IS KATIE THE BIGGEST BITCH ON TV?
EXCLUSIVE: APPRENTICE GIRL'S ROMP WITH MARRIED MAN
HER callous put-downs, snobby attitude and relentless backstabbing have made sneering Apprentice hopeful Katie Hopkins the girl we all love to hate.
But nothing compares to what she gets up to in her personal life.
Recent photos have revealed Katie, 31, romping in a field with a work colleague - her THIRD fling with a married man.
She met design manager Mark Cross, 43, last year when she started working at the Met Office in Exeter, Devon.
Their affair was exposed after they arranged a rendezvous on Friday at Exeter St David's railway station.
They drove to a nearby pub then strolled into a neighbouring field.
Apparently undaunted by the prospect of being seen, they then lay on the grass and stripped off.
After their tryst, Mark met wife Ruth, 50, at their local pub and planted a kiss on her lips. Speaking outside her house in Honiton, Devon, at the weekend, devastated Ruth said her cheating husband had confessed all.
She said: "Mark had warned me that people might find out. But I can't say any more."
But Ruth isn't the first woman who has had to deal with the anguish of finding out Katie was having an affair with her husband.
The economics graduate's chequered love life has already seen her branded a home-wrecker.
Brand consultant Katie, whose fling with fellow Apprentice contestant Paul Callaghan was exposed in front of Sir Alan Sugar, began a steamy romance with married father-of-three Damian McKinney in 2001. She was engaged at the time but ditched her man when her affair with Damian, 15 years her senior, became more serious.
By 2004 the two of them were based in New York and she had become pregnant with his child.
Damian promptly divorced his wife of 19 years, Tina, to shack up with his blonde mistress and baby daughter India was born shortly after.
They married and Katie gave birth to their second child, Poppy, in August 2005. But their relationship was soon on the rocks and less than a year after they'd exchanged vows Katie's roving eye began to wander.
She got in touch with close friend and married father-of-two Paul Collin and quickly worked her charms on him.
But the 41-year-old's wife, Mel, discovered Katie's floods of emails and texts and confronted him. They are currently working through their problems.
Katie, who trained with the Army at Sandhurst, has dubbed herself a "ruthless alpha female". And she's won few fans with her behaviour on The Apprentice.
Plotting to get rival Adam Hosker fired, she said: "He should go back to his Northern chums, where I do feel he rather belongs."
Even Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis couldn't resist sticking the boot in at last week's Baftas.
Accepting his prestigious Fellowship award, the screenwriter declared that his next ambition was to "go out and kill that posh bird from The Apprentice". The comment drew the biggest laugh of the night.
And there are three men's wives who couldn't agree more.
KATIE ON HER ENEMIES
'Whenever there's an issue Kristina tries to cover her arse. It's a shame she doesn't do it a little better with the skirt she wears'
'Kristina is a complete snake in the grass, a pain in the arse and frankly too orange to be taken seriously'
'When your best friends are Mr Pinot and Mr Grigio you want to watch it'
'I'd like to be the one who secures Adam's exit back to the North and his Northern chums, where I do feel he rather belongs'
Beth.Neil@Mirror.Co.Uk
