Katie Price’s social worker is SACKED after getting ‘too close’ to the reality star and being offered a job to work as Jett and Bunny’s nanny

Katie Price’s social worker has been sacked for getting ‘too close’ to her amid concerns she was blurring professional boundaries, MailOnline can reveal. 

It is understood that Lynne Rickwood was even considering taking a job as nanny to Katie’s youngest children, underlining the close relationship that developed between the two women.

Social services bosses are believed to have raised concerns that this could be considered ‘unprofessional’ as social workers are supposed to maintain a healthy distance from their clients and not become too embroiled in their personal lives.

Ms Rickwood, 45, from Brighton, was employed by West Sussex County Council’s family safeguarding team.

A source told MailOnline: ‘Lynne’s employment with West Sussex County Council was terminated last Thursday.

‘The local authority became aware that Lynne had been offered a position as nanny for Katie’s two youngest children and was considering whether to take it.

‘As a social worker, Lynne had an ethical responsibility to remain impartial and considering Katie’s job offer would have been a conflict of interest.’

The case will be independently reviewed by Social Work England (SWE), who regulate social workers.

A spokesman for West Sussex County Council said: ‘The council does not comment about individuals, their personal details or circumstances and are not in a position to confirm or deny any claims made.’

Katie is a mother to Harvey Price, 21, as well as Junior, 18, and Princess, 16, who she shares with former husband Peter Andre, and her youngest two Jett, 10, and Bunny, nine, from her marriage to ex Kieran Hayler.

In July, the former glamour model revealed on Instagram that Jett hasn’t attended school for almost a year, telling her 2.6million fanbase that he is being ‘home schooled.’

On Thursday, Kieran, who divorced Katie in 2021, shared a quote to his Instagram profile, which read: ‘The obvious signs one parent is alienating a child from the other parent is not only twisting the other parent’s good intentions, but bribing their children with gifts or lack of rules as well as allowing a child to make adult decisions.’

Katie is currently in a relationship with on/off fiancé Carl Woods and this week has shared the results of her latest cosmetic treatments, including getting her lips plumped with filler to achieve the ‘butterfly lip’ trend. 

The sacking of Ms Rickwood marks the latest in a series of highs and lows in Katie’s life, which have all been lived out in the public spotlight.

Despite her fame and wealth, life has not come easily for Katie, who has battled bankruptcy, burglaries, assaults and drug abuse, while also navigating a very rocky love life.

When it comes to romance, Katie’s quest for love has seen her tie the knot three times, including to ex Alex Reid, and get engaged eight.

Katie is no stranger to court, having risked jail time on multiple occasions due to various driving violations.

In 2003, Katie swerved a speeding charge after police failed to arrest her within 12 weeks of allegedly clocking 70mph in a 40mph zone in her Range Rover.

Five years later she landed three penalty points after being caught talking on her phone while driving.

In 2009 she failed to provide the identity of the driver after her car was allegedly caught speeding in a 30mph zone and was later handed four penalty points.

The following year she was convicted for failing to be in proper control of her horsebox after veering into another lane in February and was given three points on her licence, bringing her total to 10.

Later that year she was banned from driving for six months after doing 83mph in a 70mph zone in her home county of West Sussex.

In 2012, Katie was disqualified for 12 months for failing to respond to two speeding tickets in September.

After a quiet few years Katie landed a six-month ban in February 2018 for speeding after totting up 12 penalty points for speeding.

In July, photos emerged of her driving while still banned.

Then in October she was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and spent 13 hours in custody after crashing into a VW Golf and a hedge on a gated estate at 2am.

In 2019 she was given a three-month ban for driving while disqualified in January of that year and was later handed a five-year restraining order banning her from contacting Michelle Penticost either directly or indirectly after hurling abuse at her during an argument at a school playground.

Then in October, Katie was banned from driving for a further 18 months for failing to inform police who was behind the wheel of her pink Range Rover during a crash in Bexley, south east London.

Two years later she crashed her BMW car on a country road near her West Sussex home in the early hours of the morning after drinking and taking drugs.

She pleaded guilty at Crawley Magistrates of drink driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance and was handed a 16-week suspended prison sentence.

In 2022 she then pleaded guilty to breaching a five-year restraining order not to contact, directly or indirectly, Michelle Penticost, who is in a relationship with her ex Kieran. 

She avoided jail again after claiming she ‘misunderstood’ the rules of a restraining order when she sent a ‘vile and nasty’ message about her ex-husband’s fiancée.

Katie’s financial woes have also routinely hit the headlines over the years. Katie was declared bankrupt in 2019 with debts of £3.2m from her failed company Jordan Trading Ltd, that was set up to oversee her perfume and cosmetics line.

She set up the company in 2003 but in 2017 an application was put in to wind up the company as she tried to sort out her finances.

When the mother-of-five was declared bankrupt she vowed to pay back £12,000 a month to creditors of the firm through an individual voluntary arrangement.

The bankruptcy meant Katie, once worth a reported £45million, faced losing her £2million 11-bedroom mansion.

She took out a second mortgage on the property in 2015 but faced monthly payments of £12,300.

In June 2022 the former model had been due to attend the Royal Court of Justice to explain to a judge why she has failed to repay millions owed to creditors.

However, the hearing was adjourned at the last minute with her solicitors giving no reason for Katie’s no show before the court.

Despite being bankrupt Katie has seemingly led a lavish life, including exotic holidays to Las Vegas and Thailand. She has also had a series of highly publicised battles with drugs and undergone hundreds of cosmetic surgery procedures. 

Katie also visited The Priory in 2018 when she spent 28 days as an inpatient after her family urged her to seek help following wild partying antics in Mallorca.

At the time, she was confronted by her loved ones after shocking footage emerged of her rapping ‘I love coke’ during a booze-fuelled hen do.

Katie broke down after the intervention and admitted she needed help to get over her chaotic behaviour, which she blamed on her PTSD.

She later said: ‘My family and friends were hurt, they didn’t know what to do. All these years in the industry I never have [done drugs] but I purely did it to self-medicate, I went to the doctors and told them the truth…

‘Self-medicating on drugs really, it was disgusting, but it was my way of dealing with it. At least I can hold my hands up, if I didn’t speak out now, I would still be in a rut’.

In 2020 Katie revealed she had been taking monthly drug tests to ‘build trust’ with her ex-husbands Pete and Kieran, with whom she shares four children. 

Katie crashed her BMW while over double the drink-drive limit in November 2022 after leaving her home to allegedly hunt for drugs during an all-night alcohol and cocaine bender.

Katie’s ex Carl Woods reportedly leaked a recording of his former partner speaking about drugs. In the midst of one of their break-up, Carl was said to have released a recording which allegedly hears Katie saying she didn’t turn up to an event ‘because I was on coke.’