Love Island alumni Adam Collard has shed some light on the rumours he was texting Katie Price during her recent split from Carl Woods.
The former glamour model furiously denied the rumours the two were in contact, but the reality star has addressed the speculation. It was previously reported the 27-year-old was in touch with the mother of five, 44, after splitting with Carl recently.
However, after the reports surfaced Katie furiously denied the allegations. Taking to social media, she said: "Omg don’t know where this has come from but I’m not texting Adam and I’m not texting any man."
Now Adam, who recently split with Paige Thorne after meeting on Love Island 2022, cleared up the rumours he was chatting to the OnlyFans model. Speaking to Metro.co.uk, the star insisted the truth is more innocent than the rumours.
He said: "I messaged her on Instagram because I saw that she was struggling with everything that was going on in her life. It was just one of them things where I’ve said that I know how much training helps me in terms of my mental health and going through a breakup in the public eye.
"I said, “If you want help, it’s what I’ve done for the last few years. I’ll coach you through anything that you want in terms of gym stuff.”
"I’m not an absolute expert in anything like that, but I would say the one thing that’s helped me through any of my situations has been just throwing myself into work and training. That was it and she was really nice about it."
Adam praised Katie’s tenacity, saying: "She said 'yeah'. There wasn’t a cross word, there wasn’t anything like that on the message. I’m quite impressed by how strong she is, doing this for I mean, God, since I was in school. I think it’s actually quite inspiring.
"I didn’t text her technically, it was Instagram, we’re not actually that close. I don’t think she quite denied the fact that we’ve spoken at all.
"I think she just denied the fact that the headlines, which were obviously incorrect, suggested that there were ulterior motives – and she was completely right.
"You’ve got to respect the fact that she is a mum of five kids, and she doesn’t want headlines online around someone who is probably not far off the age of people a lot younger in her family. And I think that’s fair enough."
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