Katie Price (Jordan)

[Exclusive]

awww i love her

 

[tigerrouge]

Apparently they've officially and properly broken up, according to the Daily Mail (and most other media outlets), so let's see what happens next:

Katie Price and Peter Andre split after four years of marriage

Katie Price and Peter Andre have ended their marriage after four years, her spokesperson announced today.

The break-up ends months of speculation surrounding the couple, who have documented their tumultuous relationship on ITV2 reality series Katie and Peter: Stateside.

The pair were last seen together on Saturday night, where they emerged from London's popular Nobu restaurant hand-in-hand after filming a segment for the British Soap Awards. Until now, both had vigorously denied persistent rumours of marital discord and in recent weeks they had even discussed plans to try for another baby.

A statement read: 'Peter Andre and Katie Price are separating after four and a half years of marriage.They have both requested that the media respect their families’ privacy at this difficult time.'

When contacted by Mail Online, a spokesperson refused to comment on the circumstances surrounding the split.

Katie, who often stepped out without her wedding ring, once said infidelity would be the only force that would drive them apart. She told OK! magazine in October: 'I wouldn't [leave him]. It would only be if he cheated on me. I think that's the same for both of us - there's nothing else that would make us break up - only if one of us was unfaithful.'

Peter has previously said he struggled with Katie's occasional penchant for wild nights on the town where she would reprise her alter ego, Jordan. In his autobiography, teetotal Andre admitted: 'I trust her when she's sober, but I don't trust her when she's drinking.It makes our relationship vulnerable. From the moment she starts drinking I lose her and I won't get her back until the next morning.'

Peter, 35, married Katie, 30, on 10 September 2005, at Highclere Castle, Berkshire, in a lavish ceremony 19 months after they fell in love on reality show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Her now rival Kerry Katona, Liberty X's Michelle Heaton and Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding were among the bridesmaids at the gaudy, Cinderella-inspired ceremony.

They have two children, a boy, three-year-old Junior Savva Andreas, and a girl, Princess Tiaamii, 21 months. Katie also has a son, Harvey, 6, from a previous relationship with former Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke.

The couple signed a pre-nuptial agreement on Peter's insistence prior to getting married. He said at the time: 'Whatever happens, I can't take half of what she's got. I don't want anything from her apart from her love.'

According to Renato Labi, of family law firm Hughes Fowler Carruthers, Katie's vast fortune is likely to be protected. Mr Labi told Mail Online: 'Prenuptial contracts are not binding under English law, but they can be persuasive to the court. If both parties had separate legal advice, gave disclosure of their financial circumstances, and if the provisions of the prenup are fair, then the court is likely to uphold it. Custody of the couple's young children will probably be sorted out with minimal court involvement.

Adds Mr Labi: 'If Katie is the primary carer of her children with Peter, they would probably have their main home with her, which would have the benefit of keeping all the siblings together, but they would have plenty of overnight and holiday contact with their father.

Katie first made her name as a glamour model appearing in various lads' mag shoots and has gone on to create a large business empire ranging from children's books to equestrian wear.

Singer Peter became a one-hit wonder with his international hit Mysterious Girl, a summer anthem in 1996. He worked on writing and recording a comeback album during the family's stay in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Together, the pair have generated an enormous volume of publicity, including their ITV2 shows When Jordan Met Peter, Jordan & Peter: Laid Bare, Jordan & Peter: Marriage Mayhem?, Katie & Peter: The Baby Diaries and Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter.

Their latest ITV2 reality TV show, Katie & Peter: Stateside, attracted more than 1 million viewers on Thursday nights.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...e-Price-Peter-Andre-split-years-marriage.html

 

[vintage]

God I can't believe it.. I actually had a tear in my eye.. haha how sad :|

 

[Esperanza]

yeah thats sad. i was shocked when i read it this morning

 

[eimear.style]

Ya it is sad actually, although there is only so much of their 'friendly' bickering recently in interviews that one can take, i'm not surprised, that said i am sad, they were cute in a way!

 

[rosalynn]

Tis a shame, I quite like Katie in a strange kinda way, it's a guilty pleasure of mine. I always loved their banter, but can understand how something like that can eat away at a relationship. Hope they get over it, even if it's for the sake of the kids.

 

[tigerrouge]

But part of me also thinks, this is a way to spin out more public attention, by making their break-up "official" and then spending the next few weeks giving separate interviews about their heartbreak (or why they split up, or how much they hate each other) - before reconciling, and then getting another series of interviews out of that.

