Katie Worth has reportedly been pressured to tug out of her much-anticipated ‘tell-all’ tour with pal Kerry Katona.

The 2 noughties icons, who rose to fame as a glamour mannequin and member of girlband Atomic Kitten respectively, met and solid a friendship after they pivoted to actuality TV.

Each starred on the 2004 sequence of I’m A Movie star… Get Me Out of Right here!, which Kerry received whereas Katie was launched to her former husband – and father of two of her kids – Peter Andre by way of it.

Nevertheless, 47-year-old Katie has now been pressured to cancel her participation for all 38 proposed dates of the tour with Kerry, 44, which was attributable to run all through September and October.

An Night With Katie Worth & Kerry Katona was set to go to venues together with Redditch Palace Theatre, Stockport Plaza, Grimsby Auditorium, Portsmouth New Theatre Royal and Watford Palace Theatre.

‘Katie is gutted and tried the whole lot she may to make it work however she has needed to step away from the tour as a result of she has childcare commitments and in addition a really busy schedule,’ a supply advised The Solar.

‘She hates letting her followers down and hopes to have the ability to do one thing related within the future.’

The insider mentioned that it was ‘unclear’ in the meanwhile whether or not Kerry would press on it with it as a solo endeavour or if the entire tour can be scrapped.

‘There is no such thing as a dangerous blood between Kerry and Katie, they’re nonetheless better of mates, however it’s an enormous blow to their followers,’ they added.

A consultant for Katie additionally confirmed to the publication that she had pulled out, citing ‘childcare commitments that come first’.

The tour was attributable to kick off on Thursday September 11 in Ellesmere Port earlier than concluding in Hull on Wednesday October 22.

It had promised to see Katie and Kerry share ‘tales of their friendship, marriage and divorce, chapter, I’m A Movie star, the significance of household, their fixed press consideration and turning their lives round’.

The present – marketed as ‘strictly 16+ solely’ attributable to grownup content material – additionally promoted ‘some tune and dance and a chance for viewers questions’ on one venue’s web site.

Meet and Greet VIP tickets had been an choice for the tour as nicely. 

Kerry and Katie beforehand co-starred on stage collectively final yr after they performed the depraved step-sisters within the pantomime Cinderella on the Northwich Memorial Courtroom in Cheshire.

Katie shared on her podcast on the time how Kerry helped get her solid within the present, which has reportedly damaged theatre information in ticket gross sales.

‘So Kerry obtained me the gig as a result of she has been working with them for six years,’ she defined.

‘And he or she was like “Why don’t you come and do that panto”, and she or he mentioned it was for the ugly sisters and I mentioned, “Oh are we ugly then?” and she or he mentioned we will nonetheless be actually fairly.’

Regardless of ups and downs of their friendship over time, Katie and Kerry have turn out to be very shut with the 2 mentioned to be counting on one another rather a lot for emotional help in current occasions.

Chatting with The Mirror, a supply claimed: ‘Katie and Kerry are rising nearer over their shared experiences of powerful occasions – they’ve been a shoulder for one another to cry on.

‘Katie didn’t have the very best Mom’s Day; she was working and didn’t see her youngsters, which was powerful for her.’

Mum-of-five Katie was busy with one other panto, Pinocchio, that means that she spent Mom’s Day with out her kids – 23-year-old Harvey, 19-year-old Junior, 17-year-old Princess, 11-year-old Jett, and 10-year-old Bunny.

Pinocchio, her adults-only pantomime, through which she appeared reverse 90s comic Bobby Davro, noticed one venue, Chesham’s Elgiva Theatre, slashed costs in a bid to promote extra seats final month.

The theatre reportedly determined to supply consumers a second ticket for half value as soon as they’d purchased their very own ticket, after big blocks of seats had been nonetheless accessible for each the matinee and night performances, with only a week to go.

Metro has contacted reps for Katie Worth and Kerry Katona for remark.

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