The former model Katie Price has been arrested at Heathrow airport after failing to appear at court.

Price, 46, from Surrey, has been remanded in custody at a west London police station after returning from Turkey and is due to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday.

 

A Metropolitan police spokesperson said: “A 46-year-old woman from Surrey was arrested at Heathrow Airport at 7.45pm on Thursday, 8 August, for failing to appear at court. She has been remanded in custody at a west London police station to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice tomorrow, Friday, 9 August.”

It follows an arrest warrant issued by insolvency and companies court judge Catherine Burton after the former I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! contestant failed to attend a hearing relating to her bankruptcies.

Issuing the arrest warrant, Judge Burton said that Price had failed to attend the hearing and had provided no explanation for her absence.

She said: “It is in my judgment necessary that the court issue a warrant for Ms Price’s arrest. She has no real excuse in failing to attend today’s hearing. The reason for her absence today is irrelevant.”

Arrest warrants are not issued lightly, the judge said, but added that Price had offered only “piecemeal cooperation” and failed to provide the “most basic information” in relation to her bankruptcies.

Price was declared bankrupt in November 2019 and again in March this year.

At a hearing in February, she was ordered to pay 40% of her monthly income from the adult entertainment website OnlyFans to the trustee for the next three years, in relation to her first bankruptcy.

She was then declared bankrupt for a second time in March due to an unpaid tax bill of more than £750,000.