Jordan (Katie Price)

Katie Andre (Jordan)
Katie Price Jordan (cropped).jpg
Katie Price in 2004
Birth name Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield
Date of birth 22 May 1978 (1978-05-22) (age 31)
Place of birth Brighton, East Sussex, England
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Hair color Black and Blonde
Eye color Green
Measurements 32G-24-30, Size 6[1]
Spouse(s) Peter André (2005—)
Official website

Katie André (née Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield; born 22 May 1978), also known as Katie Price and professionally as Jordan, is a former English glamour model, television personality, magazine columnist, writer, singer and businesswoman. Her personal life is regularly featured in British tabloids and celebrity-based magazines. She is married to singer Peter André with whom she has two children, and she also has a child from a previous relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke.

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Early life

Born Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield[2] in Brighton, England, where she was raised. Her maternal grandmother is Jewish.[3][4] She took the surname Price after her mother remarried following the split from her biological father when she was a child. Price has an older brother named Daniel and a younger half sister, Sophie Price.[5] She also attended a secondary school in Hove called Blatchington Mill.

Her decision to start modeling came after a friend suggested she have some professional photographs done. The pictures were sent to a modeling agency in London, and to her surprise, the agency invited her into their studios for a photo shoot and to discuss a contract. Within weeks she began appearing on 'Page 3' of the The Sun newspaper (topless modeling)[6] It was at this time that she assumed the name "Jordan" when somebody in the photoshoot disapproved her using her real name and felt Jordan would be best suited for her.

Career

Modelling

Although she was already a well-established model, with frequent appearances on Page 3 and in men's lifestyle magazines, Jordan was insecure about the size of her breasts, believing that breast implants would make her look better. Despite protests from friends and family, Jordan underwent the operation, increasing her cup size from a B to a D.[7]

Politics

During the 7 June 2001, British General Election, Jordan ran as a candidate in Stretford and Urmston under her real name using the slogan: 'For a Bigger and Betta Future'. As part of her election campaign, which was intended to bring a little fun into a dull election, she promised free breast implants, increases on nudist beaches, and a ban on parking tickets.[8] In the end, Jordan won 713 votes,[9] 1.8% of the votes cast.

Television

In an attempt to cross over from modelling to other areas, Price auditioned for a part on the television series Baywatch in 1998, guest presented The Big Breakfast and played herself in an episode of Dream Team.

Jordan (now preferring to be known to the public as Katie Price while not modeling) began 2004 by appearing on the reality TV series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, alternately falling out with John Lydon and flirting in the jungle with singer Peter Andre whom she eventually married. She appeared in several Bushtucker trials, including one where she had to brave a tank full of small, harmless jellyfish for points. Although she performed well, she gave up on account of the creatures becoming trapped in her bikini, prompting her to drag herself out of the water in hysterics. Price appeared on Top Gear's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on 23 May 2004. She completed the lap in 1:52s. She also made a cameo appearance playing herself in an episode of the television drama series Footballers' Wives and appeared in the programme Jordan Gets Even for Five.

She appeared in the documentaries Jordan: Living With a dream (Channel 4), Jordan: The Truth About Me, Jordan: Model Mum, Jordan: You Don't Even Know Me (BBC Choice), Jordan Gets Even (Five) and the series When Jordan Met Peter (ITV), Jordan & Peter: Laid Bare (ITV2), Jordan & Peter: Marriage and Mayhem (ITV2), and the Katie & Peter series, including Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter (ITV2) and Katie & Peter: The Baby Diaries. Katie & Peter was also successful in the United States, where it aired on E!, helping to establish Jordan's fame State-side. [10]

In summer 2005, Jordan was one of many guest hosts of the first series of The Friday Night Project. In December 2005 she released an exercise fitness DVD The Jordan Workout featuring "The Juice Master" Jason Vale.

Katie & Peter: Unleashed began on Friday 19 October 2007 at 9pm on ITV2.[11] A new series titled, Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter Down Under aired on ITV2 on 27 March 2008 at 9pm running for 13 weeks.[12]

Music

Under the name Katie Price, she was one of the acts competing for the right to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, to be held in Ukraine. On 5 March 2005, singing a song titled "Not Just Anybody", wearing a skin tight pink catsuit whilst heavily pregnant, she lost the public vote, coming in second place in the pre-selection show Making Your Mind Up, behind Javine. The other contestants were the 1996 UK entrant Gina G, as well as Andy Scott-Lee, and the group Tricolore.[13]

Price and André released a duets album on 27 November 2006 titled A Whole New World, with all proceedings going to their chosen charities affiliated with the many health conditions of her eldest son, Harvey. The album debuted at #20 in the UK album chart and achieved platinum status. [14]

