The Times: Sat July 18 2009
Katie Price, aka Jordan, granted a one-off, hour-long interview to Katie Price Exclusive with Piers Morgan for a reported fee of £100,000. The interview was to discuss the slew of bad press that Price had received after breaking up with her husband, Peter Andre, and subsequently spending the next eight weeks racketing around nightclubs in her pants, off her face on WKD, while he looked after the kids. Who woulda guessed it would all play out so bad?
Piers Morgan, who had a new, oddly pie-bald complexion — as if he’d fallen asleep under the sunlamp with a pair of goggles on — adopted a “stern” tone. He asked questions such as, “In the News of the World it was claimed that you and Pete didn’t have sex for two years. Is that true?” — as if the Andre-Price divorce were the assassination of JFK, and the tabloids had been triangulating the angle of the sex bullets.
Price replied by revealing that, in May, she had conceived and then miscarried Andre’s child. In a world where every piece of information about her life carries both a monetary worth, and a strategic weight, Price clearly considered putting this information down on the table as a good hand. The interview was a successful round of Divorce Battleships with her husband. Sympathy could be bought with the release of the information, to the 5.1 million people who watched.
The next day, PR Week announced that the interview had been “a success”, and that the public were, once more, “on Price’s side”.
The drama rolled on, to its next scheduled turning point.
