Katie Price (aka Jordan) broke up with her boyfriend of four months, cagefighter Alex Reid, then immediately went to the cameras of “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here” to tell the world about it. Just like most of us do when we break up with someone. Alex had flown all the way to Australia from London with the intent of proposing to her. Clearly he hadn’t checked in to see how Katie felt about him, because apparently she said she was sick of him making money off her, and then dumped him. It doesn’t seem that Alex actually did propose, that was just his ultimate purpose with the trip. Bummer.

It’s perhaps not the most tactful way to end a relationship, but Katie Price ensured maximum exposure when she dumped boyfriend Alex Reid live on air last night. The cagefighter had just landed in Australia after flying thousands of miles to see his girlfriend of four months, who was competing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! He planned to propose. Instead Katie summoned him to her hotel room and told him she was fed up with him ‘making money from her’ and then went on live TV to tell the nation.

The former glamour model left the I’m A Celebrity jungle two weeks early on Sunday after the public kept forcing her to endure ‘bushtucker trials’. But despite this, the 31-year-old will forfeit just £100,000 from her £350,000 appearance fee, and is expected to make as much as £1million in magazine, advertising and television deals. Last night presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly spoke to her live on air for the first time since her departure. Miss Price said she had done a ‘lot of reflection in the jungle’, adding ‘I just realised I wanted to be on my own, I don’t need a relationship. I hope we can remain friends.’ When asked if Alex, 34, was still her boyfriend, she replied: ‘I’m not with him’.

‘I know people might think it’s harsh, but a lot of things have happened since I came out, I’ve done a lot of thinking in there, lots of things shouldn’t have happened while I was in there and they have. I can’t live my life by everyone else, I have to think of me and my children and I am so much happier as a person.’ Writing on her Twitter micro-blogging page shortly after her live interview, she wrote: ‘I feeeel sooo goood today.’

Earlier as Alex boarded his flight to Australia on Sunday, he told waiting reporters: ‘I’m definitely asking her to marry me. One idea is I make the proposal in front of the cameras on the show. But whatever happens I know this is right. I’ve never felt this way before.’ But it seems Katie didn’t share his feelings. ‘Naturally there are ongoing telephone conversations between the couple, but Alex has no further comment to make at this time regarding the state of their relationship.’

Sources close to the star said Alex was booked into the five star hotel Palazzo Versace on Australia’s Gold Coast, where Jordan has stayed since her departure from the show. But on his arrival the concierge had refused to tell him which room she was in. The source said: ‘An hour before she appeared on air Jordan summoned him and told him it was over. ‘She was fed up with him making money from her. Friends say he is devastated.’ Miss Price warned producers about her announcement just minutes before filming started.

[From the Daily Mail]

The Mail titled the article “I’m A Celebrity: Katie Price dumps Alex Reid live on air… hours after he flies to Australia to propose,” but that seems very inaccurate. Nowhere in their own story does it say she broke up with him live on the air, it says she broke up with him in her hotel room and then “went on live TV to tell the nation” So it’s not quite as harsh as they make it sound… but it’s still pretty harsh. Nonetheless, whether you’re a normal person or someone as unlikeable as Katie Price, if it’s not working, it’s not working. No point in stringing people along.

Katie also spends a lot of time talking about how strong she is. And how much she loves her kids. There’s even a good deal of reminiscing about ex-husband Peter Andre, who she met the first time she did “I’m a Celebrity.” She claims she’s even staying in the same bed as when she met him. It seems to me that she’s so overdramatic in the telling of all this that she’s trying to make herself feel better. At one point she says she realizes she’s acted like a “twit” over the last seven months, then at another she talks about how strong she’s been over the last seven months. And it’s hysterical to hear her talk about the challenges she’s had to go on for the show. Viewers keep voting to make her do them without even a day’s break, probably because she’s so disliked. She talks about the challenges and how strong she is and how proud her parents are. Apparently Katie thinks she’s walking on the moon or making important scientific discoveries, judging by the import she’s placing on all this.

Anyhoo, better off for Alex. His heart seems to be genuinely broken right now, but let’s be real: you don’t want to wake up to Katie Price’s face in ten years. Or even one year. It was a sweet gesture that came back to bite him, but he’ll be better off in the end.

Here’s Katie shopping in Sydney today . Images thanks to Fame Pictures .