Question about Kerry Katona's management

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Firstly it has to be noted that Kerry Katona's new management have obviously saved her life and helped her rebuild her career as a TV personality. Claire, Nicola and Neville have been her much needed guardian angels but I just wondered if Kerry is hundreds of thousands of pounds in debt and her management are funding her her home, utilities, car, kids etc (even renting a house for that leach of a mother of her's Sue) what gain is it to the management company if the finances of the celebrity are low/non existent? She allegedly received 60 grand for Dancing on Ice - probably a fraction of the debts she owes to clear her bankruptcy but surely it will take Kerry years to clear the debt and hence it will be years before she can become self sufficient and financially independent again? I'm delighted she has her life back on track and I am a huge Kerry fan but I just wondered about the logistics of it all?
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  • fredsnailfredsnail Posts: 1,178
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    She's gone bankrupt though - so many if not all of her debts will have been written off at that time.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 882
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    fredsnail wrote: »
    She's gone bankrupt though - so many if not all of her debts will have been written off at that time.

    But in last week's episode (which was around November time) the house she owned which her mother Sue was living in was reclaimed to help clear her bankruptcy? Can they not follow her for more money now she's earning?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,458
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    I think the 'management' are funding her lifestyle, and making bucket loads, or they would not be helping her. Claire Powell is a tough cookie! A clip from this weeks KK episode shows her moving house again. Bankruptcy!!!
  • avidreaderavidreader Posts: 932
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    She's supposed to be bankrupt and yet she's swanning around in a nice car, forever wearing new designer clothes, and lives in nice big houses.

    How does she earn the money for this lifestyle By getting off her backside and working damned hard? No - just be selling her private life to the highest bidders, exposing her children to the media constantly, sticking her tongue out at photographers, and....that appears to be it.

    Considering that a lot of people are genuinely struggling with money at the moment, it seems distasteful to show someone like her supposed to be bankrupt and yet living a lifestyle that most hard working people could ill afford.
  • ValereValere Posts: 1,172
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    avidreader wrote: »
    She's supposed to be bankrupt and yet she's swanning around in a nice car, forever wearing new designer clothes, and lives in nice big houses.

    How does she earn the money for this lifestyle By getting off her backside and working damned hard? No - just be selling her private life to the highest bidders, exposing her children to the media constantly, sticking her tongue out at photographers, and....that appears to be it.

    Considering that a lot of people are genuinely struggling with money at the moment, it seems distasteful to show someone like her supposed to be bankrupt and yet living a lifestyle that most hard working people could ill afford.

    I used to feel so angry about the awful message Kerry's bankrupt lifestyle sent out to the masses but I'd rather be in the gutter than have her life. She'll slip up again at some point because it takes more to turn someone's life around than a new haircut and a bit of money. I pity her poor kids, who she has successfully used to make people like her despite the appalling mother she has been.
  • fredsterfredster Posts: 31,802
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    avidreader wrote: »
    She's supposed to be bankrupt and yet she's swanning around in a nice car, forever wearing new designer clothes, and lives in nice big houses.

    How does she earn the money for this lifestyle By getting off her backside and working damned hard? No - just be selling her private life to the highest bidders, exposing her children to the media constantly, sticking her tongue out at photographers, and....that appears to be it.

    Considering that a lot of people are genuinely struggling with money at the moment, it seems distasteful to show someone like her supposed to be bankrupt and yet living a lifestyle that most hard working people could ill afford.

    Good post, it makesa me furious the way she carries on spending and socialising but, is supposedly bankrupt.
  • lexi22lexi22 Posts: 16,394
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    dory353 wrote: »
    Firstly it has to be noted that Kerry Katona's new management have obviously saved her life and helped her rebuild her career as a TV personality. Claire, Nicola and Neville have been her much needed guardian angels...

    Stop, you're making me cry. :cry: Guardian angels?? Do you seriously think they'd have picked her up if there wasn't money to be made exploiting her car crash of a life? Because that's what it is, cynical exploitation. But Kerry's too stupid and desperate for attention to care. Guardian angels would have taken Kerry aside, told her some hard home truths, and then helped her with the business of sorting out her and her children's lives away from the cameras.

