Get Me Out of Here Because I’m A Celebrity! Following a “traumatic” tour, singer-songwriter Martin Kemp discovered himself supporting wife Shirlie while she was performing for the pop group Wham!
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Martin Kemp supported wife Shirlie after a ‘traumtic’ trip away with Wham! (Image: Getty Images)
Martin Kemp’s wife Shirlie has opened up about a “traumatic” trip to China that left her needing therapy and a holiday in Florida. The singer, who performed as a backing vocalist for Wham! in Beijing and Guangzhou in 1985, described the visit as “the most shocking experience”.
The performances were a landmark moment for China, marking the first time a Western pop band had played in the country. However, Shirlie was deeply affected by the sight of the Great Wall of China, known as “the longest cemetery on Earth” due to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during its construction.
Shirlie said, “Everything just upset me in a way, I thought, “Who built this wall?” in a conversation with Travel Secrets The Podcast. Building’s loss of lives was a culture that I was deeply saddened by.
Martin explained that as soon as he started paying for his wife’s therapy, the costs of the trip “mounted up.” He continued, “It cost me a lot in therapy when Shirlie returned from China.” The truth is that.
Shirlie continued, claiming that “something else that was quite traumatic” transpired during the trip, prompting her to demand that she go back. She said, “Martin, take me to Florida, I need to go somewhere brand-new.”
The trip to Florida was not just the therapy, according to Martin, but it was also. Everything was “mountaining up.”
Following Shirlie’s return to the country, the duo headed to America to attend a tennis camp. After spending ten days traveling with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, she claims it helped her “reset” to normal life.
Wham! captured the historic visit. In China: Foreign Skies, George revealed that the Chinese Minister for Culture had issued a warning to fans to avoid imitating his provocative dance moves.
He continued, “He basically advised the youth that were present to attend the concert and watch it but not learn from it,” which he claimed was utterly absurd.
One of the group’s traveling guests, one of their backing musicians, was the subject of a disturbing incident. Portuguese trumpeter Raul D’Oliveira allegedly had a psychotic episode while Helen “Pepsi” DeMacque and Shirlie stood screamlessly in their path to their second performance.
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According to authorities, he then allegedly forced his way into the cockpit before being restrained by the pilot, who then performed an emergency nosedive. Support vocalist Janet Mooney said in an interview with the Independent: “It was very traumatic for all of us, mostly because we had to land a few times in bad weather, and that wasn’t great, and of course something not very nice was happening to a friend of ours.”
Shirlie reveals she hasn’t been back to China since Wham! ‘s groundbreaking tour. Martin is currently in Australia taking part in I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
The Mirror examines the most talked-about celebrity wedding of the year, including the lavish gift registry, as Holly Ramsay and Adam Peaty prepare to tie the knot amid ongoing family drama.
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Holly Ramsay and Adam Peaty are due to tie the knot in a luxurious Christmas wedding(Image: PA)
After a year of ups and downs, Olympian swimmer Adam Peaty will announce his engagement to his wife Holly Ramsay, the daughter of chef Gordon Ramsay.
The historic Bath Abbey will host the grand, festive ceremony. Following a reception held at Kin House, an elegant Georgian estate set in the Wiltshire countryside, guests will then toast the newlyweds. The weekend wedding at the stunning manor house costs from £32, 750, and it appears to be a fairytale-themed day.
However, a family dispute, which reportedly resulted in Caroline Peaty’s mother being permanently barred from the nuptials, has overshadowed the preparations.
Here, as the family drama continues. the Mirror takes a look inside the most talked-about wedding of the year.
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Swish gift registry
According to the Daily Mail, guests at the Peaty-Ramsay wedding can choose from a list that will be able to fit any budget, from £23 to £1, 896 for a barbecue oven.
Many of these additions have been made with their shared home in Kegworth, Leicestershire in mind, it is obvious. A Luna Home woven cream recliner chair with a matching footstool costs £800, along with a mahogany table from the high-end company Little Green Egg, which costs a whopping $995.
