{"id":519316,"date":"2026-04-08T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:11:10","slug":"katie-price-banned-from-driving-for-the-seventh-time-after-reality-tv-star-failed-to-respond-to-police-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519316\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Price banned from driving for the SEVENTH time after reality TV star failed to respond to police warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Price has been handed her seventh driving ban after she failed to reply to police correspondence regarding a speeding offence in North Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>A Ford Capri registered to the 47-year-old former glamour model was recorded travelling at 80mph on a 70mph section of the A64 near the village of Stutton on October 15 last year.<\/p>\n<p>North Yorkshire Police subsequently contacted Ms Price at her West Sussex residence, requesting confirmation of whether she had been behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>The force dispatched an initial letter on October 20, followed by a second notice on November 10, cautioning her about potential prosecution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"a0406\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"5e688b109e6d69c5153a845f5c381467\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20939%201301'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/u200bkatie-price.webp.webp\" width=\"939\" height=\"1301\" alt=\"\\u200bKatie Price\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Price has been banned from driving<\/p>\n<p> | Katie Price<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, neither communication received a response.<\/p>\n<p>The reality television personality&#8217;s accumulated driving disqualifications now exceed six years, since her first ban in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Claire Sagar, presiding at Harrogate Magistrates&#8217; Court last Tuesday, found Ms Price guilty of failing to provide information to police about the driver&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered her to pay a \u00a3660 fine alongside \u00a3120 in costs and a \u00a3264 victim surcharge, bringing her total legal bill above \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"a3a30\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"9b5e49034c1eca086c32ae406b834d48\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202000%203001'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/katie-price-and-harvey-price.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3001\" alt=\"Katie Price and Harvey Price\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Price with son, Harvey<\/p>\n<p> | PA<\/p>\n<p>She was also disqualified from driving for six months.<\/p>\n<p>The case was processed through the Single Justice Procedure, a closed-door system where magistrates handle criminal matters privately.<\/p>\n<p>Due to this secretive process, it remains unknown whether Ms Price had the opportunity to contest the ban or whether the court was aware of her extensive previous convictions.<\/p>\n<p>The original speeding charge was dropped by the police.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"8bb22\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"5faa11c542b6444590016eac1f0b6870\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20837%20791'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/katie-price-and-lee-andrews.png\" width=\"837\" height=\"791\" alt=\"Katie Price and Lee Andrews\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Price with her new husband, Lee Andrews<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n<p>The star&#8217;s troubled history on the roads stretches back more than 15 years. <\/p>\n<p>Her first disqualification came in December 2010 following a speeding admission, with a year-long ban following in 2012 for ignoring speeding tickets.<\/p>\n<p>A further six-month suspension was imposed in February 2018 for another speeding offence, and in January 2019, she admitted driving whilst disqualified, resulting in a three-month ban.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, she was found guilty of being drunk in charge of a vehicle after her car veered off the road into a grass verge. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Price claimed an unidentified man had been driving but fled before police arrived, though the judge dismissed this as &#8220;not plausible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, District Judge Amanda Kelly handed Ms Price a 16-week suspended prison sentence for drink-driving while disqualified and uninsured, telling her: &#8220;You appear to think you are above the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge described her driving record as &#8220;one of the worst&#8221; she had ever encountered, imposing a two-year ban along with 100 hours of community service and up to 30 rehabilitation sessions.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, the former glamour model had told officers: &#8220;I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"796e7\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"cd7ca79d53f840ce4763e9dcc3d67916\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202016%201512'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/katie-price.jpg\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" alt=\"Katie Price\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Price in court in 2024<\/p>\n<p> | Getty<\/p>\n<p>Beyond her criminal proceedings, Ms Price has faced significant financial difficulties in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>A judge last October instructed her to curb her &#8220;extravagant pattern of expenditure&#8221; after learning that nearly half her monthly earnings were being directed towards creditors.<\/p>\n<p>Although bankruptcies from 2019 and 2024 have been discharged, she remains bound by a court order to settle outstanding debts until February 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Price has acknowledged on her podcast that securing motor insurance has become extremely difficult, given her lengthy list of convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Price has been handed her seventh driving ban after she failed to reply to police correspondence regarding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[830,96,2471,50,2331,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-katie-price","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sgg","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}