Katie Price
We can exclusively reveal the mum-of-five is dating again – and he’s a hunk
Just last month, Katie Price told new she was happily single, but we can exclusively reveal that is no longer the case, as she’s bagged herself a hot new bloke!
The star is dating hunky Essex car salesman Carl Woods, 32, and the smitten pair were spotted kissing and walking hand in hand last week. Ooh!
It even sounds like Carl could be The One, as Katie, 42, couldn’t help but gush about her new beau when we quizzed her about their blossoming relationship.
“He is amazing,” she told us. “He makes me feel alive, safe and happy. I’ve not told anyone else publicly about him yet. He is like a dream come true and ticks every box.”
She continued, “I honestly feel like I’m punching being with him. My mum and close friends are really happy for me. I’m telling you, he has all the right attributes to be a keeper. We met via mutual friends. He’s been an admirer of mine for some time from afar, but I never knew!”
And Carl is Katie’s type down to a T, as just weeks ago she confessed to new that she has a soft spot for Essex boys.
“I think it’s when they’re like, ‘Hello, darling!’ and ‘Hello, sweet cheeks!’” she said. But although the pair looked totally loved-up during their day out, Katie insists she’s taking things slowly – for now.
“I feel very, very happy, but it’s bit early for the L word!” she told us. “I know what people will think – they’ll say, ‘Here we go again’ and all that. But I’m in a totally different headspace.
I’m happy. I’m a bit smitten!” Katie, who’s mum to Harvey, 18, Junior, 15, Princess,
13, Jett, six, and Bunny, five, is no stranger to having her heart broken in the public eye, which explains why she wants to keep her relationship with
Carl relatively low key.
“I want to control the attention around my private life, but I also know I can’t hide him or the smile on my face forever and that’s why I’m doing it this way,” Katie explained.
“Here he is, now please respect my space to enjoy my relationship without all the intrusion. He doesn’t need or want to be in the public eye – part and parcel of being with me sadly – and I don’t want that pressure on us as a couple, I want it to work for all the right reasons, to grow naturally.
“He isn’t famous but he’s mature, has his own business and his own money. He’s a professional, not a wannabe.
He is perfect, stands his own ground and has a backbone.
He’s also so tall and handsome, a real gentleman and very easy on the eye – it’s win-win!”
But being papped on the arm of the ex-glamour model isn’t Carl’s first taste of the limelight. He’s currently appearing on ITV2 reality show Killer Camp and some eagle-eyed readers may recognise him from 2016’s Love Island.
Before heading into the villa he revealed he works out five days a week to maintain his buff body and even compared himself to an A-list hunk. When asked what made him different to every other guy on the show,
‘HE’S COME INTO HER LIFE AT JUST THE RIGHT TIME – HE’S SWEET AND GENUINE’
he replied, “None of them look like Channing Tatum. Being a Channing Tatum lookalike is a bonus to say the least. I get told I look like him a lot.”
When quizzed on who was his biggest competition in the villa, he answered, “I don’t even understand what the word competition means.”
Asked to describe his perfect woman, he said, “I want a girl that’s able to laugh at herself but equally someone that acts like a girl. I don’t want a best mate. I want a girl that makes the best of herself and is classy.”
Sounds like Katie is 100 per cent his type on paper!
It’s great to see the star with a smile on her face after her tough start to the year. In January, Katie checked in to the Priory for four weeks after admitting to taking cocaine to “numb the pain” following a series of personal setbacks.
Opening up on her reality show My Crazy Life, she admitted she’d been “to hell and back”, but added that she was “starting to feel like me again”.