A number of gifts are available from the upscale lifestyle brand Nkuku, including a £30 Sadra rattan log basket, a £65 Inkollu aged brass hanging basket, a £32 Chapad natural hanging basket, and a Rama set of five black wall hooks, which retail for £48. A £350 Japandi rattan baby chest changer from Tutti Bambini, on the other hand, would indicate the couple is planning to start a family of their own.
Unfortunately, Caroline, 59, won’t be present for Adam and Holly, but despite all the outcry, she is still eager to send her best wishes to her future children and grandchildren, and even made a gift selection from the registry.
Former nursery manager Caroline explained to the Mail Online that the present was a good one. The grandmother, who lives in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, also intends to send a card, but says, “I don’t know if they will even open it.”
Guests with star-studded names
It’s expected that A-listers will be in attendance on the big day, including one of the most famous couples on the planet – David and Victoria Beckham. Spice Girl turned fashion designer Victoria was, of course, a guest at Holly’s chic Soho Farmhouse hen do, which Caroline did not attend.
Holly will be seen dancing in full force by The Ramsays, but it’s believed that only Bethany, Adam’s sister, will be present at the time of writing.
Caroline is still optimistic that Adam will change his mind six weeks before the festive nuptials. The mother, who has dedicated her life to helping her son compete in swimming, said, “I would go if he changed his mind.” I want to visit Bath, visit the abbey, and watch his wedding. He’s still my little boy, and I love him.
Louise, the aunt of Adam, has now claimed that her sister, who was frantically returning his five-year-old grandson George to his mother, Eirianedd Munro, was forced to hide the intense “hurt and betrayal” she experienced in front of her young grandchild, was aware when she learned she had been dropped from the invite list.
Other members of Adam’s family claim that Caroline was unable to afford the cost of travel and lodging, making attendance a possibility. We were sent a “save the date,” according to a relative, and it’s all these country houses. I can’t afford that because I’m on Universal Credit. In addition, Adam’s family has asserted that his working-class roots have been “changed by money, fame, and fortune” and that he is “ashamed” of them. According to a family source, “He seems to have forgotten where he came from.”
Four change of outfits
Before their disagreement, Adam had offered to cover Caroline’s expenses, including her outfit, shoes, nails, and hair. Caroline claims that Caroline would have needed four dresses for the extravagant occasion.
She had intended to pair a cream dress with navy-blue accessories, but Adam didn’t like it. He said “Only a bride wears white,” and Caroline responded, “It’s not white, it’s cream.”
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Caroline paid £452 for this particular dress, but she still kept a gold two-piece, a fascinator, and shoes. Caroline claims she was able to cover the costs by selling items on the used book Vinted.
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Louis, Kirsty MacColl’s son, remembers his mother on the 25th anniversary of her tragic speedboat death.
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Louis Lillywhite is the son of singer Kirsty MacColl. He is pictured here in his home on the 25th anniversary of her death in a speed boat accident in Mexico(Image: Humphrey Nemar.)
Its annual arrival on the airwaves and in shops is often the first sign of the festive season. But for Louis Lillywhite, the Christmas classic Fairytale of New York holds a more poignant meaning. He was just 14 when his mother, Kirsty MacColl – who dueted on the hit with Pogues singer Shane MacGowan – was killed in a horrific speedboat accident.
Kirsty was run over at high speed off the coast of Mexico on December 18, 2000, after she surfaced from a scuba dive, and died instantly the week before Christmas. She was 41 and at the peak of her career following the release of her acclaimed album, Tropical Brainstorm.
When the speedboat crossed the reef where they had just dived and struck them, Louis and his brother Jamie, both 15, were in the water with their mother. Jamie suffered minor injuries when his oxygen tank was clipped but their beloved mother died instantly after being struck by the boat’s propeller.
A harrowing coroner’s report revealed Kirsty had suffered significant head and chest injuries, nearly severing her left leg and part of her chest. Now as the 25th anniversary of Kirsty’s death approaches, with difficult questions remaining about the circumstances and who was to blame for the tragedy – questions that may now never be answered – Louis has poignantly spoken about his mother with the Daily Express.
