Katie Price is one of Britain’s most talked about celebrities of the 21st century and this 90’ documentary explores the highs and lows of the icon’s life and career.
Told through archive footage and interviews with journalists, cultural commentators, and personal friends, the programme looks back at the working-class girl from Brighton’s meteoric rise to fame and then dramatic fall from grace. Katie Price, AKA Jordan, began her career as an eighteen-year-old Page three glamour model in the 1990’s.
Several breast enhancement ops later, she went on to become a trailblazer for the decade’s ladette culture and a Lads Mag’s poster girl.
But in the early noughties, Katie reached a whole new level of stardom when she appeared fresh-faced and make-up free on ITV’s ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ It was in the jungle that she met pop star Peter Andre and their subsequent fairy-tale wedding increased her popularity further. Lucrative magazine deals, perfume and fashion brands and a string of well-paid TV shows followed, allowing her to amass a reported £45 million fortune, with her every move documented in the tabloid press.
However in recent years, Katie Price has fallen out of favour and the documentary explores the series of questionable life choices – including short-lived relationships and marriages, drink-driving and alleged drug-fueled partying – that left the celebrity needing time in rehab, bankrupt and with a string of driving offences.
Those interviewed – like the nation – are divided on their opinion of the 21st-century celebrity that has been in the media spotlight for over two decades. Is Katie Price a fame-hungry surgically enhanced ‘sex kitten’ or a deserving feminist icon of our times? Whatever the nation’s opinion, this extraordinary woman is not going to go down without a fight.
Shameless, the rise and fall of Katie Price, tonight, Channel 5
