According to Kerry Katona, a Netflix documentary on her “colourful” life is in production.
Since initially becoming famous more than 20 years ago, the 42-year-old former Atomic Kitten singer has always been open about her life.
Aside from winning I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and chart success, Kerry has never shied away from discussing both the happy and terrible times, including her 2004 marriage, becoming a mother to her five children, her three marriages, bankruptcy, recent health concerns, and former drug struggles that resulted in the death of her third husband, George Kay, in 2014.
The OnlyFans actor has announced that her sixth book, the memoir Whole Again – Love, Life and Me, which was released in October 2022, will serve as the inspiration for a new movie.
In addition, Kerry already has an idea of the well-known young A-List actress and Oscar nominee she’d want to portray her, and she jokes that there is enough material “for a sequel or prequel.”
Talking about the exciting venture, Kerry said: ‘I’ve had a colourful life. I’ve been married three times, divorced twice, widowed once. I’ve come from nothing, become a millionaire three times, and bankrupt twice, and now Netflix have got my life story, and want to turn it into a film.
‘I can’t say too much more yet, but watch this space!’ she teased to entrepreneur and host Matt Haycox on his podcast, The Matt Haycox Show.
Expanding further on the film, Kerry wrote in her latest column for new! magazine: ‘I’ve got two screenwriters who have copies of my book and are turning into it a film. I’ve been through everything, you name it, there’s enough material for a sequel, or a prequel.’
‘When I was recording my audio book, I said to my producer, “You couldn’t make this s**t up, could you?” Even Steven Spielberg couldn’t write this!’ she added.
And who would assume the character that was modelled after her and her life?
‘I would love for Florence Pugh to play me, she’s the right height, has blonde hair and is British,’ Kerry out forward in the publication, describing the Oppenheimer star, 27, as ‘great’.
Kerry recently said that she required assistance with reading and writing until she was in her thirties, and that back in the day, the manager of Atomic Kitten had to read out restaurant menus to her.
She didn’t acquire her reading abilities until the reality star and her ex-husband Brian McFadden relocated to Ireland in the early 2000s, at which point she enrolled in typing classes.
Kerry revealed it to Ireland AM on Virgin Media One throughout their conversation.
‘I remember when I first moved to Ireland with Brian, I was pregnant, I couldn’t read or write. I was dyslexic,’ she began.
‘With Brian being on tour all the time, I did a typing course and I taught myself how to read and write properly.’
Host Muireann O’Connell responded by saying she was ‘astounded’ to learn that about Kerry.
‘That’s amazing to have done that,’ she praised.
Kerry continued by describing how dyslexia, a learning disability that mostly impacts the abilities involved in precise and fluid word reading and spelling, affected her in the girl group.
‘Being in Atomic Kitten, bearing in mind I had four sets of foster parents, three refuges, I went to eight different schools, which I was very rarely in because my mum never let me go to school really, I couldn’t even spell the word “orange” at one point,’ she shared.