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His father, Kirsty’s ex-husband, record producer Steve Lillywhite, has just released a new live version of Fairytale of New York. Now 39, a former restaurant owner living in London, Louis says: “It was such a traumatic thing and a lot of what happened is still a blur to me.
What I can say is that it was incredibly grim. I can’t remember the exact details of that trip to Mexico but I can remember being in the water and thinking, ‘ Where’s Jamie? ‘ I occasionally recall conversations between him and I, but I still recall them. It was and is so graphic. Before they let us out, we could only have spent a short while in the water. I don’t really remember too much. “
After years of holding in his pain, Louis recently underwent therapy, which he says has helped him to better come to terms with the terrible events of that day”. He continues, “You don’t want to talk to a stranger about the worst thing that has ever happened to you when you’re a 14-year-old boy,” he continues. Later on though, in my 20s, I was seeing patterns of behaviour in myself and decided I should try it. Since then, I’ve been receiving a lot of therapy, which has helped.
Apart from trying to come to terms with his mother’s tragic death, Louis says he wanted to conquer his fears around the sea. “I really struggled with swimming or going on boats or diving but I have found therapy very useful for that. I have even been snorkelling again and driven a boat,” he says. “Mum really loved the sea and she would have been gutted if I was missing out on a beautiful thing.”
His father, Steve, 70, picks up the story, revealing that Kirsty had actually wanted to be a marine biologist. When Kirsty’s musician boyfriend, James Knight, called him to tell him what had happened while he was living in New York with his second wife Patricia Galluzzi, who was not in the water with them, was also there.
It shocked me so much. I just thought, ‘ Oh s*** ‘ and was desperate to get to the boys but there were no flights that evening from New York, “he remembers”. I called Island Records owner Chris Blackwell, who gave me a private jet ride down.
“When I went into the hotel room, the boys and James, who was only 26 and closer to their age than mine, were sitting on the bed watching cartoons – no tears, just totally in shock. They have never really spoken to me about what they saw, which is so horrifying to imagine.
When they flew home to London and walked into their family home in Ealing, it really hit home. The Christmas tree was up and there were presents under it, Kirsty says. Walking back into the house in Ealing was hard but we played her music and tried to have a good Christmas”.
In 2023, the Ealing Civic Society erected a green plaque at the house and recording studio that Kirsty and the boys called home. Louis lived nearby and is still alive today. His brother Jamie, a music manager who once managed singer Ellie Goulding, lives in LA with his wife and son.
Louis continues, “It was lovely to return to the house once more to get the green plaque.” It was such a party house back then, music always playing, people coming and going all the time.
“You’d come downstairs for school and there would be Boy George sat at the kitchen table. But the new owners are lovely and have done the old place up really nicely. It is much smarter now than when we lived there.”
After their mother’s death, Louis and Jamie were raised by their mother’s boyfriend James at the Ealing family home and his father Steve. Louis says:” They did it together. We had a good time.
Steve adds:” James is a good bloke and he and Kirsty were so well suited. She found a new partner, which I was pleased to see. I still meet up with him when I am in London and we have spent Christmases together. “
Louis also celebrated his mother’s passing in May 2017 with Jean Newlove, who passed away at the age of 94, after losing his mother. Jean campaigned tirelessly for justice for her daughter”. I was very close to my grandmother, and she was a great inspiration, he claims.
” Losing a parent is one thing but losing a child is another thing entirely and my grandmother was on a mission. It gave her a purpose, and if I had to give the cause more weight, I felt compelled to do so.
The boat that killed Kirsty belonged to the family of wealthy Mexican businessman Guillermo González Nova, the owner of the Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain. José Cen Yam, a 26-year-old Nova employee, claimed he was slowing down the boat.
He was subsequently convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to just two years and 10 months in prison. He was caught out of jail by evading a meager fine of just £61, which led to claims that he accepted compensation from his employers for the incident.
According to MacColl’s family, witnesses who claimed the boat was driven much faster than the boat’s owner claimed to have been aware of a cover-up have long been a source of contention for MacColl’s family. Their” Justice for Kirsty “campaign suspended their legal action because they had exhausted all viable appeal avenues within the Mexican justice system.
