Katie Price has been banned from driving for the seventh time after failing to respond to police letters about an 80mph speeding ticket.
The former glamour model, 47, has received bans totalling more than six years since she was first disqualified in 2010 and had only returned to the road in October 2024.
Katie has previously revealed that she now struggles to obtain car insurance due to her litany of past driving convictions, with companies quoting her hundreds of thousands of pounds for cover.
Her latest run-in with the law comes after a Ford Capri registered in her name was caught at 80mph on the A64 near to the North Yorkshire village of Stutton last year.
North Yorkshire Police wrote to the reality star at her home in West Sussex, asking her to confirm if she was driving the speeding car.
She has now been prosecuted and convicted of failing to respond to police, landing her with a six-month driving ban and a legal bill topping £1,000.
In December 2010 Katie was first banned for six months after admitting a speeding charge, before being disqualified for a year in 2012 after failing to respond to speeding tickets. She received another six-month ban in February 2018 after being caught speeding again.
In January 2019, she was in court once more to admit driving while disqualified, leading to a three-month ban.
But just a month after that she was convicted by a judge of being drunk in charge of a vehicle when it was seen by police to veer off the road and hit a grass verge.
Katie claimed at the time that a mystery man had been at the wheel and left the scene before officers arrived, but a judge concluded her evidence was ‘not plausible’.
Later in 2019, the mum-of-five was convicted of failing to disclose the name of the driver following a car crash, which led to her receiving an 18-month road ban.
In 2021, a judge then condemned Katie for ‘one of the worst driving records I have ever seen’, as she was given a 16-week suspended prison sentence for drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance.
The media personality had flipped her car and told police at the scene: ‘I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all.’
Law enforcement officers performed a roadside breath test, which read positive, and later confirmed Katie was also under the influence of the class A drug, cocaine.
The incident landed her with a further two-year driving ban – her most recent until now – as well as 100 hours of community service and up to 30 rehabilitation sessions.
‘You appear to think you are above the law,’ District Judge Amanda Kelly told her at the time.
Then in 2024, Katie was fined £880 for driving without a licence and insurance in Northamptonshire, but she was spared a ban for those offences.
Her latest conviction and driving disqualification was dealt with last week in the Single Justice Procedure, a secretive court process where magistrates deal with criminal cases behind closed doors.
Court papers seen by the Press Association show she was charged with speeding and failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle.
The Ford Capri was caught on a speed camera on a 70mph stretch of the A64 at 3.03pm on October 15 last year.
She was sent a police letter about the incident on October 20, and a reminder on November 10, warning her of looming criminal proceedings.
However, the police force said no response was received to either letter.
Magistrate Claire Sagar, sitting at Harrogate Magistrates’ Court last Tuesday, found Price guilty of the failure to respond to police charge, ordering her to pay a £660 fine, £120 in costs, and a £264 victim surcharge.
Due to the secretive nature of the court process, it is not known if Katie was given the chance to argue against another driving ban. It is also unclear if the court knew of her previous driving record, and the records do not reveal if she already had penalty points on her licence.
The speeding charge was withdrawn by the police.
Last January, she blamed her reputation and her driving history for her struggle with car insurance: ‘I can’t get insured on a nice car because of my driving bans and that. And because of who I am.’
Katie explained on Rob Moore’s Disruptors podcast: ‘No insurance company will insure me, because of who I am. I put down ‘author’ but they see the name Katie Price and they’re like “Oh!,” then they make you phone them back.’
She explained that she felt it was ‘discrimination’ against her because of her image as she revealed the huge sum she was quoted by various car insurance companies.
Katie, who has a similarly spotty record with reckless pet ownership, claimed that she was asked for ‘£150,000 down, and £8,000 a month’, leaving her to rely on rental cars to get around.
The best-selling author and reality star, who is currently married to her fourth husband, self-proclaimed multi-millionaire Lee Andrews, has also found herself in the civil courts as well as the criminal courts in recent years while battling through bankruptcy proceedings.
At a hearing last October, a judge told her to reduce her ‘extravagant pattern of expenditure’ as it was revealed almost half her monthly income would be going to pay off creditors.
Bankruptcies from 2019 and 2024 have been discharged, but she remains the subject of a court order aimed at settling her debts until February 2027.
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