{"id":374714,"date":"2025-12-29T07:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374714\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:54:17","slug":"star-that-said-i-was-a-bitchy-bully-one-who-called-me-a-c-the-pointless-legal-threat-and-my-run-ins-with-brooklyn-mark-wright-and-more-katie-hinds-behind-the-scenes-celeb-bust-ups-and-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374714\/","title":{"rendered":"Star that said I was a &#8216;bitchy bully&#8217;. One who called me a c***. The pointless legal threat. And my run-ins with Brooklyn, Mark Wright and more. KATIE HIND&#8217;s behind-the-scenes celeb bust-ups&#8230; and, yes, she&#8217;s naming names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">From Team Beckham to Clan Ramsay, from celebrity fallout to family feud, it&#8217;s certainly been a year for seeing the rich and famous dragged down just like the rest of us. And, boy, do they like to lash out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I&#8217;ve had one or two run-ins of my own in 2025, mostly when I&#8217;ve dared to reveal what&#8217;s really going on with today&#8217;s <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/nepo-babies\/index.html\" id=\"mol-91b9d4e0-e34c-11f0-b48a-4707c17c5866\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nepo babies<\/a> and thin-skinned reality &#8216;stars&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Some viciously attacked me on social media. Others quietly blocked me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">So, who sent angry messages via mutual friends? Who&#8217;s still stewing, and who&#8217;s made up? And who was so very, very cross they wasted their money on pointless legal letters? Read on for the unvarnished (and embarrassingly peevish) truth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Beckham\u00a0and Nicola Peltz   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-dbda517bdb385438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/105048475-15416309-image-m-25_1766859109575.jpg\" height=\"1303\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Like David and Victoria Beckham, Katie Hind has also been blocked by Brooklyn and Nicola\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Like David and Victoria Beckham, Katie Hind has also been blocked by Brooklyn and Nicola<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I know how David and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/victoria_beckham\/index.html\" id=\"mol-f750c250-e34c-11f0-b48a-4707c17c5866\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victoria Beckham<\/a> must feel right now as I, too, have been blocked by the young whingers-in-exile, Brooklyn and Nicola. Why? Because they didn&#8217;t like my coverage of their extraordinary family feud. Diddums!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In May, when I criticised their decision to snub David&#8217;s 50th birthday celebrations, Brooklyn and Nicola, pictured, lost no time in making their feelings clear &#8211; and childishly banned me from looking at their social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They also unleashed their PR team to complain that I am a &#8216;biased&#8217; journalist because my Instagram profile picture shows me smiling next to former England captain Sir David.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It makes no sense, of course. After all, I&#8217;ve been scathing of Becks in the past, not least when, in 2021, I revealed his lucrative deal to be the face of next year&#8217;s Qatar World Cup despite the country&#8217;s anti-women and anti-gay stance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Beckham-Peltzes showed what very thin skin they have later in the year, too, when their friends briefed the US media that I was trying to keep stories attacking Brooklyn&#8217;s mum and dad out of these pages! As if&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Join the debate<\/p>\n<p class=\"questionText--qEDdN\">Do YOU think social media has made celebrities thinner skinned?<\/p>\n<p>Mark Wright   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-90ca6a69910b6e1f\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048587-15416309-Katie_Hind_has_experienced_an_up_and_down_year_with_TV_personali-a-233_1766885874257.jpg\" height=\"1027\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Katie Hind has experienced an up-and-down year with TV personality Mark Wright\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Katie Hind has experienced an up-and-down year with TV personality Mark Wright<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He won millions of fans when he took part in Strictly back in 2014. But I first met Mark many years before that when he was the best friend of Jade Goody&#8217;s husband, Jack Tweed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The TV personality was always happy to help me with a story. This year, however, I covered his family rifts and fallouts with his friends. It left Mark and his sister, Jess, fuming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There is a happy ending to this one, however. During the summer I was having lunch with Mark&#8217;s agent Jonathan Shalit at the London members&#8217; club Soho House when the handsome Essex star appeared from nowhere. He wanted to know why I had been writing what he considered to be &#8216;mean&#8217; articles about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Kate, what are you playing at,&#8217; he asked. &#8216;I thought we were friends, we go back years.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But after telling me I&#8217;d upset him, he thanked me for being nice to his lovely wife, Michelle Keegan, and was thrilled when I told him our readers love to read about him.