Published works

To coincide with her appearance on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! earlier in the year, Price released the first of three autobiographies – Being Jordan – in May 2004. Initially turned down by the mainstream publishing houses after demanding a £1 million advance, she was eventually signed up by small independent publisher John Blake, a former tabloid journalist, for £10,000 plus royalties. In a departure from industry norms, she conducted a 10 day book signing tour which provoked enough interest, contrary to expectations, almost exclusively female, to propel her to first position in the Nielsen BookScan hardback sales chart and to sell 97,090 copies in little over a year and over one million, as of January 2007.[15][16][17]

Her second autobiography – Jordan: A Whole New World – detailing her wedding and family life reached number two in the hardback general category, selling 198,105 copies by 1 April 2006.[18] Price's third autobiography Pushed to the Limit was released in February 2008.[19]

Her first ghostwritten novel, Angel, about a young woman who becomes a model, was published in June 2006, and sold 300,000 copies in six weeks.[20] Her second ghostwritten novel, Crystal, about a young woman's efforts to become a singer, sold 159,407 copies during the first three months after its release in June 2007.[20] All four books were ghostwritten by Rebecca Farnworth.[21][22]

Price's thrid novel, Angel Uncovered is a sequel to Price's first book, Angel, and was released in July 2008. As of November 2008, it is still in the book chart. Price stated in an interview to promote Angel Uncovered that "she has been asked to do a third Angel book2", but it is unknown whether she is currently writing it, or has a release date.

In 2006 Price signed a £300,000 advance with Random House for Katie Price's Perfect Ponies, a series of children's books, with the first 6 released in 2007. 3 more books have been released throughout 2008.[23][16] A title from that series, "My Pony Care Book", was nominated for the WH Smith's Children's Book of the Year. In 2008, she released a new children's book series entitled "Mermaids & Pirates", with 6 in the series. 4 more are expected for release in April 2008.[24]

Price continues to write a regular advice column in OK! magazine.[12]

Bibliography

Endorsements

In October 2003, Price appeared in an advertising campaign for the supermarket chain Kwik Save. To publicise the chain's promotion to cut the prices of their leading lines in half, Price was sawed in half by magician Peter McCahon.[25]

In November 2006, Price launched The Katie Price Lingerie Collection in conjunction with Panache available exclusively at Asda stores, as well as a follow-up jewellery deal with Argos.

In 2007, Price was announced as the new face of Foxy Bingo and launched a hair care range at Superdrug. She also brought out her first perfume, Stunning in August. Her second perfume, Besotted was released in September 2008.

In November 2007, it saw Price releasing her hair care electrical range at Superdrug. There was a hairdryer, straighteners and curlers. She released a second range in November 2008. It was the same range, but the design was different.

She has a 3 design collection of bedwear for Matalan.

In 2008, Price signed a deal with Derby House to launch her own horse care range.[26] She promoted it at the Burghley Horse Show in September, where she was also performing on 'Jordan's Glamour Girl'.

Wealth

In October 2006, an article was published in The Daily Mail called The Chav Rich List. Price and her husband Peter Andre were ranked at #2, second only to David Beckham and Victoria Beckham. The article reported that with an estimated fortune of £30 million.[27]

Personal life

As her career began to blossom, Jordan embarked on several brief relationships with celebrities and sports stars including footballers Teddy Sheringham, Dwight Yorke and the TV Gladiator 'Ace' (real name Warren Furman).[28] Jordan had a much publicised relationship with Dane Bowers of the boy band Another Level. She had an abortion after discovering he had cheated on her.[28]

On 27 May 2002, she gave birth to a baby boy, whom she named Harvey Daniel Price choosing the name Harvey after her grandfather, and Daniel after her brother. Harvey's father is the Sunderland footballer Dwight Yorke, although the relationship ended before the child was born. Jordan has said she intended to have the birth shown live over the Internet, but changed her mind later and decided to keep it private. Harvey was born at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, his birth being induced as he was two weeks overdue.[29] He was found to be blind, having a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia, meaning that his optic nerve hadn't developed correctly. As he has matured, she has also discovered that he is on the autistic spectrum, gains weight easily and finds walking difficult. [28] Harvey has had multiple stays in hospital including on New Years Eve 2006 following an accident at their home.[30]

That same year, Jordan was treated for cancer. She had a leiomyosarcoma on her finger which was removed at a Nuffield Hospital near her Brighton home.[31]

In February 2005 Price announced that she was 5 months pregnant, with Peter André's child. Price gave birth in Westminster, London,[32] by Caesarean section to her second child, a 5lb 13oz (2,636 g) boy named Junior Savva Andreas Andre, on 13 June 2005. On 10 September 2005, she married André at Highclere Castle, Hampshire. In July 2006, it was announced that she had suffered a miscarriage - she was three and a half months pregnant with a baby girl.[33]

On 29 June 2007 Price gave birth to her third child, a daughter named Princess Tiáamii Crystal Esther Andre.[34]

In December 2007, Price underwent surgery in the U.S. to reduce the size of her breast implants. However, she was not happy with the results, so returned to Beverly Hills, California in July 2008 for corrective surgery. She returned to the UK five days later, showing off much smaller breasts, a size 32C. [35]

In October 2008 there was speculation that Price and André's marriage was on the rocks. Both Price and Andre denied it and it later became clear that the rumours were false.

