Katie Price admits it's sad she no longer speaks to ex-husband Peter Andre as she reflects on their 'crazy' jungle romance

Katie Price has reflected on her turbulent relationship with Peter Andre, admitting it’s ‘sad’ they no longer speak. 

The couple famously met and fell in love in the I’m A Celebrity jungle in 2004, marrying the following year and going on to welcome son Junior, 19, and daughter Princess, 17.

Yet their romance fell apart in 2009, with their relationship deteriorating so much over the years that they now have zero contact. 

Reflecting on their ‘amazing journey’, Katie told The Sun: ‘It was a very crazy place to meet someone and have this love story.

‘No one’s ever been anywhere near close to me and Pete in there, even when other people have tried [to find love] it just hasn’t happened. There’s only one Pete and Kate.

‘But I’ll tell you what is sad about all of it – we fell in love in the jungle, got married, had kids, had an amazing life but like 20 years on and we don’t even speak, it’s just crazy what happens with time.’

Katie Price reflected on her turbulent relationship with Peter Andre, admitting it’s ‘sad’ they no longer speak after they met and fell in love in the I’m A Celebrity jungle in 2004

Katie shared: I’ll tell you what is sad about all of it – we fell in love in the jungle, got married, had kids, had an amazing life but like 20 years on and we don’t even speak’

Discussing the breakdown of their romance, she continued: ‘It was a love story and we were in love but towards the end, other people got involved in our relationship. That’s all I can say about it.’

Since their relationship fell apart, Katie has frequently insisted that Peter was a ‘no one’ before their romance.

Speaking on The Louis Theroux podcast in October, the mother-of-five doubled down on her claims, as she said it was Peter’s ‘lucky day’ when he met her.

She explained: ‘I was already established. He’d met me and it was his lucky day. So we always had separate contracts. There’s no way I’m splitting half and half, no thanks.’

As Louis quizzed her about what communication the pair have now, Katie admitted: ‘Don’t speak to him. Just don’t. It’s all through legals. He was quite jealous of me working.’

Earlier this year, Katie claimed Peter – who achieved commercial success with hit song Mysterious Girl in 1996 – had struggled to deal with her success outstripping his, and declared that she ‘made him’.

Appearing on Anything Goes with James English in March, she said: ‘When we did jobs together I’d always get more money, make sure we had separate contracts.

‘I think he found that a bit hard as well. I was like well hang on you’ve just turned up in the jungle, I’ve already got a career going on.

‘You had a song like, how many years ago? you need to earn it. this is the truth, I don’t care what anyone says I made Pete again. I made him.

‘He was no one before he went in the jungle and that’s the truth, that’s not me being a b****. He had that one hit, like 10 years ago and I think he forgets where he came from.’

Reflecting on their ‘amazing journey’, Katie said ‘It was a very crazy place to meet someone and have this love story. ‘No one’s ever been anywhere near close to me and Pete in there’

Speaking of other campmates she shared: ‘Even when other people have tried [to find love] it just hasn’t happened. There’s only one Pete and Kate’

During her conversation with Louis, Katie also slammed her other ‘toxic’ exes, accusing them of ‘gaslighting’ and being ‘narcissistic’.

She declared she never felt in control when in relationships and admitted that she felt ‘weak’ around husband Kieran Hayler, 37, who she took back numerous times after his multiple affairs.

She candidly admitted: ‘My downfall is men. I’ve had to learn all this in therapy. I need that neediness and then I end up in a toxic relationship, narcissist or gaslighting […] but now I know my validators it’s completely different.

‘I wish I knew then what I knew now to go back there, because there was no therapy, no one would know anything, and I didn’t give myself a break in between relationships, because it was like, oh, I need to get another one. It’s nuts.’

MailOnline has contacted Peter and Kieran’s representatives at the time, with the latter saying: ‘In my own personal experience and that of my clients, there is nothing ‘weak’ about Katie Price. On her own admission she has been quoted “being strong, knowing exactly what she wants and does it”‘.

Katie is currently in a relationship with Married At First Sight star JJ Slater, 31.

She wrote of their romance in her latest autobiography: ‘He wasn’t the normal, beggy type man who would say: “I want to see you again, I want to f*** you.” That is a real ICK for me. He wasn’t anything like that.’ 

In June, insiders revealed that she’s ready to get serious about her future family plans.

