Katie Price urged by cheating pal’s husband not to cash in on love triangle …
May 11, 2014 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
The husband of Katie Price’s cheating best friend has begged her not to cash in on his wife’s sordid affair with Kieran Hayler.
Devastated Derrick Pountney, 51, fears the six months pregnant star will sell her story about his 49-year-old cougar wife’s seven-month fling with her hubby, 27, and scupper any chances of them salvaging their marriage.
Fame-hungry Katie has made a career out of lucrative interviews and TV shows featuring her failed relationships
, but Derrick is pinning all his hopes on their long-term friendship coming before her bank balance this time.
A pal revealed: “Derrick has been begging Katie not to go ahead and speak out with more details about his wife and Kieran
.
“He has already been left broken-hearted over the fact that news of the affair has come out,” the friend added.
“He understands Katie is angry but if she gives an interview it will cause more hurt for everybody involved in this torrid situation and certainly won’t help rebuild their marriage.”
The latest calamity in Katie’s soap opera life comes as several of her business interests have seen profits plunge. Over the last five years, the limelight-loving mum-of-four has seen them shrink by £1.1million.
Companies House records for her main business, Jordan Trading Limited, show last year her profits were down to £360,736, from an annual high of almost £1.5million.
Derrick – who held showdown talks with Katie, 35, Kieran and Jane – is hoping the heartbroken star will not try to make up the difference with a string of new interviews.
When asked if he was splitting from his wife, Derrick insisted: “No, we’re not. We’re together. This has been really hard though. We’ve been friends with Katie for 20 years. It is difficult, we are still friends.”
On Wednesday Katie, who married builder and part-time stripper Kieran last January, took to Twitter to inform her 1.9 million followers that he had been having a “full blown sexual affair” with Jane, who was bridesmaid at her wedding in the Bahamas.
After finding out about the affair which began just weeks after she gave birth to their first child, nine-month-old Jett, she blasted: “No human being deserves this especially being 6 months pregnant.” Katie later stormed round to the Pountneys’ house in West Sussex – wearing tiny blue hotpants showing a garter tattoo on her thigh – to confront Jane in front of a scrum of waiting photographers.
Derrick initially played down the scandal, claiming it was a “storm in a teacup” over a drunken kiss.
That prompted some cynics to suggest the whole row was a publicity stunt to spike interest in Katie’s career. But the accusations left her fuming and on Friday Derrick and Jane released a statement confirming the rumours were true.
Jane added that she “deeply regretted” the affair. The couple are now bracing themselves for Katie’s next move and have been hiding away in their upmarket home with the curtains closed.
Katie’s choice in partners in recent years appears to coincide with a decline in her fortune, previously estimated at £40million.
In her golden years with singer Peter Andre, 41, the couple went from strength to strength.Viewers were gripped as their love story played out in the Australian jungle when they met on I’m A Celebrity in 2004 and their star status spawned a string of other reality TV shows and lucrative magazine deals. Within three years, profits had rocketed from just over £19,500 when they got together to almost £445,000.
In that time, Katie rose from a popular glamour model – after dating former Manchester United star Dwight Yorke – to become a savvy businesswoman.
Katie and Peter have two children together, Junior, eight, and six-year-old Princess Tiaamii.
She is also mum to disabled son Harvey, 12, from her previous relationship with Dwight.
Katie and Peter’s ITV2 fly-on-the-wall reality shows charting the course of their relationship included their lavish 2005 marriage at Highclere Castle in Hampshire.
The rights for the event were sold to the highest bidder for £2million.
Business continued to boom as more magazine spreads and TV deals saw profits surge to almost £1.5million just before things turned sour in 2009.
Following their divorce, Katie’s business interests suffered. Her own ITV2 project, What Katie Did Next, ended up being canned.
She went on to sign a lucrative £5million two-year deal with Sky Living but was axed when reality series, Katie, struggled to pull in less than 600,000 viewers – just over half of what it had managed on ITV2.
Her subsequent model show, Signed by Katie Price, also flopped after debuting with just 130,000 viewers.
By 2011, a year after divorcing Peter and marrying cross-dressing cage-fighter Alex Reid, Jordan Trading profits had tumbled from £1.1million to just over £700,000.
Her own saucy lingerie range sold at retailer Store Twenty One was quietly dropped. And online fashion site SpoiledBrat.co.uk discontinued her KP Equestrian and KP Baby ranges after just a year. A source said: “The range was doing OK but other ranges were doing better. We just decided not to purchase new stock after a few seasons.”
Overall profits have continued to fall as she lurched from one disastrous relationship to another. She ditched Alex and after months of public mud-slinging with him started a new relationship with Argentinian toyboy model Leandro Penna in 2012 before moving on to her whirlwind romance with Kieran.
Last year a clothing and footwear business, KDC Trading, in which she owns a 63 per cent share lost £99,177. Two other companies were also placed into voluntary liquidation.
She bought her current farmhouse near Horsham in West Sussex in July 2010 for £1.7million, compared to £2.4million for a previous mansion.
Earlier this week pals revealed that she has banished Kieran to a log cabin in the grounds.
Katie is also trying to flog her prized pink Range Rover for £60,000 but despite being on the market for six months has yet to find a buyer.
However, one glimmer of good news is Marvellous Creative Group and Pricey Media are predicted to return £1.1million to their shareholders. Katie owns just over a quarter of the business.
Yesterday her spokesman hit back: “Her finances are fine, she is fortunate to be able to provide for her family. It is a shame at a time of considerable distress to Kate that people are attempting to make a number of false allegations – it is spiteful and unnecessary. Kate is struggling to understand what has happened, let alone decide or think about selling a story.”
