Priceless tips for Oxford Union on work ethic

NO-ONE has an excuse not to try to earn a living, glamour model turned businesswoman Katie Price told students, as she addressed the Oxford Union.

Price, who shot to fame as Jordan in the late 1990s, was invited to Oxford University to give a talk on her colourful career.

Stressing the importance of the work ethic during a question and answer session at the ancient seat of learning yesterday, the former pin-up said: “There’s no excuse for people to just get pregnant and stay at home.

“I come from a family that has had to work to earn a living.”

Price, 33, entered the hall to rapturous applause before admitting: “I’m absolutely petrified, I’m not very good with audiences at all. I don’t really know what to say.”

Prompted to talk generally about her life, she spoke for about ten minutes before the floor was opened to questions.

Asked if she thought she was hypocritical to moan about media intrusion, having made her name in the tabloids, she said: “I do think there should be some kind of privacy law. You should be entitled to some kind of privacy when you come home.”

Price spoke little about her two failed marriages. When asked about her first, to pop star Peter Andre, she said the union should invite him to speak so they could ask him himself.

Asked about the controversy over a joke made by Scots comedian Frankie Boyle about her eldest child, Harvey, who has septo-optic dysplasia and is autistic, she described Boyle as a “disgusting man”.

She added: “I won’t have anyone saying anything bad about my children, and not just that, anyone who knocks anyone with a disability.”

“I’m sure if he was making a joke about the colour of skin he would have got more in trouble.”