Katie Price fans devastated as she announces her podcast is CANCELLED as she faces Instagram ban
KATIE Price fans have been left gutted after she and her sister Sophie pulled their podcast from the airways.
The siblings usually drop a new recording of The Katie Price show each week and their avid listeners are always poised to tune in.
Katie, 45, and Sophie, 34, don’t shy away when chatting about what they have been up to, and last week Katie even opened up about her ADHD diagnosis.
But fans who are eagerly awaiting their latest podcast episode to land are in for disappointment, as the girls have cancelled this week’s.
Announcing the news on Instagram, Katie told her army of followers: “No podcast episode this week. We’re taking a break over Easter but we’ll be back next week!”
Katie’s decision to step back from The Katie Price Show comes as she faces a ban on Instagram.
The former glamour model came under fire for an irresponsible diet post, which she was told to remove.
It was claimed Katie’s post promoted a diet that fell below 800 calories a day, and was not obviously recognisable as an ad.
The mum-of-five shared the reel last August for The Skinny Food Co. and detailed what she ate in a day, including some of the brand’s products.
Katie was heard making multiple references to her own weight loss attempts in a video, stating: “God look at that double chin, here’s why I’m on the Skinny Foods.”
In the caption, she wrote: “Another example of how you can eat so many delicious meals and snacks in the day.
“All of this was only 755 calories and helping me stay in a calorie deficit to shift some extra pounds when needed.
“If I have a bad day I like to go in a calorie deficit to ensure it’s not a bad week!”
Katie was supposed to remove the post – but it is still online on her Instagram account, despite the risk of her now being banned from the social media platform.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received two complaints after the post, challenging whether it was obvious enough that the post was an advert and whether or not the ad was promoting irresponsible dieting.
The Skinny Food Co denied these claims, saying that the reel included “#ad” in the caption, which they considered was sufficient to ensure that it was visible and clear that the reel was a paid promotion.
The company added that they can’t control what Katie eats in a day.
The ASA, however, were unhappy with this justification, with watchdog’s ruling stating: “We acknowledged that the reel featured the hashtag ‘#ad’ in the caption.
“However, the identifier was placed at the end of the caption and was not visible without engaging with the post and expanding the text.
“We therefore concluded that the label was insufficiently prominent to obviously identify the ad as a marketing communication from the outset.”
One of the main issues with the post was the severe lack of calories consumed, promoting an irresponsible diet of below 800 calories a day to followers without a recommendation to seek medical advice first.
The ASA ruling added: “We therefore considered that consumers would understand from the ad that they could elect to follow a similar diet that fell below 800 kcal a day by consuming the same products, and other products from The Skinny Food Co’s range, without taking medical advice, until they achieved their desired weight.”
The ad has been banned from appearing again in this way, and Not Guilty Food Co Ltd, The Skinny Food Co, and Katie Price have all been urged to ensure that their future ads are obviously identifiable as marketing communications.