Inside Katie Price's bitter feud with Britain's Got Talent star after 'row ...
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They were best friends 20 years ago when they met through a huge Gladiators star
BRITAIN's Got Talent legend Francine Lewis has opened up on her past feud and rocky friendship with Katie Price.
The impressionist shot to fame in 2013 when she auditioned for the ITV show with an uncanny skit of 'the Pricey'.
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But the pair's friendship was first formed back in the nineties.
They met through Katie's then boyfriend Warren Furman who was riding high as one of the stars of Gladiators.
Katie enjoyed a highly publicised relationship with muscle man Warren for three years.
They were engaged between 1998 and 1999, but dated from 1996, and he was her first high profile romance and engagement.
Warren would say they quickly bonded over "their working-class backgrounds and determination to make money".
Warren added: “We travelled the world first class, went for expensive dinners, had big houses and fancy cars.”
Warren met Francine through another TV show he was filming at the time, and he ended up introducing his friend Joel to her.
Francine told The Sun at The Lifestyle Awards: “Joel was best friends with one of the Gladiators, Warren, who was Ace in the Gladiators who went out with Katie Price.
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"I met Warren on a TV show I was doing, Night Fever, on Channel 5.
"And Katie thought something was going on between us, she was out for my blood at that point!"
Francine added: "Me and Warren were a bit like Rachel and Ross, will they, won’t they?
"But we never did. We had the odd kiss, that was it. Then I met Joel."
Francine and Katie eventually became friends through their partners, and Katie apprently love Francine's impressions of her.
She previously said: "At the time, she loved it, she used to make me ring her brother and mum. In fact, when she was on I'm A Celeb she was talking about me doing it.
"But we then lost touch and we weren't friends anymore and on BGT I maybe pushed it a little bit too far on the final, I don't think she liked it, put it that way…
"I've got nothing against Katie, she was at my wedding, I was at her wedding."
When Francine auditioned for Britain's Got Talent she performed her sketch for the judges and sailed through to the live shows.
But she later admitted mimicking Katie on the big stage may have soured their friendship.
Warren has now shunned showbiz since turning to Christianity and becoming an evangelist. Warren now lives in York He has a wife and two children.
Francine and Katie last spoke in 2019, when Francine claimed that she reached out to her pal via text, adding that she feared Katie had "gone off the rails".
But furious Katie read her the riot act after she claimed the ex-glamour model was "having a breakdown".
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