I seem to remember that PA and his management had a plan on IACGMOOH that he would target KP for publicity...
Nope that’s not true, it was the other way round.
One of KP’s reality shows documented the build up to her entering jungle & there’s a scene where she’s sitting down with her management & her boyfriend at the time, Scott Sullivan, discussing how to get maximum exposure. Basically it was agreed that she’d target PA, be flirty, engineer situations for them to be alone by disappearing into the jungle together etc.
Meanwhile back in England, it was agreed that Scott would be speaking to the press about how he wanted to smash PA’s face in for flirting with her, that he was going to fight for her because she’s ‘The One’ & to top it all off, he would then dramatically get on a plane to Australia for a showdown with the pair where he’d win her back & then they’d sell stories / do magazine deals about being reunited, their true love etc. Katie even made it a point to reassure Scott that no matter what he sees on TV, it’s all for publicity & to not get jealous. They even arranged to go on holiday together with Harvey & to get photographed as a family just before she entered the jungle so that Scott would be more in the public eye for when it all kicked off.
Unfortunately for Scott though, she genuinely fell for PA.
The reason it sticks in my head is because I was only 15 at the time & naively believed everything I saw on reality tv & was shocked at how contrived it actually all was, it was my first glimpse behind the scenes so to speak.