{"id":22167,"date":"2011-12-27T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/frank-lampards-children-call-christine-bleakley-mum-as-elen-rivas-rang-them-at-3am-on-christmas\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T12:35:57","slug":"frank-lampards-children-call-christine-bleakley-mum-as-elen-rivas-rang-them-at-3am-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/27\/frank-lampards-children-call-christine-bleakley-mum-as-elen-rivas-rang-them-at-3am-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lampard’s children ‘call Christine Bleakley mum’ as Elen Rivas ‘rang them at 3am on Christmas’"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nBy
\nAlanah Eriksen<\/a><\/p>\n

Last updated at 12:35 PM on 27th December 2011<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, they became embroiled in a Twitter row when Elen Rivas accused her ex Frank Lampard and his fianc\u00e9e Christine Bleakley of ‘trying to stop his children from speaking to their mother over Christmas’.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it has today been claimed that Spanish Rivas had tried to call her daughters <\/span>at 3am over the Christmas weekend when they were asleep.
<\/span><\/p>\n

It has also been claimed that the girls, Luna, six, and Isla, four, may have started calling their almost-stepmother Bleakley ‘mum’, which, if true, is sure to upset Miss Rivas.
<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Bitter row: Elen Rivas’ children apparently call her ex Frank Lampard’s fiancee Christine Bleakley, ‘Mum’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It has been more than three years since she and footballer Lampard called off their engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rivas,
\n36, hit out at both the Chelsea footballer, 33, and Dancing On Ice
\npresenter Bleakley, 32, on her Twitter page on Christmas Eve.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

She is<\/span> currently in India on a ‘spiritual’
\njourney, meaning she is spending her first Christmas without her
\ndaughters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former WAG claimed she attempted
\nto speak to her girls on the phone to wish them a ‘happy Christmas’, but
\nLampard wouldn’t allow her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly upset, she then blasted the England footballer on Twitter, then brought his fianc\u00e9e into the argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"Happy<\/p>\n

Happy together: Bleakley became engaged to the Chelsea footballer in June this year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She wrote on Christmas Eve: <\/span>‘You would have thought the girlfriend would have a little maternal understanding…’<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite claiming she didn’t want to
\nget involved, Bleakley retweeted other comments from followers
\nsuggesting ‘a dignified silence’ was the best way to deal with the
\nsituation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last night a source close to the
\ncouple claimed in the Daily Mirror: ‘Elen announced she was off on holiday for
\nthree weeks over Christmas and New Year and wouldn\u2019t be taking her
\nmobile.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"Missing<\/p>\n

Missing her girls: Rivas hit out at Lampard and Bleakley on her Twitter page on Christmas Eve<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tricky: The TV presenter retweeted a comment about mothers leaving their children at Christmas<\/p>\n

‘Frank and Christine were delighted to have the children for the whole festive period and have been having an absolute ball.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Christine\u2019s been spending an
\nincreasing amount of time with the kids. They adore her \u2013 and vice
\nversa. They\u2019ve taken to calling her \u2018Mum\u2019, which is incredible \u2013 she\u2019s
\nso touched.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘When Christine read Elen\u2019s Twitter comments she was understandably incensed and incredibly frustrated.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘She spent Boxing Day with her sister
\nNicola and the kids, taking them for a country walk after Christine\u2019s
\nmum cooked lunch for both the couple\u2019s families at their London home.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Christine and Frank had been to Winter
\nWonderland with the children and are going away on a ‘family minibreak’
\nin the new year, the paper reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

A source close to Elen says she is ‘happy for Frank to have the kids this Christmas as she had them last
\nyear. She just wanted to make sure she could speak to them on
\nChristmas Day’.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elen and Frank have<\/span> shared custody of their two daughters since splitting in November 2008 after seven years together.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"Once<\/p>\n

Once upon a time: Lampard was engaged to Rivas for seven years and they have two daughters together Luna and Isla<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bleakley, who will host Dancing on
\nIce next month, dated her footballer partner for ten months before
\nmeeting his girls because she didn’t want to be ‘someone who came and
\nwent in their lives.’<\/span><\/p>\n

When Lampard was criticised in the
\nmedia for remaining in his \u00a38.5million home while Rivas was living in a
\nflat, he phoned up London radio station LBC to defend his corner.<\/span><\/p>\n

He told host James O’Brien in April
\n2009: ‘Unfortunately I\u2019ve split up with my girlfriend so they\u2019re now
\nliving in a temporary flat in Fulham\/Chelsea, and it\u2019s not a bad flat at
\nall and I\u2019m actually buying them a house at the moment which is of
\nequal living standard if not more to mine.’<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"Family:<\/p>\n

Family: Rivas in Barcelona earlier this year with her daughters Luna and Isla<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He also pointed out that Rivas called off their engagement – not him.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said: ‘I hope one day that your
\nwife or your girlfriend doesn\u2019t come to you and say I don\u2019t want to be
\nwith you any more and unfortunately that means you won’t see the kids
\nfor a few days a week.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘That will hurt with you as well but you\u2019d have to deal with it… it\u2019s breaking my heart, do you think I\u2019m happy?’<\/span><\/p>\n

A short time later, Lampard ended up buying Rivas a \u00a32.8million Chelsea townhouse for her to live in with their daughters.
<\/span><\/p>\n

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