    Guardian angels my arse.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 186
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    From what I have read she was made bankrupt I think by the revenue and they have since refused to allow it to be discharged, until it is the debts are not written off.

    It has been much longer than normal but in bankruptcy all personal assets are considered for liquidation to pay creditors, her Wilmslow house I read was repo'd as she was in arrears - her trustee will allow her some money from her earnings to have a reasonable life style but CAN are playing the longer game and continue to receive their cut of her earnings as they get her the jobs it is only the money she then receives that would be used to repay her creditors.
  • ValereValere Posts: 1,172
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    lexi22 wrote: »
    Stop, you're making me cry. :cry: Guardian angels?? Do you seriously think they'd have picked her up if there wasn't money to be made exploiting her car crash of a life? Because that's what it is, cynical exploitation. But Kerry's too stupid and desperate for attention to care. Guardian angels would have taken Kerry aside, told her some hard home truths, and then helped her with the business of sorting out her and her children's lives away from the cameras.

    Guardian angels my arse.

    Nice post. :D

    CAN can bang on about how they're "healing" Kerry as much as they like but it's only the thickest of people who won't understand that they're actually exploiting her on a worrying level and Kerry will never be more than their puppet.

    The relationship between CAN/Kerry has to be one of the unhealthiest in showbiz.
  • i4ui4u Posts: 54,804
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    She did 'rehab' at a Boot Camp that's on the books of her agent, which gained exposure for it's work through the TV series tracking the selfless Kerry who is looked apon as a role model by victims of the Christchurch earthquake.
  • ValderyValdery Posts: 4,100
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    CAN are agents, they make money, simple. Kerry is bankrupt, needs money and they help her make money, simple. Kerry can then pay the creditors back from that money, again simple.
  • hunniebunhunniebun Posts: 1,077
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    Valdery wrote: »
    CAN are agents, they make money, simple. Kerry is bankrupt, needs money and they help her make money, simple. Kerry can then pay the creditors back from that money, again simple.

    However it isn't that simple with her management. They are bank rolling every aspect of her life - she maybe starting to pay the inland revenue back - but at the same time she is building up a huge liability to her managers (as we are constantly reminded), which is really not healthy and could cloud her managements integrity when seeking work for KK. After all, their priority will be to ensure that KK can repay them the huge amounts they are subbing her, in addition to the % of her earnings they will take as her managers - rather than ensuring any work is in KK's best interest. Huge conflict of interest IMO.
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    hunniebun wrote: »
    However it isn't that simple with her management. They are bank rolling every aspect of her life - she maybe starting to pay the inland revenue back - but at the same time she is building up a huge liability to her managers (as we are constantly reminded), which is really not healthy and could cloud her managements integrity when seeking work for KK. After all, their priority will be to ensure that KK can repay them the huge amounts they are subbing her, in addition to the % of her earnings they will take as her managers - rather than ensuring any work is in KK's best interest. Huge conflict of interest IMO.

    Wouldn't their fee come out of any payment before it was used to pay off the debts? It does not make sense that CAN would bankroll someone as unstable as KK without guaranteed payment.
  • ValderyValdery Posts: 4,100
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    In my opinion, Kerry Katona, if CAN had not done what they did, would have been much, much worse off than she is now. In my opinon Kerry Katona's children would still be in the position they were, if not worse, if CAN had not intervened and for this they should be applauded not be accused of being appauling.
  • ValereValere Posts: 1,172
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    Valdery wrote: »
    In my opinion, Kerry Katona, if CAN had not done what they did, would have been much, much worse off than she is now. In my opinon Kerry Katona's children would still be in the position they were, if not worse, if CAN had not intervened and for this they should be applauded not be accused of being appauling.

    But CAN don't give a shit about Kerry beyond making money from her. I'm glad Kerry's children have a roof over their head but they don't need a mansion, private schools and whatever else CAN are funding. Kerry's lifestyle is ridiculous and CAN are appalling when they act like all you need to cure yourself of the kind of in-depth problems Kerry had is a haircut and some money.
  • ValderyValdery Posts: 4,100
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    Valere, I understand your point. My point is they are better off now under CAN management than they were before CAN Management. If that is good for her children then I am all in favour of it. Even to the extent that CAN wanted the promise that Croft was not on the scene before they took her on.

