I want to replace Cheryl Cole says Katie Price

Jul 18 2010 by Roz Laws, Sunday Mercury

KATIE Price has revealed she would love to step into Cheryl Cole’s shoes – and perform at the V Festival.

The Girls Aloud singer has had to pull out of the Midland music event after being struck down with malaria.

But Katie, aka Jordan, is offering her services instead – though she admits audiences might not be rushing to hear her at the event next month at Weston Park in Staffordshire.

“I’m not the best singer in the world,” she says. “It would be really cool to do the V Festival and if they offered me the chance I’d be there. But singing live is really tough.”

Katie is having another go at a music career, despite taking flak for her previous attempts.

She describes her bid to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 – wearing a shiny skin-tight pink catsuit – as “just awful, the worst thing I’ve done” and her one regret in life.

Her album of duets with former husband Peter Andre wasn’t a critical hit.

So why subject herself to more abuse?

It seems that Katie, whose latest single, Free To Love Again, is now available to download, just can’t stop singing.

“Growing up, I always wanted to be a model or a pop star,” confesses the 32-year-old.

“I’m always singing round the house.

“I know I’m not great at it and it isn’t my main job, but I absolutely love singing and always have.

“I don’t feel I’m competing with anyone. I know it probably won’t do well in the charts, but I don’t care. I’m just having fun. A guy I knew years ago asked me to listen to a track he’d written. That was only three weeks ago.

“It normally takes about three months to put a record out if you want to promote it properly and get it on radio playlists. But I know people probably wouldn’t play it so I put it straight on digital downloads without going through a record company.”