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Daily Mirror
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Katie Price shares reason she hated Loose Women and 'will never do it again'
Former glamour model Katie Price opened up about her time on the Loose Women panel from 2015 to 2018 and admitted she 'hated doing that show' Katie Price revealed the real reason she hated doing Loose Women as she confessed she will 'never do it again'. The former glamour model, 46, was a regular on the ITV daytime show between 2015 and 2018, but Katie said it was actually a tough time for her and admitted she 'didn't like' being on it. The Mucky Mansion star took part in a Q&A session at The University of Cambridge's Student Union, where she revealed she 'hid' her personal issues while appearing on the programme. She said: "I hated doing that show. The interesting thing about Loose Women, I presented on it for two years, believe it or not, and it was around the start and during my breakdown and no one knew. "I hid it very well on there. The only thing I didn't like about Loose Women was, you had these in-ears and you're told when you can speak, when you can't, or if someone is talking, 'Kate, don't interrupt, Kate don't say this, Kate don't say that', so it's quite hard." The star said everything was 'very different' behind the scenes of daytime television and insisted she would 'never, ever do it again'. However, she said she did have fun and 'got to meet a lot of people'. "I wasn't really well, but no one really knew, it was the start of my breakdown, horrible days," Katie explained. "But I liked the women I did it with, we had fun, but yeah, I wouldn't do that show again. "Maybe I should have my own presenting show, that's something I haven't done, but it would have to be late night because there's no filter with me." Katie has been open about her mental health struggles and previously revealed she suffered a mental breakdown after being robbed at gunpoint and sexually assaulted in South Africa in 2018 as well as being arrested on suspicion of drink driving after crashing her car. In her autobiography, she explained how she tried to suppress everything that happened in South Africa but it eventually got too much for her and she attempted to take her own life and ended up being treated for PTSD in the Priory. She wrote in her book: "My memory is a bit fuzzy with it all, if I'm honest. It happened so quickly, but at the time it seemed like it went on for ever. It was surreal. I kept thinking, 'Is this happening? Is this actually happening? Am I dreaming?' "I could make out two men, who I now know to be hijackers, trying to get into the other car, where the film crew were, while the rest of them were around our car."
BBC News
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Academic trolled for Cambridge University PhD gets literary agent
An academic who received death threats in response to her completed PhD about "the politics of smell" has been assigned both a British and American literary agent. A photo of Dr Ally Louks and her completed thesis, posted to X in November 2024, attracted viral fame when it was viewed more than 120 million the The University of Cambridge supervisor said there had been a lot of positive feedback from people, her post also resulted in negative attention, misogynistic comments and even rape and death threats. Despite the online attacks she said: "I have really relished the opportunity to try to prove the value of my work among that public audience." Since the vial post, her works have now been picked up by a British and an American literary agent who she said were "both absolutely wonderful.""It doesn't go over my head that the reason that I have all of these opportunities is because people responded to my work with such scepticism initially," she said. Her PhD, which took three-and-a-half years to research and write, was titled "Olfactory Ethics: The politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose".It explored why some writers used language associated with smell to characterise harmful attitudes toward objects of "disgust and desire".Dr Louks told the BBC: "It speaks very strongly to disgust as the so called Foetor Judaicus which is the smell of Jews that Hitler talked about in Mein Kampf." She also spoke about how smells were also used during the transatlantic slave trade "to legitimize racism". Following the completion of her works, Dr Louks said some people on X deemed it "woke nonsense," whole others said women should not be in academia, but having babies or caring for their husbands. Prof Andy Parker, a Master at Peterhouse College, said he had seen examples of misogyny and online attacks throughout his academic said: "It's not a new phenomenon, but it's particularly strange in this case for people to pick on a very sensible academic subject... a proud post from somebody who's just made a great achievement... treated as some sort of culture war."Prof Jennifer Richards, director of studies at the college added Dr Louks had "shown how to do things differently - be kind, recognise other people's humanities and share your research". After being bombarded on X, Dr Louks said while she was an "introvert" she was "doing it to show that women in academia deserve to be here". Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