    Yes, they are making money, that is what they are about, they are agents. They are also about promotion of both the client and themselves. They are promoting both in a way that appears to work for them and which they wish to continue with.

    Some management would not even bother with their minutae of a client, they do and their clients appear to enjoy being "one happy family". Their clients can always leave and they CAN always finish a contract with a client. Both feed off and are of a benefit to each other.
  • phil solophil solo Posts: 9,669
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    Some interesting comments on the extent to which CAN run Kerry's life from her most recent ex-b/f

    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a316614/kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-boyfriend.html

    Reinforces everything that is frequently said on here, from someone close enough to see for himself.
  • ValereValere Posts: 1,172
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    phil solo wrote: »
    Some interesting comments on the extent to which CAN run Kerry's life from her most recent ex-b/f

    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a316614/kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-boyfriend.html

    Reinforces everything that is frequently said on here, from someone close enough to see for himself.

    CAN and Kerry may be using each other but I'll always stand by my belief that CAN are an extremely creepy and unethical agency. It's good that most people on here see them for that too.
  • i4ui4u Posts: 54,804
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    Valere wrote: »
    CAN and Kerry may be using each other but I'll always stand by my belief that CAN are an extremely creepy and unethical agency. It's good that most people on here see them for that too.

    Interviews I've seen of Claire Powell's sleeping partner Neville Hendricks, he comes across as someone who takes no prisoners, doesn't give a jot and ain't making TV programmes for their art or accuracy.

    Kerry is a performing seal which her 'friends' are quite happy to keep happy with a plentiful supply of dead fish, till the money stops coming in.

    How many of CAN's female clients have had their mugs plastered in the press at the same Boot Camp that Kerry went too?

    Are the newspapers/mags, editors and reporters on the payroll and have to print the photos and name the boot camp without question?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 6,537
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    she could cover Sandy Shaw's "puppet on a string"

    BTW isn't her "property developer" ex moaning he did not want to become Mr KK - hence proving he was only boosting his profile......??
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 23,570
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    phil solo wrote: »
    Some interesting comments on the extent to which CAN run Kerry's life from her most recent ex-b/f

    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a316614/kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-boyfriend.html

    Reinforces everything that is frequently said on here, from someone close enough to see for himself.
    Fascinating to see that they expected the boyfriend to sign a non disclosure agreement whilst they wanted to film every aspect of Kerry's life, including his whilst he was dating her.
  • hunniebunhunniebun Posts: 1,077
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    Valdery wrote: »
    Valere, I understand your point. My point is they are better off now under CAN management than they were before CAN Management. If that is good for her children then I am all in favour of it. Even to the extent that CAN wanted the promise that Croft was not on the scene before they took her on.

    Yes, they are making money, that is what they are about, they are agents. They are also about promotion of both the client and themselves. They are promoting both in a way that appears to work for them and which they wish to continue with.

    Some management would not even bother with their minutae of a client, they do and their clients appear to enjoy being "one happy family". Their clients can always leave and they CAN always finish a contract with a client. Both feed off and are of a benefit to each other.

    PR firms aren't normally out to promote themselves - they are there to promote their clients.
    As another poster on here has said - it appears that most users of this forum can see CAN for the unprofessional and rather creepy agency that they are.
  • Sez_babeSez_babe Posts: 133,998
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    Kerry has said that the car she uses is her management's. I've wondered how she can have all that she has as well and from what I've seen on her show, most of it is not her's.
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    The only person I think Claire genuinely has time for is Andre. Everyone else is her and fiance Nev's mortgage payments. Nev reminds me of that Colin from Showbusiness. Nev would be nothing without Powell and they both know it.

    Powell is just as dangerous as Max Clifford for Kerry. Kerry is f****d up. No question about it and she needs looking after so she clings on to these older, parental figures who she thinks will look after her but they just want her money and once she stops making that money she will be on a heap somewhere.

    Sad.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,126
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    phil solo wrote: »
    Some interesting comments on the extent to which CAN run Kerry's life from her most recent ex-b/f

    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a316614/kerry-katona-dumped-by-take-me-out-boyfriend.html

    Reinforces everything that is frequently said on here, from someone close enough to see for himself.

    If he hates the celeb lifestyle, why is he on take me out?
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