Aug 4, 2008 • 1 min read

Arctics get a Yoko of their own

Glamour model Katie Downs, girlfriend of Arctic Monkeys guitarist Jamie Cook, reportedly causing tension over where the couple should live.

I'm not quite sure who should be more insulted, Yoko Ono or Katie Downs. The latter, a glamour model and girlfriend of Arctic Monkeys guitarist Jamie Cook, has been branded "a modern day Yoko Ono" as Cook has become caught in tensions between her and his band.

A source to The Mirror: "Jamie and Katie are finally taking the plunge and buying a place together. But they are arguing over where exactly to base themselves and now the Monkeys are getting involved. They're telling Jamie to get a pad in London where singer Alex Turner lives". However, Downs already owns a £1 million flat in Liverpool and reportedly wants to live there: "It's becoming an increasing source of tension - and Jamie is the one bearing the brunt of it. He's got Alex and the lads in one ear, telling him to move down south, and Katie in the other, pleading with him to ignore them. Friends are joking that she's turning into a modern-day Yoko Ono and turning Jamie away from the group. No decision on where they're going to live has yet been made but, whatever happens, Jamie will be in for an ear bashing from at least one camp".

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