{"id":795142,"date":"2026-10-07T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795142\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:50:11","slug":"i-will-make-you-a-little-star-katie-price-told-girl-rape-trial-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795142\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I will make you a little star&#8217;, Katie Price told girl, rape trial hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Price messaged a teenage girl allegedly raped by her then-husband, telling her: &#8220;I will make you a little star,&#8221; a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price&#8217;s ex-husband, Kieran Hayler, is on trial at Lewes Crown Court accused of three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against the then 13-year-old girl in 2016 in West Sussex, all of which he denies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jurors saw messages sent between Price and the girl, then aged 14, in which Price said she had heard Hayler and the girl had kissed and that he had &#8220;tried it on&#8221; with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m only asking as this is a serious allegation,&#8221; Price had then asked, to which the teenager replied that it was &#8220;just a flirt thing&#8221; and that &#8220;nothing happened&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the messages shown in court, Price also asked: &#8220;Did he kiss you? I won&#8217;t bring up anymore just want truth. I will make you a little star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition, she asked the girl if Hayler had ever said he liked or fancied her, to which she replied: &#8220;Yes, but I took it as a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked in cross-examination as to why she said nothing happened, the complainant, now an adult, replied that she was &#8220;trying to brush it off&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pressed on what she took Price to mean by: &#8220;I will make you a little star&#8221;, she told the court: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I said anything. I think I just ignored it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Price messaged a teenage girl allegedly raped by her then-husband, telling her: &#8220;I will make you a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795142","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=795142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}