Celebrity Big Brother: Katia cries over Jonas jibe

Celebrity Big Brother: Katia cries over Jonas jibe
Celebrity Big Brother: Katia cries over Jonas jibe (Image credit: Tony Buckingham/ UNP 01274 41222)

Katia Ivanova was brought to tears in the Celebrity Big Brother house after "heartbroken" ex-flame Jonas 'Basshunter' Altberg reminded her she was only on the show because of her relationship with a Rolling Stone. The Swedish DJ made the dig at Ronnie Wood's ex after confessing how much he still liked her to Vinnie Jones. He told her she was only in the house because of her "public relationship" after Alex Reid suggested to Katia that continuing the romance with Basshunter would guarantee she stayed in the house. Alex provoked laughter when he told her: "So Kat, I've been having a little think about your situation. I'm just thinking, you know what could guarantee you staying in? What do you reckon? Just think how popular it would be?" Katia, who faces eviction on Friday, replied: "What are you talking about?" Alex - who hit the headlines after dating Katie Price - continued: "Just think, romance on a celebrity TV show, you could win it. You could be the new Peter and Katie." Katia said: "I don't want to be Katie and Peter" to which Alex replied: "You'd be Kat and Jonas then." She said: "I don't want to be Kat and Jonas. I want to be Kat." "Yeah, but you can't deny those feelings you had in the first place. That initial attraction," Alex added. Jonas then weighed in: "Well you are in here because of a public relationship." A tearful Katia then got up and left the bedroom.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.