Katie recently slammed her other ‘toxic’ exes, saying that she felt ‘weak’ around husband Kieran Hayler, 37, who she took back numerous times after his multiple affairs (pictured in 2016) 

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Katie is currently in a relationship with Married At First Sight star JJ Slater, 31. In June, insiders revealed that she’s ready to get serious about her future family plans

A friend told The Sun: ‘She’s happy and she has always said she wants even more children so that’s what she aiming for.’

‘She knows she doesn’t have much time if she wants to try,’ the insider added. ‘Katie has always fallen pregnant quite easily in the past, but now she is older, she worries it might not happen as quickly so she doesn’t want to wait until it’s too late.

‘Katie knows some people will think it’s too soon with JJ but she doesn’t care what other people think – she’s confident in their relationship and thinks he’d be a great dad.’

The Page 3 legend has five children: oldest son Harvey, 22, whose dad is Dwight Yorke, Junior and Princess with Peter and Jett, 10, and nine-year-old Bunny, with ex-husband Kieran. 

The Real Husbands of Katie Price

In the decades since she first rose to fame, Katie Price has enjoyed – and quite likely endured – a decidedly busy love life that has seen her walk down the aisle three times before heading to divorce court in equal measure. Here’s a look at the trio with whom she exchanged ‘I dos’… and ‘I don’ts’:

 

PETER ANDRE (2005 – 2009)

The nation got to watch love blossom between the pair when they starred alongside one another on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here back in 2004. The flying sparks soon became nuptials, with blushing bride Katie and her erstwhile pop hunk beau tying the knot at Highclere Castle (the grand Berkshire estate of Downton Abbey fame) in September 2005. Katie, who was already mother to son Harvey (born in 2002 following a romance with former footballer Dwight Yorke), soon started a family with her new husband. The couple welcomed son Junior in 2005, while daughter Princess followed in 2007. Creation between the pair also came artistically, with the release of reality programmes, a failed talk show and a foray into the music world. However, after four years of securing their position as the Ken and Barbie of reality TV and glossy magazine deals, the pair announced in 2009 that they were going their separate ways.

 

 

ALEX REID (2010 – 2012) 

Katie soon switched her romantic allegiance from a onetime ab-bearing pop heartthrob to musclebound MMA fighter Alex Reid. The two met at Michelle Heaton’s 30th birthday party at London’s Cafe de Paris. But shortly after they got together, Katie dumped Alex on live TV, only for him to win her back and the pair go from strength to strength. Weeks after proudly cheering her man on to a win on the 2010 edition of Celebrity Big Brother (also featuring none other than her ex-boyfriend Dane Bowers), Katie jetted off to Las Vegas to tie the knot with her new partner in February 2010 after just seven months of dating – and nine months after divorcing Peter. Following their Sin City sojourn, the pair returned to their native UK, where they had a formal ceremony – which was filmed for a TV series. However, after just 11 months of marriage, the pair announced they were splitting and their divorce was finalised in March 2012. While Katie declared at the time that she married Alex ‘too soon’, she would later go on to reveal that a major factor in their split was his cross-dressing alter-ego Roxanne.

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KIERAN HAYLER (2013 – 2021)

Showing herself to be a true woman of the times, Katie embarked on a romance with former stripper Kieran after the two met on the now-defunct Blackberry Messenger service in 2012. And just two months after altering the paths of their lives via those thumb-tapped fateful opening messages, the twosome would go on to exchange nuptials in the Caribbean. Kieran proposed to a thrilled Katie on Christmas Day 2012, and just three weeks later, the pair would be pronounced husband and wife in the idyllic shores of the Bahamas on January 16, 2013. They had their marriage blessed in Weston-super Mare, and in the months that followed, it appeared that Katie had finally found her happily ever after. They welcomed son Jett in August 2013, and daughter Bunny in August 2014. But Katie’s world came crashing down in 2014, when she discovered that Kieran had cheated on her with her close friend of 20 years, Jane Pountney, and was enjoying a fling with another of her pals, Chrissy Thomas. After publicly lashing out at all parties involved (and naming her pet pigs after her friends-turned-foes), Katie appeared determined to make things work when she renewed her vows with Kieran in 2015. But alas, it would not turn out to be third time lucky for Katie, as the pair split in 2018 amid even more cheating allegations. Their ‘amicable’ divorce was finalised in early 2021.