N o one does drama like Katie Price . After almost thirty years of tabloid notoriety, from her short lived singing career to her Cinderella -style wedding, the model and reality star now seems to be embroiled in her most chaotic chapter yet. On 30 July, a warrant for Price’s arrest was issued after the 46-year-old failed to turn up for a bankruptcy court hearing about an unpaid tax bill.
It’s the second time she has been declared bankrupt . Price was in fact abroad, apparently filming a documentary about cosmetic procedures – in Istanbul, Europe’s de facto capital of plastic surgery, no less. She has since put out a defiant statement on Instagram, claiming that she is “not running” from her troubles.
“Despite consistent stories trying to humiliate me on my personal misfortunes, I am neither embarrassed nor ashamed,” she said. “I own my situation and I am trying my best to work my way out of it and put matters right.” Then on Thursday evening (8 August), she was arrested at Heathrow Airport and remanded in custody at a west London police station.
It’s all a far cry from the peak of her career success in the mid-Noughties, when she was estimated to have a net worth of around £40 million thanks to a sprawling empire encompassing fashion deals, fitness DVDs and books (the latter being so successful that in 2007, her novel Crystal outsold the entire Booker Prize shortlist). This current saga seems to have all the hallmarks of a Price-centric media storm: mon.