KATIE Price has revealed she's on the brink of homelessness – just days before she's due to move out of her current home.
Former glamour model Katie, 46, admitted she's struggling to find a guarantor for a new rented property, despite having a glowing reference from her current landlord.
Speaking on The Katie Price Show podcast with her sister Sophie, the mum-of-five explained she's only got "a couple of months" left in her current rental after the owner decided to sell.
She said: "I was supposed to have this place for about two years. The guy who owns it – such a nice guy – he let me have the place even though I didn't have a guarantor.
"And I've been on time with all the payments, as you should, bills and everything. But now he wants to sell it."
Katie added that trying to find a new home has proved more difficult than expected – even with her good track record as a tenant.
She said: "It p****s me off. Some houses I look at, I can't get a guarantor. Some people don't earn enough to be one for me.
"One house I do want, the landlord wants six months' rent up front and a guarantor – even though I've got the best reference ever from this guy.
"It's so annoying. Because that guy has read the papers and that, I get judged on it."
Sophie chipped in, pointing out how competitive the rental market has become, with more landlords demanding guarantors regardless of the tenant's situation.
The TV personality was evicted from her dilapidated Mucky Mansion last year amid ongoing financial issues.
Katie's former home became synonymous with its down-and-out nature and its constant need for repair and upgrade.
After being kicked out of the mega-mansion, Katie was forced to move into her current four-bedroom house in Sussex.
She previously spoke of her joy at moving into a £5k-a-month new build and starting a fresh chapter.
Last month, we exclusively revealed a buyer had snapped up the Mucky Mansion for less than Katie paid for it in 2014.
The rundown pad, which has nine bedrooms and four bathrooms, was bought for £1.15million – £200,000 less than Katie paid for it.
She previously insisted it was worth at least £2million.
Katie said last year: "I absolutely have hated my mansion.
"I tell you why, nine years of hell I've had there. Fly-tipping, it's haunted… And I am living with it.
"Whoever buys that house, good luck! I hate it."
Katie – once worth £45million – moved into the mansion ten years ago.
Katie Price's missing millions
At the peak of her career Katie had an estimated fortune of £45m, thanks to her lucrative modelling career, book deals, and TV appearances.
The cash-strapped mum-of-five was first declared bankrupt in 2019 over unpaid debts of £3.2 million.
In a podcast interview earlier this year, she blamed her exes who include Peter Andre, Alex Reid and Kieran Hayler and lawyers for her money woes.
She insisted that funding her exes' lavish lifestyles with cars, watches, luxury holidays and homes left her finances in tatters.
She added: "I went through a breakdown, this is how mine started – lawyers and exes, that is my bankruptcy thing.
"And obviously a bit of HMRC.
"When I had my breakdown, if anyone has been depressed… I don't know if you've ever had depression.
"It starts with depression and you just want to sleep all day and not talk to anyone, the phone would ring and you wouldn't answer it.'
In March, Katie was declared bankrupt for a second time over an unpaid tax bill of £761,994.05.
The demand for payment was made by HMRC last October.
Katie was due to give evidence about her finances at the High Court but failed to turn up – holidaying in Cyprus with her new man JJ Slater instead.
Her Mucky Mansion was a bomb site for years after it was burgled, flooded and swamped by an overflowing septic tank.
She finally moved out at the end of May and is renting a four-bed mansion in Sussex.
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