Katie Price got 'gleeful' revenge on Victoria Beckham at Peter Andre wedding

Daily Mirror

26-05-2025

When Katie Price married Peter Andre, she was reportedly delighted that she managed to seemingly get one up on her nemesis, Victoria Beckham, in the process
It's 20 years this month since Katie Price and Peter Andre got secretly engaged after a lot of heavy petting in the Australian outback.
The former It couple met on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here in 2004 and went on to tie the knot in September 2005 before welcoming son Junior, 19, and daughter Princess, 17.
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Sadly, their split in 2009 became the stuff of noughties nastiness, with both briefing against the other. But Katie's war with Peter isn't the only battle she fought valiantly.
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The headlines of the decade were also full of talk of her infamous feud with Victoria Beckham, who was then a Spice Girl. Their beef first started cooking in 2000 when Katie got jealous about Victoria's collaboration with her then-boyfriend, Dane Bowers.
And the following year it got even more bitter when Katie claimed Posh and her mate sang Who Let The Dogs Out at her in Manchester United 's players' lounge.
Victoria upped the ante by branding Katie 'vile' on national TV, before her nemesis sniped, "She's got a great-looking husband, a little boy, and all the money in the world. She hasn't got the looks, but you can't have everything."
But despite Victoria's short-loved attempt to become a solo star aside, by the time Katie met Peter Andre on I'm A Celebrity, there was no denying that Brand Beckham was packing more of a punch.
But everything changed when Katie and Peter got married and sold the rights for £1.75million - almost twice the cash Victoria and David got for their own wedding in 1999.
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"It was a measure of just how popular they were that the amount paid to cover their wedding was nearly double that of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, a few years earlier," author Emily Herbert wrote in her book Katie and Peter: Too Much In Love.
"Even the brightest stars in the Hollywood A-list were no match for Peter Andre and Katie Price.
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"As for the Beckhams, their own wedding had been bought up some years previously for just £1million, and given the rivalry between Katie and Victoria, still there despite Katie's placatory remarks, Katie could be forgiven for feeling a little gleeful."
Neither wedding was short of extravagance. Katie's saw her arrive at Highclere Castle in Berkshire - aka Downton Abbey - in a pink Cinderella-style carriage pulled by six white horses.
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Not one to shy away from making a statement, she wore a princess-style pink tulle and satin dress designed by Isabell Kristensen, which boasted an epic seven-metre train.
And her headwear was equally as impressive thanks to her foot-high tiara. Doves were apparently released from the skirt of her enormous gown before she and Peter took their place of thrones covered in pink and lilac flowers.
Meanwhile, the Beckhams spent £500,000 on their OTT bash at Ireland's Luttrellstown Castle, with the bride walking down the aisle in a £77,000 custom-made Vera Wang gown topped off with a £25,000 with a gold and diamond tiara.
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They later changed into matching purple ensembles planned to twin with the carpets, and cut a cake topped with naked figurines of themselves with a sword.
After saying 'I do', a single white dove was released and a flag was raised above the castle with the initials V. B. D for Victoria, their then baby son Brooklyn and David. Needless to say, neither scored an invite to the others' big day.
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Katie and Victoria initially started out as friends, touring the country with David and Dane to promote Victoria's 2000 single, Out Of My Mind.
But Katie blamed hanging out with the Beckhams for her subsequent split from Dane, claiming it "changed" him. "He used to say 'Why can't we be like Victoria and David?' Like the way they were in love - which I thought we were," she said.
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"He just kept comparing everything. I think it went to his head that he worked for Victoria. He was always going away with her." What followed was years of barbs, with Katie accused VB of having "horrible teeth."
Posh was even accused of changing a flight after learning she'd be on the same plane as Katie - which elicited a rather cutting response from her rep.
The spokesman told the Daily Star: "Victoria doesn't get drawn into public tittle-tattle with anyone - let alone her. It's not her style. Sadly for her, Victoria's far too busy being what she is desperate to be - a success in America - to worry about this.
"Victoria is launching her new primetime show on America's huge NBC network next week. While Victoria has her own show on US television, she is desperate to be recognised and make a name for herself - fighting to get a few cable viewers."