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‘Shameless’ Katie Price accused of ‘setting up pictures with footballers and getting paid for it’ in new documentary
KATIE Price has been accused of "setting up pictures with footballers in a new documentary.
The former glamour model is slammed as "shamless" in the new programme, which alleges she was "getting paid" to set up the snaps with sporting stars.
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Katie, 44, is set to be the subject of a new documentary about her life, which will air on Channel 5 later this year.
Shameless: The Rise and Fall of Katie Price is said to document the former glamour model's career and family life.
Now, it's been revealed that the documentary is set to dive into how she posed for snaps with footballers to make money.
A teaser clip sees those interviewed for the programme reveal how Katie made money from being photographed in public with other household names.
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"She was clever, she understood how it all worked, she was smart," former showbiz editor at The Mirror, John Blake, tells the documentary cameras.
"She would be photographed coming out of a club drunk with a famous footballer, and she'd talk to a photographer and they would often pay her.
Vanessa Feltz can be heard chiming in: "She knew exactly what she was doing, she knew the game had to be played and she knew exactly how to play it."
Channel 5 released in a statement that the 90-minute one-off programme will be told through the eyes of "archive interviews" and "cultural commentators", as well as personal friends.
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The synopsis reads: "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 3 glamour model in the 1990s.
"Several breast enhancement ops later, she went on to become a trail blazer for the decade’s lad-ette 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 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 tabloid press.
"But 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?"
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"Whatever the nation’s opinion, this extraordinary woman is not going to go down without a fight," the synopsis concludes.
It comes after Katie sparked concern from fans as she reveals she's filming her OnlyFans reality show with her two youngest children.
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