They're all over the front pages of most UK tabloids, and it'll probably be the same with the weekly magazines when they appear in the next day or so. Only time will tell whether this is a smart media strategy, and not a real-life break-up.

 

[rosalynn]

Yah, I totally agree tigerrouge. I nearly posted the same sentiment in a post this morning, but I had only just woken up and didn't have the confidence in myself to click 'post' without making a boob of myself.

If it is genuine it's a shame, if it's PR then it's a sham! But Katie possibly knows how to play the media better than most celebs so more power to her. It says a lot I guess when every news report mentions their series that's airing at the moment so we'll see I guess...

 

[tigerrouge]

She's also parted ways with her publicist, according to PR Week:

Glamour model Katie Price, a.k.a Jordan, has parted company with her publicists Can Associates.

14 May 2009

The company, run by Neville Hendricks and Claire Powell, has represented the model since 2004.

A statement released by Can Associates today reads: ‘Can Associates Limited announce the release of our client Katie Price from our management.’

During the agency’s time representing Price, the statement said, ‘we have worked hard to build Katie as a successful individual and brand, moving her from a glamour model and repositioning her as the country’s foremost female celebrity, with a string of products and successful endorsements. We wish Katie every success for the future.’

Andrew Bloch, MD of Frank PR, said even though splitting from Can Associates was a 'risk', he was sure Price's move would not have been a spur-of-the-moment decision. 'I have worked with her many times, and she is a brilliant business person which is often the side of her you do not see,' he said.

It is thought Price has approached Gary Farrow, CEO and chairman of The Corporation, whose clients include Jack Dee, Elton John and Jonathan Ross. However Farrow has so far been unavailable for comment.

Earlier this week Price announced her split from husband Peter Andre, who she met during the filming of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and married in 2005 in a picture exclusive with OK magazine said to be worth £1.5m.

http://www.prweek.com/channel/ConsumerEntertainment/article/906016/Katie%20Price%20a.k.a.%20Jordan%20splits%20from%20publicist%20Can%20Associates/

 

[tigerrouge]

And the Daily Mail speculates about the split:

Is Katie Price and Peter Andre's split all a publicity stunt?

14th May 2009

About two weeks ago, Katie Price started to talk about making a 'massive comeback'.

She felt anxious, she confided, because she thought that she was simply not earning enough. Indeed, she had dyed her hair a plain brown because she said she was 'fed up' with paying to have her highlights attended to. Gary Cockerill, her great friend and regular make-up artist, was told that she was reducing his hours because she was feeling the pinch.

Even her mother Amy could not cheer her up - Katie was in a miserable humour. But having been in America for months, paying rent on a house in Malibu but not earning any money, she felt broke and forgotten, and fretted that she had been eclipsed by Jade Goody. And there is nothing which annoys Katie (who has built up a £30million fortune) more than the threat of obscurity.

A source who spent time with her during this period recalls that she was grumbling about the 'thunder thighs' she had built up training for the London Marathon, and was even more bad-tempered than usual with her husband Peter Andre. Katie told the source that she was going to reinvent herself in some spectacular way - which she did not specify - and confided that she was going on one of her juice-only detox diets to try to shed a stone to be ready for the blaze of publicity she was about to attract.

These are the sort of meanderings to which the 30-year-old former glamour model is prone, and nobody took much notice, as she often talks about wanting to be the nation's biggest star again. Now, of course, things look rather different. For although she insists that this week's separation from Peter Andre was his idea, and that she is 'devastated', some people suspect that the whole affair could be a tawdry publicity stunt cooked up by Katie herself. She's got her fourth autobiography coming out and he is about to release an album full of gut-wrenching ballads about losing the woman he loves. It's hard not to smell a rat.

We now know that the pictures which are supposed to have ended the marriage are harmless. Katie was snapped cuddling up to international dressage rider Spencer Wilton, who is openly gay. He and Katie are friends through their shared interest in riding and her recent commercial ventures with equestrian clothing. Indeed, the two of them are so close that it's hard to credit that Andre did not recognise the 'mystery hunk' whose face his wife was licking at the Syndicate Club in Bristol.

So if they have not split up thanks to those pictures, have they truly split up at all? The couple looked perfectly happy as they exited the trendy London restaurant Nobu on Saturday night, hand in hand. And hadn't Katie been talking only last week about her plans to have a third child with Peter gladly concurring with the idea in his most recent magazine column. It hardly sounds like the warning rumblings before a marriage implodes.

