Gareth Gates is reportedly furious at his ex Katie Price after she mentioned him on stage during her live show with Kerry Katona.
The former glamour model, 47, continued her An Evening With tour, and when the topic of Gareth, 41, came up, Katie didn’t miss a beat in taking a swipe at the singer.
According to the Telegraph & Argus, Katie said: ‘F*** Gareth Gates,’ when heckled over their romance on stage.
Katie and Gareth had a brief fling in 2003 when he was just 17 and she was six months pregnant.
Former Pop Idol singer Gareth, who is in a relationship with West End star Allana Taylor, was said to be ‘shocked’ Katie spoke about him on stage.
‘Gareth was furious when he saw all the stories last week about Katie mentioning him,’ a source told The Sun.
Gareth Gates is reportedly furious at his ex Katie Price after she mentioned him on stage during her live show with Kerry Katona
The former glamour model, 47, continued their An Evening With tour, and when the topic of Gareth, 41, came up, Katie didn’t miss a beat in taking a swipe at the singer
‘He knows there is a risk that Katie will bring him up every time she goes on stage and it’s always horrible. It never gets easier.
‘He moved on with his life a long time ago and he really wishes Katie would too – rather than using his name for headlines all the time. It really is his biggest regret.’
Daily Mail has contacted representatives of Katie Price and Gareth Gates for comment.
Gareth initially denied his brief romance with Katie because he feared at the time that it would jeopardise his career.
He then later admitted the truth during a 2014 appearance on The Big Reunion, and shared: ‘I denied the whole Jordan thing because I was 17, I didn’t want my family to find out about my sex life.
‘If I hadn’t of lied it wouldn’t have been a big deal, my family, friends and fans wouldn’t have felt as let down, I guess.’
He added: ‘For me, I was very young. I had to say I don’t want to have a long-term relationship at this age, so she sold the story, and I said it was all lies.
‘The only thing I thought in my head to do was to say it never happened. I didn’t tell anyone, my friends or family, so they all backed me.’
According to the Telegraph & Argus, Katie said: ‘F*** Gareth Gates,’ when heckled over their romance on stage
Katie and Gareth had a brief fling in 2003 when he was just 17 and she was six months pregnant
It comes after Katie reflected on their brief fling as she appeared on Piers Morgan’s chat show, Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, in 2009.
She told the broadcaster: ‘When I look at it now, it’s gross, disgusting. It’s terrible – I was still young, I was pregnant, I didn’t have the dad about, and I still wanted to be loved. It was wrong when I look back.’
However, in another dig at Gareth, she also took credit for launching his pop career in her 2021 book Harvey and Me.
Looking back at some of the photoshoots she took part in during her pregnancy, she wrote: ‘I should have thought, “Katie, put it away. You’re pregnant – no one wants you.”
‘But then again, hello Gareth Gates! He wanted a bit of Pricey – even when I was six months pregnant.
‘He denied losing his virginity to me at first, but once he finally admitted it, wasn’t that when his career started? Anyway, swiftly moving on…’
Meanwhile, in her other book titled Being Jordan, Katie revealed that most of their hookups took place on a sofa at a friend’s house, in a bid to keep their fling out of the spotlight.
She also claimed that they booked a hotel together to attend the Brit Awards in London.
During their fling, Katie and Gareth both denied being romantically involved. However, she was left blindsided when the singer broke up with her via text, leaving her feeling ‘gutted’.
She said: ‘I really didn’t need any more rejections in my life. I was with him at an important time in his life, and then suddenly he dumped me.
‘He always said that once he got his record deal, then we might be able to be open about our relationship… But when the deal came through, our relationship was over.’
