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Katie Price hits out at rumours her marriage to Alex Reid is in trouble
Updated 09:24am on 9 Feb 2010Newlywed Katie Price today described reports that her relationship with husband Alex Reid was already on the rocks as a "joke".
The 31-year-old mother of three married cage fighter Reid, 34, in Las Vegas last week.
In her first television appearance since she and Reid tied the knot, Price, also known as Jordan, told GMTV the couple were "so happy" and questioned why people "picked on" them.
Price said of the rumours about the marriage: "If people really believe this there has got to be something wrong. It's a joke."
She claimed she had been keeping her profile "quite low" recently but accused newspapers and magazines of writing "untrue stuff" to sell copies.
"People are treating me like a serial killer, I'm a villain," she said. "What have I actually done wrong?"
The model also denied that she and Reid had agreed a deal for photos of their wedding ceremony in a Las Vegas chapel last Tuesday.
She said the chapel filmed the ceremony, which she described as "not tacky at all", and declared: "As it stands we have not done a magazine deal."
Of the occasion, she said: "It was fantastic. We had a brilliant day. It was just like a dream."
Price and Reid confirmed they plan to celebrate their marriage with a blessing later this year for their families and so her daughter, Princess Tiaamii, can be a bridesmaid.
Asked if she would like to be known by her married name, she replied: "Absolutely Mrs Reid, yep."
"I am in such a happy place," she added. "It's so great. New year, new beginning and a new family life to start. We are so excited."
She also said the couple are trying for a baby.
"Me and Alex so want kids. We are trying, so let's hope, let's hope."
Price added later: "I can't wait to get pregnant."
She praised Reid's relationship with her children, while also singling out her former husband Peter Andre's skills as a father.
Price dated Reid for around seven months before their wedding.
Much of their relationship has been played out in public thanks to a string of TV appearances and extensive newspaper coverage.
The pair briefly split last year, after Price dumped Reid on live TV during her exit interview on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
But the model said she had been "heartbroken" at breaking off the relationship, and the couple were reunited.
During today's interview, Price responded to a series of questions from presenters Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway about the speed at which she married Reid and her apparent courting of publicity through television documentaries and autobiographies.
Price thanked the pair, who littered their interview with laughter and light-hearted banter, for helping her "clear up the horrible rumours".
At one point, Garraway said: "You are brilliant at keeping everybody going. I don't know whether it's design or whether it's luck that this happens to you.
"As soon as you and Pete split up, people said 'Oh, God, what's going to happen next?' Then suddenly there you are on I'm A Celebrity... there you are dumping Alex live on air, now you are married to him. It's just like, wow."
Price replied: "I know the magazines and papers don't show it but I have actually been keeping quite low."
She said she no longer buys papers but is told about stories, adding: "They are still writing untrue stuff. I just don't know where they get it from. It's a joke."
Shephard told viewers that Price arrived on set with a camera crew, prompting him to ask if there will be another fly-on-the-wall series - which Price said will be screened on Thursday.
Garraway later asked: "The speed of getting married, how could you have known he was right? How could you just suddenly know?"
Price recounted how Reid had proposed last September and she had said yes, but kept it quiet, before Shephard cut in to point out: "Then you dumped him?"
"I haven't had the time to explain it to but you will see in the show," she answered.
"We were both poisoned in our minds about things, people around us, and anyway we are back together."
Price lashed out over an interview with Andre last week in which questions were put to him about his children.
During the interview with Sky News, Andre was shown archive footage of Dwight Yorke, the father of Price's son Harvey, criticising Andre for wanting to adopt the child.
Andre, who is the father of Price's two other children, was asked how he might feel if Reid said he wanted to adopt the children.
Pointing a finger, Andre hit back: "No-one is going to take my kids away from me - nobody."
Price told GMTV Andre was a "fantastic dad" and added: "I thought it was so cruel, so out of order.
"They can't compare Dwight and Pete at all."
