Katie Price missed bankruptcy court case due to 'dealing with serious stuff'

Katie Price has said she missed a court case where she was declared bankrupt for the second time due to “dealing with serious stuff”.

The former glamour model and TV personality, 45, was declared bankrupt on Monday by a judge at the Insolvency and Companies Court, and the hearing was told she did not respond to HMRC over the debt.

She owes £761,994.05 to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the London court was told.

Price was previously declared bankrupt in 2019.

She said that she did not find out about Monday’s ruling until she was on the Daily Mail’s Straight To The Comments! podcast.

When told there had been a breaking news about her, Price said: “Has it? Oh get lost… Are you actually serious, while I’m sat here? What have I done now?”

In October, HMRC issued the bankruptcy petition.

She also told the pre-recorded podcast: “I know I had court, I think it was last week or the week before. Because of what’s going on in my life, I’ve actually been signed off because… I’m dealing with serious stuff.

“There’s all different kinds of bankruptcy, I think they just use the word ‘bankruptcy’. No-one actually knows the ins and outs of everything.

“And trust me, I don’t get away with stuff either. Like, you can’t, like tax, you can’t ever run away from, you have to pay. Don’t think I sit and don’t pay stuff, because I do.”

The case came days after she was fined £880 for driving without a licence or insurance in Northamptonshire in August last year.

At a short hearing at London’s Rolls Building, judge Sebastian Prentis said: “There has been no response from the debtor. The papers are in order.

“There is a substantial debt due from Ms Price to HMRC, and therefore I will make a bankruptcy order.”

He said the bill “derives from self-assessments from the year 2020-2021 and from the year 2021-22” and includes income tax, VAT, surcharges and interest.

A different High Court judge ordered her in February this year to pay 40% of her income from adult entertainment website OnlyFans to trustees for the next three years in a separate dispute over unpaid debts.

The hearing was told that she was due to face questions about her finances in April.

Price rose to fame as a glamour model in the 1990s under the name Jordan before moving into reality TV.

She took part in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in 2004 where she met singer Peter Andre, before they split in 2009.

The star has also fronted BBC documentaries including Katie Price: Harvey And Me and Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next with her son, whom she shares with ex-footballer Dwight Yorke, as well as Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion on Channel 4.

She also has four children with other former partners – Junior and Princess, with Andre, and son, Jett, and daughter, Bunny, with Kieran Hayler.