Several well-placed sources insisted to me yesterday that Katie Price is, in fact, already in the arms of OK! magazine and planning to do a full talk - for money, of course - about the 'end' of the relationship. We can expect to pay £2.95 to read all about it next Tuesday. The theory is that this moneyspinning interview about her heartbreak will be followed by a reconciliation with Andre - again sold to the highest bidder. More lucrative interviews about their renewed love would follow, topped perhaps by a renewal of their wedding vows (it would be their second renewal), yet again sold to TV and magazines. Perhaps £1.5million could come her way as a result - not bad for a few weeks' work.

'That is certainly what I have heard,' said a senior source in the magazine world. 'I'm told she is with OK! already and that it [the break-up] is all just a sham.'

In the past, Katie has proved her razor-sharp business mind, raking it in not only with her modelling and autobiographies, but also a series of children's books, novels and a lingerie line. In contrast, new company accounts lodged at Companies House reveal Peter Andre's minuscule earnings. In recent times, records show that Andre has owned and dissolved three colourfully named companies - Aqua Blues Music Ltd, Future Flava Ltd and Neutral Colours Ltd. He currently is sole director of a single company, with older brother Michael Andre undertaking the role of company secretary. According to the most recent accounts lodged for the company, PJA Promotions Ltd, it is hardly is flush with funds. In 2007, it made just £14,189 and had total assets of £72,262. However, it also owed £58,073. The thought of all those magazines and TV companies clamouring to pay for the next instalment in the Peter and Katie life story must be very appealing.

But is that really what is planned, or are we all being a little too cynical?

Her representative at the agency CAN Associates swears it ain't so. 'This is categorically not a PR stunt,' said the spokesperson. 'We would never be involved in something like this if it were. And Katie is not overseas with OK! magazine.' Why, then, is this separation so hard to believe? After all, anyone who has watched their more recent TV programmes, or read any of their interviews, knows that their three-and-a-half-year marriage has been somewhat turbulent for a long time.

Price's bitter and bitchy put-downs of Andre have made the various instalments of Katie & Peter on ITV2 gruesomely compelling viewing. Katie is habitually unpleasant to, and jealous of, her spouse. In their latest televised row, in a shop in LA, Katie branded her husband 'an old f*****g singer no one knows about', before taunting him about his earning power, saying: 'I'm the one making money, Pete, so course I can have it how I want.' He fired back 'Don't ever f*****g talk to me like that, understand?', later concluding: 'You are really, seriously, a psycho.'

In Katie's various books - and there have been three autobiographies to date - the phrase 'We ended up having a massive row' rings out on almost every other page. She seems to be permanently annoyed - and Peter is always the one who gets it in the neck. She rowed with him over his desire for a Greek name for their firstborn. Peter wanted to call the boy Savva after his beloved father, but as Katie recalled in her own deadly prose: '"Look!" I screamed back, having lost my rag, "I don't f*****g like the name Savva!"' They rowed massively during the run-up to their wedding at Highclere Castle, Hampshire, in September 2005, with Katie deeply jealous over the possibility of any of Peter's former girlfriends attending. 'I don't care,' she shrieked at him. 'You shouldn't have s****ed her.'

The glamour model said that at the time she had been prescribed antidepressants for post-natal depression, and that they came close to splitting up. Although they were reconciled and had their daughter Princess Tiaamii in June 2007, her depression returned.

She said in Pushed To The Limit, the third volume of her autobiography, that Peter threatened to leave at this point. He said that he wanted a separation, but she stood her ground and told him: 'No, Pete. You either want to be with me or you don't. And if you don't, then I'll divorce you.' In the end, Peter apologised to her. It has been claimed that he has said 20 times or more that he will walk out on her. Last year they renewed their vows, again with the cameras rolling. But before and after the ceremony, in South Africa, they were bickering about whether or not she would take the surname Andre. She said that she would - and then did not. There were also serious disagreements about her breast reduction, rhinoplasty and tooth veneers which left her in serious discomfort. Peter felt the operations were unnecessary and Katie refused to touch him, saying she was in too much pain to contemplate any intimacy.

This is a running problem in the relationship, with Peter once claiming they had not had sex in months and Katie routinely denigrating his abilities as a lover. It is said she refused to have sex with him in America, claiming that she was too tired from training for the marathon. Earlier this year, Katie said she had been convinced her husband was having an affair because she caught him deleting texts on his mobile phone, and she threatened to walk out.

In every instance, their discord has been sold to TV viewers or magazine readers - making money being the main priority in Katie's life. The couple were paid £2million by OK! for the rights to their wedding. Even her children have been exploited in the pursuit of her commercial interests. Last year, for instance, they did a Halloween cover for OK!, dressed in trick-or-treat outfits; the Christmas cover featured them dressed up as if in a Nativity play.

