âHEAT VISITS Kerry Katona (and Mark, who hides upstairs).â
Kerry Katona, a shoo-in for numerous walk-on parts in Jeremy Kyle: The Movie, is stood before her house. heatâs writer âisnât sure if sheâs a welcome guest.â
Readers see the double garages, the sports car and the paved driveway. And if they peer around Kerry, they can see the front door. Itâs closed.
âLetâs not pretend here: Kerry does not like heat magazine,â says heat magazine. Kerry has bought an Alsatian dog. She has a husband heat has labelled âintimidatingâ.
Kerry and Mark have been in Madeira filming a section for the MTV show Crazy In Love. heat says Kerry did not emerge from her hotel room for four days. Love and especially Crazy Love can do that to you.
Perhaps this is why heat cannot focus, revealing straight off that Kerryâs home features a gravel driveway. But the picture, we splutter. Itâs a herringbone pattern in block paving. gut no-one listens…
Inside With Kerry
A ring on the door, which heat correctly identifies. A wait. A âstern-yet-friendlyâ woman called Pat opens the door. Sheâs Kerryâs stepsister, employed to do the cleaning.
âThe house is spotless, a bit like an MFI showroom,â albeit without the glamour. âI heart mum,â says a message scrawled in crayon on the fridge. heat says itâs the work of one of Kerryâs children, but can it be certain?
More messages are writ on a whiteboard: âBaby scanâ, âSchool discoâ, âDog trainerâ, all staging posts on the celebrity journey. Add “Rehab” and you have the making of a How To Celebrity guide.
Getting Over Kerry
Katona appears. âShe all we go and get his over with?â she says. She then calls the papers âarseholesâ. Kerry has eight tattoos, including âHeidiâ, the name of one of her daughters, on her neck.
Kerry tells us that sheâs not âshowbizâ. Which make us wonder why anyone ever thought she was and how come she came to be a celebrity?
heat then recalls a moment on an MTV show in which Kerry was âin the garden with your dog and youâre gurning and sniffingâ. Kerry, who made a name of herself sticking out her tongue, responds: âI was doing this, wasnât I? [Makes a sideways motion with her chin.] I do it constantly. Iâve even got a chipped tooth from doing it.â
Very soon everybody will be doing it. And what then for Kerry?
Kerry leans her head on her right hand. Good. But is it enough?
