Katie Price’s dressage trainer has secured a call-up to the Paris Olympics after Charlotte Dujardin was suspended for whipping a horse.
The queen of the British equestrian team was sensationally banned from the sport just days before her competition date after footage emerged of her kicking the animal 25 times on its legs.
Dujardin, a six-time Olympic medallist, had hoped to become the most decorated British Olympian (after tying with cyclist Laura Kenny) but was forced to withdraw from the games on Tuesday.
Team GB reservist Becky Moody has taken Dujardin’s place, but her departure has also freed up a place for Andrew Gould, who will travel to Paris should another rider withdraw from the three-man line-up.
Gould was at the centre of Katie’s divorce from singer Peter Andre in 2009 after photographs emerged of the glamour model accompanying him on a drunken night out.
Katie Price with her dressage trainer Andrew Gould at the 2008 Horse of the Year competition
Gould riding Indigro, whom he will take to Paris in case he is asked to compete at the last minute.
Charlotte Dujardin, three-time Olympic dressage champion, pictured with her horse Gio
Although they both denied cheating, Katie later revealed that Peter ended their marriage because he believed otherwise.
Gould said after receiving his call-up to Team GB: ‘It’s not a post I expected to write under these circumstances but as you will have heard I have been called up to be the fourth member of Team GB.
‘It is an absolute privilege and honour to be given the trust and responsibility of being a member of the team.
‘I will do everything I can to support the team and, at the same time, gain as much experience as possible during this time.
“Indigro is feeling better than ever and is ready to take on whatever comes his way. Now it’s time to come together and support Team GB.”
In 2012, Katie revealed how much her friendship with Gould (who was married to Polly, a PR executive) infuriated her then-husband.
Describing the fateful night in Bristol that led to Peter breaking up with her, Katie said: ‘I said Pete would go mad if he knew I’d gone out with Andrew because I had a problem with him, but everyone was like ‘Don’t be silly, you’re a grown woman, he’s here with Polly’.
‘Pete didn’t ask who was there, so I didn’t mention Andrew.’
He then described the moment he appeared in the papers with a friend, who turned out to be gay, and his fears about how Peter would react when he found out Andrew was there too.
Katie with Gould in Brighton on August 26, 2009
Gould in a photo shared on his Facebook
Gould was at the centre of Katie’s divorce from singer Peter Andre in 2009 after photos emerged of the glamour model accompanying him on a drunken night out.
‘I was pictured on the cover with a ‘mystery man’, but the guy was gay and Pete had already met him. But I immediately felt bad.
“I wanted to get out of the house and avoid a confrontation with Pete because I knew he would get angry. On the way to Andrew’s stables, I was hyperventilating,” she said.
Shortly after, Peter called her and told her it was all over.
At the time, Andrew and Polly released a statement about the strength of their relationship and Polly told how Katie had ruined her life.
Polly said: “I’m not happy about this at all. I’m not happy that I got involved in his life. I’m not happy that it came to this. Jordan became a client of my husband and mine as well, as we both run a horse business.
‘He teaches him and I take care of his horses and that was it.
“But I’m sure other stories will come out and it makes me angry that the attention has shifted to us in this way.”
In her 2010 book, You Only Live Once, Katie recounted how Peter was jealous of her friendship with Gould.
‘Pete met Andrew and everything changed. I had met Polly and Andrew briefly when they both came to the house once before we went to a horse show, and even in that brief encounter, which was filmed for our reality show, I got a bad vibe from Pete, but I thought maybe I was imagining it.
‘I admit that we were both jealous in our marriage… Jealousy is a poison, a cancer, and once it starts to grow out of control, it can destroy everything.’
Katie was married to Peter Andre, 50, from 2005 to 2009 and they have son Junior, 18, and daughter Princess, 16.
Dujardin with her fiancé Dean Wyatt-Golding after winning the gold medal at Rio 2016
Today, Dujardin’s fiancé Dean Wyatt-Golding broke his silence on the scandal, saying: Everything had ‘come out of nowhere’.
Speaking outside the couple’s home, Mr Wyatt-Golding said: “I can’t say anything beyond Charlotte’s statement.
All we can do is wait and see what happens.
Responding to questions about how the video could have been shared, Mr Golding added: “No, we have no idea.
“For now, Charlotte is obviously cooperating with the equestrian authorities.”