It's no surprise we are left wondering what is real in Katie's life and what is just soap-opera posturing. Julian Linley, the editor of Heat magazine, thinks this is precisely why people are so cynical about this week's split. He said: 'The problem with Jordan is that she has contradicted herself so many times that you no longer know what to believe about what she says. In the same week, we have had her announcing that she wants a baby this year and then saying that she is getting a separation. She has been brilliant at parcelling up little parts of her life and selling them one by one. Everything which happens to her gets sold. But she has been doing it for so long that people are starting to question her motives. You believe there is nothing that she will not do, and nothing that she will not sell. And people are questioning what she says because some of it is so contradictory. Also, you see Peter on TV being bullied by her. It makes you tend to believe the worst of her because you know what she is capable of.'

In recent months, her media sellouts have included a bizarre 'exclusive' with OK! magazine that Peter was cheating on her - which he was not; the whole thing was a 'joke' apparently - and another very odd 'political' interview in which she gave her view on possible punishments for r*pists. Industry insiders says that both of these issues sold very poorly, as did last week's which featured a cover picture of her in the bath with her children. This is said to have sent her into a panic that if she loses her power to shift copies of OK!, then she really is sunk. What's more, those who know her say that her relationship with agent Claire Powell has come under pressure, with Jordan growing impatient about Powell's management style and fed up at having to pay her a percentage on media deals. One source said this relationship could be heading for the rocks. Maybe Jordan doesn't want to share the money which will come rolling in for the dramatic new 'divorce' chapters she will be able to write in the next instalment of her autobiography.

And there is more planned. She is in the throes of putting together a style guide about how to look like her, and she is thinking about releasing a 'popera' crossover song because she wants to compete with Peter, whose comeback album is released in six weeks. Less cynical souls, though, say this is a genuine break-up and that the relationship, while exploited to the max, has been the real thing. One friend, who worked on one of the couple's early TV programmes, said he was disturbed because they kept on nipping off during filming to have sex, noisily, off camera.

It seems clear that Andre, who put out the first statement announcing their separation, had no idea his wife was preparing one of her own, saying he had dumped her. But Katie likes to be in control and is said to be 'paranoid' about being cast as the villain.

Yesterday they were half the world away from each other, with Katie holidaying on the exclusive Conrad Maldives resort and Peter believed to be at his parents' home in Cyprus.

Sources at OK! say they believe the separation is for real. No negotiations have been entered into and she is not talking at the moment, they say. But they do believe the couple will be back together soon. 'The feeling is that this marriage, which allowed her to build up a £30 million fortune, will not be allowed to go up in smoke quite so easily,' said a source. 'They row all the time. We think they will be back to normal before the end of the year.'

The only question is whether the magazine-buying, TV-watching mugs who bought into this drama will have switched off in disgust before it happens.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...Price-Peter-Andres-split-publicity-stunt.html

 

[mimicouture]

She's also parted ways with her publicist, according to PR Week:



http://www.prweek.com/channel/Consu... Jordan splits from publicist Can Associates/

i'm pretty sure claire has been peter andre's manager and a friend of his family since the beginning of his career, so i guess it makes sence that if katie and peter are splitting up they would choose him over her.

 

[balgal]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8049852.stm

Management 'release' Katie Price

Katie Price's management company has announced it will no longer represent the former glamour model.

Manager Claire Powell, who sometimes appeared in their ITV2 shows, has worked with the star for five years.

Powell refused to disclose why Price had been dropped, saying: "We're a very professional company and I don't want to make any comment."

The decision comes just three days after the former model and Peter Andre said they were separating.

'Future success'

Powell revealed she has worked with Andre for longer than Price, first representing him at the beginning of his singing career in the 90s.

When he moved to the US, they parted, but she agreed to take him on again in 2003, and "got him" on ITV1 reality show I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! a year later.

It was during the show that the celebrity couple met and went on to form a relationship.

“ We have worked hard to build Katie as a successful individual and brand ”
Can Associates
In a statement Can Associates said: "We have represented Katie since February 2004.

"During that time we have worked hard to build Katie as a successful individual and brand, moving her from a glamour model and repositioning her as the country's foremost female celebrity, with a string of products and successful endorsements.

"We wish Katie every success for the future."

Powell said Andre was currently in Cyprus.

She added that she did not know whether Price had sought representation with anyone else.

On Monday Can Associates issued a joint statement on behalf of the couple announcing their separation.

Later that day Price issued another statement through a separate PR company.

