Perrie Edwards’ husband is Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. The Little Mix singer and the footballer married on June 13, 2026, at a 16th-century church in the Portuguese village of Estoi, ten years after they started dating and four years after their beachside engagement.
The wedding closed the book on one of British pop’s longest-running will-they-finally questions, and it also quietly rewrote her Wikipedia infobox: after a decade of “partner,” the line now says spouse, m. 2026. What follows is the confirmed record, kept separate from the two details the coverage never nailed down.
Who is Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain?
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, born August 15, 1993, is an English midfielder who plays for Celtic in the Scottish Premiership. Before Glasgow he spent six seasons at Arsenal, six at Liverpool, and a spell at Beşiktaş in Turkey, which makes him one of the more decorated partners in the pop-star-marries-footballer genre.
He and Edwards are the same age, born five weeks apart in the summer of 1993. Football fans knew him first: he broke through at Southampton as a teenager and moved to Arsenal in 2011, the same year a 17-year-old Edwards walked into her X Factor audition. At Liverpool he won the Premier League and reached two Champions League finals before injuries reshaped his role. His career page reads as a slow handoff from headline signing to steady professional, and the tabloid interest transferred to the couple long ago.
The wedding: a lace gown, a vintage Mercedes, and a village church
The ceremony happened at the Igreja Matriz de Estoi, a Catholic church in the Faro region, on Saturday, June 13, 2026. People’s report, working from photos the Daily Mail obtained, has Edwards arriving in a vintage white Mercedes convertible and a long-sleeved lace gown, while Oxlade-Chamberlain walked in wearing a black suit with a calla lily on the lapel, flanked by his father Mark Chamberlain and his brother Christian.
Guests threw white petals on the church steps as the couple came out, and their four-year-old son and five-month-old daughter made it a family event as much as a celebrity one.
One absence got noticed. Neither Jade Thirlwall nor Leigh-Anne Pinnock appears in any published photo from the day, and no outlet has confirmed whether Edwards’ former bandmates attended at all. Both had publicly celebrated the engagement in 2022, so the silence reads as privacy, not distance; it stays unconfirmed either way.
From 2016 to the altar
The pair kept a slow, mostly private pace by celebrity standards. The load-bearing dates, each from Edwards’ sourced biography or People’s reporting:
- 2016: They begin dating; the relationship is publicly confirmed in February 2017.
- August 2021: Son Axel is born.
- May 2022: Edwards suffers a miscarriage at 24 weeks during Little Mix’s Confetti Tour, a loss she spoke about publicly only in 2025. She has said she also lost a pregnancy before Axel was born.
- June 18, 2022: Engagement, announced with sunset beach photos. “Last night the love of my life got down on one knee and I said… YES,” she wrote.
- January 2026: Daughter Alanis Valentine is born.
- June 13, 2026: Married in Estoi, Portugal.
A small detail hiding in that timeline: Edwards auditioned for The X Factor in 2011 with a song by Alanis Morissette, and her daughter now carries the name Alanis. Neither parent has said the tribute was deliberate, so file it as a lovely coincidence until one of them confirms it.
What happened with Zayn Malik?
Edwards was engaged once before, to One Direction’s Zayn Malik: they met on The X Factor in 2011, got engaged in August 2013, and the relationship ended in August 2015, months after Malik left his band. She was 22 when it ended.
The split still trails her name in search results a decade later, partly because of how public every stage of it was and partly because fan forums never stopped litigating it. Edwards has addressed it sparingly over the years and has said the ending overlapped with the start of her current relationship being speculated about, a framing she disputes. The durable fact is simpler: one engagement ended in 2015, and the man she married in 2026 is the one she built a family with in the meantime.
Quick answers
Are Perrie and Alex still together?
Yes. Perrie Edwards and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain married on June 13, 2026, in Portugal, and share two children, so the long-running “are they still together” queries now have a legal answer.
Which team does Perrie Edwards husband play for?
Oxlade-Chamberlain plays midfield for Celtic in the Scottish Premiership, following spells at Arsenal, Liverpool, and Beşiktaş. His Liverpool years brought a Premier League title and two Champions League final appearances.
How many children do they have?
Two. Son Axel arrived in August 2021 and daughter Alanis Valentine in January 2026, five months before the wedding.
The confirmed record ends there. Two things stay open: whether any Little Mix bandmate stood beside her at the church, and whether Alanis was named for the singer who started her mother’s career. Everything else about Perrie Edwards’ marriage is on the page above, with dates.
