Archive for April, 2011

While the world is gripped by Royal Wedding fever, across the Atlantic another couple put on a very public display of their love.

Katie Price and her latest boyfriend Leandro Penna spent the day out and about in Buenos Aires where their affection for one another was put on show for all to see.

The glamour model, 32, has been with her new man in his native Argentina since last week – during which time they have put on several PDAs.

There didn’t seem to be one moment when the amorous couple weren’t touching; they were either walking the streets with their arms wrapped round one another, holding hands or simply kissing.

At one point Leandro cheekily put his hand on his girlfriend’s bum.

The model, also known as Jordan, wore a flesh-coloured top, with a matching scarf, tight jeans with bleach spots all over them and a pair of army boots.

She accessorised the outfit with a Gucci bag and a large pair of shades.

Meanwhile her model boyfriend wore a grey t-shirt, jeans and a pair of Converse-style black trainers – again, accessorised with a pair of trendy Ray-Bans.

Earlier in the week they were snapped enjoying a romantic moment in a picturesque mountainous region of Argentina, a few days later they went for a horse ride and again were pictured in a series of embraces.

Just yesterday they released pictures from a boat ride on Lake Chiquita, in Leandro’s hometown Cordoba, where they appeared to be imitating the pose from Titanic.

Although their relationship is still in its infancy (Price split with ex-husband Alex Reid in January) the couple will have been brought closer together by their recent brush with death.

On Sunday morning Katie and Leandro were involved in a terrible car accident which left two horses dead after the stallions ran into the road smashing into the 4X4 the couple were driving in.

Katie later told papers that she felt she was ‘lucky to be alive’ following the accident and as a keen rider she was left particularly distraught by the death of the animals.

She tweeted: ‘I’m so lucky to be alive @leandro__penna saved my life and the others in the car he is a hero to us for this.’

Her spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘The accident was quite horrific and she was quite shaken up but after she visited the chapel she did get on a horse for five or ten minutes as they were horses at the hotel where they were staying.’

It is understood the mother-of-three suffered cuts on her hands and a jarred neck after the incident, which happened at 1.30am on Sunday morning around three miles from their hotel Estancia San Pedro Viejo in Argentina.

And witnesses said the only reason she and the Argentinian model survived the crash was because they were in such a sturdy vehicle and were wearing their seatbelts.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1381824/Katie-Price-Leandro-Penna-hands-Buenos-Aires.html#ixzz1L091R7S0

Katie Price has denied she is engaged to boyfriend Leandro Penna, after she was spotted wearing a ring on her left hand – adding that she has no plans to become another man’s fiancée any time soon.

The 32-year-old reality TV star was snapped on Wednesday night sporting a large sparkler on her ring finger, sparking rumours the pair were planning to get hitched.

But Katie has taken to her Twitter account to deny the rumours, saying today: ‘People keep saying is it true I’m engaged! We are not engaged, we haven’t spoke about getting engaged and I don’t intend to get engaged.’ (sic)

Price had been more than happy to show off the sparkler on her night out with her toyboy boyfriend, covering her face with her hand to clearly display the ring.

Katie and Argentine model Penna had been dining at the Nobu restaurant in Mayfair, before partying at celeb haunt Whisky Mist with The Only Way Is Essex stars Kirk Norcross and Lauren Pope.

The couple met in February at Elton John’s Oscars party, just weeks after she split with second husband Alex Reid.

Katie has since described her relationship with Reid as a ‘rebound’, but says her new romance is definitely for real.

She said of Penna on her reality show earlier this week: ‘The chemistry is definitely strong, the only time I’ve experienced that is when I met Pete. I never thought I’d experience something like that again. I’ve met the frog, let’s see if he turns into a prince.’

Katie seemed to have enjoyed a nice with with Leo and the kids, Posting on Katie’s Twitter:

we have all had fun with kids and friends today I came 3rd go karting leo 1st haha

 

Glamour model Katie Price a.k.a. Jordan has in a letter to the government demanded that Channel 4 sack the boss responsible for a vile attack on her disabled son Harvey.

Jordan, 32, launched the campaign against chief executive David Abraham after he refused to apologise for giving comic Frankie Boyle the green light to poke fun at the eight-year-old.

She branded the 490,000-pounds-a-year chief “unfit” for his job in an open letter sent to Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt.

Boyle, 38, had singled out Harvey, who suffers from physical and mental conditions including blindness, on his Tramadol Nights show.

Telly watchdog Ofcom ruled against the comic saying he was out of line for mocking Harvey’s condition, and more than 500 people complained about the joke.

But after Channel 4 took no action, and Abraham did not apologise for allowing the sick gags to be broadcast on his channel, Jordan decided to call on Hunt to intervene.

