Katie Price has reportedly accused Peter Andre of using their split to relaunch his pop career - and said he’s be in “a bedsit somewhere” if they hadn’t got together.

After the couple announced their separation just over a month ago, Katie, also known as glamour model Jordan, made it very clear that it was Peter’s decision to end their three-and-a-half year marriage, not her. She was rumoured to have repeatedly begged him to take her back and give the relationship another shot but now she’s told friend and personal trainer Sol Gilbert: “I’m not going to waste one more second on trying to get him back.”

According to the Sunday Mirror, she told Sol: “I think he or his people are trying to exploit the situation for publicity. He is trying to sensationalise it to launch his career.

“People don’t see Pete for what he really is. He is more competitive than he comes across.

“Pete could never accept the fact I was the star. He was always going to be in my shadow and he just couldn’t cope with it.

“He had a bit of success once but he should have respected the fact that modelling as Jordan made the money.”

Pete left their family home in Sussex when the divorce was announced last month and he’s currently renting a seven bedroom property near Brighton. According to Sol, Katie is livid that Peter has chosen to live in her hometown: “Katie feels Brighton is her area, and this is going to only make things harder for them both to move on.

“She has told me: ‘Why is he moving to Brighton when he is trying to revive his pop career?

“Why isn’t he moving to London? And if it wasn’t for what I did to relaunch his career, he’d be looking for a bedsit somewhere.’”

This weekend, Peter performed his new single ‘Call The Doctor’ at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards - the equivalent of the Oscars for Bollywood. The song, which is about the end of a difficult relationship, is said to have been inspired by the couple’s failed attempt at marriage counselling.

A source told the Mirror: “It was Pete that left Katie - but not until he had done everything in his power to make the marriage work.

“Neither of them take divorce lightly and both wanted their relationship to work for the sake of the kids, if nothing else.

“Although they both went into it willingly, it was more of a Band-Aid gesture - a desperate final attempt to patch up the marriage and make it work.”