Is Katie Olivia Hopkins Still Married? Bio: Age, Family, Kids, Net Worth
Controversial Columnist and onetime Twitter banned user Katie Olivia Hopkins is on the news again, for clearly mocking mourning widow Kate Garraway recently.
Olivia Hopkins took to her social media handle on the 16th of January, 2024 to call out widow Kate Garraway for posting a soon-to-be-aired documentary of the late Derek Draper (her husband)
In a mock video, she scorned Garraway for making a video and writing a book alongside the documentary. While sipping a glass of video, she blurted out, “He’s only dead a few weeks” afterward, laughing sarcastically.
Olivia’s controversial stance on many issues has made her a subject of interest, with many wanting to know more than what she said about Kate. Read on to find out more about the mystery woman, Olivia Hopkins.
Katie Olivia Hopkins Biography
Barnstaple born Katie Olivia Hopkins is the daughter of an engineer father and a bank teller mum. She was born on February 13, 1975, and attended a private convent school. She is 49 years old in 2024.
As a child, Katie Hopkins wanted to become a British soldier, so she took the military training form and applied to Sandhurst as a teenager.
During her routine and training, Hopkin had a seizure that jeopardized her dream of being in the military. The RMAS rejected her plea to continue, so she left the military camp to chase another career.
Although Hopkins got rejected, the British Army Intelligence Corps granted her a sponsorship to the University of Exeter to study economics, and while at the campus, she became a vocal and gregarious individual supporting different causes and projecting her radical views.
Katie Hopkins Career
Right after her university education, Katie tried her hands in many professions, from being a columnist to a political commentator, running a business, and then becoming a contestant in the third series of The Apprentice.
Katie became a columnist at the SUN Newspaper from 2013 to 2015, where she wrote about topics that created a lot of controversies.
While at the SUN, she wrote extensively on social class, Migrants and Immigration, Racism, and Politics. Some of her writings sparked a lot of debates and legal cases.
As a Columnist for the LBC media company, her employer has had to compensate a Muslim family Hopkins accused of a terrorist plot. Not only that, Katie paid legal damages to a food writer, Jack Monroe, when she made a false accusation against his blog.
The straw that broke the camel’s back with her stay in LBC was when she made a statement capable enough of inciting violence during the May 2017 Manchester Area Bombing. Her employers fired her and caused her to retract her statement.
Katie Olivia Hopkins Health Issues
Olivia’s first sign of a health challenge was during her days at the military school; when she got struck with a seizure that denied her the opportunity to be in the military. Since then, her health has always been a constant battle.
Katie’s big break over her seizure came when she underwent an operation that led to her tonsil being removed to prevent further seizures and, according to her, she has felt much better with fewer cases of attack.
Religious & Social View
Although Katie Olivia Hopkins has yet to announce her religious affiliation, she has strongly criticized and stigmatized some religions, which in her view are nothing but notorious.
When asked about her view on Islam, she stated: “Islam disgusts me, this is not a figurative expression, I feel everyone has a right to express how they feel about a religion and there’s no hard feeling whatsoever.”
To buttress her disgust, she accused a former mayor of London County; Mayor Sadiq Khan of being a Jihadist and supporting terrorism.
Katie’s presence in the news for her stance on racism has met backlash and strong condemnation; in her words, “original Brits face the fate of extinction.”
Genocides, feminism, and social class are among her topics of debate.
Katie Olivia Hopkins Marriage
Hopkins’ relationship has been anything but peaceful. Married to Damian McKinney, the duo’s relationship has faced rough patches, with Katie accusing him of unfaithfulness and jealousy.
She and Damian got married in 2004, but tell you what, in 2005, Katie and Damian ended their marriage. However, she remarried her current husband, Mark Cross.
She and Mark have been married since 2010. Max, India, and Poppy, are the names of Katie’s children — whom she had from two different relationships. She had her son, Max, from her second marriage and India and Poppy from her first marriage.
Controversies
Katie’s view on many issues is one laden with absurdity and sometimes warranting legal actions against her, among the list of her focal points includes the following:
According to the moderators, Katie Hopkins received a permanent ban on the social platform X (formerly known as Twitter) for inciting hate speech and racial slurs on her account. However, with the ownership transferred to Elon Musk, she’s got back her account.
Katie Olivia Hopkins Net Worth
Katie Olivia Hopkins’ net worth is $700k thousand and her annual salary is over $200k thousand, as estimated in 2024.
that’s it on her Wiki profile rundown, now you could catch up with her fellow TV personality, Tiffany Cross, who became controversial after she got laid off from a segment of her show.
