Former Atomic Kitten turned TV eyesore (it's compulsory to mention Atomic Kitten here, so that this qualifies as music news) Kerry Katona has won substantial but undisclosed libel damages from The Sunday Mirror after the paper claimed that she had worked as a prostitute prior to her pop career. The paper claimed in June that Katona's mother Sue had secured a six-figure deal to publish a tell all book and that one of the things she would tell all about would be her daughter's streetwalking days.
Katona's solicitor-advocate, David Price, told Mr Justice Eady at the High Court in London: "The truth is that Sue Katona has never alleged that the claimant worked as a prostitute in the book or at any other time and such an allegation would be entirely untrue. Moreover, Sue Katona has not to date written an autobiography nor does she have a publishing agreement to publish such a book. [Kerry] was particularly distressed that such an allegation was said to have been made by her mother, thereby giving it added credibility".