She’s never been one to hold her tongue, and now Katie Price has sparked a new war with ex-husband Peter Andre after making some controversial comments about him in her latest interview.
Speaking to Louis Theroux on his self-titled podcast, the 46-year-old – whose four-year marriage to Peter, also 46, ended in 2009 – admitted that she’d been paid more than her first husband for their joint wedding photo shoot when they tied the knot in 2005.
‘We got paid just under £1million’, she admitted. ‘I always got more than Pete. My contracts were different. If I did a photo shoot with him, we’d have separate contracts because I was worth more.
‘He’d just come out of the [I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!] jungle. Who was he? I was already established. He met me and it was his lucky day.’
When asked about their current relationship, she later added, ‘I don’t speak to him. It’s all through legals. He was quite jealous of me working.’
After meeting on the third series of the hit ITV reality show in 2004, the pair – who share Junior, 19, and Princess, 17 – secretly got engaged just months later and eventually tied the knot in a lavish ceremony at Highclere Castle in September 2005.
They soon became the ultimate ‘It’ couple, regularly featured on magazine covers and had several reality shows including Katie & Peter and Jordan And Peter Laid Bare to their name. However, in 2009, it all came crashing down when the couple split amid rumours of Katie being unfaithful, which she denies.
Since then, Katie hasn’t held back and has branded Pete a ‘hypocrite’ and ‘boring’ among other things, as their split has turned increasingly bitter.
Pete has held his tongue in response to Katie’s taunts, and has moved on with doctor wife Emily MacDonagh. After getting engaged in 2013, Peter and 35-year-old Emily – who attended the Pride of Britain Awards with Junior and Princess last week – tied the knot in 2015 and have since gone on to welcome son Theo, seven, as well as daughters Amelia, 10, and Arabella, seven months.
Meanwhile, Katie has been married twice – to Alex Reid from 2010-2012 and then to Kieran Hayler from 2013-2021 – and has had a string of on/off relationships. She is currently in a relationship with Married At First Sight UK star JJ Slater, having met through social media back in February.
Despite having only been together nine months, Closer reported last week that the pair are considering starting a family together, potentially welcoming what would be Katie’s sixth child – as well as Princess and Junior, Katie is also mum to Harvey, 22, as well as Jett, 11, and Bunny, 10 – and have been looking into the IVF process.
Following a stint in rehab in 2021, where she was diagnosed with PTSD following struggles with alcohol and cocaine over the years, Katie now admits that she’s never been in a healthy relationship.
‘My downfall, I’ve had to learn all this in therapy, is men,’ she explained. ‘Because I jump from one to the other to the other. It’s like I need that neediness and then I end up in a toxic relationship, [with a] narcissist or gaslighting.’
Katie has also recently hit headlines for undergoing multiple cosmetic surgeries this year, including her 17th boob job and a £10,000 facelift – both since June.
And her love of surgery shows no sign of slowing down. As Closer has previously reported, the former glamour model is said to be considering going under the knife before Christmas, following in her BFF Kerry Katona’s footsteps with a nose job, after Katie’s lip lift three years ago left her struggling to breathe through her nose.
But despite the various procedures under her belt – having got her first boob lift back when she was just 18 – Katie insists that she doesn’t want to be seen as a role model when it comes to cosmetic surgery.
She concluded, ‘I’ve never said to anyone that I want to be a role model, because I’m not perfect, I’m definitely not perfect. I’ve made it very clear that I had my boobs done too young now I look back. I look at Princess, she’s 17, and she’s like a baby. If she was going under the knife to have boobs, that’s too young. I think it should be 21 for girls to have their boobs done because it is under [general] anaesthetic.
‘It’s so easy to get now, so accessible – you can just walk up a street now and there’s an aesthetic clinic. You can go and be pumped with stuff and I just think it’s sad on young girls, so no, I don’t want to be a role model like that.’
