Katie Price

Katie on social media backlash, raising her kids and why she’ll never make music with Kieran…

- Jack White

When Now receives a phone call Monday morning with details of Katie Price’s single launch three days later, we’re excited but apprehensive. It’s an interview we’ve been waiting for, but the publicist promises just five minutes with her and Katie, 39, is famous for being unpredictable. Will she play ball? Will we be able to stretch the five minutes out any longer? What topics will be off limits? It’s impossible to call. This, after all, is the Pricey and in case you’ve forgotten, you can never underestimate her.

The event is taking place at London nightclub DSTRKT and when Now arrives Katie is nowhere to be seen. Her publicist has gathered journalists in the club’s restaurant Yoshiaki. Katie’s performing later and we’re told she held up sound check by almost two hours.

When she does arrive – 45 minutes late – Katie means business and first up we’re hurried into a room along with her six-strong entourage.

‘You’ve got five minutes, so they’d better be good questions,’ she cackles as she settles down. There’s no time to waste.

Luckily, Katie seems on good form, even when we hit her with a question about social media users attacking her parenting skills. A recent photo of her youngest daughter Bunny, two, drinking juice from a baby’s bottle sparked debate among fans, but Katie hasn’t let it get to her. ‘Listen,’ she says, ‘there are a lot of parents with four-year-olds who still have dummies – I don’t complain. My kids are dirty, they’re feral, they’re very happy and they enjoy life. I do not give a shit what anybody says about my mothering skills. If anyone wants to complain about how I raise my kids, then they need to get a life.’