Katie Hopkins
Katie Hopkins | |
|---|---|
| File:Screenshot 0001.JPG Katie Hopkins at the Hilton Hotel, Holland Park. | |
| Born | 31 May 1975 |
| Occupation(s) | Reality television participant, [1] Brand consultant,[1] worked at the Met Office,[2] currently unemployed. |
| Spouse | Mark Cross |
| Children | India McKinney Poppy McKinney Charlotte McKinney (step-daughter) Alexander McKinney (step-son) Flora McKinney (step-daughter)[3] |
Katie Hopkins (born 31 May 1975) is an English reality television participant who appeared on the third series of the British version of The Apprentice. She withdrew from the show in week 11, and was not dismissed with Sir Alan Sugar's catch phrase, "You're fired".[5] Hopkins was memorable on the programme for her controversial comments to other contestants[6] and to the members of the public.[7] She has made various media appearances since leaving the programme including taking part in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! on ITV.'[8]
Early life
Hopkins was born to Roy and Anona Hopkins in 1975.[9][10] As a child she attended private school and then North Devon College in Barnstaple. She attended Exeter University, studying Politics and Economics[10], and has trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[11] She was once a stand-by contestant for the programme Big Brother[12] and appeared in an un-aired television pilot of the programme.[13] Hopkins has worked as a consultant for organisations such as Guinness, Smirnoff, Moët et Chandon, Reuters, Thomson Financial and Barclays.[14]
Personal life
At University, Hopkins began a romantic relationship with a fellow student Alan Hickman which lasted until 2001.[10] During that relationship, she was also "close" with work colleague Paul Collins.[15] Collins's wife found out about the affair, but Collins decided to stay with his family.[15] Hopkins later left Hickman for her boss, Damien McKinney.[15] He was a father of three and 15 years her senior.[10] The couple left Britain to live in New York; their daughter India was born there in 2004.[15] They returned to Britain shortly after India's birth and got married the following year. Their second daughter Poppy was born in 2005.[15] Responding to the comments of the public accusing her of wrecking her marriage, Katie claimed that it was Damien who had started an affair only a year into the marriage with one of Katie's friends whom she referred to as a "younger version of [her] with brown hair". The day following Poppy's birth, McKinney "came back home [...] picked up his things and left" ending the marriage and leaving Katie "devastated". Hopkins was left with the charge of both young children. It is only after, contrary to popular belief, that she met fellow co-worker Paul Collins and started a relationship with him. [16]
After filming The Apprentice, Hopkins took up a job at the Met Office in Exeter.[17] Here, she met Mark Cross, a married design manager,[18] and soon photographs of them making love emerged. This was widely reported in the tabloid press; Cross's wife Ruth revealed that she already knew of the affair.[18][10][19] Hopkins is currently engaged to Cross and pregnant with his child.[20][21]
The Apprentice
Hopkins was selected from over 10,000 people to be one of the final 16 candidates in The Apprentice.[22] The series, which began on 28th March 2007, received over four million viewers for its opening episode.[23] She received media attention as part of the first on-screen romantic relationship to feature on The Apprentice with fellow candidate Paul Callaghan.[24] She rejected Sir Alan Sugar's offer of a place in the final episode of the programme, citing problems regarding childcare of her daughters, and removed herself from the competition at the end of the penultimate task.[25] The episode gained 6.2 million viewers, while the following You're Fired! episode was watched by 3.1 million.[26]
Hopkins was the Project Manager of her team on "The Apprentice" twice; once in week two[27] and again in week nine.[28] Her team proceeded to win both of the tasks led by Hopkins. Contestants Adam Hosker and Ghazal Asif brought Katie back to the "boardroom" in weeks seven and eight of the competition.[29][30]
Comments and views
Katie gained notoriety on the programme for her comments about other contestants, made to camera and considered as either amusing or offensive, depending on your opinion. The comments include calling Naomi Lay a "dog",[31] and wishing that fellow contestant Adam Hosker would get run over at the car salesroom in which he worked.[32] Hopkins also derided fellow contestant Kristina Grimes by comparing her to a limpet[5][33] and mocking her choice of clothes and fondness for fake tan.[18] Hopkins also accused her of trying to turn The Apprentice into "The Kristina Show".[34] Other comments used include calling Kristina a "wench with a forked tongue".[35] Comments were aimed not just at her fellow contestants but also at viewers of Television shopping channels, maternity leave,[36] the overweight[37] and people with the names Mavis and Derek.[5] Although these comments might have been offensive to some, she insisted in her You're Fired Show, that it was only in the name of comedy, and suggested she "just needed to vent a bit". [38]She also defended herself by saying that people who "come up to her on the street" have been "brilliant" as they like the fact that she "has got an opinion and will say it". [39]
Relationship with Paul Callaghan
While filming The Apprentice, Katie formed a relationship with fellow contestant Paul Callaghan. Various conflicting reports emerged about whether the couple had sex whilst participating in the programme. Reports originally suggested that the couple romped in the attic of the house in which the candidates were living,[40] however Callaghan vehemently denied this.[41] He later retracted his statement and confirmed that they had made love outdoors.[42]
Response
Katie emerged as a sort of a hate figure in the media, especially on internet forums, during her time on the programme[43], although Sir Alan Sugar has come to her defence.[44]
The tabloid newspapers also criticised her, comparing her to such fictional characters as Cruella De Vil, Widow Twankey, Darth Vader, J.R. Ewing, The Wicked Witch of the West, Miss Piggy, Catherine Tramell and Patrick Bateman.[45][46][47][48][49][50] She has also been compared to real people, such as Ruth Badger, Princess Diana, Simon Cowell, Princess Anne, Margaret Thatcher and Jade Goody.[51][52][53] Her red cheeks have also drawn comment.[46]
Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis expressed his distaste for Hopkins, jokingly vowing to kill her when he accepted his Fellowship award at the 2007 BAFTA awards.[54] Her fellow contestants have questioned why she took part in the programme, while fellow candidate Lohit Kalburgi referred to Hopkins when he claimed he didn't want to be "the bitch".[5] Simon Ambrose, a fellow contestant, told Nuts Magazine that he once "had a crush on her",[55] and also criticised Katie’s much-publicised personal life as he came from a "broken home". Fellow contestant and rival Kristina Grimes said that Katie left the programme of her own accord as “she would have eventually got the axe”.[56] Ambrose also quoted Hopkins' friends' claim that her sole intention of participating in the programme was to start a media career.[10] This does not distingish her from the other candidates, a good many of whom can be found, post-Apprentice appearance, in that industry.
