Alex Reid and Katie Price's whirlwind marriage as he vows to 'take her down'

Daily Mirror

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Former cage fighter, Alex Reid, has vowed to expose the truth about his ex-wife, Katie Price, who he married in 2010 after dating for seven months - before splitting up with the glamour icon a year later
Alex Reid and Katie Price were only married for a year before calling time on their torrid relationship. Fresh from her divorce from Peter Andre, the glamour icon, 47, started dating the former cage fighter, 50, just eight weeks after her split from Pete in 2010, following a chance meeting at Michelle Heaton's 30th birthday party at Cafe De Paris in London.
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The loved-up couple headed to Sin City six months later after scrapping a deal with a glossy magazine in favour of a quickie ceremony that was organised by Katie and her friends while Alex was in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
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However, after less than a year of being Mr and Mrs they called it quits, with Katie saying they had 'married too soon'. It comes as Alex leaked footage of the OnlyFans star appearing to count wads of cash while bankrupt while threatening to 'reveal the truth' about his ex.
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So, as we wait for the dad-of-one's next move in an explosive chain of events after Katie's reps say the money in the bombshell video wasn't hers, here's a look at the former couple's truly torrid time together...
Alex says relationship with Katie was like an 'LSD trip'
Speaking about his time on Celebrity Big Brother when he was dating Katie, Alex told the Daily Star after their split:"I found it really peaceful, it was the most peaceful place at the time of my existence. "My world, at the time, was upside down and like a bomb had hit it with all the shenanigans with my ex-partner, who I won't mention.
"I couldn't walk down the street or go the toilet without someone trying to take a picture - although I was in front of all cameras, it was so peaceful to not have a mobile phone and to not know what was going on in the outside world.
"My life felt like an LSD trip, I say that, I wasn't taking LSD, but the world was weird. "I didn't know what was real or what was fake."
Last-minute wedding causes rift with Alex' parents
Katie and Alex's last-minute wedding caused a rift between the former MMA star and his parents because Katie surprised him at the airport as they were jetting off to Las Vegas, meaning he couldn't invite his mum and dad.
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'The wedding was whirlwind and a bit of a surprise. Katie planned it all,' Alex told the Mirror. 'My mum and dad – my whole family in fact – were a bit gutted. I managed to tell my mum in a quick call just minutes before, but no one else,' Alex shared, noting that he deeply regretted the fallout.
'I was like a lamb to the slaughter'
Alex said he felt like a 'lamb to the slaughter' when he married Katie in Las Vegas. The former MMA fighter discussed his high- profile marriage with the former glamour model on GB News with Nigel Farage
He said: "All of a sudden I'm stratospheric everywhere because of my relationship with a certain person. I'm everywhere. 'I was just swept away with it. I didn't know what planet I was on. I was like a lamb to the slaughter."
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Commenting on Alex's legal action against Katie, Nigel commented: "The marriage didn't last that long. You've been going through, from what I can see of it, eight or nine years of legal action of name calling back and forth with her."
Alex sues Katie
Alex sued Katie for "distributing private information – some of it of a sexual nature", which "violated his right to privacy" in 2020. She allegedly shared an explicit video clip of him to an audience on Celebrity Big Brother's Bit On The Side in 2018.
The OnlyFans star was ordered to pay £250,000 five years ago - with Alex claiming he was still waiting for the money last year. In January 2024, he opened up to the Mirror, accusing Katie of verbal threats, saying: " Katie Price debt stories have come out due to Katie not paying money owed due to a court case she lost.
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"I believe it was a landmark hearing by the courts, ruling in a public case a celebrity has intentionally publicly humiliated me. This is backed by years of direct threats from her mouth."
Alex continued: "If it wasn't me, then it would be somebody else. It's admirable how she sticks up for Harvey like any parent would, as I would with any of my children, but to then go and attack people doing exactly what people have done to you and your own son is not just hypocritical and contradictory, is disgraceful and undermines any good you have done."
He concluded: "The judge made a decision and she has to face her responsibility. As every action has consequences." In response to the claims, a representative of Katie said: "Let him get on with it... Kate won't be responding to any stories put forward by Alex or his team. It's old news and it's boring now."
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Alex accuses Katie of being 'addicted to the press'
After their doomed marriage, Alex accused the mum-of-five of being 'addicted to the press and media', saying it is "so bad she will put anything out as long as her name is in the news at the total disregard of the consequences for anybody else."
He continued to The Sun: "I'm down as the shortest marriage to Katie, which is really positive as I managed to get out and escape. Unfortunately I didn't escape the years of abuse from my bitter ex. I walked away for years, but the continued abuse has been so much, I made a stand, for not only me but my family and friends."
The Celebrity Big Brother star concluded: "The judge made a decision and she has to face her responsibility. As every action has consequences."
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Katie tears into Alex's 'disturbing' fetishes
In her autobiography Katie tore into Alex's 'weird and kinky' fetishes, saying: ''Think of the most disturbing s**t you could imagine, and times that by ten.
"Only then are you getting close to what I witnessed and what Alex wanted me to join in with."
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Alex says Katie 'made me come out as transvestite'
Following Katie's claims, Alex accused his ex-wife of forcing him to come out as a transvestite for her own financial gain.
The cage fighter and actor's alter-ego of Roxanne was outed by his then-partner back in October 2009, and he debuted her in public at the book launch for Katie's fashion guide Standing Out: My Look, My Style, My Life later that month, dressed in a gold spandex bodysuit.
By 2011, Alex apparently told friends that Katie - then his estranged wife - had killed off Roxanne by forcing him to expose her. Earlier in the year, during a discussion of Eddie Redmayne's Lili Elbe biopic The Danish Girl on Loose Women, Katie again referenced Reid's cross-dressing.
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"She brought Roxanne out and she's the one who keeps talking about her," Alex told The Sun. "The only reason people know about Roxanne is because she exposed me at her book launch - and even then they didn't meet the real her, they met Katie's version of Roxanne - one she had conjured up for her own financial and business gains."
Alex calls marriage to Katie his 'prostitute years'
In 2017, Alex slammed his marriage to Katie as the "prostitute years" and said his ex-wife will "do anything to make a buck".
Claiming he was delighted to be leaving the showbiz spotlight behind, he told The Sun: "The celebrity world doesn't really make me money - it might do for Katie, but it's a pretty crappy life having to sell your soul to make a living. I call it the prostitute years and now it's self worth. I'm going back to what I love."
Katie admits she and Alex married 'too soon'
After their torrid time together, Katie admitted she should have waited to waltz down the aisle with Alex.
Following their doomed relationship, Katie said she married the former cage fighter "too soon" and that was cited as the reason for their fated split.