Katie Price and Jodie Marsh both started off their careers as Page 3 girls - but they're hardly bosom buddies. And now their decades-long feud has taken yet another surprising turn.
Glamour model turned bodybuilder Jodie has been at war with Katie for 20 years, with the pair having exchanged many a barbed insult over the years. Digging into everything from their respective equestrian skills to their prowess with men - both women have slung mud at each other, but seem to have warmed up a notch in recent times.
Indeed, back in April this year, Jodie, 45, responded with what appeared to be a degree of sympathy for her old foe, who'd shared a video about a product that helps her deal with stress. To the wonderment of fans, who will likely remember Jodie poking fun at Katie's 'Bond villain teeth', the '00s pin-up icon replied: "I use it too it's amazing."
Now, as the walls between the pair begin to tentatively lower, Jodie has offered a piece of advice to mum-of-five Katie as she continues to deal with her financial woes.
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Getty Images)In an interview with the Mail Online, Jodie pleaded with Katie to "stop spending money", as her former nemesis is declared bankrupt for the second time. Jodie urged: "She can still earn. Go out and graft and keep the money. Just stop spending, especially on plastic surgery."
In the same interview, Jodie opened up about her own money problems, revealing she'd gone from being paid £30,000 for a photo to struggling to pay the mortgage. She's now swapped glitzy parties and showbiz spats for a more peaceful life running Fripps Farm Animal Sanctuary, and reportedly rakes in thousands through her OnlyFans account.
Jodie explained: "We needed to put perimeter fencing around the whole entire farm, and that cost £65,000. I funded that entire thing from my OnlyFans. For the first year my OnlyFans also paid all my staff. I never took a penny for myself.
"Now, I probably only make a couple of grand a month on it, because I've been really slack on it because I'm so busy with the animals. But I'm back posting again so that should shoot up again now. Back when I was paying the staff wages I was earning around £10,000 a month."
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katieprice/Instagram)Fellow animal lover Katie, 46, has also enjoyed success as an Onlyfans star - and has even previously invited Jodie to join her in a saucy collab. Back in February, on her Katie Price Show podcast, Katie conceded: "I've never had a problem with her [Jodie] and I always say to people, we'd probably get on because we both love animals, horses.
"We've both been through the mill. I don't actually have a problem with her and never had and if she reached out. Imagine if me and her did an OnlyFans shoot, that would be one for the thing wouldn't it. I wouldn't rule that out, if Jodie wanted to do an OnlyFans shoot."
This x-rated olive branch took many by surprise, especially those who'd read Katie's 2021 memoir Harvey and Me, in which she blasted Jodie as the 'lowest of the low' and a 'nobody'. Katie wrote: "I met my first husband Peter Andre when I was in the jungle. I had a couple of relationships when Harvey was a baby, and I was with a guy called Scott Sullivan at the time.
"But you know me there's always some drama, I had actually split up with him just before I did the show, so it wasn't just like I bunny hopped to another man. And then Scott went to the lowest of the low and got with Jodie Marsh."
Jodie has also spoken of Katie in a dismissive-at-best tone in years gone by, once describing her as 'the one who’s famous for having loads of different kids with different dads' in a scathing 2015 interview with Zoo magazine. However, at some points during their tangled history, Jodie appears to have taken a more nuanced view, telling Now! magazine in 2011 that she'd felt intimidated by Katie - then the most famous glamour model in the UK. She confessed: "Before I came along, she was the only big name in glamour modelling."
Shedding some light on how they've found common ground in a 2023 interview with The Sun, Jodie shared that Katie had reached out to her after a cruel troll reported Fripps Farm to the RSPCA for her animal sanctuary. Jodie explained: "She could have been an a**ehole and gone 'Someone's trolling Jodie, I'll jump on board and troll her', but no, she reached out to me and spoke to me directly and said 'I'm really sorry about your troll'."
According to Jodie, Katie also put aside their differences to reach out to her after the loss of her beloved mum, who died following a cancer diagnosis in 2020. Katie's own mother was diagnosed with terminal idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2017, and once again, the two women realised they were far more alike than they cared to admit.
Jodie continued: "Katie said 'I'm sorry for the s**t you've been through', referring to my mum. Literally we were still slagging each other a few years back, but we've finally buried the hatchet and become friends!"
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