Katie Price has revealed the enormous amount she must pay up front for car insurance after six driving bans left her uninsurable. 

Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW on the B2135 in West SusSєx on September 28, 2021, and was also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance.

During that court appearance, the prosecutor said Price, 46, had five previous driving bans.

The former glamour model was also handed an £880 fine last March for driving a Range Rover on the A14 bypᴀss in Kettering, Northamptonshire, without insurance or a valid driver’s license. 

Price has since revealed her checkered driving history has left insurance companies reluctant to take a chance on her – but admits she still qualifies for car rental. 

‘No insurance company will ensure me, they want £150,000 down, and £8,000 a month,’ she told Rob Moore’s Disruptors podcast. 

Katie Price admits she’s back on the road thanks to a car rental company, after six driving bans left her uninsurable

Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW on the B2135 in West SusSєx on September 28, 2021 (pictured) 

She was given 28 days to pay the total amount of £1,852, imposed in relation to the offences committed on the A14 at Kettering on August 2 last year.

Finding Price guilty and imposing the fine, chair of the bench Neil Sheppard said: ‘From the evidence we have been shown, the case is proven against Miss Price.’

Magistrates were told Price has numerous previous convictions for motoring offences, including driving while disqualified in 2019 and 2021.

She was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW in September 28 2021, and was also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving.

During that court appearance, the prosecutor said Price had five previous driving bans.

Following the latest offence, she was handed eight penalty points on her licence, which was said in court to be ‘expired’ after a ‘medical stop’ was placed on it in April last year.

The court was told Price was caught on CCTV at an M&S petrol station forecourt on the morning of August 2, where police officers standing near the entrance saw her vehicle pull up at one of the pumps.

Opening the facts of the case against Price, prosecutor Cheryl Burridge said: ‘Officers were on a mobile patrol and they stopped at the service station.

The former glamour model was also handed an £880 fine last March for driving a Range Rover on the A14 bypᴀss in Kettering, Northamptonshire, without insurance or a valid driver’s license 

Katie Price’s long history of driving offences that has seen her banned from the road SIX times 

2003 – Price escaped a speeding charge after police failed to arrest her within 12 weeks of allegedly clocking 70mph in a 40mph zone in her Range Rover.

2008 – After talking on the mobile phone while driving on April 18, Price landed three penalty points.

2009 – She failed to provide the idenтιтy of the driver after her car was allegedly caught speeding in a 30mph zone and was later handed four penalty points after being clocked at 99mph and was handed four points on her licence.

2010 – The model was convicted for failing to be in proper control of her horsebox after veering into another lane in February and was given three points on her licence, bringing her total to 10. Then in December she was banned from driving for six months after doing 83mph in a 70mph zone in her home county of West SusSєx.

2012 – Two years later, Price was disqualified for 12 months for failing to respond to two speeding tickets in September.

2018 – Price landed a six-month ban in February 2018 for speeding after totting up 12 penalty points for speeding. In July, pH๏τos emerged of her driving while still banned. Then in October she was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and spent 13 hours in custody after crashing into a VW Golf and a hedge on a gated estate at 2am.

2019 – She was given a three-month ban for driving while disqualified in January of that year. And then in October, Price was banned from driving for a further 18 months for failing to inform police who was behind the wheel of her pink Range Rover during a crash in Bexley, South East London.

2021 – Katie crashes her BMW car on a country road near her West SusSєx home in the early hours of the morning in September after drinking and taking drugs. She pleaded guilty at Crawley Magistrates of drink driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

2022 – She was back in court charged with speeding and failing to provide information to the police.

2023 – Price is fined almost £400 for speeding as well as driving with an ‘expired’ licence, just weeks after getting back behind the wheel following her drink driving ban.

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‘No insurance company will ensure me, they want £150,000 down, and £8,000 a month,’ she told Rob Moore’s Disruptors podcast

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‘They saw a vehicle pulling into the service station by the fuel pump. She (Price) has exited the vehicle with an unknown male and a child.’

As Price and the male walked from the vehicle into the services past the officers, the court heard, she was recognised and they ‘believed her to be disqualified from driving’. 

‘Although Price was not subject to a driving ban, the court heard she did not have a valid license due to the ‘stop’ put on it, after an application for renewal was withdrawn.

It also emerged that Price left the services in the Range Rover, with the unknown male at the wheel, and was not stopped because police had not witnessed her driving the vehicle.

After Price had left the services, the court heard, officers reviewed footage showing her getting out of the driver’s seat and instigated criminal proceedings.

In a statement read to the court by the prosecutor, Pc Harrison Beverley said: ‘During this statement I will refer to a female who is known as Katie Price.

‘I was outside the front of the shops, speaking with response police. I did not see her (Price) driving.

‘I recognised her as a media personality.’

The officer added that he had reviewed CCTV footage at the petrol station and had seen a female ‘believed to be Price’ step out of the driver’s side of the Range Rover.

A marker was then placed on the vehicle after computer checks disclosed that Price had an expired licence and was not covered with valid insurance. 

Magistrates were told the previous suspended sentence imposed on Price had no effect in the current proceedings, and that she was given three penalty points in November 2023 for speeding. 

The reality TV star has already committed 11 driving offences in the previous fifteen years.