Oh god no: Katie Price show will showcase her "incredible horsemanship" - kill me now

KP makes me want to hurl. She isnt attractive, she isnt clever, she isnt witty, shes makes me squirm with embarasment.

And YES I AM a better rider than she is as are many here and I dont mind saying it.

If KP travels her equestrian path as she has travelled all the others in her tragic existence then it wont be long before the horses are boring and she has moved on to something else.
 
Crikey - there is a huge amount of vitriol against KP in this forum - and guys there are times you are stating hearsay as fact! HOYS - she bought media attention when she rode at the show - of course she isn't up there with top riders but people wanted to see Jordan not a pro rider. I have noticed that not one person has mentioned the fact that Ellen Terry did something similiar with Vicky Thompson at Olympia last year?!! Comments about riding 2012 - well - misguided but why get hot under the collar? I took it for what it was - media commentary to get more attention!

She has absolutely exploited every opportunity - but that is her choice, and its ours if we don't want to buy into it. So Living are running a programme.. lets be honest, those who would want to watch are probably not going to be particularly equine so someone had to make the title of the show seem interesting.

I do worry when she is cited as being an aspirational role model by young girls - who conveniently turn a blind eye to the fact she freely admits to plastic surgery.

And finally, what shes does well is to keep interest up.. just look at this thread and how heated it got!!
 
well to be fair on the makers of the programme they have included quotation marks round the bit of the title that says "incredible horsemanship".

Im not fussed about her either way, theres a lot worse people in the world and to be honest I am jealous of all her money - If i had it i'd do exactly the same and go out and buy a load of expensive horses and top trainers (wouldnt we all?)

I wont be watching it because im not interested in her but some people are. so what?!
 
Hanno Verian said:
By that logic I should be ready to be signed up for a premier league team on the basis that I kicked a football around the sports hall once a week for ten years!

There is a vast difference between having someone else prepare the horse, bring it on, train it, school it, exercise it, warm it up and just being a passenger on what is in essence a schoolmaster for the benefit of the cameras.

So to me she will always be a mediocre rider at best
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What my point was, was that she has ridden since she was little, so she must have some basic riding abillity, i am not saying she's a great rider, far from it, she can't ride a schoolmaster to its best she dosn't have the ability, i was just saying, she's rode for years and can ride a steady horse.
 
Luci07 said:
And finally, what shes does well is to keep interest up.. just look at this thread and how heated it got!!
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totally agree, like her or hate her, KP attracts attention and that's exactly why she gets these shows more than anyone else!
 
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Oh come on! I've just read through the entire thread and chuckled most of my way through...

Especially liked SirenaXVI's slap bottom emoticon - excellent!
 
TBH I did like her until she moved a few of her horses onto the yard where I have just recently moved from I can safely say I have never seen the incredible horsemanship that is described just alot of show boating for the camera lens..
 
ok so the woman got loads of plastic surgery, got her boobs out and made a mahoosive amount of money.
She has done what we would all do with that amount of money brought some fab horses and a good trainer, the horses are cared for, prob not buy her but do you think they care who looks after them as long as they are looked after.
Sure she got to ride at HOY's she was invited as "celebrity masterclass" will always attract more people than "someone from a yard somewhere having a lesson" and these shows are there to make money.
The tv companies are offering to pay her for these shows so some people must be watching them, sure she is gonna do the shows she like publicity and money.
I am not sticking up for her just cant see why so many people get hot under the collar over someone they have never met and who at the end of the day has not committed a crime just made a lot of money in a legal way
 
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Not hot under the collar, not jealous, not interested! It worries me that people spend so much time following her exploits in the press, mags and on countless reality tv shows. if KPs life is that interesting and exciting for people it makes me wonder how **** the lives of the viewers must be!
 
I don’t love or hate KP, I have watched her TV programme on the very odd occasion (when there really is nothing else on worth watching) and it does make interesting viewing at times. Sometimes I find her extremely irritating and she annoys the hell out of me, other times I think she’s not so bad and she does make me laugh.

As far as being a horsewoman goes, I can’t blame her for jumping on the equestrian bandwagon. She saw a gap in the market, an opportunity to make more money and to raise her profile in another field. She’s certainly not a brilliant horsewoman who I would admire, she just has the money to buy nice horses and has them professionally schooled for her to ride and look good on. She does none of the hard graft herself.

