Katie Olivia Hopkins was born on the 13th February 1975, in Barnstaple, Devon, England, and is a newspaper columnist as well as a media personality who is best known for participating in reality TV shows “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” and “Celebrity Big Brother”. She is also widely recognized for her engagements with The Sun and the Daily Mail newspapers, as well as for her rather controversial attitude towards politics, immigrants and racism.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this British TV persona has accumulated so far? How rich Katie Hopkins is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Katie Hopkins’ net worth, as of late 2017, revolves around the sum of $4 million, primarily acquired through on-camera appearances which have significantly boosted her popularity as well.
Katie Hopkins Net Worth $4 million
Katie was the younger of two daughters of Anona C. O. Crowle and Roy Hopkins. She went to a private convent school where she discovered her interest in sports as well as music, playing violin and piano. After being rejected from the University of Oxford, she enrolled at the University of Exeter where she majored in economics. From childhood, Katie was mesmerized by the military, so she attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where she completed her officer training, but epilepsy debarred her from service. Subsequently, she moved to the US, settling in Manhattan, New York, where she began working as a business consultant. This engagement provided the basis for Katie Hopkins’ net worth.
In 2005 she returned to the UK where in 2006 she landed the job of a global brand consultant at the Met Office. Later that year, Katie began appearing in the third season of BBC’s reality game show “The Apprentice”, in which candidates compete through a series of business related tasks for the main prize – working for British business magnate Alan Sugar. After being fired from the Met Office in June 2007, Hopkins used media attention and signed deals with EMAP and the News of the World media publishing companies. It is certain that all these accomplishments dramatically boosted Katie Hopkins’ popularity as well as net worth.
After her on-camera debut, Katie was featured in several other TV broadcasts, such as the “Loose Women” series, as well as “The Sunday Night Project” and “8 Out of 10 Cats” variety shows. Subsequently, she joined the crew of the seventh season of “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!”, a survival reality TV show. In January 2015, Katie joined the 15th season of British “Celebrity Big Brother” reality show. Later that year, she launched her own TV show on TLC – “If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World” which was canceled after only a couple of months. Doubtlessly, all these involvements helped Katie Hopkins to significantly increase her wealth, if not necessarily her popularity.
Apart from all those mentioned above, Katie Hopkins also gained huge media attention for publically revealing her rather controversial attitude towards several sensitive topics, including the UK healthcare system, racism, immigrants and refuges as well as maternity leave politics and obese people among several others.
When it comes to her personal life, Katie has married twice – between 2004 and 2007 she was married to Damien G. D. McKinney with whom she welcomed two children before they divorced. Since 2010, she has been married to Mark Cross with whom she has one child.
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