Jail is the only answer for Katie Price… she was fun poster girl for reality TV culture but now she’s a car crash
IT’S time to face facts: Katie Price has spiralled well and truly out of control.
Once a tabloid darling, Katie’s life has become a carousel of chaos.
Her dramatic arrest on Thursday at Heathrow airport for swerving court should be the last straw — it’s time for her to face jail or rehab.
Katie was once the fun, entertaining poster girl for reality TV celeb culture that brought us comical shock value.
It has brought me no joy to watch her life in her late 30s and now mid-40s unfolding.
She seems to have made a hobby out of collecting disasters.
From bankruptcy, arrests, a drink and drug-fuelled car crash, each incident is more alarming than the last.
Her recent arrest is just the latest in a string of legal troubles, painting a clear picture of someone who has seriously lost control.
Let’s start with her financial decisions.
She was declared bankrupt for the second time in March this year, owing nearly £800,000 to the taxman.
Earlier this year, she was also served an eviction notice on her 8,000 sq ft mansion.
Yes, it’s a bit of a mick-take when someone is driving flashy cars, popping to Turkey every five seconds for bank-busting plastic surgery while not paying their fair share of tax.
But she isn’t the first and won’t be the last of us who let our finances get out of hand. We can just about forgive her for this.
Then there’s her obsession with cosmetic surgery.
The once natural beauty has had a whopping 17 boob jobs and countless other procedures, including body contouring, a nose job, cheek and lip fillers and multiple facelifts.
In 2022, she set out to have the biggest boobs in Britain, a decision she quickly regretted.
Each procedure is another step away from reality, another denial of the truth staring her in her barely recognisable face: That she desperately needs help.
But financial woes and botched surgeries are nothing compared to her more serious transgressions.
Remember that 2021 car crash? She flipped her BMW X5 after boozing and snorting cocaine and swerved jail time with a suspended sentence.
Let’s not forget she managed this while already banned from driving.
It’s a miracle she didn’t kill someone.
Perhaps even more disturbing is her alarming track record of multiple animals dying under her care — at least seven.
From dogs being run over, with one suffocating under a chair, to horses dying from poor health, the list is as long as it is tragic.
It got so bad that animal charity Peta resorted to offering her cash to stop owning pets.
You’ll be hard pressed to find a celeb whose life has been as chaotic as hers in recent years. So, what’s the solution?
Well, I don’t believe Katie is a bad person and her devotion to her children, especially her disabled son Harvey, is clear for all to see.
Enough is enough
Her string of relationships, including three failed marriages, coupled with her endless pursuit of beauty and her obsession with being in the limelight, suggest to me she is just a woman desperately seeking love and validation. I feel sorry for her.
However, she has stretched the limits of public sympathy now — enough is enough. It’s time for her to confront the consequences of her actions, and prison might be the wake-up call she needs.
Her continuous disregard for the law — exemplified by her latest arrest and her reckless behaviour and endangerment of herself and others — needs to be dealt with. It’s for her own good.
This isn’t about kicking someone when they’re down. But left unchecked, Katie’s behaviour is only going to escalate. We’ve seen it before with celebs.
Sometimes the only way to save someone from themselves is to force them to stop and take a hard look at where they’re headed.
Prison or rehab to deal with her issues could be the intervention that finally makes her realise that she can’t keep living like this.
It’s not all over for Katie and she’s not beyond saving. She has kids who depend on her and fans who still look up to her.
Her past may be littered with mistakes, but the opportunity for redemption is still there. She can recover her image in the public eye and regain stability in her life.
We all deserve a second chance and, if she truly wants to change, she needs to take this moment seriously.
She must confront the chaos she has created, face punishment and get the mental health help she clearly desperately needs.
That’s why jail or rehab is the only answer.
Overlooking women in music is out of Styles
FINALLY, common sense has prevailed over the self-entitled Hollywood celebs who have been demanding that male and female categories for acting and singing awards be banned.
The Baftas has decided not to cave into the pressure and has said it is going to keep separate awards for men and women.
Celebs who identify as non-binary will have to decide which category to be in.
Inevitably, this will cause backlash from the narcissistic, gender-obsessed rich and famous.
But the reality is that erasing gender in the name of inclusivity only makes it less likely that talented women will get a look-in.
The Brits is a case in point. In 2022, it stopped separating its Best Artist category – the most coveted annual prize in British music – into male and female categories.
The result? An all-male shortlist with no female nominations.
Winner Harry Styles dedicated his award to women pop stars including Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama and Becky Hill.
Not very inclusive, is it? Well done to the Baftas for not entertaining the idea.
Your fault, fellas
FOLLOWING his shock split from Ruth Langsford, Eamonn Holmes has quickly bagged himself a new girlfriend – and one 22 years younger, at that.
His new woman, Katie Alexander, is no stranger to dating older men.
She previously dated a man 40 years her senior in a relationship that lasted five years and resulted in the birth of their only child. Fair play to her, I say.
Many will often raise eyebrows about what business a younger woman has dating a man so much older than her.
The gold digger trope is the common go-to explanation.
As someone who has dated men far older than me (in one case, 32 years older) it annoys me that men who date younger women get a pat on the back yet the women get judgemental stares.
I’ll tell you why young women date older men: Because men our age are useless!
Boost up vax
WHEN I was a brand new mum, years ago, I would have done anything to keep my baby safe.
So when my midwife told me I had to get myself and my baby vaccinated to keep us safe from various diseases, I didn’t hesitate.
Why? Because I knew those vaccines were backed by years of evidence.
But one of the ugly legacies of Covid has been to make people not trust vaccines altogether.
This week we learnt the worrying news that a tenth baby has died following an outbreak of whooping cough that began last November.
Uptake of the whooping cough vaccine in pregnant women has plummeted from 74 per cent in 2017 to 59 per cent this year.
With the vaccine being shown to be 90 per cent effective at preventing deaths in babies, it is a tragedy women are scared to get it.
Anti-vax misinformation kills and we should combat it.
Brits repair faith
THIS week, I wrote in The Sun that, for the first time since I moved to Britain as a child, I was scared to walk down the streets after violent far-right thugs started terrorising communities, burning buildings and attacking police.
I wrote that they did not represent the legitimate concerns of ordinary law-abiding Brits who are concerned about immigration, but are welcoming and civil to those who don’t look like them.
Well, I was incredibly moved when a spate of planned far-right protests failed to materialise at the 100 locations they were set to target.
Why? Because counter-protesters came out in their thousands to crowd out the violent yobs.
They had them running scared. My faith in Britain has been fully restored.
We can have civil debates about immigration without resorting to hate and violence.
That’s the Britain I know and love – and that’s the country I’m proud to call home.
Five a day? No thanks
A SURVEY this week revealed that the average person in the UK is going three weeks without eating a single green vegetable and a month without eating fruit.
I can’t say I’m surprised.
I admit to hypocrisy for nagging my daughter to eat her five a day while managing to swerve eating a vegetable for days myself.
Perhaps it’s time we admit we’re partly to blame as a nation for the slow decline of the NHS.
We’ve become a country of junk food-loving, takeaway-obsessed loungers.
Nearly two-thirds of us are either overweight or obese, and all the illnesses associated with our lack of physical activity cost the NHS £7.4billion a year.
That’s before you factor in all the booze we drink.
Maybe watching elite athletes at the Olympics can shame us all into eating better and getting fitter. I won’t hold my breath, though.