I’m sure there are many riders on here that are more talented than her by a long way, but without the finances to back them they will never be able to reach the levels they are capable of. The difference is KP can afford it, I’m not jealous of her but yes it does irritate the hell out of me when I work my arse off just to be able to keep my horses. I think instead of constantly promoting "herself" in the horse word, she should use her “celebrity” status to highlight good equine causes. Send her off to Pakistan to The Brooke Hospital to do some charity work and to highlight the plight of the poor horses and donkeys out there. I’d have more respect for her if shehad done a masterclass at HOYS on an ex-racehorse to promote the thousands that come out of racing each year, instead of some dressage horse (with a silly name) that cost her thousands!!
 
spaniel said:
Not hot under the collar, not jealous, not interested! It worries me that people spend so much time following her exploits in the press, mags and on countless reality tv shows. if KPs life is that interesting and exciting for people it makes me wonder how **** the lives of the viewers must be!
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Sometimes very... When you are stuck, have digested the Guardian, Times, Telegraph and the Independant gone through the Field, the Week and Private Eye just for a laugh sometimes all that is left is... NOW (both the mag and News of the Word)...

Oh to be out, picking up manure or gardening... Instead we have to entertain ourselves with silocone...

FWIW (hark at me doing text speak!) I saw her ride once, once was enough. The horse did all the work. All she did was walk trot and canter round do a few circles, a prelim test is harder. I would love to have a horse that well trained but then I would prefer to do it myself. I have also seen complete novices do just as well on quiet well trained horses.

Katie Price is boring. However she knows how to make lots of money and has skin thicker than a rhinos back end. Part of me thinks good on her for making the most of the fools who follow her, part of me thinks oh for gods sake woman get a grip. So I prefer not to read about her perhaps getting divorced mabe going on holiday, oh her boobs have changed size again... boring dull and crass. if you watch the media though you will notice that after about a week of nothing she or her publicists will do something to get back in the news...
 
I think the issue is the fact that the media and wider public have no interest in horses or their riders. ( most of us loved Martin Clunes this weekend and last but the critics didn't get the show at all )

Its not a programme being made about real horsemanship at all its just another angle for KP to get more profile. She happens to ride so lets film her doing that. The horsemanship is secondary.

If the show wasn't about KP there'd be no show of horses or other celebrity riders cos no buggers ever heard of them and therefore no-one would watch.

FWIW I think she's awful but I also have other channels on my telly.
 
I don't know who this person is or anything about her but I would like to comment that just because someone doesn't like a certain celebrity or the way they go about things doesn't mean they are jealous of them. That's always been such a middle school type of comment to me - reducing every argument down to, "Oh, you're just jealous."
 
Overall I don't really care what KP does or doesn't do, but I have to say whilst her antics might raise awareness of Equestrianism, it really doesn't promote the sport in a serious light.

Most unhorsey people I know regard riding as a pastime for the rich only, and seem to think its as easy as sitting pretty and letting a horse do all the work.

KP flouncing about buying hugely expensive horses which she is never seen to do anything with other than turn up and ride [trotting about prettily for a bit] before getting off and giving to a groom, and making crazy claims about going to the Olympics certainly doesn't do anything to dispel these misconceptions to the general public, unfortunately.
 
katelarge said:
We moan about her because instead of the media focusing on positive female equestrian role models - Lucinda Green, Pippa Funnell, Mary King, Lucinda Fredricks, Kelly Marks, Steph Croxford, Louise Bell - to name a VERY few right off the top of my head, they concentrate on a talentless surgery addict who competes at what is actually a very grassroots level and therefore does not deserve to be held up as a model of "incredible horsemanship". THAT'S why! I am not saying anything against KP pootling about at shows doing her thing - good luck to her - but to hold her up as an example of an "incredible" level of skill is just insulting. What is Lee Pearson then?
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Ditto this. Nothing against her being a horse-lover, we all are on here! :) Best of luck to her doing her thing too. But holding her up as some sort of equestrian role model just seems a bit ridiculous to me!!
 
What a lovely post.. riddled with jealous.. Get a grip people.

Good on her. she is doing the horse world a lot of good. And I wish her the very best. Stop being so baitchy and jealous. if you dont like her.. dont watch/read about her. quiet simple..

Lou x
 
LOl, this forum never ceases to amuse me :D

"what about the kiddies??!!" Heck love, I'd be more worried about rising gun crime and drug dealing outside the grammar school gates than some glamour model bouncing 'round on a 40 grand WB. ;)

The fact she has them on full livery. So what? Plenty of forum members have theirs on full livery. Does it make them abysmal riders who don't care about their horses too? Go in NL and post that.........:D

Has no-one considered that Living TV does like to make things seem exciting? So perhaps they titled it, and not Katie?

