Katie Price dumps boyfriend after jungle exit

Katie Price dumps boyfriend after jungle exit (Image credit: PA Wire/PA Photos)

Katie Price revealed she had split up with boyfriend Alex Reid after telling how her I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! experience reminded her of her ex Peter Andre. The glamour girl, who walked out on the jungle after being repeatedly chosen for stomach-churning bushtucker trials by the public, told Ant and Dec her relationship with the cage fighter had ended after saying she had acted like a "right twit" over the past seven months. Speaking before Lucy Benjamin became the first celebrity to be voted off, Katie told how she was leaving the show "with my head between my toes in shame". Katie announced the split live on ITV, adding: "I've done a lot of reflecting. I think it's best I'm on my own, I just don't want to be in a relationship. I hope we can remain friends." She said she had done "a lot of thinking" while she was in the jungle, adding: "I have to think of me. I have to think of my children." Describing how the experience had brought back memories of her ex-husband, she said: "The whole place reminded me of Pete from the moment I woke up, the afternoon to the moment I went to sleep, every second it was Pete, Pete, Pete."

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