‘I was engaged to Katie Price, but now I’m a trainee vicar who prays for her’
Posted by  badge Boss on Jan 06
Katie Price and ‘Ace’ Warren Furman were engaged in 1997 (Picture: EMPICS Entertainment/PA Photos)

Ace, real name , is praying for 26 years after their engagement.

Back in the mid-90s, Warren filled our TV screens on Saturday nights as a bodybuilder on which has now In the series, contenders took on the Gladiators, which included Ace, in a series of athletic and physical tasks in a bid to win prizes.

By 1997, Warren who went by the name Jordan, after proposing with a £3000 ring but has previously admitted the relationship wasn’t always positive.

‘We were both deriving our identities from being relevant in the media,’ he said on in 2019. ‘We were both selling stories.’

He once said he was in ‘a club of people who had had a lucky escape by not marrying Katie.’ Now he’s training to become a vicar and plans to be ordained as a Church of  cleric, and regrets some of his words and actions.

‘It was selfish, It’s not the way I think now. I have great admiration for her. I know how difficult it is being a parent,’ he told

Warren was ace on The Gladiators (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Katie, 45, is now mum to Harvey, 21, Junior, 18, Princess, 16, Jett, ten, and Bunny, nine, and is, while Warren, 51, has children Bailey, 20, and Anna, 18, with wife Dionne.

‘If I see a picture of her in the papers and magazines, I pray that she would know God as I do and realise that her identity doesn’t have to be in altering her body or having operations. God loves who she is,’ he added.

In a bid for forgiveness Warren, who found the church in 2015, texted two people close to Katie and claims they replied.

Warren and Dionne have two children (Picture: Ace Active/Facebook
Warren now prays for Katie (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

‘Recently I sent a message to her parents to say, “I just want you to know I am sorry for my part in it. I hope you will forgive me”.’

He continued: ‘Her parents came back and said, “We really enjoyed having you around”. It was quite heart-warming.’

Warren is happy Gladiators is back (Credits: Guy Levy/BBC/PA)

After starring as a gladiator from 1996 to 2000 on the Ulrika Jonsson-fronted show he found out the news it was being axed from ITV from the media.

Warren is happy it’s coming back again as we ‘need a wholesome family show.’

The first episode airs on January 13 and father-son duo Bradley and Barney Walsh taking the helm.