And honestly, who here would not give their right arm for her horses, house, fleet of cars, lorry etc?

She's made more money than half of you could dream of, and who cares how she made it? I wonder if perhaps anyone's ever done adult movies or escorting to afford their horses? Would that bother you as much? Oh, no, because they're not in the spot light, so you don't know... could be the person in the next stable to you ;)

Now, step away from the pc, calm the hysteria, and have a nice calamine tea.......... :p
 
If by doing this more little girls and boys take up riding and more people know about how dressage works, because a lot of horse people take no interest in it whatsoever! Then good on her for intentionally or unintentionally using the cleleb status to bring horses and horse riding and a horse sport to the General Public in prime time.

In a time where we are all struggling to make a living those kiddies buying her pink range of horse clothes and making them a must have might well save your local saddlery from going bust or the local riding school from folding under the huge expense of winter fodder this year !!

Who wouldn't buy nice horses if they had the disposable income of Katie, I certainly would go on spending spree if I had that sort of money, I probably couldn't ride one side of half the ones I like but I could afford the lessons! She makes money now from business decisions more than showing her assets so she is a bit more than an "old" glamour model, even if you want to smack her you cannot take away her success and without her OTT personality and constant media coverage she attracts and holds would we even be having this conversation???.
 
I am in NO way a fan of KP but i do respect her as a business woman as she is successful. Noone can take that away from her. I believe a show like this would have higher ratings than say a successful dressage rider (I know its not fair but that's the way it goes I'm afraid!). It promotes horse riding and could encourage more people into riding. I don't see what the big commotion is! If you don't want to watch it then simply... don't! There are other programmes out there you can watch such as Carl Hester's masterclass, the Eilberg's, the Whittaker's etc. I do wander how their ratings would compare to KP's
 
oh god-any of you who think she is just like all of us-go to youtube,put in Katie Price hoys,sit back and watch.Awful AND I feel sorry for the poor horse....She sold one of her squillion quid dressage horses because his name was Andre-ya some horsewoman alright............:D
 
Binkyireland said:
oh god-any of you who think she is just like all of us-go to youtube,put in Katie Price hoys,sit back and watch.Awful AND I feel sorry for the poor horse....She sold one of her squillion quid dressage horses because his name was Andre-ya some horsewoman alright............:D
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and, erm, you're FAR better than her, right? :rolleyes:

There's a video vault at the bottom of the forum, why don't you post a video of you doing dressage this week? Then we can be the judges of how awful Katie is in comparison to you.
 
Binkyireland said:
oh god-any of you who think she is just like all of us-go to youtube,put in Katie Price hoys,sit back and watch.Awful AND I feel sorry for the poor horse....She sold one of her squillion quid dressage horses because his name was Andre-ya some horsewoman alright............:D
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She never sold Andre because of his name! She sold him because he wasn't the right horse for her.. he was too powerful and sharp for her (he was only 5). She then bought an older more safer horse for her to ride. The media just hyped it up that it was because of PA. He was also not a squillion quid not anywhere close to a million... Maybe a case of sour grapes?
 
LMR said:
I am in NO way a fan of KP but i do respect her as a business woman as she is successful. Noone can take that away from her. I believe a show like this would have higher ratings than say a successful dressage rider (I know its not fair but that's the way it goes I'm afraid!). It promotes horse riding and could encourage more people into riding. I don't see what the big commotion is! If you don't want to watch it then simply... don't! There are other programmes out there you can watch such as Carl Hester's masterclass, the Eilberg's, the Whittaker's etc. I do wander how their ratings would compare to KP's
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This is spot on imho.

The general public don't relate to Carl Hester etc - they do relate to celebrities, no matter how their celeb status is earned.

I remember listening to radio commentary after Pippa Funnell won the Europeans, and there was a huge p*ss take about posh moneyed people prancing around on expensive horses.
Like it or not, that is the image the general public has of horsey people.
In fact, many horsey people bemoan the fact that there are a lot of stuck up snobs/social climbers involved in riding.

People will watch the programme because of KP's 'celeb status' and if it helps publicise riding, then great.
 
I have read through most of this thread and I love it! I have to say I'd much rather watch Mary King and her incredible horsemanship or someone like that
 
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