Katie Price: Ex Peter Andre Pursued Me for Career Boost, Claims Emails Show

Katie Price has claimed that she discovered emails from her ex-husband’s PR manager telling him to pursue her on I’m A Celeb to boost his profile.

The former glamour model, 47, who was known as Jordan in her Page 3 days, said Peter was told ‘if you stick with Jordan she’ll make your career’.

Speaking at her live show, An Evening with Katie Price & Kerry Katona, claimed that she found correspondence between Peter and his long-standing manger, Claire.

She told the audience: ‘There was emails between Claire and Pete before he went in the jungle if you stick with that girl Jordan she’ll make your career.’

Daily Mail have contacted Peter Andre and Claire Powell for comment. 

It comes as fans have been resharing a moment between Peter and Katie during their time in the Australian jungle in 2004, where Katie claimed Peter had asked her to orchestrate a scene in order to ‘stay on the show longer’.

In the resurfaced clip, Peter can be heard asking Katie to go to the swimming pool with him the next day.

He pulls her close and whispers in her ear, with the words ‘go for a swim together, it’s simple, easy – you know what I mean? Nothing bad’, picked up by the cameras.

Katie then goes over to another of their campmates, Alex Best, and says: ‘He said “if we go to the swimming pool together tomorrow…  he says you know it would make a thing.

“The only way we can stay in the show longer is if we do that”. And I’m thinking… don’t you think like, he’s using that? You watch, I’m completely off now.’ 

Alex tells her: ‘That’s terrible, that’s really bad.

Katie says: ‘I feel like he’s only been trying to hang around with you and me just to stay in the show. Do you not agree now? I do.

‘I didn’t really want to b****, but I can’t believe he’s just said that.’

Later discussing the issue, Peter reassures Katie: ‘What I said to you was genuine.’

Katie replies: ‘I can’t believe that until I’m out of here. I just can’t.’

But Peter adds: ‘I’m not interested anymore mate. I don’t care anymore. Because one thing I don’t need in my life is games.’

The person who shared the video, commented: ‘Genuine? You asked her to set up a scene in the pool with you so you could stay in the show longer.

‘She wants to wait until they get out and all of a sudden he’s not interested anymore?’

For a time, Katie and Pete were the golden couple of reality TV, with a wedding and a string of big-money deals making them one of the most talked-about pairs in Britain.

But things turned sour between the pair when their marriage came to an end in 2009 after four years together, with Katie claiming it was Peter’s decision to walk away from the relationship.

Much of the nation has witnessed the fall-out of the end Katie and Peter’s marriage, and the string of public swipes that have been thrown from both sides.

Their daughter Princess Andre spoke about how their feud took a toll on her, confessing she sought help from a counsellor after realising her parents ‘don’t like each other.’

She discussed her thoughts on their split in her ITV2 reality series The Princess Diaries, sharing she felt she couldn’t ‘go to her dad’ after he split from Katie due to their dislike of one another.

She revealed on the show how she has a counsellor and previously ‘couldn’t just go to my dad’ due to her parents, who split in 2009, ‘not liking each other’. 

‘She [Katie] is so unpredictable and she lives life and doesn’t care,’ said Princess.

‘I love that, I’d love that mind set of I don’t care because deep down I do, I’ll get to bed and cry about it. 

‘I do have a counsellor who I see now and then and I write everything down in my notes. I wish I could have had a happier childhood, I had so much on my plate at such a young age and had things at the back of my mind. 

Princess also revealed how she used to stay at Katie’s Monday and Tuesday nights and dad Peter’s Wednesday and Thursdays, however the weekends ‘it was whoever’s turn it was’.  

Comparing the two households, she added: ‘Mum’s house was chaotic there weren’t many rules, a few boundaries maybe but it was go to bed when you want and eat what you want.’

Katie has hit out at Peter on numerous occasions since their four-year marriage ended, branding him ‘boring’ in a TikTok outburst in 2023, before admitting she walked out of a screening of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 as it reminded her of him.

It had long been rumoured that the glamour model and her ex split over her close relationship with her dressage rider Andrew Gould, with Katie speaking about the claims during an appearance on Paul C Brunson’s podcast We Need To Talk.

She said: ‘We broke up because he thought I was having an affair with my dressage rider, and I’ve never slept with him. I just kept my horse there, and I was happy keeping my horse there, and he was married.

‘But when me and Pete split, because he used to keep saying, “That’s it. I’ve had enough. I’ve had enough”. It got to a point where I went, “Well f***ing divorce me”. And I remember the day, because then I flew to the Maldives with the kids.

‘That day, I’m at the airport, it’s all on Sky News, it wasn’t mutual at all. And then I released a statement saying I don’t want to split with Pete, it’s Pete that’s splitting with me. Until this day, me and Pete have never sat down and spoken about it.

‘It’s all through lawyers. I’ve never sat down with him, we probably would’ve sorted it out but we were kept apart.’

After they announced their split, Peter said he was ‘gutted’ that Katie had taken their children to the Maldives villa where they had honeymooned in 2005.

He told the Daily Star: ‘Being apart from my kids is just breaking my heart. It’s destroying me – I’m absolutely gutted.’

Katie added that it is ‘the most difficult thing’ to co-parent, saying: ‘But I realised you get to know what people are really like, and I’ve had it tough. But yeah, it is sad.’

The TV personality and her ex-husband were honest about their jealous rows and were regularly seen arguing on their reality show, Katie & Peter.

However, it came as a shock to their huge fanbase when they decided to go their separate ways – and seemingly to Katie, too.

Revealing it wasn’t her choice to split at the time, she said: ‘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.

‘This is not what I want, and the decision has been taken out of my hands. I will not comment further or do any interviews regarding the separation, but I will always love my Pete.’

After his marriage to Katie ended, Peter, who shared daughter Princess and son Junior with the glamour model, went onto marry doctor Emily MacDonagh in 2015. They have three children together, daughter Amelia, 11, son Theo, eight and daughter Arabella, 16 months.