Trouble just follows Kerry like the waft of a doner, so it's no great surprise that the latest saga in her life reads out like a Shameless nativity special.

According to the News of the World, the bankrupt mum of four has failed to keep up with her mortgage payments and is now close to losing her stone-clad Warrington pad, with a source telling the paper:

"She was totally hysterical when the letter arrived. She hasn't paid the mortgage because she's been squandering what money she has left. Kerry seemed to think she was immune from losing her home. She really didn't think that she, Kerry Katona, would have her house taken from her.

"But now the reality has hit hard - there is no going back, Kerry has lost her home for good. It is too late to negotiate with the mortgage lender, they have given her too many chances. She has just a few weeks to find somewhere to live but she knows it is probably going to be back in a council house in Warrington where she grew up."

Depressing, yet completely inevitable. The only positive thing about this whole sorry story is that Mark Croft might finally fuck off, having nothing more to gain from Kerry.