Katie said she wanted to get married and have kids. I was even getting a ring made

want anything paid for. She would spend hours in toy shops every week spending hundreds. “Bunny would get prams and Jet would get Nerf guns. She would spoil the kids.” So what made a modest man like Kris – who has a successful career as a fitness instructor – fall for such a full-on, selfpublicising reality TV star?

“I thought I would be judged, but I liked her too much,” he explained.

“I couldn’t ignore how I felt. I don’t want to be in the media. I fell in love with a girl after spending time with her. That’s the thing – there was no game plan. I just fell for her hard. I want people to know that.”

After they were introduced by mutual friends in May, Kris took Katie away for her 40th birthday later that month.

“I didn’t know what she was about before I got to know her,” he said. “I thought she only had three kids. I didn’t follow her life. I wasn’t a fan. But we just got on.

“We would have lots of banter. She used to call me ‘Ginger’ because she knew it wound me up, and I would say she’s old enough to be my nan.

“We would have a right laugh. That’s how we got so close. From then on, it went from one thing to another. I took her to Bruges for her 40th and that’s when it became official.

“From then on we would talk about getting married and having kids. We would talk about it all the time.

“She always said she wanted the fairytale ending and she wanted to live happily ever after.

“She always used to say, ‘So we are going to get married one day, yeah?’

“And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s why I’m in this relationship’. I’m serious and I’m fully committed. It’s tough because I was set on that.” Kris was so

I stopped my life for her. She was in pieces. I put her back together. Now she does this KRIS ON HEARTBREAK AS SHE GOES OFF WITH NEW MAN