Katie Price reveals the £800,000 reason she really had to leave Mucky Mansion
The star has revealed the reason she left the home.
Katie Price has revealed that she was forced to leave Mucky Mansion after being conned.
The former reality TV star, 46, moved out of the dilapidated house in May 2024 after reports of an eviction notice due to her financial issues (which she has denied) and undergoing a ‘hellish’ ordeal while living there.
It was reported at the time that the star had been served an eviction notice after filing for bankruptcy, which Katie has also denied.
The star now claims that she ‘handed back the keys’ to the home, known as Mucky Mansion after her renovation TV series, after being conned in a fly-tipping scam.
In an interview on The Disruptors podcast, Katie claimed that she thought she was turning her land into a wedding venue.
‘So the reason I got out of my house. I was introduced to a guy who said, “Why don’t we turn your house into a wedding venue? Because you’ve got stables, we’ll do a big gallop track in your fields.”
The star revealed all on a recent podcast (Picture: Instagram / disruptorspodcast)‘And where your tennis court is, we’ll knock that down and we’ll build you a brand new one and a brand new five-bedroom house. And you can use your house as a wedding venue.
‘Showed my mum all the stuff, all legit, had this architect there, all the drawings, all the planning. I don’t know what’s real and what’s not and he sold us the dream.
He started getting everything at my house, putting scaffolding up on the house and knocked my tennis court down. Every time I’d go to the house, there was all diggers in the field.’
She then revealed things took a turn: ‘And then one day, when we went to the house to film, I went out in the fields and I thought. What is actually going on here?
‘This doesn’t look like it’s a gallop track, and that’s when people messaged me and said “oh my god, Kate is with this fraudster”.
The star has revealed she was conned (Picture: Hannah Young/REX/Shutterstock)She revealed the man gave her various names, and eventually it led to her being caught out for flytipping and being given an enormous bill to sort out the rubbish on her land.
‘He fly tips on your fields. Then we caught him out. Then I’m left with the house. Council on my case saying you’ve got to get rid of all this flytipping – it’s contaminated, this and that.
‘And I’m like but it wasn’t me that’s done it. We had quotes that it was going to cost me about £800,000 to get it all back right.
‘So I was like, do you know what? I’ll give the keys back, I don’t want it. You can have it back.’
The house was featured in her renovation show on ITV (Picture:ITV)The estate, which includes nine bedrooms, four bathrooms, 12 acres, and a disused swimming pool, was bought by the reality star in 2014 for an estimated £ 1.35 million.
Katie sold the property in December 2024 for a loss. A public notice on Rightmove stated at the time: ‘Mortgagees in possession are now in receipt of an offer for the sum of £1,150,000,’ per the Daily Mail.
The star previously called the Sussex mansion ‘cursed’ and told the Daily Mail: ‘I’ve been wanting to get out of my old house for absolute years. It’s been nothing but hell in there. I’ve not had any luck in that house, ever.’
‘I hate that house. Whoever buys it, I warn them, they will get bad luck there. It is absolutely cursed. My anxiety got worse with that house. There was a point when I couldn’t even walk up the driveway without having a panic attack.
‘I had therapy about the house. I should never have gone back there. Now I’m out of it, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.’
The mum-of-five now lives in a four-bed Sussex home for a reported £5,000 a month with her boyfriend JJ Slater.
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