Katie Worth has had her automotive seized by police after she was pulled over for driving and not using a licence or insurance coverage, in keeping with locals.
Police mentioned they impounded a Vary Rover from a 45-year-old lady, who witnesses declare to be the previous glamour mannequin, shortly earlier than 6pm on Friday at Sompting Highway roundabout in Worthing, West Sussex.
Native residents mentioned they noticed Katie, who can be 45 and drives a silver Vary Rover, speaking to police on the roadside for over a hour after the incident.
She has solely not too long ago been in a position to get again behind the wheel following a two 12 months driving ban which she was handed in December 2021 when she crashed her automobile close to her residence in Sussex.
The mother-of-five was pictured earlier this week wearing a pink Barbie-style outfit tucking a parking ticket into her Louis Vuitton purse after it was seen positioned on the windscreen of her four-by-four.
Katie Worth has had her automotive seized by police after she was pulled over for driving and not using a licence and insurance coverage, in keeping with locals
Native residents mentioned they noticed Katie, who can be 45 and drives a silver Vary Rover, speaking to police for over a hour after the incident
The previous glamour mannequin was pictured earlier this week wearing a pink Barbie-style outfit tucking a parking ticket into her Louis Vuitton purse after it was seen positioned on the windscreen of her four-by-four
The 2-time I am a Movie star…Get Me Out of Right here! star revealed earlier this week that she is at present paying £14,000 a 12 months for automotive insurance coverage.
She mentioned the determine was initially quoted as being as much as £73,000 earlier than she tweaked a couple of particulars to get a greater supply.
She claimed that being charged absurdly excessive costs was ‘discrimination’ and that it would not occur to somebody with the identical identify as her however with a distinct job.
Katie mentioned in a TikTok dwell video final weekend: ‘No insurance coverage firm will insure me on a brand new automotive or something flash, nothing.
‘So I’m simply fortunate to be on the street within the automotive I’m in, it is not the automotive I wish to be driving however nobody will insure me. I’ve to attend a 12 months to have the ability to get a brand new [car] once more.
‘The quotes I had for my insurance coverage on a standard automotive that’s £15k was £73k, one was £53k and one was £33k, they usually have been my quotes as a result of nobody else would insure me due to who I’m.
‘It is discrimination as a result of if another person had the identical as me they usually had a standard job, they would not cost that a lot, it is far more than the automotive.’
‘Then I modified it to writer and the insurance coverage is £14k for a 12 months but it surely’s nonetheless not the automotive I need. I do not care.
‘I’m on the street so it’s what it’s. I should not have carried out what I did, so it’s important to pay the worth. So in a years’ time I’ll get the automotive I need and till then I’m grateful.’
Katie Worth is pictured driving her Vary Rover in September 2021
The 2-time I am a Movie star…Get Me Out of Right here! star revealed earlier this week that she is at present paying £14,000 a 12 months for automotive insurance coverage
She mentioned the determine was initially quoted as being as much as £73,000 earlier than she tweaked a couple of particulars to get a greater supply
She claimed that being charged absurdly excessive costs was ‘discrimination’ and that it would not occur to somebody with the identical identify as her however with a distinct job
The truth TV star was additionally handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence after she admitted drink-driving whereas disqualified and driving with out insurance coverage within the lead as much as the incident in 2021.
Katie flipped her BMW on to its facet on the B2135 close to Partridge Inexperienced, south of Horsham in West Sussex, at about 6.20am on September 28 whereas driving to see a pal.
She accomplished a court-assigned rehabilitation order following the accident, when which she examined constructive for alcohol and cocaine.
The mannequin additionally issued an apology after avoiding jail for the drug and booze-fuelled automotive crash.
She mentioned she was ‘extremely sorry’ and was working arduous to deal with mental-health points.
She mentioned: ‘It has been a very troublesome time and I am extremely sorry for my actions – I am sincerely grateful no one was harm.
‘I am spending time getting higher – psychological well being is a hidden sickness and might strike at any time.’
A Sussex Police spokesperson mentioned: ‘Officers responded to a report of a motorist driving in any other case than in accordance with a licence and driving with out insurance coverage at Sompting Highway roundabout, Worthing, shortly earlier than 6pm on Friday, July 21.
‘A forty five-year-old lady was spoken to, and a Vary Rover was seized beneath Part 165(a) of the Highway Visitors Act.
‘Sussex Police just isn’t in a position to remark additional presently.’
MailOnline has contacted Katie Worth for remark.