“How can Channel 4 be our Paralympic broadcaster when it discriminates against the disabled?” the Daily Star quoted her as stating.

“Would they have failed to act if the comments had concerned the colour of Harvey’s skin or his racial background?

“Are the disabled less deserving of society’s protection? Is Mr Abraham’s position not completely untenable?” she asked.

Her comments were backed by the Royal London Society for Blind People, whose chief executive Tom Pey also called for Abraham to go.

“It is incumbent now on Channel 4 to apologise,” Pey said.

“That the chief executive seeks to defend the indefensible shows a complete contempt for the regulator Ofcom, Parliament – who appointed the regulator – and the people of Britain, not least the 2.6million UK people who are blind or partially sighted.

“The chief executive of Channel 4 David Abraham should now resign. His position is untenable. He, and he alone, sanctioned this vile broadcast. He, and he alone, must now take responsibility and resign.

“If he is not man enough to resign, he should be sacked,” he added.

Source & Credit: India Times

After less than four days in Argentina, Katie Price jetted home to England this morning with boyfriend Leandro Penna in tow.

Despite plans to spend a week in Buenos Aires with her toyboy boyfriend, the glamour model was clearly missing her children and arrived back in the UK earlier.

Perhaps feeling jet-lagged, the 32-year-old was in no mood to be photographed as she arrived at Heathrow following her 13 hour flight across the Atlantic.

Argentine model Penna, 25, put a protective arm around his girlfriend of six weeks as they walked through the airport.

Writing on her Twitter, she said: ‘Back in England to spend my week with the children for Easter holiday wooooooo.’

Although Penna originally planned for Price to meet his parents, who lived 400 miles away from the Argentine capital in Despeñaderos, but they didn’t have enough time during her whirlwind visit.

After spending a month with Price in her Surrey home, Penna jetted home alone last Thursday, before his girlfriend joined him four days later.

During their break, Penna was spotted showing Price his favourite restaurants and shops.

But there’s no word yet if Price has managed to pick up any Spanish on her trip… or if Penna’s English has improved.
Special attention: Price enlisted the help of an airport porter and staff member to escort her through Heathrow

Special attention: Price enlisted the help of an airport porter and staff member to escort her through Heathrow

During her brief visit, Price told local reporters that Argentina was ‘very different than I imagined. I thought there would be more fields.’

Penna said he was amazed by the paparazzi attention they had received in his homeland.

Media regulator Ofcom has censured comedian Frankie Boyle and Channel 4 for broadcasting “offensive” jokes about Katie Price and her son Harvey.

Ofcom upheld 500 complaints about Boyle’s routine, broadcast in December.

Ofcom said it appeared to “target and mock the mental and physical disabilities” of the eight year-old.

Channel 4 said it was “wholly justified in the context”. Chief executive David Abraham personally sanctioned the jokes before they were broadcast.

Katie Price was among those who complained to Ofcom about the comments in Boyle’s comedy series Tramadol Nights, saying they were discriminatory, offensive, demeaning and humiliating.

In response, Channel 4 said: “Nothing he says is intended as a slur on any particular community – everyone is fair game in Frankie’s eyes.”

One remark about Harvey was not “a joke about Harvey Price’s disability, or about rape or incest – it is simply absurdist satire”, Channel 4 said.

“We do not believe that any viewer would have taken this particular joke literally,” it added.
‘Erroneous decision’

The broadcaster also said Boyle’s remarks on his Tramadol Nights show were meant to satirise Price’s alleged “exploitation of her children for publicity purposes… her behaviour as a mother and her cavalier attitude towards relationships”.

The show was preceded by adequate warnings for the audience, the broadcaster argued, and said it had a job to “champion pioneering and distinctive voices in British comedy and bring them to a wider audience”.

But the regulator ruled that allowing the jokes to be screened was “an erroneous decision on a matter of editorial judgement on the broadcaster’s part”.

Ofcom said Price and ex-husbands Alex Reid and Peter Andre had “consciously exposed their and their children’s lives to the media” and must expect to be the targets of humour and criticism.

But it continued: “The fact that a public figure chooses to expose some aspects of his or her child’s life in the media does not provide broadcasters with unlimited licence to broadcast comedy that targets humour at such a child’s expense.

“This position applies even more firmly in a case in which the child is as young as eight years old, and has a number of disabilities which are specifically focussed on as the target of that intended humour.”

The ruling also said: “Ofcom was of the view that the material in question appeared to directly target and mock the mental and physical disabilities of a known eight year-old child who had not himself chosen to be in the public eye.

“As such, Ofcom found that the comments had considerable potential to be highly offensive to the audience.”

The ruling relates to the second episode of Boyle’s comedy series, aired on Channel 4 on 7 December.