If you were writing a social history of Britain at the turn of the millennium, what image would you put on the cover? A white-shirted Tony Blair visiting troops in Iraq? That looming Big Brother eye? Or Jordan, aka Katie Price, staggering out of a nightclub, captured in the glare of camera flashes? That’s the world that new Sky documentary, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, seeks to capture in a four-part biography of Britain’s most notorious glamour model.
Born Katrina Infield in late-Seventies Sussex, she would be known by many names. To her family, she is often “Kate”; to readers of The Sun, she was “Jordan”; and now, professionally, she is “Katie Price” (or “The Pricey”, who, as per her slogan, we should “never underestimate”). It encapsulates something of her journey from a slightly gawky child to an ambitious pin-up, and then a descent into tabloid ignominy. “It’s about time I look at what I’ve really done,” she tells viewers. She is sat on a beige sofa. Her teeth are luminous, her arms covered in tattoos, long acrylic nails protruding like claws. During the expansive, confessional interview, she vapes and snacks and muses. “I am what I am, I’ve got nothing to hide.”
