Married lover leaves Katie Hopkins?

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Katie Hopkins' married lover has left her "for good", according to a report.

Graphic designer Mark Cross got together with the Apprentice runner-up seven months ago.

After they were discovered he left his wife Ruth and found a home in Exeter, Devon, with Hopkins.

Now friends say he has changed his mind - and apparently sent her back to her parents' house.

"Mark was so into Katie when they first got together," a source told the People. "He couldn't get enough of her and said her fire and ambition really turned him on... He would have been better off keeping well clear."