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy McGuinness   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-53689dcd3b3072a3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/105048473-15416309-image-m-27_1766859238795.jpg\" height=\"1661\" width=\"634\" alt=\"She expects further colourful run-ins with Paddy McGuinness, but won't stop telling the truth\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">She expects further colourful run-ins with Paddy McGuinness, but won&#8217;t stop telling the truth<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Another star who thinks he can tell newspapers what to publish is former Top Gear presenter Paddy. Some of my rivals prefer to do fluffy interviews with him, but I think our readers deserve the truth &#8211; such as when I wrote I&#8217;d heard he made ex-wife Christine sign a non-disclosure agreement as part of their divorce. He took to social media to say I&#8217;d lied, which culminated in me receiving death threats from his followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I also told how Christine fears Paddy has purposely inflated the price of their marital home in Cheshire to make it harder to sell (months later, it still hasn&#8217;t), ensuring a delay in her receiving a share of the assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And I reported he didn&#8217;t want Christine to take part in a Channel 4 show, Celebs Go Dating, as he couldn&#8217;t cope with her being in the limelight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I know Paddy calls me vile names behind the scenes, but that will never stop me telling the truth. Here&#8217;s to more colourful run-ins this coming year.<\/p>\n<p>Tina O&#8217;Brien   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-c53830123299df4f\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048461-15416309-Corrie_star_Tina_O_Brien_got_into_an_identity_mix_up_on_social_m-a-234_1766885874280.jpg\" height=\"1190\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Corrie star Tina O'Brien got into an identity mix-up on social media over an article about her\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Corrie star Tina O&#8217;Brien got into an identity mix-up on social media over an article about her\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I have always liked Tina, who plays Sarah Platt in Coronation Street. She is one of the show&#8217;s long-serving stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But a feud began two years ago when I wrote that her daughter Scarlett (from her relationship with co-star Ryan Thomas) had a landed a role in the BBC drama Waterloo Road &#8211; perhaps with a helping hand from her famous parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And it all blew up again this year when she slated me on social media in a bizarre case of mistaken identity. She thought I&#8217;d written a story about her looking upset while walking her dog. In fact, she was sad because her father had died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As it happens, I didn&#8217;t write that story. But that didn&#8217;t stop her lambasting me, saying: &#8216;Shout-out to Katie Hind for bravely reporting the news while leaving out the entire reason I looked &#8216;downcast&#8217;. Life has a funny way of showing you who has a heart. Some things reveal more about the writer than the subject.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">How true!<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Skinner (and his mistress)   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-a0fa9db7b32f478c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048469-15416309-Thomas_Skinner_s_mistress_Amy_Lucy_O_Rourke_sent_Katie_a_barrage-a-235_1766885874293.jpg\" height=\"940\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Thomas Skinner's mistress, Amy-Lucy O'Rourke, sent Katie a barrage of abusive messages\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Thomas Skinner&#8217;s mistress, Amy-Lucy O&#8217;Rourke, sent Katie a barrage of abusive messages\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When it emerged that married Apprentice star Thomas had been unfaithful, another paper allowed him to claim the affair was no more than a one-off fling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But the mistress in question, Amy-Lucy O&#8217;Rourke, then called to give me the full, unvarnished truth: the romance had been going on for months. Thomas, who was about to make his Strictly debut, was raging. My story had caught him out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But what I didn&#8217;t expect was for Amy-Lucy to join in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;You&#8217;re a b****, you&#8217;re a c***,&#8217; she screamed in a series of WhatsApp voicenotes and abusive texts. Then she attacked me on social media, saying that I had written lies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It seems she didn&#8217;t like being called a &#8216;beautician&#8217;. Just to be clear, she is an &#8216;aesthetician&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Cowell   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6e51f9b00e292572\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048643-15416309-Simon_Cowell_s_publicist_sent_Katie_a_series_of_angry_emails_aft-a-236_1766885874308.jpg\" height=\"833\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Simon Cowell's publicist sent Katie a series of angry emails after she wrote a story about him\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Simon Cowell&#8217;s publicist sent Katie a series of angry emails after she wrote a story about him<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I&#8217;m quite sure that Simon is a very nice man, but it&#8217;s important to be clear that I&#8217;ve never been one of his special journalist friends. And that means I&#8217;m not obliged to churn out favourable PR spin about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">So when it came to his comeback Netflix series, Simon Cowell: The Next Act, I felt free to report that the show was struggling to find singers to audition for the new boy band he wanted to create.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I also said it would focus more on him than on the music. This prompted his publicist to send a series of angry emails. And when the show launched, I was &#8216;punished&#8217; by being banned from the premiere. Somehow, I survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Now I&#8217;ve finally been able to watch this feeble insult to the viewers, I&#8217;m happy to confirm my reporting was correct. Simon moans about how late his auditionees turned up. And his home life is heavily featured on the show!