"Pete is the love of my life and my life. We have children together and I am devastated and disappointed by his decision to separate and divorce me, as I married him for life," she said.

"This is not what I want and the decision has been taken out of my hands."

 

[tigerrouge]

An ex-employee of Katie's had this story to tell to the Daily Mail:

Scheming, cold and only interested in herself: Former groom reveals truth about Katie Price when the cameras are off

17th May 2009

There was a depressing predictability in glamour model Katie Price’s request that her privacy be respected after she walked out on her pop-star husband Peter Andre. This, after all, is a woman who has made millions from putting the tawdry minutiae of her life on public display, from botched breast implants to bedroom secrets.

As her alter ego Jordan, she has peddled a false reality where naked modelling and sleazy kiss-and-tell somehow go hand-in-hand with being a devoted mother in a loving marriage. Such is her lust for publicity that she even turned her failing marriage into a reality television show.

But what the cameras failed to show was just how ruthlessly she treats those around her. Indeed, it is telling that her response to the fierce public reaction to her break-up was to sack her agent, rather than assess her own behaviour. But what the cameras failed to show was just how ruthlessly she treats those around her. Indeed, it is telling that her response to the fierce public reaction to her break-up was to sack her agent, rather than assess her own behaviour.

Joanne Hillman knows better than most just how heartless Katie Price can be. While Katie, 30, attempts to improve her image by presenting herself as a dedicated horsewoman and animal lover, Joanne, who worked for her as a groom, nanny and cleaner, today reveals that she rode her horses only when the cameras were around.

And when Joanne left her job after two years, Katie reported her to the police for theft and benefit fraud – Joanne was cleared of both – and threatened to sue if she ever talked about their time together. It is only now that the legal case has been settled that Joanne is able to speak about the reality behind Katie Price’s plastic facade.

‘Working for her was a nightmare. In my view she cared as little about her horses as she did about her friends and family. In the two years I worked for her she used them for photo opportunities and ditched them when the cameras weren’t around. They were simply a means of enhancing her brand and making her more famous. She worked me so hard for so little money that I nearly had a nervous breakdown. I’m glad people are beginning to realise just how scheming and cold she can be. The only person she’s interested in is herself.’

Joanne first met Katie nine years ago at a Brighton stables where both kept horses. At the time, Katie had achieved tabloid notoriety as Jordan, the surgically enhanced topless model whose lurid escapades with a procession of footballers and low-rent pop stars were rarely out of the red-top papers. ‘She was wearing white linen trousers,’ remembers Joanne. ‘She kept falling off her horse. But she smiled and chatted to me.’

Two years later, Joanne applied to work as a groom to look after Jordan’s three horses at the model’s home outside Brighton. Although Joanne didn’t get the job, her experience and enthusiasm impressed Katie. Five months later, in early 2003, Katie asked Joanne to come and help out the groom she had appointed. ‘I was paid £150 a week in cash to cover my expenses,’ says Joanne. ‘After I’d paid for petrol, the horses’ equipment and entrance fees for show-jumping tournaments, I was often left out of pocket. But I love animals and saw working for Katie as a privilege.’

It is an admission that explains much. Though 36 and a single mother to nine-year-old Jenna, Joanne is in thrall to the glossy, gossip-fuelled celebrity magazines that litter her one-bedroom flat in Brighton. From unremarkable beginnings – her father was an electrician, her mother a care-home helper – she left school at 16 and went to work as an administrator for a local children’s hospital. No wonder she was bowled over by life at Katie’s electric-gated mansion.

‘I’d get up at five to muck her horses out,’ she recalls. ‘Then Katie and I would eat boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast. Her kitchen was full of sweets; trays of fondant fancies and chocolate buttons.’ And Katie knew how to deal with the unwanted effects of her sweet habit. Joanne reveals: ‘Katie got any fat taken out with liposuction.’

She adds: ‘Just like on her television show, her house was a mess. She left her underwear and tiny Iceberg designer dresses lying around, and bought every single newspaper and magazine to see what had been written about her.

But although the pair seemed to get on well, Joanne soon realised Katie’s declarations of a passion for her three horses – two mares and a stallion named Storm, Sally and Tyke – were not all they seemed. ‘Katie had no interest in riding, cleaning or feeding them,’ she said. ‘In the two years I worked for her, I only saw her ride them six times. As soon as the camera crew left, so would she. Her attempts at the time I knew her to reinvent herself as a horsewoman were laughable.’

