TV personality Katie Price has revealed the staggering amount she pays in car insurance after being banned from driving multiple times.
The bankrupt star, 46, is no stranger to committing road offences and has been ordered off the road many times since rising to fame in the 1990s. Katie is now paying the price for not behaving responsibly behind the wheel as insurers ask her for sky-high premiums before they consider insuring her.
The mum-of-five’s most notable driving crime occurred in September 2021 when she crashed her BMW in West Sussex. Katie was banned for driving for two years after the crash and also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance.
During that court appearance, the prosecutor noted that Katie had five previous driving bans. In March last year, the former glamour model was fined £880 for driving without a licence or insurance after a court heard she was recognised by a police officer at a petrol station.
Katie has now revealed her dodgy driving history means insurance companies are hesitant to take a chance on her but she still qualifies for car rental. “No insurance company will ensure me, they want £150,000 down, and £8,000 a month,” Katie admits on Rob Moore’s Disruptors podcast.
Speaking previously about her car insurance woes, Katie expressed her struggles in obtaining insurance and accused companies of “discrimination” due to her unconventional occupation. She admitted to being quoted up to £73,000 before making adjustments to her application, which included changing her occupation.
“No insurance company will insure me on a new car or anything flash, nothing,” Katie said during a TikTok live session in July 2023. “So I am just lucky to be on the road in the car I am in, it’s not the car I want to be driving but no one will insure me. I have to wait a year to be able to get a new [car] again.”
She continued: “The quotes I had for my insurance on a normal car that is £15k was £73k, one was £53k and one was £33k, and they were my quotes because no one else would insure me because of who I am. It’s discrimination because if someone else had the same as me and they had a normal job, they wouldn’t charge that much, it’s way more than the car.”
Discussing how she managed to reduce the dizzying fees, Katie disclosed: “Then I changed it to author and the insurance is £14k for a year but it’s still not the car I want. I don’t care. I am on the road so it is what it is. I shouldn’t have done what I did, so you have to pay the price. So in a years’ time I will get the car I want and until then I am grateful.”
The two-time I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! star’s most recent appearance in court on driving offences came about in March 2024 when Katie was fine for driving without a valid licence or insurance. Magistrates sitting in Northampton found Katie guilty of the offences after being shown CCTV footage of the model, wearing black slippers, stepping out of the driver’s side of her bronze-coloured Range Rover.
Katie had previously denied both motoring charges. But three magistrates found Katie guilty in her absence after a brief trial in March, imposing an £880 fine and ordering her to pay £620 in costs and a £352 victim surcharge. Finding Katie guilty and imposing the fine, chair of the bench Neil Sheppard said: “From the evidence we have been shown, the case is proven against Miss Price.”
Magistrates were told Katie has numerous previous convictions for motoring offences, including driving while disqualified in 2019 and 2021. The March 2024 court appearance came just weeks after a a High Court judge ruled that Katie will lose nearly half of her monthly income from adult entertainment website OnlyFans for the next three years – after she was declared bankrupt in November 2019.
Katie was handed eight penalty points on her licence, which was said in court to be “expired” after a “medical stop” was placed on it in April last year. The court was told Katie was caught on CCTV at an M&S petrol station forecourt on the morning of August 2 2023, where police officers standing near the entrance saw her vehicle pull up at one of the pumps.
Opening the facts of the case against Katie, prosecutor Cheryl Burridge said: “Officers were on a mobile patrol and they stopped at the service station. “They saw a vehicle pulling into the service station by the fuel pump. She (Price) has exited the vehicle with an unknown male and a child.”
As Katie and the male walked from the vehicle into the services past the officers, the court heard, she was recognised and they “believed her to be disqualified from driving”. Although Katie was not subject to a driving ban, the court heard she did not have a valid licence due to the “stop” put on it, after an application for renewal was withdrawn.
It also emerged that Katie left the services in the Range Rover, with the unknown male at the wheel, and was not stopped because police had not witnessed her driving the vehicle. After Katie had left the services, the court heard, officers reviewed footage showing her getting out of the driver’s seat and instigated criminal proceedings.
In a statement read to the court by the prosecutor, Pc Harrison Beverley said: “During this statement I will refer to a female who is known as Katie Price. I was outside the front of the shops, speaking with response police. I did not see her (Price) driving. I recognised her as a media personality.”
The officer added that he had reviewed CCTV footage at the petrol station and had seen a female “believed to be Price” step out of the driver’s side of the Range Rover. A marker was then placed on the vehicle after computer checks disclosed that Katie had an expired licence and was not covered with valid insurance.
On the day of the offences, the court heard, Katie was wearing a distinctive black and white top and black slippers. Magistrates were told the previous suspended sentence imposed on Katie had no effect in the current proceedings, and that she was given three penalty points in November 2023 for speeding.
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