Katie Worth has stated she missed a courtroom listening to the place she was declared bankrupt for the second time as a result of she was “coping with critical stuff”.
The previous glamour mannequin and TV persona owes almost £762,000 to HM Income & Customs (HMRC), which issued a chapter petition final October.
The debt comes from her tax self-assessments from the years 2020-2021 and 2021-22, and contains earnings tax, VAT, surcharges and curiosity, a choose stated.
Worth, 45, failed to seem on the Insolvency and Firms Courtroom on Monday.
The London listening to was informed she did reply to HMRC over the debt, and she or he was declared bankrupt by the choose.
Ms Worth, who was beforehand declared bankrupt in 2019, stated she solely came upon about Monday’s ruling whereas she was recording a podcast.
Worth was informed there was breaking information about her whereas showing on the Every day Mail’s Straight To The Feedback! present.
She replied: “Has it? Oh get misplaced… Are you really critical, whereas I am sat right here? What have I accomplished now?”
She additionally informed the pre-recorded version: “I do know I had courtroom, I feel it was final week or the week earlier than. Due to what is going on on in my life, I’ve really been signed off as a result of… I am coping with critical stuff.
“There’s all totally different sorts of chapter, I feel they simply use the phrase ‘chapter’. Nobody really is aware of the ins and outs of all the pieces.
“And belief me, I do not get away with stuff both. Like, you may’t, like tax, you may’t ever run away from, you must pay. Do not suppose I sit and do not pay stuff, as a result of I do.”
Final week, she was fined £880 for driving with out a licence or insurance coverage in Northamptonshire in August final yr.
In February, a Excessive Courtroom choose ordered her to pay 40% of her earnings from grownup leisure web site OnlyFans to trustees for the following three years in a separate dispute over unpaid money owed.
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The listening to was informed she was as a consequence of face questions on her funds in April.
After making her identify as a glamour mannequin within the Nineteen Nineties underneath the identify Jordan, she moved into actuality TV, the place she appeared on reveals together with I am A Movie star. She has additionally fronted BBC documentaries.
