Andy Carroll pictured in awkward snap with blonde days before Billi Mucklow wedding

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Andy Carroll has been photographed appearing to be passed out next to a blonde woman after a day of partying in Dubai just days before his wedding to fiancée Billi Mucklow.The professional footballer, 33, had landed in the UAE in a bid to gatecrash his other half's hen do and two days after she left he got started on his own stag celebrations.

After spending the day partying with bar manager Taylor Jane Wilkey and her pals at the Cove Beach club and a second venue, he invited them back to his hotel room for an afterparty, The Sun reported.That's when the picture of Andy and the bar manager was said to be taken, alongside another photo of her wearing his personalised robe.

Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter While a pal told the publication that "this is all very embarrassing with the wedding so close," Taylor said: "It was all just a bit of entirely innocent fun.” Taylor explained the snap was taken on Wednesday 25 May "as a joke" as she explained: "It was an afterparty.

We all went back to his hotel.There was me, Andy and my female friend. I didn’t sleep with him, it wasn’t like that, there was three of us in the room. “It was a full day and night of drinking, we’d been at Cove Beach since 12, it was a really boozy day.