“I believe that [Yam] was the fall guy,” says Louis. “No one was really held accountable for what happened.
And he remains angry, adding: “We spent many years as a family trying to get justice. I think we managed to raise awareness and, if it saved just one person, I am happy about that, but what we would have liked was some accountability. “It was never about money, it was about someone taking responsibility.
They called us “money grabbing,” which only fueled my desire to try harder to hold someone accountable. But we were dealing with the richest man in the most corrupt country..”.
Kirsty was a member of folk music royalty. Born in Croydon, she was the daughter of Ewan MacColl, one of the prominent figures in the folk-revival during the 1960s in the UK, founding England’s first-ever folk music club, The Ballads and Blues Club.
His songs have been covered by countless artists over the years, one of the most successful being Roberta Flack’s rendition of his gorgeous ballad, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
With a number of hits, including her rendition of Billy Bragg’s song A New England and There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis, as well as collaborations with bands like The Smiths and Simple Minds, Daughter Kirsty became a popular artist in her own right.
But it was her 1987 duet with the late Shane MacGowan on The Pogues ‘ Fairytale of New York, the Christmas number one that never was (it reached number two in the charts) that secured her place in pop music history.
After Steve Lillywhite released the Celtic punks’ album, they requested a Christmas single. Taking the song home to his wife, Kirsty provided some vocals, which The Pogues loved so much they ended up keeping.
Now Steve has come full circle after Warner Bros Music asked him to produce the new live mix version. You can hear all these Scots shouting “Kirsty, Kirsty, Kirsty,” which I kept in because they loved her up there with her name and red hair, at Barrowland in Glasgow.
” Although I have never produced a Christmas number one I am not sure I want this version to go to number one. It’s about two losers, and since it’s an underdog song, perhaps it’s better if it doesn’t in some way?
Meanwhile, Louis will be 40 next year and rapidly approaching the age his mum died. He also attended the annual gathering in Soho Square in London, where die-hard fans gather to celebrate her birthday on October 10th, earlier this year.
” It was wonderful this year being the 25th anniversary and talking to all the fans about mum and her music. I leave without stopping. It helps keep her memory alive, “he says.
Soon, Louis will depart for Bali, where Steve currently resides, for the holiday season. He adds:” Mum would be annoyed that the song she is most famous for is a Christmas song, but at least it isn’t a cringe one. Fairy Tale has been playing in Irish pubs for me, and everything just turns into a party. It gives out good vibes.
“It’s a double-edged sword when one of my mother’s songs comes on the radio, but it’s always wonderful to hear her voice again. I still play her records a lot. My favorite album is Tropical Brainstorm. She was coming out of a deep depression when she wrote it and had her old verve back, which is what I am hoping for myself.
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” My restaurant closed down and I split up with my girlfriend of 12 years so I am taking some time to work out what to do next. On the anniversary of her death, Dad and I will undoubtedly go out for dinner and raise a glass. I will play Fairy Tale of New York, and then again on Christmas Day and think of her as I always do. “
In 1992, Kirsty MacColl performs Fairytale of New York with The Pogues.
Louis, Kirsty MacColl’s son, remembers his mother on the 25th anniversary of her tragic speedboat death.
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Louis Lillywhite is the son of singer Kirsty MacColl. He is pictured here in his home on the 25th anniversary of her death in a speed boat accident in Mexico(Image: Humphrey Nemar.)
Its annual arrival on the airwaves and in shops is often the first sign of the festive season. But for Louis Lillywhite, the Christmas classic Fairytale of New York holds a more poignant meaning. He was just 14 when his mother, Kirsty MacColl – who dueted on the hit with Pogues singer Shane MacGowan – was killed in a horrific speedboat accident.
Kirsty was run over at high speed off the coast of Mexico on December 18, 2000, after she surfaced from a scuba dive, and died instantly the week before Christmas. She was 41 and at the peak of her career following the release of her acclaimed album, Tropical Brainstorm.
When the speedboat crossed the reef where they had just dived and struck them, Louis and his brother Jamie, both 15, were in the water with their mother. Jamie suffered minor injuries when his oxygen tank was clipped but their beloved mother died instantly after being struck by the boat’s propeller.
A harrowing coroner’s report revealed Kirsty had suffered significant head and chest injuries, nearly severing her left leg and part of her chest. Now as the 25th anniversary of Kirsty’s death approaches, with difficult questions remaining about the circumstances and who was to blame for the tragedy – questions that may now never be answered – Louis has poignantly spoken about his mother with the Daily Express.
READ MORE: Christmas classic Fairytale of New York by The Pogue’s almost didn’t happen
His father, Kirsty’s ex-husband, record producer Steve Lillywhite, has just released a new live version of Fairytale of New York. Now 39, a former restaurant owner living in London, Louis says: “It was such a traumatic thing and a lot of what happened is still a blur to me.
What I can say is that it was incredibly grim. I can’t remember the exact details of that trip to Mexico but I can remember being in the water and thinking, ‘ Where’s Jamie? ‘ I occasionally recall conversations between him and I, but I still recall them. It was and is so graphic. Before they let us out, we could only have spent a short while in the water. I don’t really remember too much. “
After years of holding in his pain, Louis recently underwent therapy, which he says has helped him to better come to terms with the terrible events of that day”. He continues, “You don’t want to talk to a stranger about the worst thing that has ever happened to you when you’re a 14-year-old boy,” he continues. Later on though, in my 20s, I was seeing patterns of behaviour in myself and decided I should try it. Since then, I’ve been receiving a lot of therapy, which has helped.
Apart from trying to come to terms with his mother’s tragic death, Louis says he wanted to conquer his fears around the sea. “I really struggled with swimming or going on boats or diving but I have found therapy very useful for that. I have even been snorkelling again and driven a boat,” he says. “Mum really loved the sea and she would have been gutted if I was missing out on a beautiful thing.”
His father, Steve, 70, picks up the story, revealing that Kirsty had actually wanted to be a marine biologist. When Kirsty’s musician boyfriend, James Knight, called him to tell him what had happened while he was living in New York with his second wife Patricia Galluzzi, who was not in the water with them, was also there.
It shocked me so much. I just thought, ‘ Oh s*** ‘ and was desperate to get to the boys but there were no flights that evening from New York, “he remembers”. I called Island Records owner Chris Blackwell, who gave me a private jet ride down.
“When I went into the hotel room, the boys and James, who was only 26 and closer to their age than mine, were sitting on the bed watching cartoons – no tears, just totally in shock. They have never really spoken to me about what they saw, which is so horrifying to imagine.
When they flew home to London and walked into their family home in Ealing, it really hit home. The Christmas tree was up and there were presents under it, Kirsty says. Walking back into the house in Ealing was hard but we played her music and tried to have a good Christmas”.
In 2023, the Ealing Civic Society erected a green plaque at the house and recording studio that Kirsty and the boys called home. Louis lived nearby and is still alive today. His brother Jamie, a music manager who once managed singer Ellie Goulding, lives in LA with his wife and son.
Louis continues, “It was lovely to return to the house once more to get the green plaque.” It was such a party house back then, music always playing, people coming and going all the time.
“You’d come downstairs for school and there would be Boy George sat at the kitchen table. But the new owners are lovely and have done the old place up really nicely. It is much smarter now than when we lived there.”
After their mother’s death, Louis and Jamie were raised by their mother’s boyfriend James at the Ealing family home and his father Steve. Louis says:” They did it together. We had a good time.
Steve adds:” James is a good bloke and he and Kirsty were so well suited. She found a new partner, which I was pleased to see. I still meet up with him when I am in London and we have spent Christmases together. “
Louis also celebrated his mother’s passing in May 2017 with Jean Newlove, who passed away at the age of 94, after losing his mother. Jean campaigned tirelessly for justice for her daughter”. I was very close to my grandmother, and she was a great inspiration, he claims.
” Losing a parent is one thing but losing a child is another thing entirely and my grandmother was on a mission. It gave her a purpose, and if I had to give the cause more weight, I felt compelled to do so.
The boat that killed Kirsty belonged to the family of wealthy Mexican businessman Guillermo González Nova, the owner of the Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain. José Cen Yam, a 26-year-old Nova employee, claimed he was slowing down the boat.
He was subsequently convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to just two years and 10 months in prison. He was caught out of jail by evading a meager fine of just £61, which led to claims that he accepted compensation from his employers for the incident.
According to MacColl’s family, witnesses who claimed the boat was driven much faster than the boat’s owner claimed to have been aware of a cover-up have long been a source of contention for MacColl’s family. Their” Justice for Kirsty “campaign suspended their legal action because they had exhausted all viable appeal avenues within the Mexican justice system.
“I believe that [Yam] was the fall guy,” says Louis. “No one was really held accountable for what happened.
And he remains angry, adding: “We spent many years as a family trying to get justice. I think we managed to raise awareness and, if it saved just one person, I am happy about that, but what we would have liked was some accountability. “It was never about money, it was about someone taking responsibility.
They called us “money grabbing,” which only fueled my desire to try harder to hold someone accountable. But we were dealing with the richest man in the most corrupt country..”.
Kirsty was a member of folk music royalty. Born in Croydon, she was the daughter of Ewan MacColl, one of the prominent figures in the folk-revival during the 1960s in the UK, founding England’s first-ever folk music club, The Ballads and Blues Club.
His songs have been covered by countless artists over the years, one of the most successful being Roberta Flack’s rendition of his gorgeous ballad, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
With a number of hits, including her rendition of Billy Bragg’s song A New England and There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis, as well as collaborations with bands like The Smiths and Simple Minds, Daughter Kirsty became a popular artist in her own right.
But it was her 1987 duet with the late Shane MacGowan on The Pogues ‘ Fairytale of New York, the Christmas number one that never was (it reached number two in the charts) that secured her place in pop music history.
After Steve Lillywhite released the Celtic punks’ album, they requested a Christmas single. Taking the song home to his wife, Kirsty provided some vocals, which The Pogues loved so much they ended up keeping.
Now Steve has come full circle after Warner Bros Music asked him to produce the new live mix version. You can hear all these Scots shouting “Kirsty, Kirsty, Kirsty,” which I kept in because they loved her up there with her name and red hair, at Barrowland in Glasgow.
” Although I have never produced a Christmas number one I am not sure I want this version to go to number one. It’s about two losers, and since it’s an underdog song, perhaps it’s better if it doesn’t in some way?
Meanwhile, Louis will be 40 next year and rapidly approaching the age his mum died. He also attended the annual gathering in Soho Square in London, where die-hard fans gather to celebrate her birthday on October 10th, earlier this year.
” It was wonderful this year being the 25th anniversary and talking to all the fans about mum and her music. I leave without stopping. It helps keep her memory alive, “he says.
Soon, Louis will depart for Bali, where Steve currently resides, for the holiday season. He adds:” Mum would be annoyed that the song she is most famous for is a Christmas song, but at least it isn’t a cringe one. Fairy Tale has been playing in Irish pubs for me, and everything just turns into a party. It gives out good vibes.
“It’s a double-edged sword when one of my mother’s songs comes on the radio, but it’s always wonderful to hear her voice again. I still play her records a lot. My favorite album is Tropical Brainstorm. She was coming out of a deep depression when she wrote it and had her old verve back, which is what I am hoping for myself.
Continue reading the article.
” My restaurant closed down and I split up with my girlfriend of 12 years so I am taking some time to work out what to do next. On the anniversary of her death, Dad and I will undoubtedly go out for dinner and raise a glass. I will play Fairy Tale of New York, and then again on Christmas Day and think of her as I always do. “
In 1992, Kirsty MacColl performs Fairytale of New York with The Pogues.
In an astonishing interview, Kerry Katona, a TV personality and former member of Atomic Kitten, spoke openly about her best friend, former model Katie Price.
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Kerry Katona, pictured last year, has supported her friend Katie Price(Image: Getty)
Kerry Katona’s impressive loyalty glistened in a candid interview about pal Katie Price — in which she praised the reality star’s strength and determination.
In a remarkable new interview, Kerry, 45, received praise online for the support she has given Katie, her best friend. Kate is not fragile, according to the former Atomic Kitten member. She is the most powerful person I know. She also drinks more together than anyone would give her credit. And she’ll regain control of her empire. I admire her tremendously.
Her clear verdict of Katie’s character comes despite the former model’s health battle, for which fans have expressed concern. Katie had said last week her life became “sad and lonely” following mental health challenges some time ago. She has had several cosmetic surgeries in recent years, including one just this month on her lips and this has divided opinion.
Kerry, the mother-of-five, says that Katie and she “live each other’s lives,” when she expressed support for the actress today. “Don’t touch Kate,” Kerry remarked. Avoid touching her. What’s wrong with them, exactly? Kate and I both went where we went. I’ve divorced, filed for bankruptcy, and used the drugs. Our lives are very mirror-free. Why wouldn’t I back her? Nobody has backed me.
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Following the interview, Kerry’s supporters praised her devotion. One online user said, “Tough cookie, Kerry, you look fantastic.” Another person praised “Kerry’s loyalty.” You also have the strength of Katie.
Kerry, who was born in Warrington, Cheshire, recently appeared in a documentary about girl bands and how early success at age 18, with Atomic Kitten, can be unhealthy. She claimed that watching the program after it ended was difficult because it brought back unpleasant memories.
Two days prior to the release of Whole Again, the band’s first UK number one single, Kerry left Atomic Kitten in January 2001. The TV star has since experienced additional difficulties, including several bad jobs and two bankruptcies.
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And it is through these hard times, she and Katie haved remained close and crutches of support. They may both have five children but Kerry believes their parenting styles are different. The former glamour model, who endorsed Donald Trump during his electoral campaign last year, told the Daily Mail today: “Well, she’s really laidback about everything — including parenting. I’m more strict. And I’m more fiery. I’m more likely to headbutt someone.”
Both women have previously discussed supporting causes that matter to them, and Meghan Markle has a close friendship with cosmetics businessman Victoria Jackson.
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Meghan Markle has a close friendship with Victoria Jackson, the Queen of Cosmetics(Image: Getty Images for Fortune Media)
A generous make-up tycoon has reportedly been lending Meghan Markle and Prince Harry her luxury mansions — that make their home “look like a prison”.
Meghan Markle has had a close friendship with Victoria Jackson, an entrepreneur in the cosmetics sector, for years and has gushed about the 70-year-old woman in previous media interviews. In one, she called Victoria her “safe harbour,” a phrase with huge significance now following Meghan’s links with the woman.
The Duchess of Sussex felt “at home” in the entrepreneur’s properties after her 41st birthday at Victoria’s ranch near Santa Barbara, California. According to a source, “Victoria’s homes make their place in Montecito look like a prison or a beach shack.” They are attracted to the security, the homes are incredible, and they don’t have to pay anything, which is appealing.
Meghan and Victoria’s connection has come to light after the Duchess of Sussex has spent 2025 desperately trying to rebrand, following the end of her and Harry’s Netflix deal. However, she is yet to strike gold and questions remain about how the couple are to continue their affluent lifestyle — without a return to Royal Family.
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According to legend, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex frequently make use of Buster Keaton’s 14-bedroom Beverly mansion as a base. It is a far cry from Meghan and Harry’s Montecito home, which has a 50-foot living room, a 60-foot pool, a staff quarters, and an olive-lined driveway.
Instead of owning her own home in the same town, Victoria also owns a mansion in Montecito, reportedly where Meghan had a birthday party. It is believed that Meghan, who met Victoria through mutual friends, has supported the make-up tycoon’s business endeavors.
The Daily Mail today reports on the friendship, and how this has developed over the years. Alison Boshoff, editor at large at the publication, wrote: “In an interview in 2021, Meghan referred to Jackson as her ‘safe harbour’ – and now we know what she meant.”
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Yet, the editor makes no further comment about the term. Meghan used the phrase in 2021 during a time when she and Harry had faced scrutiny for various interviews to the media, notably including the lengthy chats with Oprah Winfrey. The couple sat down with Oprah for a tell-all interview about their split from the Royal Family.
