Katie draws out the death of her marriage a little longer

Well the gossip surrounding Katie and Alex's marriage has continued all week. True to her constant need for publicity, Katie has released a statement to tell the media that she and her husband were planning to release a statement about their separation, but have decided to withdraw the statement after he refused to sign, claiming he needed more time, and she agreed, out of consideration for his feelings. (Err, maybe Katie, if you had thought about Alex's feelings before ranting at him in public and flirting with Amir Khan, you wouldn't be heading for the divorce courts again now.)
Alex is keeping pretty quiet, but is supposed to be devastated and concerned that, thanks to a lack of pre-nup, he will have to settle for the £250K that Katie is offering him, which Alex doesn't believe will even buy him somewhere to live.
There are various theories as to why the marriage went wrong: Alex's side claims that her flirtation with Amir Khan was to blame, whilst Katie says that she fell in love with an ordinary man (albeit a cross-dressing, cage-fighting one) and now he is fame hungry monster. Hmm, considering Katie employed herself as his manager, to get him more publicity, this doesn't seem to be a water-tight excuse.
Anyway, the whole unpleasant mess is being captured on camera for Katie's latest fly-on-the-wall show with Living/Virgin Media, and most sources seem to agree that this is the reason Katie is drawing out Alex's agony - it makes great TV. She claims that it was over before Christmas but she wanted to leave it until February "for the sake of the kids" - yes, it must have made for a great Christmas with so much tension in the air and paps hanging around as the media speculation built... Added into her TV mix are "secret" meetings and text exchanges with ex, Peter Andre. Alex was said to have kicked off after one particular exchange. Surely Peter has enough to do supporting his new girlfriend, Elen Rivas, as she prepares for her debut on Dancing on Ice? However, Katie claims that relationship is a "fake" publicity stunt (well she'd certainly know about those) and she's just fizzing about the whole thing...
Surely this will be the weeks when the Reid-Prices finally make it official?