his mother ‘heartbroken’ after her sister’s post by contacting her to ban her from the wedding and to tell her she would not see his son George or any future grandchildren again.
In another message to his mother, seen by the Daily Mail, Adam stated his intention to disown his family, despite them having supported him throughout his career.
Caroline waded into the incredible row by expressing her distress in an Instagram post which stated: ‘Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.’
Her post attracted messages of support and concern from friends including one who commented: ‘Don’t let them drag you down Caroline.’
