Kate Ferdinand hits back at accusations she’s a golddigger for marrying husband Rio as she insists ‘If I wanted to pick a rich man, I would have picked someone without kids’

Kate Ferdinand has laughed off claims she is a gold digger for marrying her former footballer husband Rio, insisting 'I could have picked a lot easier man.' Former TOWIE star Kate, 35, co-parents Tate, 18, Lorenz, 19, and Tia, 15, with husband Rio, 47, and they are also proud parents to daughter Shae, two, and son Cree, five. She has been open about the challenges of raising a blended family, and her relationship with the teenagers after their mother Rebecca tragically died from breast cancer in 2015 aged just 34. Kate was 25 when she started dating Rio in 2016, and soon gave up her reality star life to devote herself to being a step…