After five months, Joanne found herself in sole charge of Katie’s horses when the previous groom left. ‘I looked after them every single day. I worked Christmas, missed my friend’s wedding and even drove back from a holiday in Bognor Regis every day to feed them. I knew Katie didn’t.’ Soon, Katie asked Joanne to clean her house and babysit for Harvey, her son by footballer Dwight Yorke, often for days at a time when Katie was working away. ‘Friends said I was being taken for a mug but I loved Harvey and the horses and was flattered she trusted me,’ she says.

Her time as Jordan’s Girl Friday spanned her boss’s fateful 2004 appearance on the ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! when she met Peter, now 36. After the show, he moved into Katie’s house and they were married at Highclere Castle, Berkshire, in September 2005. They now have two children, Junior, three, and Princess, one. Harvey is now six.

Joanne says that in the early days the couple’s relationship was genuine. The three became friends. Katie and Joanne dyed their hair together – Katie went blonde and persuaded Joanne to dye her blonde hair black. She says: ‘I think Katie knew it would look awful. She hates other women to feel good about the way they look.’

Joanne was taken to dinner and to West End clubs where tables groaned with bottles of Smirnoff vodka and Coca-Cola. Peter got on so well with Jenna that he had asked her to be a bridesmaid at the wedding. But Joanne was soon becoming deeply concerned about Katie’s treatment of her animals.

Katie had six dogs during the time Joanne knew her. After Katie and Peter moved to a new five-bedroom home in the village of Maresfield, East Sussex, Katie left one, a Dogue De Bordeaux called Smurf, behind for 14 weeks. ‘She believed he made too much mess, so left him locked in her old house,’ Joanne says. ‘I visited him twice a day but other than that he had no interaction with the outside world.’

Katie also insisted her labrador and chihuahua dogs were locked in cages overnight in case they sullied the new house. When Smurf was finally allowed to join the family, he went missing for six days before he was returned. Joanne says: ‘Katie didn’t seem bothered.’

She also recalled that Katie spent £600 on a Shar Pei dog called Hooch, despite the fact that its previous owners had warned it was too aggressive to be with young children. The previous owner, who didn’t wish to be named, said: ‘The Beckhams had just bought a Shar Pei and I think Katie saw it as a fashion accessory. She had no idea of the work they entailed. She called me demanding a refund. I gave her £400 and took the dog back.’

Meanwhile, Katie kept Scooby, a Great Dane, outside. ‘He lost so much weight that I tried to keep him warm with my jumper,’ Joanne says. ‘When I told Katie that Great Danes were supposed to be kept inside, she ordered me to get rid of him. I had to rehouse her dogs under my name so she didn’t get the negative publicity.’

The last straw for Joanne came in late 2005 when Katie instructed her to buy three eight-week-old kittens, then promptly lost interest. Joanne says: ‘Jenna named them – one was Jenna, another Kate and the third Pete. After six days of being confined to Peter’s study in a corner of their house, Katie announced that they stank and they were moved to a shed.’

Joanne says that the following morning she discovered Pete lying dead on the shed floor. Sobbing, she telephoned Katie with the bad news. Her reaction was, Joanne recalls, typical. ‘I was sobbing my heart out. Katie wasn’t crying. In fact, to me she seemed rather indifferent.’

Joanne had had enough. ‘I was exhausted. I was being paid £170 by this time but I still wasn’t making money from the work and I couldn’t stand Katie’s treatment of her animals,’ she says. Two days after leaving, Katie texted Joanne and asked her to come to the house. The message added: ‘I have a surprise for you. It’s great. You’ll love it.’

Rather than thank her for all her hard work, Katie met her on the driveway, handed her a letter and stormed off in silence. The letter accused Joanne of stealing cash, personal photographs and various pieces of equestrian equipment. The parting line read: ‘And I know you’re on benefits.’ Joanne says: ‘I was horrified. I was claiming unemployment benefit, but Katie only paid me expenses and never formally employed me...and I wouldn’t dream of stealing. ‘I think that once someone leaves her life, she tries to ruin their reputation before they can ruin hers.’

Katie reported Joanne to the police. But when detectives visited Joanne’s flat, she was able to tell police where the model had mislaid the items Katie had accused her of stealing. The charges were dropped and she received an apology from the police. Her file was transferred to the Department for Work and Pensions, which investigated the alleged benefit fraud.

In October 2007, Katie arrived at Lewes Crown Court to give evidence against Joanne. ‘She wore shades, refused to look at me and pranced around as if she was in an episode of Law And Order. She refused to stop talking and made so many claims and allegations that were nothing to do with the case that the jury was disbanded and the hearing adjourned.’