Controversy

Price and her husband Peter André were criticised for sexually explicit behaviour in the reality show called Katie and Peter: The Next Chapter. In taping the show the couple re-enacted sex scenes (while fully clothed) and had inappropriate discussions about sex.[36]

The couple were libelled by an ex-employee and later accepted damages from the News of the World newspaper after it published the accusations about their parental abilities. [37]

Discography

Albums

A Whole New World

Musical performances

Awards

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Our Supporting Role", by Sarah Arnold, Sunday Mirror, 19 November 2006. Archived on FindArticles.com. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
  2. ↑ "Katie Price: Celeb Profile". www.ok.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-07-06.
  3. ↑ Leslie Bunder (2006-11-24). "Price is right". somethingjewish.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
  4. ↑ "Ms Price, who is halachically Jewish...", the Jewish Chronicle (2006-11-24), p. 1. Retrieved on 2006-11-27. 
  5. ↑ Price, Katie (2006). Being Jordan: My Autobiography. John Blake. pp. 2, 3, 4. ISBN 1-844-54224-6. 
  6. ↑ Price in Sun Hewspaper
  7. ↑ "Jordan Does Jersey". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-06-03.
  8. ↑ "Jordan Presses the Flesh". BBC (2001-05-31). Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  9. ↑ "Independent Doctor Triumphs". BBC (2001-06-08). Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  10. ↑ "On E! "Katie & Peter" Official U.S Website".
  11. ↑ "Jordan decides on daughter's name". BBC News (2007-07-24). Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Hattenstone, Simon. "Who wants to be a billionaire?", The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-07-06. 
  13. ↑ "Javine wins UK Eurovision contest". BBC Online (2005-03-05). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  14. ↑ BBC Radio1 Album chart of 3 December 2006 Accessed: 4 December 2006
  15. ↑ Barkham, Patrick (15 January 2007). "I'm famous, buy me", Guardian. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Kean, Danuta (24 September 2006). "Bookshop Bingo!", Independent on Sunday, FindArticles.com. 
  17. ↑ Dolby, Trevor (January 2007). "Publishing confessions". Prospect Magazine.
  18. ↑ "The Sunday Times bestsellers", The Sunday Times (9 April 2006). 
  19. ↑ Katie Price Official Fanclub - Pushed To The Limit - Available Now!
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Lusher, Adam (23 September 2007). "Man Booker Prize 2007: Why Jordan is better read than Ian McEwan", The Daily Telegraph. 
  21. ↑ Tim Adams (19 March 2006). "The pen pushers", The Observer. 
  22. ↑ Carol Midgley (19 July 2007). "Let’s hear it for Katie Price, role model", Times Online. 
  23. ↑ Forrest, Susanna (14 July 2007). "Why girls still sign up for the pony club", The Daily Telegraph. 
  24. ↑ Jordan the Buxom Mermaid Makes a Splash at book signing, Daily Mail
  25. ↑ 0172 MagicWeek UK Magic News
  26. ↑ Hannah Gray (2008-09-05). "Jordan brings a touch of glamour to equestrian clothing". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. Retrieved on 2008-11-08.
  27. ↑ Natasha Pearlman (2006-10-06). "The Chav Rich List". The Daily Mail. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Catherine Deveney (2006-02-05). "Two faces of Jordan". The Scotsman. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  29. ↑ "Jordan keeps baby Harvey under wraps". The Argus (2002-05-28). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  30. ↑ "Jordan's fear for burnt child". The Sun (U.K.) (2007-01-02). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  31. ↑ "Jordan treated for cancer". BBC Online (2002-08-11). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  32. ↑ Births England and Wales 1984-2006
  33. ↑ Kristina Pedersen (2006-07-20). "Jordan's tragic miscarriage". The Daily Mail. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  34. ↑ "Jordan decides on daughter's name". BBC News (2007-07-24). Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
  35. ↑ "Downsizing Jordan: How Katie Price shrank her assets in time for Christmas". The Evening Standard (2007-12-27). Retrieved on 2008-02-20.
  36. ↑ "It WAS disgusting but we got carried away, Jordan admits after complaints reality show was too sexually explicit", Daily Mail (20h08-14-17). 
  37. ↑ "Jordan and Andre accept damages". news.bbc.co.uk (2008-07-03).
  38. ↑ Thomas, Lesley (11 November 2007). "Jordan? Woman of the year? Are we mad?", The Daily Telegraph. 
  39. ↑ "Jordan Wins Grattan Celebrity Mum Award". Daily Mirror (2007-03-15). Retrieved on 2007-11-25.

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NAME Infield, Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan; Price, Katie; Andre, Katie; André, Katie
SHORT DESCRIPTION English glamour model, television personality
DATE OF BIRTH 22 May 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH