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Katie Price’s fans have been left fuming and branded the former model ‘unprofessional’ as they demanded a refund, having purchased tickets for her current UK tour

Fans at Katie Price’s most recent tour date are said to be “furious” and demanding their money back after the star missed a huge chunk of her own show.

Katie and her close friend Kerry Katona have embarked on a 33-date tell-all tour called An Evening with Katie Price and Kerry Katona. The tour has taken the pair to venues all around the country, including The Playhouse in Whitley Bay. But, in a since-deleted Instagram post, the venue informed fans that the show would be starting 30 minutes late due to technical difficulties.

When the show did start, only Kerry was present for the first half. Katie was reportedly supposed to join by video call, but that was a “disaster,” according to a source.

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The source explained: “Kerry went on solo for the first half and Katie tried to join by video but it was a disaster. They had a longer interval and Katie finally got there at 9:30. She said it was the traffic and had taken her over nine hours to get there, but fans are furious.”

Fans are reported to have demanded their money back. Speaking to The Sun, one disgruntled fan said: “We want half our money back because it was only half a show – it’s so unprofessional.”

Another called the fact that Katie was only on stage for roughly half an hour a “joke” and that the audience still hadn’t had a proper apology.

“People don’t want to be hanging around on a Monday night just for that. They didn’t even say sorry properly.” Recently, Katie found herself in hot water with fans after she cancelled a charity gig to attend Chloe Ferry’s 30th birthday party.

She was booked to appear at Milton Keynes Pride but pulled out at the last minute. The organisers slammed her “professionalism”, especially when the excuse she gave – that she was too busy filming and recording a new song in a studio – turned out not to be the complete truth.

“I was disappointed when she cancelled, but when it turned out to be Chloe Ferry’s birthday, I was infuriated. It’s not right,” said a former fan. “When she said she couldn’t do a charity gig because of filming, that was a load of b*****ks.”

Katie had told fans that she was “sorry” to cancel her performance as other commitments meant she was unable to attend. She told fans that she was “filming” and “recording” her latest single, following her success with I Got U. “I hope you have a fantastic time and I’m so sorry. It’s just my filming schedule at the moment,” she said.

Prior to this, Katie was due to headline Barnsley Pride in July, but again, she cancelled her performance just hours before she was due to attend. In the same month, she also cancelled a performance at Glasgow Pride due to “another urgent obligation.”

The Mirror has contacted Katie’s reps for a comment.

Former glamour model Katie Price left her best mate Kerry Katona hanging as she was over two hours late to their theatre appearance, leaving the singer to head out solo

Katie Price left her best pal Kerry Katona in the lurch as she turned up more than two hours late to their theatre show. The pair have been travelling up and down the country as part of their chat show tour, An Evening with Katie Price & Kerry Katona.

They have promised fans across the nation to “tell-all” about their lives. However, there has been a few hiccups along the way with Katie getting “booted” out of a hotel and the former glamour model, 47, had to step in and apologise over rowdy fans in New Brighton.

On Monday night, things didn’t go as planned as the pair headed to Whitley Bay’s Playhouse. The start time was forced to be pushed back and with so much time passing by, Kerry decided to step on stage without Katie.

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Shortly after the venue confirmed stage times for the show, a now-deleted post said it would start at 8 rather than 7.30pm. The post on Katie and Kerry’s tour page cited “technical difficulties”.

They explained the 30 minute delay would help “bring the best show possible,” yet as 8pm came, Katie was nowhere to be seen. Kerry headed on stage solo and managed to improvise with Katie appearing on a video call.

Katie was in a car on the way to the venue as she appeared on a big screen. The mum-of-five told the awaiting crowd they could expect her at 9:18pm that evening, but she ended up being 20 minutes later.

When she finally arrived, Katie belted out her own song, I Got U, and explained she was late due to needing to be at home for Harvey. An audience member told The Chronicle that the show suffered some technical difficulties, with the sound was “very quiet” and “unclear”.

The show wrapped up at around 10:20pm, before fans who bought Meet and Greet tickets got to meet Katie and Kerry. Just last week, Katie opened up about a run in at a hotel while on tour.

Taking to Snapchat, the former glamour model updated viewers on her morning and wrote: “Hotel booted us out”. In a video, she explained what happened in more detail. “Don’t you just hate it when people knock on the door of your hotel, ‘come on you’ve got to get out now’?” she asked.

“It really winds me up. I’m like, ‘yes if you want to come in you can see we are packing up,’. Anyway, we are at the theatre six hours early which is good do I’m going to find a Subway.

“I’m going to put the kittens in, settle them in, and then go get a Subway.” Katie has been travelling with her beloved kittens, who have had a tough start in life meaning she is now bottle feeding them.

Another mishap on the tour came when Katie had to apologise to fans from the stage after one show was disrupted by a group of drunken women.

The pair’s show in New Brighton descended into chaos after a group of drunken women were ordered to leave by security and police had to be called. Security staff were reported to be talking to a member of the audience during the show and this person and her group were then removed from the venue, to the sound of cheers from the rest of the crowd.