In February, the case was dropped due to lack of evidence. ‘I cried with relief for two hours,’ says Joanne. ‘Katie’s behaviour towards me made me a depressed, paranoid wreck, and because of the criminal proceedings I couldn’t get a job.’

Joanne has been able to put those dark days behind her and is now working as a groom at a local racing stable. She says: ‘I wasn’t going to talk about Katie. But she treated me so badly that I want to speak out. She doesn’t care about her animals and she didn’t care about me. For her to now demand her privacy is unbelievable. I want the world to know what the Katie that Katie doesn’t want us to see is really like.’

A spokeswoman for Katie Price said she would make no comment on the allegations.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...om-reveals-truth-Katie-Price-cameras-off.html

 

[tigerrouge]

And the Daily Mail updates with the latest:

Crunch time: Katie Price flies home as Peter Andre visits his solicitor

21st May 2009

Katie Price touched down in Gatwick today as her estranged husband Peter Andre was spotted visiting his solicitor’s office in central London. The model looked tanned but grim-faced following her break in the Maldives, two weeks after her husband publicly dumped her. She wore a short yellow knit dress and clutched her toddler Princess Tiaamii as she raced through the airport, hiding behind dark glasses.

Meanwhile Peter, who flew back from Cyprus earlier this week, was spotted looking sombre in a black suit. He decided to split from his wife, who turns 31 tomorrow, after pictures were taken of her flashing her bust on a drunken night out at club Sycamore in Bristol. Peter is also thought to have been upset that Katie was photographed during the night with her married dressage coach, Andrew Gould.

Since the split, Katie is believed to have ordered staff to dispose of his belongings from the £3million marital home in Surrey.

The pair are expected to meet up to thrash out custody arrangements for their three children. Two of the children, 22-month-old Princess Tiaamii and Junior, aged three, accompanied their mother to the Maldives. The trio stayed in the holiday villa Katie and Peter spent their honeymoon in. Katie's oldest child Harvey, whose father is footballer Dwight York, remained in the family home as he was unable to miss any school.

Meanwhile, the horseman at the centre of the storm over the couple's marriage breakdown has offered to meet Peter to put his mind at rest over an alleged affair. Gould has angrily insisted there is 'nothing going on' between him and Jordan, and wants a face-to-face meeting to clear the air. The 28-year-old vehemently says he is 'sick' of being portrayed as the other man. He said: 'All this fuss is over one drink I had with Kate. I've had drinks with lots of my clients but because she is famous, this has been turned into something it is not.'

Katie has insisted that her drinking was not the cause of the split and despite her heartache, she is determined to move on. She said:' I love my husband but I can't sit around crying. This is a new chapter in my life. Pete can't blame this on the drinking. Over the five years of our relationship, I've probably been out 20 times. I'm not a party girl and I don't drink at home. So when I go out I can get drunk quickly.'

Meanwhile, in a weekly column, Peter has confirmed the split is not a publicity stunt. 'I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight about one thing,' he said, writing in his New! magazine column. 'You may have read or heard that this is a publicity stunt, but I can assure you it’s not. How anyone could think I would pretend to split up from my wife to grab headlines is beyond me. It’s just sick.' He added: 'Everything is up in the air at the moment.'

Meanwhile, Katie is set to make her first official appearance since the split at the Clothes Show London on May 29. The reality star will be modelling on the catwalk at the fashion extravaganza at the ExCel centre.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-flies-home-Peter-Andre-visits-solicitor.html

 

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Meanwhile, "Jordan" gets on with the job, and appears on the cover of this week's OK magazine (UK edition), which is effectively page after page of pictures from their relationship (image source - www.ok.co.uk).

 

[xxilovepinkxx]

^OMG. That is one of THE most photoshopped pictures of her ive ever seen. It doesnt even look like her.
Its annoying that everyone is selling stories and i personally will not believe anything until it comes from Katie & Peter themselves.

 

[HeaTk]

good cover!

 

[Emilee]

Katie Price 2009-05-26 - leaves her lawyer's office in London
celeb.city

 

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A behind-the-scenes look at Katie and Peter's life, in PRWeek's interview with their former publicist, Claire Powell:

Claire Powell might have parted ways with Katie Price but she remains fiercely loyal to her former client

21 May 2009

When Katie Price, aka Jordan, and Peter Andre split up last week, the tabloids were not the only ones rubbing their hands tog­ether in anticipation.

In a piece of extraordinary good timing, PRWeek had a long-standing appointment this week to interview the couple’s manager and co-founder of PR agency Can Associates. Powell and Price have now also parted company. Andre remains on Can’s books, but Price will go her own way with the agency’s best wishes, Powell insists.

