She’s become famous for her roller-coaster love life – enduring the heartache of three failed marriages and a series of broken engagements.
But as Katie Price sits down with OK! and her new man Carl Woods for their first joint interview, the mum of five – who has Harvey, 18, with Dwight Yorke, Junior, 15, and Princess, 13, with first husband Peter Andre, and Jett, seven, and Bunny, six, from her marriage to Kieran Hayler – insists her past relationships just don’t compare.
“People say I’ve been like this with exes but no, they were just dress rehearsals. This is the real thing,” Katie, 42, says. The pair are cosied up together on the sofa for our chat and stop for a kiss. In fact, they don’t stop embracing the whole time we’re there!
Carl, 31, first met Katie in January, but it took six months to pin her down for a date. No stranger to the spotlight, Carl shot to fame after appearing on Love Island back in 2016, and most recently Killer Camp in 2018. But he insists he’s not interested in celebrity and says, “I actually don’t like the fame.”
Katie has endured a difficult few years. After her third marriage to Kieran Hayler collapsed in 2018, and later suffering further emotional setbacks including bankruptcy, she entered The Priory.
But with Carl by her side, she tells us she’s finally found her fairy tale. And despite breaking both her feet after a fall in Turkey in August, her new man has been a huge support in her time of need.
“When Katie couldn’t move at all I had to help her with the call of nature. Going to the toilet was a mission, let’s just say we had a few mishaps. At that point I knew it was serious!” Carl confides.
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