Katie apologised to the audience after watching all the drama on a TV backstage. She quipped: “Sorry about the drama. It had nothing to do with us.”

The Mirror has contacted Katie’s representative for comment.

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Former TOWIE star Pete Wicks has opened up about a question he’s asked ‘all the time,’ and it’s not one you’d necessarily expect people to ask him after his successes

Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Pete Wicks has openly revealed a question he despises being asked, claiming it leaves him feeling “pressured.” The television personality recently featured on ITV’s Loose Women, discussing the inquiry he faces “all the time,” and it’s not necessarily what you’d anticipate people would ask him.

Pete, 36, initially rose to prominence on The Only Way is Essex programme in 2015, and a decade on he commands 2 million followers on Instagram, whilst hosting a podcast alongside mate Sam Thompson from Made in Chelsea. However, despite his individual achievements, there’s a “never ending question” people constantly pose to him, and he’s fed up with it.

During his Loose Women appearance, he confessed: “I get asked all the time, ‘When are you having kids? When are you going to settle down?’ because I’m heading towards 40.

“And I do find it a bit of an annoying question. You know, no one asks people who have settled down why they have settled down. Do you know what I mean?

“Like, no one says to someone with kids, ‘Why have you got kids?’ So why would you ask someone who doesn’t have kids why they don’t?”

He subsequently explained that he believes there’s “more pressure on men,” though acknowledged “women get it worse”.

Olivia Attwood, 34, also featured on the programme, and she confirmed it’s a question which remains “constant” in her existence too.

She explained, particularly now that she’s “married,” people assume that within the “next two years,” she’ll desire children, and “if you don’t they wanna know why”.

Olivia confessed that she doesn’t feel “drawn to” having children at the moment, stating: “people minimise how huge it is to bring a human into this world and raise them”.

She added: “It’s not just a baby. It’s a full-on adult, like at some point, you’re responsible for them for the rest of your life, and I’m just not in that place yet”.

In response to her video, viewers shared their own experiences, noting that the pressure doesn’t stop after having one child.

One woman commented: “Then when you have one, it’s always ‘when are you having a second’?”

Another responded: “My baby isn’t even 5 months, and people keep asking when he’s having a little brother or sister. Like, probably never? One and done, thank you”.

A different user shared: “THIS! After a nine-year fertility journey, we are 6 months pregnant, and people are already asking about us having a second child. Like, can we just have this one first?! Also, it completely diminishes the effort it’s taken to get to this point!”

However, another woman disagreed, writing: “Because we’re here to procreate, that’s all, so it’s weird to people if you don’t have kids, it’s not that deep”.

Robert Redford’s death at the age of 89 has sent shockwaves around the world, with the star said to have died ‘surrounded by his loved ones’

Actor and director Robert Redford’s death has shocked the world. The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star died aged 89 ‘surrounded by his loved ones’ and leaves behind a huge legacy.

Redford was at his home in Utah at the time and, so far, no cause of death has been shared. As well as acting in the classic film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford starred in the likes of The Sting, All the President’s Men, and Out of Africa.

He was also a director, producer and environmentalist. His acting career ended in 2018, when he announced his retirement.

Throughout the years, Redford was romantically linked to a number of women – and also had a highly publicised clash with Barbra Streisand.

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Redford had married twice in his career. Firstly, in 1958, the actor tied the knot with Lola Van Wagenen. The American film and TV producer was best known for The American Experience. The duo exchanged vows at her grandmother’s home.

They went on to have four children together, two boys and two girls. Sadly, their first son, Scott Anthony, died in 1959 at the age of just two and a half months. He suffered sudden infant death syndrome.

As well as his four kids, Redford also had seven grandchildren.

After divorcing in 1985, Redford was linked over the years to Sonia Braga, Lena Olin and Kathy O’Rear. In 2009, he married again, saying ‘I Do’ to longtime partner Sibylle Szaggars.

Their wedding took place in Hamburg. Despite Redford’s huge movie career, Szaggars admitted she never watched any of his films. In 2014, she made the confession, saying she watched 15 minutes of each of his films before they had dinner together.

It’s this that reportedly drew Redford to his second wife. He previously told People: “It was a wonderful beginning of a relationship, because it began as two human beings meeting each other and finding a connection as two human beings, rather than being coloured by success.”

The couple didn’t have any children together.

Elsewhere, while Streisand and Redford never dated, their fallout came as Redford is said to have been reluctant to work with her.

The duo starred alongside each other in 1973’s romantic drama The Way We Were. Director Sydney Pollack claimed Redford held reservations over Streisand’s apparent “controlling” reputation.

“Barbra had never worked with a really strong leading man,” Pollack previously said. “She has a tendency to take over a picture, just by the size of her talent and larger-than-life presence. It’s hard for a costar to stay in the same ring with her.”

Despite the initial tension, the movie went to be a huge success and the pair stayed friend for decades after.