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KATIE Price is giving Piers Morgan a run for his money, interviewing serial killers on death row for a new Channel 4 series.

The glamour model and I'm A Celeb star said she has also spoken to 'the Costa Cannibal Killer' after he wrote to her following his release from a jail sentence - which began after he bludgeoned his partner to death.

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Katie Price has revealed she will interview serial killers for a new C4 showCredit: youtube
The model claims she has interview 'Costa Cannibal killer' Paul Durant
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The model claims she has interview 'Costa Cannibal killer' Paul DurantCredit: Ian Whittaker - The Sun

Katie, 45, claims she was offered the series after a runner from one of her previous reality series, who is now a senior producer, remembered her passion and knowledge of crime and recommended her to Channel 4 bosses.

Speaking on the Not My Bagg podcast, she teased her grisly new project to hosts Joe and George Baggs.

"When I did 'Signed by Katie Price', the guy who did that, he knew I loved crime," Katie recalled.

"He went to Channel 4 and went 'Look, I know a new person who loves crime'. They were looking for someone and he said 'Katie Price'.

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"I got on a Zoom with them and they were like, 'Jesus Christ, you know more about crime than we ever thought'.

"I'm going to interview serial killers on death row in Texas at the end of the year."

Katie, who appeared on the show with her sister Sophie, then added: "I'm so into crime, murders, all of that."

She went to tell the lads that she has already then told how she had been approached by Paul Durant, dubbed the Costa Cannibal Killer after bragging that he ate his girlfriend.

Durant, now in his 60,s was jailed in Spain for 12 years for killing a divorced mum-of-two from Essex in a village near Benidorm while on the run over two robberies.

He initially told police he'd cut her body up and ate some parts, but has since denied eating her.

Later he returned to finish his sentence in Britain in 2010 before being jailed for a further eight years and eight months over the robberies.

Katie told the podcast: "A murderer wrote to me. I opened this letter and I thought it looks like old person's sort of writing.

"Then it was like, 'I murdered my girlfriend and I want to talk to you', or something like that. He was called 'The Costa Cannibal Killer'.

"I interviewed him. He hadn't been brought up in a nice environment, got abused, and he was used to doing robberies. Got arrested for it, they broke his wrist, so he ended up in hospital. While he was in hospital he did a runner and he knew someone who got him into France, that's how he got to Spain."

The true crime fanatic continued: "He met the woman, moved in after four days. She was taking the piss out of him, so he said she had some building work and there was literally a hammer next to him, put her in the suitcase."

Asked if he had really eaten some of his victim's body, Katie said: "I asked him, and he said he didn't. He was actually a really nice guy."

The mum of five went on to explain why serial killers hold such intrigue for her.

She said: What fascinates me about killers, serial killers, because I'm such a geek in it all, [is that] people don't just kill for no reason. There's normally a trigger in your brain or something from childhood.

"They might have been wound up by their other half so many times, tormented, and one day they're like, 'Wah'. There's all different reasons."

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This isn't the first time Katie has confessed her love of the macabre.

She has previously said: "I love sickos. Dennis Nilsen, Fred and Rose West, Ted Bundy. I'm obsessed. I've always been into that kind of stuff - real cut-up, blood and gore murders."

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