Star gazing

Britain’s leading model, top selling author and professional celebrity par excellence Katie Price, popularly known as Jordan, has confirmed her wedding to cage fighter Alex Reid in a private ceremony in Las Vegas.

The high profile couple tied the knot in a simple ceremony, carried out in a Nevada State wedding chapel, at 1600 local time. In a joint statement the happy couple said: “We are very much in love and look forward to the future together.”

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Hold on to your seats all you reality TV adoring couch-potatoes, here’s a revelation you could never have expected to hear! In a recent interview with the surprise–make that miraculous, actually–winner of Celebrity Big Brother, Alex Reid, the cage fighting secret softy who doesn’t crave being famous at all—if you believe that about the boyfriend of media addict Katie Price then you will literally believe anything—has admitted that as much as a whopping 10% of his ’personality’ was kept completely hidden from view of the public as a deliberate ploy to make the man somehow…Well, more mysterious. Now, judging by the 90% of what we ’learned’ about Alex in the show—much of which can be summarized by saying he was willing to believe just about anything anyone told him, including that he could quite easily knock Daniel Craig off his James Bond perch with a couple of acting classes—that mysterious 10% may be not a lot to write home about. In fact, you could probably write it on the back of Alex Reid’s head, underneath the label that reads This puppet is 100% the property of Katie ’Jordan’ Price and still have enough room to scribe the new testament that Reid was so keen to learn all about.

One has to ask who, when looking closer, was really the most naive–or just plain stupid–house-mate in the show. And judging by Stephen Baldwin’s quotes—“You know what I like about you? You’re not stupid”—he may well even outdo Alex in a future episode of Celebrity Mastermind for dummies.

What does 2010 hold in store for Alex Reid? Who knows; it’s a safe bet to say that he probably doesn’t. I suppose it will depend on who he bumps into.

Much as Alex got a hard time, I think we might eventually discover that he’s actually a secret genius. After all, if his girlfriend can sell that many books then there’s hope for the boy yet. Mind, if she ever breaks up with him, he might be stuck stocking luxury kitchen accessories at the local corner store!

Just when everything in the England camp was going so well. The team was finally playing like a team, we were putting in some truly excellent performances and finally living up to all the media hype that surrounds our country when football is discussed.

Then, our captain, a man who is supposed to lead by example goes and has an affair with an England team-mate’s wife, on his players designer bedding no less! Well done John, now you have the media focusing, once more, on the England team for all the wrong reasons. No doubt there will be repercussions such as a sour atmosphere in the England dressing room.

This issue has to blow over quickly. We cannot afford to let a team as talented as this current England one, with the potential for success it has, to focus on the wrong things before this year’s World Cup. I am sure that if there is a man for the job of keeping our boys focused it is Fabio Capello; the man oozes respect and leadership and we need him now to steady the ship.

Whether or not Terry should lose his captaincy is a difficult one to answer. On the one hand, he has disrupted the team and done something wrong. Because of this, Terry should take the full brunt of the media storm that is going to come his way now. He should divert attention away from any discussion about what this could mean for the England team and keep the media focused on himself.

However, on the other hand, what happens in John Terry’s private life is his own business and none of ours. It is not so much what he has done that annoys me, more so what the repercussions could be for my beloved England team. He is a great captain and is certainly a good leader on the pitch. Perhaps his punishment should be the invasion from the media he is going to get.

Whatever happens to him, we need to separate it from the England team, we cannot afford any further disruption this year.

When it comes to the man-eaters of the celebrity world, Jordan must be the equivalent of a silicon enhanced black widow spider, and her love life seems to become more tangled and complicated day by day.

Just who is Jordan, let’s face it the Katie Price persona seems to be on permanent leave in 2010, dating at the moment?

Of course as we all know, poor little Peter Andre, the Aussie with the small body and the big voice, was the true love of Jordan’s life but it seems that her party animal ways finally got too much for him. There has been constant will they/won’t they talk about a reconciliation, and I expect those stories to continue surfacing throughout this year, but as an expert in both relationships and celebrities I think that the Jordan and Andre love story is well and truly over.

Jordan stated that she went back into television’s celebrity jungle to gain ’closure’ on their relationship but many believe that it was really an attempt to make Peter think about taking her back. When she realised that a) Peter had no desire to take her back, and b) the public had turned against her in unprecedented numbers she plunged headong into her crazy, party girl behaviour.

Which brings us to Alex Reid. Just what is she doing with this failed wannabe cage fighter? If she actually is doing anything at all. After her exit from the jungle she told the world’s media that she was splitting up with Reid but they are seemingly an item again. Reid’s stint in the Celebrity Big Brother house however has exposed him to the public for what he really is: a dull, rather strange looking egocentric who can barely string two words together and is being intimidated by ex-footballer Vinnie Jones. Jordan has no track record for putting up with wimps and so I fully expect Reid’s days to be numbered once his stint in front of the CBB cameras comes to an end.

Jordan has not been having quiet nights in front of the fire, reading Sartre with a glass of sherry, whilst her man has been ’inside’ however. She has hit the London party circuit with a vengeance and this is where she has been linked with her biggest name yet: Spurs and England striker Jermain Defoe.

There has been no official word on this odd couple (Jordan is twice the size of Defoe, but then she does have a track record with the smaller man) but the rumours persist. Defoe’s previously soaring form on the football pitch has dipped remarkably in recent weeks; maybe he is concentrating on scoring off the pitch instead of on the pitch?

Jordan would love to reinvent herself as a footballer’s WAG, if only to further aggravate her arch-rival Victoria ’Posh’ Beckham. If those two both make the trip to South Africa with the England football team this summer then there promises to be a battle equal to the one staged at Rorke’s Drift!

Jordan’s love life seems to be becoming increasingly complicated but my message to Jord is: ’You Go Girl!’ Her constant ups and downs put a smile on my face! Without her love life to occupy us we would have to think about the real issues of the day, and nobody wants to do that do they?