Overview

• During a tour stop with Kerry Katona in Gareth Gates’s hometown of Bradford, Katie Price shouted “F*** Gareth Gates” after audience heckles.
• Tabloid reports, citing unnamed sources, say Gates was furious and believes Price repeatedly uses his name for publicity.
• The pair’s brief liaison occurred when Gates was 17 and Price was six months pregnant; he initially denied it before acknowledging it in 2014.
• Price wrote in her 2021 book Harvey and Me that their encounter helped kick-start Gates’s career, a claim she has repeated over the years.
• Separate reports say boyfriend JJ Slater and family are worried about Price’s recent weight loss and the strain of touring.