Reader views (16)
all i can say is ..katie if your marriage doesnt work out..can i have alex please i think hes great you lucky cow x
- Nat, kent uk, 10/02/2010 12:29
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who cares it was all a showbiz hoax stop wasting ink
martin ireland
- Martin, navan co meath ireland, 10/02/2010 00:08
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SO !! If next years husband comes 3rd on CBB, she'll have the full set........good luck with that !!
- Bob Masters, Hemel Hempstead UK., 09/02/2010 19:27
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Peter Andre has nothing to say unless about Katie or 'THE KIDS' boring boring boring, at least she has a little more interest going on in her life. PS. Pete, as a father you should love your kids, that aint news mate.
- Ben Ellis, London, 09/02/2010 18:44
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Well David, you reckon SHE failed in her marriage, what about St Pete, was the failure not his too, pity your partner!
- Claire, Kent, 09/02/2010 18:41
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If you do not like her why bother saying anything I know I would not bother leaving a comment.
Go Kate hope all works out well for you I think she is great.
- Patricia, hemel hempstead, 09/02/2010 17:15
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She seems to be in total meltdown, rather like the Mills woman when she went on GMTV and had a "rant".
- Janicebyrne, sussex, 09/02/2010 17:09
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Imagine the father of your 2 little children refusing (or being prevented) from speaking to you, it will be interesting to read her book in October coz like her or not she speaks from the heart and not a script!
- Lynn, Hackney
Lynn.
'Interesting' and book' should never be used in the same paragraph when writing about Mrs Reid, AKA Jordan, AKA Katie Price. no sirree bob
- Whocares?, London, 09/02/2010 16:35
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The sooner people realise that Katie Price's life revolved around money and attention, the better.
Every article, interview and action she does is all for the money and attention.
The press love her, the public love the gossip and she leaves a trail of devastation and broken relationships and it's her children that suffer in the end.
- Ancient Wisdom, London, England, 09/02/2010 15:40
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'...that's why alot of people don't like her... but she is too dumb to see it' JEZ, LANCS
Or maybe, Jez, she isn't that bothered about being 'liked'. she is a media personality who has made millions out of her career. Would you accuse Simon Cowell, George Michael or Philip Greene of worrying about being 'liked'?
- Sue, London, 09/02/2010 15:19
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Katie price can marry Alex Reid after 7 months of turmoil and almost immediately after failing in her previous marriage. Which is as it should be she is an adult after all. Yet I could not marry my partner of 15 years because he is the same gender. How ridiculous is that. The sanctity of marriage is protected because us gays are not allowed to do it no matter how much love or commitment we have for each other and no matter how much love and commitment from our families and friends. We are however offered something less civil partnership.
- David, London, 09/02/2010 13:43
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She's just an attention seeking plastic person who only uses the press when it suits her - normally to make money out of them! She should just disappear from public life as quite frankly I couldn't care less what she does or who she marries. It won't last the course anyway because she loves herself too much.
- Sue, Kent, 09/02/2010 13:05
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Enough now of being force fed details about her. She is nothing but trash and we shouldn't be providing her with a forum to air her cheap trashy lifestyle. I am definately Team Andre-Good on you son for realising what trash you married and for dumping her. With your love, support and guidance your children will fare much better, than had you stayed with her.
- Maria Piper, London, 09/02/2010 12:34
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Imagine the father of your 2 little children refusing (or being prevented) from speaking to you, it will be interesting to read her book in October coz like her or not she speaks from the heart and not a script!
- Lynn, Hackney, 09/02/2010 10:59
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She is no serial killer but she hardly comes across as a particularly nice person either - thats why allot of people don't like her, but she seems too dumb & self obsessed to see it!! Feel sorry for the current & future children.........
- Gez, Lancs, 09/02/2010 10:36
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In a way I feel sorry for Jordan, even tho she thinks shes in control, she needs help. Shes deluded if she thinks living a life of so-called celebrity status in front of the media everyday is going to make her happy. Oh yes, rather than talking about getting pregnant again, maybe she should consider the children she already has and give them bit of attention. Alex? Hes a pawn or is it a prawn...
- Smellyone, london, 09/02/2010 09:01
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