Katie Price has made a habit of having a guy on the "backburner" in case her relationships don’t work out.
The three times married star admits she prefers to have a boyfriend then be single and in the past when she feels like a romance is fizzling out she likes to have a man lined up for a date.
Speaking about staying friends with exes during a panel discussion on ‘Loose Women’ on Thursday (02.03.17), she said: "Normally mine have ended messy or for good reasons I’ve split from them. I normally know when a relationship is going to end, because you get that eggshell-y feeling, where you go home and you think, ‘Oh, am I going to send something wrong?’ I hate that.
"But most of the times [it’s happened] I’ve usually got someone on the backburner so then I’m not on my own. Not in every single relationship, but if I have split from someone and then I haven’t got someone lined up, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to find someone.’ "
Katie – who is wed to Kieran Hayler, with whom she has son Jett, three, and Bunny, two – doesn’t think former lovers can ever be great friends, because ultimately one person will still harbour feelings.
The former glamour model admits it is important to stay on good terms with your ex when there are kids involved but ultimately you have to move on because life isn’t a fairy tale as she discovered when her marriage to first spouse Peter Andre – who she has son Junior, 11, and daughter Princess, nine, with – imploded in 2009.
Katie – who was also briefly wed to cage fighter Alex Reid – said: "You’re either going to split or not, all this stuff about going to dinner and stuff how’s that going to work? One person is always going to want more than the other, it’s rubbish, I just don’t get it. Don’t have dinner and go on holiday together … Life isn’t a rehearsal, I thought I had that fairy tale with Pete, but I didn’t."
Katie also has 14-year-old son Harvey with her former flame Dwight Yorke.
Katie Price admits to having had guys on the ‘backburner’