Aftermath
Hopkins, like all other Apprentice candidates, appeared on the accompanying spin-off programme, The Apprentice: You're Fired!, receiving a mixed response from the studio audience.[5] When video clips of her comments about other candidates were shown, Hopkins explained that they were "quite funny". Michelle Mone, the founder of lingerie company, Ultimo and a guest on the episode, verbally attacked Hopkins, calling her "exceptionally selfish" and made remarks such as "You've given businesswomen a bad name".[57] After this incident, Mone was dubbed as the "bra woman" by the media.[58] In the final episode of The Apprentice: You're Fired!, Sir Alan said that he would have fired her earlier if he had seen the clips of her comments. Hopkins' comments on leaving the programme contained support for Simon Ambrose to win The Apprentice, and revealed a desire to "smash a glass ceiling" over rival Kristina Grimes' head.[59]
After her appearance on the show, Hopkins signed two exclusive deals to sell her story; a newspaper deal with The News of the World and a magazine deal with Emap, the company behind heat and Grazia magazines. [60] In her News of the World interview, Hopkins played down media reports that she had broken marriages, but did reveal that she has had 10 lovers and had sex with a man in the barracks at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[61] She told the paper that Michelle Mone, who had verbally attacked her on The Apprentice: You’re Fired!, was probably "just happy to be out of the underwear factory for the day".[62] She also told the paper that she lost her virginity aged 17 after leaving a convent school and that she hopes to be a Member of Parliament for the British Conservative Party, like Margaret Thatcher.[61]
The day after Hopkins' final Apprentice episode aired, two prominent news stories emerged about her; step daughter Charlotte McKinney told the Daily Mail that Hopkins had ruined her family and driven the teenager to anorexia by sending her cards with stick men drawn on them, [63] and another Mail article reported that fans of the programme were accusing the BBC of fixing her walk-out.[64]
Hopkins revealed in an interview with BBC Radio Kent that she had great respect for Sir Alan Sugar, and that she believed she would have won the programme had she been in the final episode. She also said that the media's attitudes towards her did not affect her, but it did affect her family.[51] When talking to Fiona Phillips in an interview aired on GMTV Today on the morning of the final Apprentice episode, Hopkins suggested that, had she accepted Sir Alan's offer of a place in the final, she would have emerged victorious, despite that Sir Alan Sugar said that if she wanted to press-on he would fire her, irrespective of who she was competing with.[65] Hopkins told BBC Radio 1 that she has not yet ruled out a media career[66] but has expressed an interest in starting a business venture.[67]
She has appeared in an episode of 8 out of 10 Cats and has also been a guest-star on Loose Women and The Friday Night Project.[68][69][70] Hopkins wrote a column for the Express and Echo newspaper in Exeter, much to the criticism of its readers, but was eventually asked to leave after a poll was put onto the publication's website asking if she should continue with the post.[71] She has most recently presented a Five Live Report on family life and working mothers for BBC Radio 5 Live and contributed an article on the same subject to BBC Online.[72]
Sexism controversy
Sir Alan Sugar's questioning Katie about her childcare arrangements led to him being accused of sexism by the Trade Union Congress, The Equal Opportunities Commission and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.[73] He was accused of violating the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act.[74] This incident created a huge controversy and was well documented in the media.[75][76][77][6] Sir Alan argued his case in an interview with GMTV host Fiona Phillips, stating that he was well aware of the rules.[78]
Met Office firing
In May 2007, reports emerged that Hopkins was being investigated at her job in the Met Office due to her expenses claims, which allegedly included a bill for dinner with Apprentice co-star Tre Azam.[79] On June 12 2007, the BBC reported that Hopkins had been dismissed from her job at the Meteorological Office.[56] A Met Office statement said that she did not meet the required standards to complete her probationary period, and confirmed that her performance on The Apprentice and confessions about her private life were a factor in her dismissal.[80] The spokesperson also stated that Hopkins was on a salary of less than £90,000, the salary she claimed for her job before the Met Office.
Hopkins later declared that she is taking the organisation to a tribunal over the decision.[56] She has stated that the media were informed of her dismissal only an hour after she was fired[78] and believes she has been used as a scapegoat.[81]
I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
Hopkins joined the 2007 series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! as a replacement for Malcolm McLaren, who dropped out just before the show started.[82] Reports of an appearance by Hopkins had appeared by as early as June 2007.[83] Hopkins was the second celebrity voted out of the camp on Thursday 22 November 2007.
Hopkins took part in one "Bushtucker trial" in which she won ten stars out of a possible ten. For her task she was forced to remain in a coffin suspended over a canopy that began filling with cockroaches.
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