Apprentice villain to wed the married man she was caught romping with

Katie, 32, became the most hated woman on television earlier this year after appearing as a contestant on the BBC show The Apprentice.

On the show, she quickly gained a reputation for making bitchy comments about her rivals and also bragged of stealing three men from their wives.

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The notorious picture of Katie and husband-to-be Mark Cross, that resulted in her losing her job

In May she was caught in an embarrassing romp in a field with Cross, 43, who is a former work colleague.

Now the couple have announced that they will tie the knot in a low-key ceremony next year after Mark's divorce from his wife Ruth, 51, is finalised. The couple are also keen to have children.

Katie already has two girls, India, three, and Poppy, two, from her previous marriage to Damian McKinney - who she had an affair with when he was her boss.

Bitchy Katie, who turned down a place in the final of The Apprentice to win a £100,000 job, said "I don't care about a white dress, I just want my kids to have the best."

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Katie and Mark Cross: the couple met when they both worked together at the Met Office

During the show, she also had a fling with fellow contestant Paul Callaghan, infuriating Sir Alan Sugar.

Hopkins first met Cross when she began work at Devon's Meteorological Office.

But following the publishing of pictures of the indiscreet couple stripping off, Katie was sacked from her £90,000 brand consultant job.

She also told a downmarket newspaper that she considered herself "ten out of ten" in the bedroom and was unrepentant over her widely publicised adulterous behaviour.

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Passionate embrace: The couple will wed in a low-key ceremony next year

A source said: "Katie doesn't care about anyone but herself. Mark is a bit of an idiot and is completely under the thumb. Whatever she says he agrees to. She says jump and he says 'How high?'"

Katie's stepdaughter from her marriage to Damian McKinney has also claimed that Ms Hopkins wrecked her family and the stress of the family breakdown "drove her to anorexia".

Charlotte, 18, told Closer magazine her world was turned upside down by her father's affair, which was discovered by wife Tina, 45.

Just three months after her parents had split - Charlotte's world was turned upside down when Damian announced he and Katie were expecting a baby. She gave birth to baby India in 2004, after which she married Damian.

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Man-eating super-bitch: Katie Hopkins made a reputation for herself on The Apprentice

A distraught Charlotte developed the eating disorder anorexia.

She said: "I stopped eating to get Dad's attention and to regain some control in my life. I was at boarding school and hated going home.

"I'm 5ft 6 and weighed 9.5 st, but I dropped to 6.5st in two months by skipping meals - sometimes I'd fast."

Charlotte alleges Katie criticised her for "being skinny" and that "one day she sent me a card with a stick person drawn on the front and inside she wrote: 'I saw this and thought of you'."

Charlotte claims Katie was never interested in either her or her siblings and the mother-of-two "doesn't have a maternal bone in her body".

However, Katie and Damian's marriage didn't survive the birth of their second child Poppy, and the couple split up in January last year.

Charlotte has since recovered from anorexia and is back to her original weight.