Katie Price 'Nothing to Hide': Confession Over Insight
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- Paddy Wivell, who usually focuses on non-celebrity subjects including Ukraine war volunteers in Hell Jumper, directed Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, filmed 10 days after Price's latest facial surgery.
- The documentary features Price's mother Amy, siblings, and exes including her first boyfriend Gary Bolingbroke, Dane Bowers, Gareth Gates and Alex Reid, while Dwight Yorke — who left her pregnant at 23 with their son Harvey — and Peter Andre, her most famous relationship, declined to appear.
- Hugh Hefner looms large in Price's account: she declined becoming his girlfriend after her 2001 Playboy cover because she feared it would be "like having sex with her grandad," though she was surprised at "how young his willy looked."
- Price describes entering an abortion clinic three times while pregnant but leaving each time, reasoning that Yorke's rejection was no reason for her not to have the baby.
- The review criticizes the film for failing to contextualize Price's life and choices within the "unquestioned but now inescapably obvious misogyny of the day," with neither Wivell nor her family offering more than assurances she is "hard as nails" with a softer side.
- The review concludes Nothing to Hide is "as carefully manufactured and defiantly unreflective as any other product supplied by the Price brand," with Price offering no answers about what she might have become without beauty or surgery.
Why it matters: Price has stayed headline-relevant for 30 years through self-commodification, yet *Nothing to Hide* declines the obvious reckoning — its refusal to interrogate the misogynistic culture that shaped her rise means the documentary, and viewers, get the confession without the consequences, leaving the Price brand's carefully manufactured image intact rather than examined.
