Katie Price's boyfriend 'dropped' from TV show

Katie Price's boyfriend 'dropped' from TV show
Katie Price's boyfriend 'dropped' from TV show (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

The boyfriend of reality TV star Katie Price has been axed from his starring role in a TV show due to her racy image, according to the papers. The News Of The World reports that 26-year-old Leandro Penna was due to star in the next series of the game show Justo a Tiempo in his native Argentina. However the production company Telefe - which helped to launch his career - have now decided the model's association with Katie, aka glamour model Jordan, is bad for their image. Leandro had been presenting the show since April 2009. "Telefe are not impressed with the way he follows Jordan around and her bimbo image is not something the show wants to be associated with," a source told the paper. "The show is clean cut and meant for family viewing but Jordan's image is not appropriate and that is the image that Leandro is endorsing." Leandro has been dating Katie - who split from her husband Alex Reid earlier this year - since they met at Elton John's Oscars party in February. Katie's latest TV show for Sky Living has also failed to strike a chord with viewers. According to the News Of The World around 300,000 viewers are tuning in, compared to the viewing figures for her ITV2 show which regularly topped the 1m mark.

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.