Removal vans have been spotted outside Katie Price’s notorious Sussex home, Mucky Mansion, just weeks after the threat of being booted out.
The TV personality, 46, was told by authorities that eviction would take place on May 29, according to the Mirror.
Despite initially denying the rumours that she was being booted out of the £2million home that she originally bought in October 2014, she has since confirmed her imminent departure.
In an Instagram post on Tuesday, the Celebrity Big Brother star said that due to the recent acid attack on the property she had been ‘advised to leave’ Mucky Mansion.
Earlier this week she shared a video of her damaged car which had been attacked by vandals.
‘Scumbags outside my house on my private property I can’t wait to get out this house in a few months time [sic],’ she said at the time.
But it seems the timeline has accelerated after three removal vans arrived outside her home on Tuesday.
An insider told the Sun: ‘Katie has been dreading this day for so long but now it is here, she can’t wait to leave.
‘The house has caused her so much grief and was too much to handle on her own. With work and the kids it all became too much in recent years. And she’s convinced it’s haunted.’
The dramatic turn of events comes after Katie reportedly skipped her bankruptcy hearing in April. The mother-of-five was first declared bankrupt in November 2019 with debts totalling £3.2million.
She has faced ongoing legal issues the past few years and was forced to declare bankruptcy for a second time earlier this year, still owing HMRC up to £760,000 in tax bills and other fees.
Last Friday the reality star addressed the eviction rumours after she was found flogging Mucky Mansion furniture on Facebook which one source told the Sun was so she could have ‘a clear-out and a fresh start.’
‘I am still in my mansion! And guess what? I absolutely have hated my mansion,’ she told the audience of her live show for The Katie Price Podcast.
‘I tell you why, nine years of hell I’ve had there. Fly-tipping, it’s haunted… and I am living with it. And whoever buys that house, good luck! I hate it.’
What is Mucky Mansion?
Mucky Mansion is the nickname given to Katie Price’s home, based in Horsham, Sussex which she purchased off Tory peer Francis Maude in October 2014.
The 19-room property needed major renovations and the 46-year-old reality star documented the repair journey on her Channel 4 TV show, Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion, which has aired two seasons since 2022.
The house was in severe disrepair and was further water-damaged after vandals broke in and opened all the taps. Earlier this year vandals targeted the home and graffitied the fence.
‘I found it hard to come to the house. I had bad memories of it all,’ she said in the lead-up to the second season.
‘I was introduced to someone who wanted to turn it into a wedding venue, but it turned out to be a hoax and he ended up fly-tipping all of my land and made my house derelict inside.
‘And then it got burgled and someone turned the shower on, so it leaked and my ceiling collapsed. It looked like a building site, so that’s where it got the name Mucky Mansion.’
Despite her best efforts, she was not able to make the mansion habitable.
‘I just think this house gives me bad luck. It’s such a good family home but it is too big for me. It’s more of an excuse for the kids to make a mess,’ she once said about the estate.
Previously Katie’s team had refuted the speculation that she would be downsizing to a caravan.
The former glamour model added on her podcast: ‘My house isn’t being repossessed, I’m not being evicted and I’m not moving into a caravan. Although, if I had to live in a caravan, you know what the travellers have, I would love that.’
Now she has officially left the residence, it is unclear exactly where she will live but she remains on tour with her next destination in Bristol.
In a recent interview, she admitted that she learned about her second bankruptcy in the papers.
‘I went through a breakdown, so then I didn’t pay tax. And that’s sort of where the bankruptcy comes from,’ she said about the initial hit.
‘Apparently, I’m involved in another one, but I didn’t even know about it. I read about it in the paper. I just found out about it last week. So now I have to deal with that, even though I haven’t received any letters about it.’
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Since then she has been slammed for missing her hearing while holidaying with her current boyfriend, Married At First Sight’s JJ Slater.
At the time she shared she was ‘so drained’ by the ongoing court hearings.
Earlier this month she added: ‘I’m mentally not strong enough at the moment to stand in court, be cross examined in front of the media, in front of the public.’
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Katie Price’s representatives for comment.
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