Powell, a 43-year-old glamorous blonde with a megawatt smile, will not rev­eal why Andre and Price split up, nor will she div­ulge whether Price left Can or Can dropped Price. She is keen to protect her clients, which include supermodel Rachel Hunter, numerous hotels and golf clubs, couture designers, photographers and Andre. This is only Powell’s second interview, and she agrees to speak about Price and Andre only in a professional capacity.

She insists the relationship between Andre and Price was genuine. ‘I would not have got involved if it was a publicity stunt,’ she says. Neither does Powell believe the couple’s split is, as has been speculated, a publicity stunt that will end in a reconciliation on the pages of OK magazine: ‘They did love each other. I am sure they still do, it has just not worked out.’

She cannot hide her sadness at the termination of her professional relationship with Price. Powell has been widely credited with transforming loudmouthed topless model Jordan into the female-friendly brand that is Katie Price. As celebrity PR guru Max Clifford says: ‘Jordan has been guided very well. She has had a very, very successful career.’

Price and Powell also had a strong personal relationship. ‘We were close friends,’ says Powell. She adds: ‘I thought I would be doing her branding going into her fifties.’ But it seems you can take Jordan away from Page Three but you cannot take Jordan out of Katie. ‘Katie loves being Jordan, and she may have thought, I want to be Jordan but you are forcing me to be Katie,’ says Powell.

It is not hard to see why Powell and Price bonded. Price frequently speaks in public of her ambitions, and Powell is no less det­ermined. She lost her father when she was nine, then her mother died when Powell was 18. ‘I have had to fend for myself,’ she says, without self-pity. She has certainly been extraordinarily successful. Can Associates, the company she runs with her business partner and fiancé Neville Hendricks, is a ‘one-stop shop’ encompassing PR, management, photography, endorsement and a TV company. The girl who grew up in Stoke on Trent wanting to be a make-up artist has come a long way.

It took a phone call from Carolyn Norman, who owned The Firm, to put Powell on her future career path. ‘She said come to London and work with me – there are these five guys and I think they are going to be really big.’ The five guys were Take That, and Powell spent nearly a year on the road with the band organising media. ‘I must have had about three hours sleep a night,’ she says, ‘but I loved it, and I fed off everyone’s brain.’

When Take That’s single Could It Be Magic charted in 1993, the record label took their promotion back in-house, and Powell later set up her own company, then called Blitz. Her unique selling point was taking new bands on roadshows around the country. Her list of alumni reads like a who’s who of entertainment. ‘Ant and Dec did their first roadshows with me,’ she says. Then there was an Australian singer called Peter Andre. As his manager, Powell propelled him into the limelight via roadshows and school tours.

It was only when Andre decided to try to crack America in the late 1990s that he and Powell parted company. Powell declined to go with him to the US, but says she was crushed by his decision: ‘I had given several years of my life and helped him become one of the biggest stars in pop.’ Her refusal to put all her eggs in one basket, and abandon other clients for Andre, paid off.

Andre flopped in the US, never even releasing a single. He only cracked America under Powell’s stewardship and with Price by his side. Powell says the couple had a big show lined up in the US. ‘Obviously we’ve had to tell them it’s cancelled,’ she adds.

More than a decade after Andre defected, only to return, Powell stands by her guns. She does not back one client at the expense of all others, even though the temptation to do so with a client like Price must have been immense. ‘Katie took up a lot of time,’ she admits. But if Andre can return to her after failing to go it alone, perhaps one day Price will come back too.

http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/features/profiles/907475/Claire-Powell-Goodbye-Jordan/

 

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And PRWeek also reveals her new publicist:

Katie Price aka Jordan hires Paul McCartney's agency The Outside Organisation

26 May 2009

Former glamour model Katie Price, also known as Jordan, has hired Paul McCartney's agency The Outside Organisation as her husband Peter Andre seeks a divorce.

Price announced her split with singer Andre two weeks ago and the story has continued to dominate tabloid headlines. Andre has officially launched divorce proceedings today.

Price parted with her long-term publicist (and Andre’s current publicists) Can Associates’ Claire Powell just a few days ago. But Price will now work with The Outside Organisation’s founder Alan Edwards. Edwards and his director of media Stuart Bell handled McCartney’s media throughout his high-profile divorce with Heather Mills.

Price met her husband Peter Andre during the filming of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and the couple married in 2005 and inked a picture exclusive with OK magazine said to be worth £1.5m.

http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/90823...-Paul-McCartneys-agency-Outside-Organisation/