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Katie Price and Peter Andre split
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11 January 2009
The couple married three-and-a-half years ago after finding romance on ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! reality show.
A statement by their publicist said: "Peter Andre and Katie Price are separating. They have both requested that the media respect their families' privacy at this difficult time."
The announcement may surprise many who watched Price and Andre present a convincing show of unity as they completed the London Marathon together a little over a fortnight ago.
And just this weekend, the pair were snapped hand-in-hand for a quiet dinner in London - although the night before Price, who has told of Andre's unease about her drinking, was seen flashing her cleavage on an evening out in Bristol.
The showbiz columns and weekly magazines that follow the pair's every move have long been reporting cracks within the relationship, prompting Price to respond to rumours she was feeling low and that her marriage was in trouble.
"Apparently I'm really depressed, not getting on with Pete and am lonely - apparently that's what Katie Price is up to," she said earlier this year. "But it's not true."
The glamour model-turned-branding empire met Andre, past his heyday as a pop star, on the jungle set of ITV's reality show I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! in 2004. Their blossoming romance gripped millions of viewers and sparked a tabloid frenzy, which they continued to fuel as they pursued the relationship after the show ended.
Price, who already had a disabled son, Harvey, by footballer Dwight Yorke, went on to have another boy with Andre in June 2005, whom they named Junior. For their wedding a few months later - an over-the-top fiesta of pink and glitter at which the bride arrived in a glass Cinderella carriage - the couple signed lucrative deals with OK! Magazine and ITV.
The following year Price suffered a miscarriage, leaving the couple "devastated", but in June 2007 they celebrated the birth of a daughter, Princess Tiaamii - taken from the names of Andre's mother Thea and Jordan's mother Amy.
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