Brian McFadden allegedly contacted the News Of The World in fury at his ex-wife, Kerry Katona, for exploiting his girls.

He has held back now for four years but has finally lost his patience and has called Kerry “disgusting” and “an embarrassment.”

Brian claims that Kerry, cynically exploited their girls by dragging them into the row surrounding the premature birth of her new son.  His ex-wife accused him of triggering her anxiety which brought on the labour, because he’d returned his daughters late after they had visited him and his partner, Delata Goodrem at their Australian home.

In the exclusive interview he was reported to have said “She manipulates people and plays the sympathy card for every stupid mistake she makes.  Me and my family have been put through hell by her stupid games.”

“She uses my two girls as a weapon in her childish games.  She is an embarrassment to me, my family and my children.”

It was claimed he admitted that he is terrified that Molly, 6-years-old and Lilly-Sue, 5-years-old, will think that the way Kerry acts is normal.

He added “We put them into as much of a routine as possible.  But it breaks our hearts when the kids quote back stuff they’ve heard form Kerry. ‘Mummy has to go to the Priory because she’s not feeling well’ - things like that.”

Brian knows that the interview is going to anger Kerry but he feels it’s about time everyone knew the truth.

Molly and Lilly-Sue had been taken by their gran to visit Brian at his home in Australia.  The girls were due t0 be returned on the 30th March but a call was made to Kerry saying that they would be staying a couple more days in Dublin and would be returned on the 3rd April.

Kerry was reportedly furious when the girls were returned to her a week before she went into labour, with son Max who arrived five weeks early.

Brian’s mother Mairead and her husband, Brendan, adore their granddaughters and Brendan said “If you watch her programme, you will know what she’s like.  That’s the way she is.  That’s the way we know her.”

Mairead hopes to help Brian look after the girls if he wins custody of them in the ongoing legal battle.