Gareth Gates has revealed how “shocked” he was when Katie Price told the world they had slept together shortly after he shot to fame on the first series of Pop Idol
Gareth Gates has spoken out about his brief relationship with Katie Price
Gareth Gates has revealed how “shocked” he was when Katie Price told the world they had slept together. The singer, 41, was just 17 when he placed second on the first series of Pop Idol in early 2002, and just a matter of months later, he embarked on a brief relationship with Katie, who, at that time was one of Britain’s top models working under the pseudonym Jordan.
Katie, 47, currently embroiled in the drama surrounding her missing husband Lee Andrews, was quick to claim that she had taken his virginity and, more than two decades on, Gareth has admitted that he would “never” have made such a public statement about her regarding something so private.
He said: “I haven’t ever spoken about relationships. I believe that relationships are between two people and I couldn’t believe that somebody else was selling stories about very, very intimate details. I was shocked. But I learned a lot about the industry, and trust. I would never have done that to her or anybody else. It was a real learning curve for me.”
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Gareth spoke out about the situation on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast (Image: Great Company with Jamie Laing)
Gareth, who has daughter Missy, 17, with ex-wife Suzanne Mole, and was previously engaged to former Coronation Street actress Faye Brookes but is now in a relationship with West End star Allana Taylor insisted that Katie is a “lovely girl” but did have to quickly learn how to navigate trust early on during his showbiz career.
Speaking to former TOWIE star Jamie Laing on the Great Company podcast, he said: “It was a shame because she’s a really, really lovely girl but I couldn’t believe that somebody could do that. I became very wary of trusting people after that because that was such a big thing, on a massive, massive scale.
“It was everywhere. It became the main thing that everyone wanted to know about. It was a shame I had to talk about it when I just wanted to be an artist. That was tough. It made me extremely wary.”
Katie was known as Jordan at the time (Image: PA)
Gareth shot to fame on Pop Idol at the age of 17(Image: Getty Images)
The star, who enjoyed hits with tracks like Anyone Of Us and Unchained Melody before embarking on a successful career in musical theatre, then reflected on the whole situation and concluded that he was just “so young” when everything with Katie developed.
He said: “You become very careful about what you text people, what you say to people, and if you’re a single man, I was a boy at the time – I wasn’t even an adult – you become very wary about what you say to people because you’re thinking ‘They could sell this.’ It was tough times, I was so young. This all happened before I was 18 even.”
Katie has previously defended the infamous fling, which occurred when she was pregnant. The former glamour model opened up about their infamous romp on the Anything Goes with James English podcast.
Speaking candidly about her life, she: “What about the thing with Gareth Gates?” To which she replied: “Yeah I took his virginity when I was six months pregnant.”
As James shook her head, Katie hit back: “Well you’re asking me! What you looking at? Just because I was pregnant don’t say I can’t have a boyfriend.”
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