Former Westlife wife Kerry Katona says she hopes it will be a case of “third time lucky” when she marries boyfriend Steve Alce.

Kerry, who finalised her divorce to Dublin singer Brian McFadden in 2006, revealed she is hoping Steve will propose shortly.

The 31-year-old mum-of-four divorced from her second husband, cabbie Mark Croft, in 2010. “I have kissed a good many frogs,” she said.

“Now I have found my prince. I am so in love with Steve and I would like to get married. We have discussed it and, as they say, third time lucky. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. With Steve I feel complete. I have been clean from drugs for two years. I'm never going to go back to those ways. I have someone who is there for me.

"More than anything, what made me fall for Steve is the way he is with my kids," she said. "They run to him when he comes through the door and he dotes on them." Steve, who has a 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son, has already moved into Kerry’s Surrey mansion after the pair met at a charity event last October.