Gail Porter Accuses Katie Price of Hair Loss Mockery

has claimed that once cruelly mocked her appearance, after she lost all her hair due to alopecia.

The presenter, 55, developed the chronic condition - which causes the immune system to attack hair follicles - out of nowhere in 2005, causing her TV work to dry up.

And she has now publicly accused TV personality Katie, 47, of making a vile comment making fun of her hair loss when introducing her to a boyfriend.

Gail made the claim in the comments of an Instagram post from Sky TV dropping the trailer for the former glamour model's upcoming tell-all documentary, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, according to The Sun.

She penned in the comments section: 'The person who introduced me to one of her boyfriends and said ‘this is Gail. She used to be pretty when she had hair… her. Thanks.'

Her story left fans stunned, quickly amassing a number of likes and shocked replies, with one person writing: 'That must have been awful for you. I hope you’re okay x' while another assured: 'So sorry she said that! You are beautiful'.

Katie has promised to show viewers 'the good, the bad and the ugly' in the Sky Original four-part series

The doc will combine 'extraordinary unseen footage with first-time testimony to deliver a revealing portrait of one of Britain’s most enduring celebrity figures.'

In the first look at the upcoming show, chatting to the camera, the mum-of-five can be heard asking: 'Do we start with the good, the bad or the ugly?

'We've got the fun 10 years, then the second is... and the third is turbulent. I am what I am, but I've got nothing to hide. You can speak to anyone you like...'

Like Katie, Gail came to fame in the 90s, hosting shows including Top Of The Pops, and The Big Breakfast, before becoming a favourite of the lads' mags.

But following the breakdown of her marriage to Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave, Gail lost her hair to alopecia in 2005 while she was away filming in the US.

She said it came out of nowhere, with her long blonde locks fell out in clumps on her pillow while she slept, along with her eyelashes and eyebrows in just four weeks.

She famously refused to wear wigs, saying she wanted to stay authentic – but job offers quickly dried up.

'TV is a visual industry and they want you to look a certain way,' she later told Closer. 'The truth is I'm not pretty and I don't have hair. I'd get work offers, but then it'd go quiet.'

The TV star previously explained on the Sacrifice and Success podcast: 'My personality took a bit of a knock. Jobs just stopped, because you don't look the same.

''Would you wear a wig, would you mind wearing a wig?' No I don't want to wear a wig. This is how it is.'

After her TV career 'just stopped', Gail was left homeless and without money.

'I was going through a divorce, no money coming in,' she explained. 'So eventually I had nowhere to stay. It just went from bad to worse. 

'Things like, what do you do? Do I drink? I've got no clue whatsoever, I don't take drugs so…'

She recalled that at one point, she also did not have enough credit on her phone to be able to get in contact with anyone.

She went on: 'If I found a pound I was thinking, what do I do with a pound? I'll see if I can find another one and get a mini bottle of wine from the local off license or those little ones.

'Anything for comfort. I was freezing as well, because I was outside.'

In 2011, she was battling with an eating disorder, anorexia, post-natal depression and being diagnosed bipolar.

It resulted in Gail being bundled into the back of a police van and taken to a psychiatric unit where she would be sectioned and forcibly held for nearly a month

However, after her struggles with depression, anorexia and self-harm, the presenter found herself at her lowest point in 2014 when an unforeseen tax demand left her financially devastated.

'I was an idiot. I kept getting bills and instead of dealing with them, I would just put them under my pillow unopened,' Gail said on Loose Women in 2017.

'I ran away from everything and things got worse. They weren't huge bills.'

Gail spent time sofa surfing and even a brief spell rough sleeping in London's Hampstead Heath. 

She has admitted that she was motivated by her daughter Honey - who she shares with ex-husband Dan - to 'save her own life', as she later sought treatment.

She said: 'I went to rehab for my depression, self-harming, if I didn't have Honey I wouldn't be here. One hundred percent. I would not be here. But I thought, I could not do that to my daughter at all.'

In 2020, Gail even admitted that she's given up on finding love after losing her hair, because she no longer feels confident about dating.

'Basically, if anyone wants to date me, that would be great. But I think I've given up. I guess I'm just going to die with a cat,' she told Closer magazine.

'I'm bald and I don't feel confident about dating. I'd love to meet someone, but I don't feel pretty and it's fine. When I lost my hair, I lost a lot of confidence - but I have a happy heart.

Gail added that her daughter brings her great joy and is always championing her, as she gushed: 'Honey's always very wonderful and positive and says, 'You're going to get a boyfriend', and I'm just like, 'Oh whatever'. '

The Scottish television personality married Toploader guitarist Dan in August 2001 and gave birth to their daughter Honey a year later, before they separated in 2005.

Before her marriage, Gail was in a relationship with the Prodigy star Keith Flint, between 1999 and 2001, who she later called 'the love of my life'.

The singer was found dead aged 49, at his home on March 4, 2019, with toxicology reports finding that the star had cocaine, alcohol and codeine in his system.

Following an inquest into his death, a coroner recorded an open verdict after ruling that there was insufficient evidence to rule he took his own life or that it was an accident.

Last month, Gail shared an emotional tribute to her late ex-boyfriend on the sixth anniversary of his death.

Posing for a reflective selfie, the TV personality wistfully penned in the caption: 'If only I could turn back time'.

She previously discussed her relationship with Keith in an interview with Louis Theroux, where she declared: 'Keith was the love of my life, I absolutely loved him, I miss him. 

'I was single and we went out and we did not stop laughing for the entire evening and then practically that was us together, almost for two years.

'The good thing was, he didn't really talk about work, I didn't really talk about work, we would just go and do fun things.

Gail continued: 'I was actually doing a programme called Wish You Were Here ... I got asked to go to the Maldives ... me and Keith went and he had a few issues with a few things.'

Asked by Louis if Keith suffered with poor mental health, she replied: 'He had a few wobbles but by the end of it, he was swimming every day, we were going to the gym and both of us, our mental health was just so fantastic.

'Of course everyone is going to be extremely happy if you're in the Maldives, we were so lucky and then when we got back I said, "Right, I'm going to go back to work and you go back to work".

'He just didn't get his mind back into things properly. And he was going that way and I was like, we need to keep our minds positive and it just didn't work that way.  He was on a downer, I was trying to work my hardest, so it was a shame.' 

Acknowledging they both had their issues, she said: 'I always thought there was going to be that moment when we are going to have bad times at different times and it kind of worked that way unfortunately.'

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