KATIE Price and Kerry Katona have landed eye watering fees for just 23 nights of work in panto, The Sun can reveal.
Pals Katie, 46, and Kerry, 44, are playing the wicked stepsisters in a production of Cinderella at Northwich Memorial Court later this year.
They have been friends for more than 20 years[/caption]
It was previously revealed news of their involvement led to new ticket sale records for the theatre.
And Katie and Kerry – who met during I’m a Celebrity in 2004 – have secured fitting salaries for less than a month’s work.
An insider told us: “Katie and Kerry have secured themselves really good deals to do panto this year.
“They understand how much they are worth together and have already sold 10k tickets, so are really earning their keep.
“They are getting significant pay cheques for the role and they will be getting exactly the same amount.”
Anton Benson, who is producing the panto, said: This is our 7th panto contract with Kerry and we are looking forward to working with her again and delighted to have Katie alongside her for the first time.”
After tickets went on sale earlier this month, the theatre posted a statement on social media.
It read: “Since our casting news broke earlier this evening, we have sold the highest number of tickets that we’ve ever sold in a single day during our last 14 years in Northwich!
“Book your tickets soon before the best seats go!
www.brioentertainment.org.”
Katie – who was declared bankrupt for a second time in May over an unpaid tax bill of £750,000 – revealed she was teaming up with Kerry in May.
Speaking on her podcast, she said: “I’ve signed up for Cinderella and I’m one of the ugly sisters – and guess who is the ugly sister I’m doing it with – it’s Kerry Katona!
“So Kerry got me the gig because she has been working with them for six years.
“And she was like ‘why don’t you come and do this panto’, and she said it was for the ugly sisters and I said ‘oh are we ugly then?’ and she said we can still be really pretty.”
Katie was first declared bankrupt in 2019 over unpaid debts of £3.2 million.
Earlier this year her Mucky Mansion was repossessed after she failed to meet payments for two mortgages on the sprawling pad.
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.
