“My first bankruptcy was the best thing that could have happened to me. All those hangers-on all just disappeared.”

English media personality and former singer

Kerry Katona is an English media personality and former singer. Born Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona, she was part of the pop group Atomic Kitten from 1998 to 2001, and later became a familiar figure on British reality television. She won the third series of I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here in 2004, then appeared in other reality shows. Her personal life and later drug addiction were widely covered by the British tabloid press, and she went on to front several MTV UK series about her life, including Crazy in Love, Whole Again, What’s The Problem?, and Coming Clean.