{"id":401847,"date":"2011-04-27T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-contestant-dan-foden\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:40:13","slug":"kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-contestant-dan-foden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-contestant-dan-foden\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Katona dumped by Take Me Out contestant Dan Foden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"120.3541508\">\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 12:40 PM on 27th April 2011<\/p>\n<p>He may have made a name for himself as a contestant on Take Me Out, but Kerry Katona&#8217;s ex says he couldn&#8217;t handle living his life in the &#8216;showbiz bubble.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After the pair&#8217;s split, the 27-year-old has opened up about his discomfort with the constant attention, Kerry&#8217;s &#8216;fake&#8217; friends and their relationship away from the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve been to university, I&#8217;m a qualified chartered surveyor. I don&#8217;t want to give that up just be known as Mr Kerry Katona,&#8217; Dan insists.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/33426461301_468x641.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"641\" alt=\"Split: Kerry Katona's ex Dan Foden reveals he broke up with the reality star because 'Everything she says seems to be geared towards publicity, but I find it embarrassing'\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Split: Kerry Katona&#8217;s ex Dan Foden reveals he broke up with the reality star because he &#8216;can&#8217;t live in that showbiz bubble&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an interview with Reveal, Foden says: &#8216;I feel really sorry for Kerry. She&#8217;s a great girl, but I honestly think she&#8217;s really lonely and a bit homesick. Everything she says seems to be geared towards publicity, but I find it embarrassing. I don&#8217;t want to do any of that.<\/p>\n<p>He adds: &#8216;When I started seeing her, I was just concentrating on Kerry. I&#8217;d met someone new and it was nice. Kerry is a lovely girl. But I&#8217;m just a normal bloke. I&#8217;m not the next Jack Tweed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The former dating show contestant also blames Kerry&#8217;s life in the spotlight for the reason for the split.\u00a0 &#8216;Kerry&#8217;s world is just too mad,&#8217; he told the magazine. She&#8217;s a lovely girl, but I can&#8217;t live in that showbiz bubble.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2809de6595_468x527.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"527\" alt=\"Romance: The surveyor, pictured with Katona in March, says he feels that her life is all about publicity, 'I found it embarrassing' \" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Romance: The surveyor, pictured with Katona in March, says he feels that her life is all about publicity, &#8216;I found it embarrassing&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;d only been on one or two dates but next things I know I&#8217;m her boyfriend. There was no grey period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There was no getting to know each other&#8230; If you&#8217;re seeing Kerry there&#8217;s no way you can be normal.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I really wasn&#8217;t comfortable. Kerry told me: &#8220;Just don&#8217;t do anything different, be yourself&#8221;. But I was mindful of everyone watching us. It was awkward.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When we were on our own, inside the four walls, things were great. We have a similar sense of humour and had a good laugh.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7b7dc4c2201_468x806.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"806\" alt=\"Single again: Kerry, pictured earlier this month, has been concentrating on her reality show since splitting from Dan\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Single again: Kerry, pictured earlier this month, has been concentrating on her reality show since splitting from Dan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;I think she&#8217;s a great girl but it&#8217;s a total clash of worlds and I couldn&#8217;t see it working out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dan&#8217;s account of being uncomfortable in front of the cameras appears to clash with a tabloid paper&#8217;s recent allegations that he was only dating the mother-of-four to raise his profile.<\/p>\n<p>The News Of The World claimed earlier this month that Warrington-born Dan was still in a secret relationship with girlfriend Katie Wray and was using Katona to find fame and launch a modelling career.<\/p>\n<p>The paper quoted Dan telling pals: \u2018It\u2019s all made up rubbish. I\u2019ve not been s****ing her. I\u2019ve got this model thing, that\u2019s all I want to do.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If it f*****g gets me where I need to get I will do, won\u2019t I?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Read the full interview in Reveal magazine, on sale now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1380947\/Kerry-Katona-dumped-Take-Me-Out-contestant-Dan-Foden.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Kerry Katona dumped by Take Me Out contestant Dan Foden\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kerry Katona dumped by Take Me Out contestant Dan Foden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:40 PM on 27th April 2011 He may have made a name for himself as a contestant on Take Me Out, but Kerry Katona&#8217;s ex says he couldn&#8217;t handle living his life in the &#8216;showbiz bubble.&#8217; After the pair&#8217;s split, the 27-year-old has opened up about his discomfort with the constant attention, Kerry&#8217;s &#8216;fake&#8217; friends and their relationship away from the media. &#8216;I&#8217;ve been to university, I&#8217;m a qualified chartered surveyor. I don&#8217;t want to give that up just be known as Mr Kerry Katona,&#8217; Dan insists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kerry Katona dumped by Take Me Out contestant Dan Foden - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-contestant-dan-foden\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kerry Katona dumped by Take Me Out contestant Dan Foden - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:40 PM on 27th April 2011 He may have made a name for himself as a contestant on Take Me Out, but Kerry Katona&#039;s ex says he couldn&#039;t handle living his life in the &#039;showbiz bubble.&#039; After the pair&#039;s split, the 27-year-old has opened up about his discomfort with the constant attention, Kerry&#039;s &#039;fake&#039; friends and their relationship away from the media. &#039;I&#039;ve been to university, I&#039;m a qualified chartered surveyor. 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