<\/p>\n<p>Eamonn Holmes   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-792c59ca5138ded0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048649-15416309-Readers_love_to_hear_about_Eamonn_Holmes_love_life_with_marriage-a-237_1766885874323.jpg\" height=\"870\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Readers love to hear about Eamonn Holmes' love life with marriage counsellor Katie Alexander\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Readers love to hear about Eamonn Holmes&#8217; love life with marriage counsellor Katie Alexander<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;That Katie Hind is obsessed with me,&#8217; bellowed Eamonn at the GB News headquarters, where he hosts its breakfast show. That&#8217;s according to one of his colleagues, and I don&#8217;t doubt it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I&#8217;m certainly not obsessed with Eamonn but, then again, he&#8217;s given me plenty to write about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Readers love to hear the latest on his colourful love life with marriage counsellor Katie Alexander, 21 years his junior. That romance began following his split from presenter Ruth Langsford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Eamonn won&#8217;t speak to you ever again,&#8217; one of his friends warned me. I&#8217;ll cope, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Abbington   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9a044bd742b7e3b2\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048467-15416309-Actress_and_former_Strictly_contestant_Amanda_Abbington_absolute-a-238_1766885874334.jpg\" height=\"1058\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Actress and former Strictly contestant Amanda Abbington absolutely despises Katie Hind\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Actress and former Strictly contestant Amanda Abbington absolutely despises Katie Hind<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Actress Amanda despises me. We know this because at the start of the year, she described a group of female journalists including me as &#8216;low, dreadful, scheming, lying, bitchy bullies&#8217; and promised that we were on her &#8216;list&#8217;. Nice. My crime? Writing the truth about those flimsy allegations against her Strictly dance partner, Giovanni Pernice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He was cleared of the most serious claims of misbehaviour she&#8217;d thrown at him following a BBC investigation. It also emerged that Amanda had used foul language before Gio did. What&#8217;s wrong with reporting it?<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Matthews   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8652df60a4644e75\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048685-15416309-Spencer_Matthews_believes_Katie_Hind_has_got_a_bee_in_her_bonnet-a-239_1766885874358.jpg\" height=\"1001\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Spencer Matthews believes Katie Hind has got a bee in her bonnet about the 'entrepreneur'\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Spencer Matthews believes Katie Hind has got a bee in her bonnet about the &#8216;entrepreneur&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Oh dear. Spencer Matthews thinks I&#8217;ve got a bee in my bonnet about the &#8216;entrepreneur&#8217;, who is best known for appearing on Made in Chelsea and being Pippa Middleton&#8217;s brother-in-law. It&#8217;s not true, although I do write about Spencer. But that&#8217;s because I hear some rather unpleasant tales about his behaviour, which don&#8217;t sit well with the way he portrays himself online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I have written about his rift with former best friend, the lovely Jamie Laing, for example. I also revealed how he ditched the loyal management team who had catapulted him to fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I&#8217;ve reported on his close friendships with Christine McGuinness and Les Dawson&#8217;s daughter, Charlotte. As for his wife Vogue Williams, I think she&#8217;s great, and I&#8217;m sorry she didn&#8217;t win I&#8217;m a Celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>Coleen Nolan   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8cd87623358d49a7\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/28\/01\/105048721-15416309-Coleen_Nolan_didn_t_want_the_fact_she_hadn_t_seen_her_granddaugh-a-240_1766885874364.jpg\" height=\"656\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Coleen Nolan didn't want the fact she hadn't seen her granddaughter for years to be published\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Coleen Nolan didn&#8217;t want the fact she hadn&#8217;t seen her granddaughter for years to be published<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Coleen loves to share her family life on Instagram and seemed delighted when her son, Shane Junior, welcomed a baby girl in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But when I discovered that Coleen hadn&#8217;t seen her granddaughter for years, she instructed lawyers to say the story wasn&#8217;t true, which was a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Coleen didn&#8217;t want this sad state of affairs coming out because it&#8217;s at odds with the life she portrays online. But that&#8217;s her problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">So, here&#8217;s to 2026 and another year of celebrity mishaps. I predict highlights, lowlights, feuds and misbehaviour, legal letters, attacks on social media &#8211; and another bumper crop of bruised egos. And I look forward to telling you all about it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Team Beckham to Clan Ramsay, from celebrity fallout to family feud, it&#8217;s certainly been a year for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,2093,75,9112],"class_list":{"0":"post-374714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-dailymail","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}