With her tan, brunette waves and plump lips, at first glance she could easily be mistaken for Katie Price.
But look closer and you’ll realise that the woman posing with Price’s son Junior Andre is, in fact, Jasmine Orr: his 25-year-old girlfriend.
I am told that the uncanny – almost bizarre – resemblance between mother and girlfriend is no mistake. For their similar looks are part of a blossoming ‘mutual obsession’ between the women, which has been key to strengthening Katie and Junior’s once-fractious relationship.
For the past few years, 46-year-old Katie has seen her son ‘very much sporadically’ amid well-publicised relationship struggles and multiple bankruptcies. Junior, 19, has instead been living with his father, singer Peter Andre, and step-mother Emily MacDonagh in Surrey.
But he has started building bridges with his mother since he started dating reality TV star Jasmine last June, with the two women now becoming almost inseparable.
The young couple are now regular visitors to Katie’s new four-bedroom house on the outskirts of Haywards Heath, West Sussex, as Peter has stricter rules at his home and won’t allow Junior or his younger sister Princess to have partners stay over.
A source close to Jasmine said: ‘Jasmine is obsessed with Katie and can’t believe that she’s now part of the family. They have struck up quite a friendship, Jasmine has become like a daughter to Katie which is very sweet.
‘They hit it off pretty much straight away. Katie sees a lot of her younger self in Jasmine and loves how she dresses. Jasmine really looks up to Katie but Katie also loves the way Jasmine does her hair and make-up, and her outfits.
She could easily be mistaken for Katie Price. But look closer and you’ll realise that the woman posing with Price’s son Junior Andre is, in fact, Jasmine Orr: his 25-year-old girlfriend
‘There’s a real mutual obsession between the pair but the most lovely thing about it all is that it has brought Katie and Junior together and they are now much closer and see far more of one another.’
The source said that ‘the way Katie lives her life’ means neither Junior nor Princess, 17, have seen her much. But they added: ‘Things have been tricky at times but now things are lovely between them. Many a young woman would be terrified of Katie but Jasmine just adores her.’
Junior, who has carved out a career as a singer and model, has at times struggled to see his mother’s outlandish behaviour played out so publicly.
The former Page 3 girl has herself revealed that Junior can be ‘embarrassed’ by her. She told her own podcast in 2023: ‘I’ve explained to Junior you can’t change who I am. I am where I am because I’m different minded. I’m not boring, I don’t hold back, I live in the moment.
‘Some of my dress choices if I go on a red carpet or [if] I’m filthy-minded, I think can embarrass him. He’s quite reserved is Junior.’
It’s fair to say that Katie has a very different parenting style to her ex-husband Peter, who catapulted to fame with his hit single Mysterious Girl in 1996.
The couple enjoyed a whirlwind romance after meeting on ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity in 2004, marrying a year later and having two children.
Despite their parents’ very public divorce in 2009, Junior and Princess are said to be ‘very well adjusted’ teenagers – an upbringing very much credited to Peter.
For the past few years, 46-year-old Katie has seen her son ‘very much sporadically’
Katie, meanwhile, has remained in the limelight with a conveyer belt of high-profile relationships and missed court dates for bankruptcy and dangerous driving (she narrowly avoided prison in 2021 after crashing her car). Just yesterday her latest six-year court saga was brought to an end, as she was discharged from two bankruptcies.
Sources say Junior and Princess have seen Katie live a wild life since they were toddlers, so Peter has seen it as his duty to protect them.
The 52-year-old insists that ‘boundaries’ are in place at his home, while others joke that Katie barely know what that means.
No wonder then that Katie, who is dating former Married At First Sight star JJ Slater, is delighted to be spending more time with her son and his new girlfriend, who she sees as something of a mini me.
Like Katie, Jasmine also made her name on a reality TV show, starring in the Channel 4 series Celebs Go Dating in 2023. From that she had a short fling with Adam Collard - the former Love Island contestant now engaged to sports presenter Laura Woods - and has since built her Instagram brand to almost 30,000 followers.
Yet, while it would seem that Jasmine has helped build bridges between mother and son, some close to the family find the whole situation rather unnerving.
‘It’s like they want to be each other and it’s weird,’ a source tells me. ‘A few of their friends have noticed what’s been going on but Junior is completely besotted with Jasmine.
‘You only have to look at some of their recent pictures to see that Katie has been copying Jasmine’s looks and vice-versa.
‘After all “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” and that’s exactly what the pair are doing.’
