Alex Reid was a rebound romance admits Katie

Alex Reid was a rebound romance admits Katie
Alex Reid was a rebound romance admits Katie (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Katie Price has admitted that her marriage to Alex Reid was a rebound relationship after splitting from previous husband Peter Andre. The Sunday Mirror reports that the reality TV star - aka glamour model Jordan - said on her new TV show that the romance with the cage-fighter and Celebrity Big Brother champion was "over before it was even begun". And she added that she has not felt the chemistry she feels with her new boyfriend, Argentine model Leandro Penna, since she first met Peter. "Me and Alex were over before it even began," she said. "As sad as it is, it didn't last very long. And yeah, I was on the rebound when I split with Pete, but it is what it is. "What happened has happened," Katie added. "And then I go to a party, and happen to meet a gorgeous guy that can't even speak English." Speaking in her latest fly-on-the-wall show Katie, she added, "The chemistry is definitely strong, the only time I've experienced that is when I met Pete. I never thought I’d experience that again." She also described in the show how she met Leandro for the first time, at Elton John's Oscars party in February which she attended with her best friend Gary Cockerill. "He walked past us and me and Gary just went 'oh my god how gorgeous is he, oh my god'" she recalls. "I never thought in my wildest dreams, do you know what I mean? When I split with Alex, I wanted to be single, didn’t want a man. I’ve had enough of men in my life."

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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.