Jordan Says Marriage To Peter Andre Was Manufactured

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Katie Price has admitted her marriage to Peter Andre was “manufactured”.

The glamour model met the Australian singer after appearing on the 2004 edition of reality show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!. The pair married, regularly gave magazine interviews together and also starred in reality shows showing the intimate aspects of their life together. They divorced last year after three-and-a-half years of marriage, and raise three children together.

While both have spoken about the split, neither has gone into the precise reasons for the end of their relationship. Katie – also known as Jordan – maintains they were deeply in love, but has revealed much of their romance was staged by their management teams. She married her cage fighter love Alex Reid in a surprise ceremony last year, and insists she won’t make the same mistakes twice.

“Alex and I have done the odd shoot together, and we might do the odd thing in the future, but won’t be like it was with me and Pete. He has his career and I have mine,” she told Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles. “There is no-one controlling us, saying when we can and can’t hold hands. It was all controlled before, we were told what to say – now it’s not like that. It was true love with Pete, but we were manufactured. That’s why I left. I had to get out of it. All I can say is I hope me and Pete end up talking because he is a laugh and his brother’s a laugh, I don’t hold grudges.”

Katie and Peter have not been in touch properly since their split, and Peter has never met Alex. He has insisted he is happy for the newly married couple, but recently said he doesn’t understand why he is expected to sit down and talk to them when he isn’t keen on the idea.

Katie, 31, hopes he will change his mind in the future, and would like to spend time with him and their children. “I’d like to speak to him, I’d love him to come round, but it’s hard with the people who are around him,” she said. “I would love it for Pete to come round and do one of his barbeques for us all. It’s not just the relationship, it’s the friendship that’s gone. We haven’t got on in a relationship but why not be friends?

“Alex hasn’t met him, but he would love to. We’re adults, we’re not in a kids’ playground. We’re fully grown adults, and there are kids involved, so let’s meet. If Pete’s listening, it’d be so nice to have him round to cook a barbie for us all – for the sake of the kids. Let’s hope this year will be good for everyone.”