HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY PRINCE ISSUE 1286 ● 3 MAY 2021 ● £2.50 WEEKLY LOUIS EXCLUSIVE ALL SMILES AS HE RIDES OFF FOR A NEW ADVENTURE AT NURSERY SELLING SUNSET’S AMANZA SMITH ‘BEING A SINGLE MUM IS TOUGH – I’VE BEEN STRUGGLING’ ENGAGEMENT EXCLUSIVE ROYALLY AMUSED WHY KATE GOT THE GIGGLES ON HER RETURN TO WORK t Export £2.60/€3.43 t Esp/Por €3.30 t Italy €4.80 t Auz $8.40 inc GST t CDN $7.99 t ROI €3.29 t NL €4.75 t FR €3.80 t Aus €6.10 KATIE PRICE t Malta €4.25 t Ger €5.30 AND CARL WOODS SHARE THEIR JOY ‘I CAN’T WAIT TO BE KATIE WOODS – IT’S GOING TO BE A NEW ERA FOR ME’ !Ųȅ ĞĞɏĐŲĐŘƭóŃśơ and chiLL Bringing you only the best recommendations to make every second of your free time count. 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So I was assuming she was going to say yes! Isince. And now, after the news that they’re engaged, Then there was a marquee in the garden with loads we’re delighted to exclusively reveal all the details of of flowers and candles. I had a sign saying, “Dolly the romantic proposal and their wedding plans! [Carl’s pet name for Katie], will you marry me?” We met up with the happy couple for this shoot at Braxted Park Estate, a stunning venue set in 500 acres Were you surprised, Katie? of Essex parkland. “I knew when I first met her I was Katie: Yes. We’d spoken about it a lot, so I knew he going to propose to her,” says Carl. And Katie, 42, was going to, just not when. It was amazing. Carl adds, “I knew he was going to do it but not when.” asked my mum and dad for permission – and Junior! Businessman Carl, 32, popped the question at his Carl: Junior gave me a talking to, like he was my dad! Essex home after asking reality He was asking me if I was sure. star Katie’s mum Amy Price, 69, He gave me all the pros and dad Ray Infield, 70, and son cons about his mum and said, Junior, 15, for their blessings. “If you’re happy, then I’m Katie, also mum to Harvey, 18, happy.” I asked Katie’s dad Princess, 13, Jett, seven, and and he said, “100%.” And her Bunny, six, can barely contain mum was the same. her excitement, saying that although it may not be her first Were there any tears? rodeo, this is it. And she says Carl: No. Katie doesn’t cry. She even the kids agree this time is didn’t even out of excitement. different. “It’s the first and last She was just shocked. time the ring is going to be off Katie: I was so shocked! The my finger,” Katie says as she slips ring nearly blinded me. off her huge sparkler to show us. Here, Katie and Carl open up about his romantic Were you nervous, Carl? proposal, her Hollywood-style ring and being more Carl: I didn’t think that I was and then when it in love than ever… was actually happening, I did get really nervous. I was calm and cool and then as it was happening, Congratulations! What’s the reaction to your news that’s when, I s**t myself. But I knew the ring would been like? Have many people reached out? do the talking! Katie: Hundreds of thousands! We’ve had so much love and congratulations! I guess it’s something positive Tell us about the ring… to look forward to after lockdown and everything people Carl: The ring had to be perfect. I was recommended have been through this past year. I wish everyone the a family jeweller, Rankins in east London. Jodie happiness we have found – Covid brought us together. Rankin helped me with the design. I knew what 4 WWW.OK.CO.UK 5 WWW.OK.CO.UK KATIE WEARS DRESS BY GHOST. CARL WEARS TOP BY NEW LOOK 6 Katie had her eye on and added my own How much was it? before but nobody says anything. My touches. Like Katie, it’s a one-off, a truly Carl: Plenty! It’s expensive, put it that way. head is just in a different place. Carl has stunning piece. I knew when I went to It’s eye-watering. A gentlemen doesn’t met me as the person I was 10 years ago. pick it up this was more than special – it discuss money – that’s for me to know! I feel fresh. Everything is different. The left Katie speechless, put it that way! The Katie: I know Carl gets bored of girls past is the past – exes are exes, Carl is my ring in all is just under seven carats. quickly and he’s very particular. I obviously future. My family approve of Carl and the Katie: When I saw the ring, I couldn’t passed all the tests and now I’m the one kids love him. My kids said they didn’t believe it. It’s so amazing. I was always who has got a ring. This is real this time. want to meet someone else unless it was looking at rings on Pinterest and saving real, The One – period. And Carl is it. loads of pictures. He was definitely What will make this marriage looking on my Pinterest for ideas. different, Katie? Have you thought about plans Carl, did you look at my Pinterest? Katie: My head’s in the right place. It’s for the wedding already? Carl: Yeah, of course. I wanted to get not rushed, it’s been done properly. Not Carl: We’ve got a few ideas – we’re something you liked. only am I head over heels in love, my kids on the same page. Katie: I knew he would. And I didn’t have approve and my family approve. And the Katie: Yes, we have lots of ideas. It won’t to buy my own ring this time! It was made best thing about Carl is he doesn’t need be a bog-standard affair or boring. Put from scratch and came out of his own me for anything and I don’t need him for it this way, the wedding I want, if you money. He designed it – it’s really special. anything. It’s refreshing to be with a man googled it, no one has done it before. It’s like a fairy-tale ring and massive. It’s that if I decided I never wanted to work Carl: It’ll be completely different. like something out of Hollywood. It’s again, he’d look after me. I just love him. Katie: I want the focus on Carl as much more than I could dream of. as me, this is his special day too. No What would you say to people who wall-to-wall celeb faces or opening-of-an- Had you been saving up for it, Carl? would say you’ve said this before? envelope guests, or people we don’t Carl: No. Luckily, I could afford it. But it’s Katie: People can say what they want. know. It’ll be about us, Carl and our not cheap – it’s made a dent. Carl has a past too. He’s been engaged family, coming together as one. OPPOSITE PAGE: KATIE WEARS JUMPSUIT BY PHASE EIGHT, HEELS BY KURT GEIGER. CARL WEARS SHIRT BY RIVER GEIGER. CARL WEARS SHIRT HEELS BY KURT WEARS JUMPSUIT BY PHASE EIGHT, KATIE OPPOSITE PAGE: WEARS DRESS BY ASOS KATIE LOAFERS BY DUNE. THIS PAGE: AND SCOTT, ISLAND, TROUSERS BY LYLE WWW.OK.CO.UK 7 Katie with her kids Junior, Harvey, Jett, Princess and Bunny Carl: Great food, lots of laughs – fun, top-class entertainment. It won’t be dull with long speeches – expect the unexpected. It will certainly be a day to remember, whatever we end up deciding. It will be about our love for one another and sharing that with our closest and our loved ones. Katie: 2021, the new not-normal traditional with a Mr and Mrs Woods Katie will twist! The wedding bands will be compete in designed by Jodie and Daisy Rankin. MasterChef I’d like Carl to have diamonds in his.