Kate Lawler has admitted she still worries about making ends meet despite splurging out on £1,000 a day while on holiday when factoring in all the costs, such as accommodation and petrol. 

The TV personality, 45, rose to fame after she won the third series of Big Brother back in 2002, netting her £70k.

However despite being propelled into the dizzy heights of success, the star has revealed it wasn’t all glamour and after the rush of career opportunities she found herself hit with a huge tax bill.

Opening up about her financial woes Kate admitted she received a £80,000 tax bill a few years after appearing on the show, which she was left paying off for about two years. 

And despite being much more financially secure now, thanks to the help of her saving-conscious husband Martin Bojtos, she has confessed she still worries about making ends meet all the time. 

‘I worry about making ends meet now, even though I feel like I’m more financially stable than ever before.’

Kate Lawler has confessed she splurges £1,000 a day on holiday despite worrying about making ends meet after huge tax bill following Big Brother 

Estimating her spending she explained: ‘We tallied it up last night and I reckon, including spending, transport and accommodation, our holidays normally work out at £1,000 a day’

Reflecting on her past debts, she told The Times: ‘I didn’t have any disposable income, and anything I did earn, I was using to pay off my tax and credit cards bills. My money was all tied up in my flat. Now I’m worried that that’s going to happen again. I always worry.’ 

While she is money conscious now, it doesn’t stop the family splurging on the family holidays as she revealed every year they treat themselves to a big road trip. 

Estimating her spending she explained: ‘We tallied it up last night and I reckon, including spending, transport and accommodation, our holidays normally work out at £1,000 a day. But it’s something we’ll always remember.’

Following her money struggles, Kate no longer has a credit card and is relying on her property to fund her future. 

While she admitted she doesn’t have a pension, the star said she wants one and hopes her husband’s pension will help in their retirement. 

After her victory on Big Brother, Kate became a DJ on Capital FM and this role led to her host the ill-fated Channel Four breakfast show RI:SE from February to December 2003, when she also left Capital.

Now she makes regular appearances on This Morning and Loose Women and in 2022 her book Maybe Baby: On the Mother Side, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

It comes after Kate revealed back in June that her battle with a secret health condition left her in ‘the worst pain of her life.’

Opening up about her financial woes Kate admitted she received a £80,000 tax bill a few years after appearing on Big Brother (pictured), which she was left paying off for about two years

She admitted she doesn’t have a pension, but does want one and hopes her husband’s pension will help in their retirement (pictured with her husband Martin Bojtos and daughter Noa) 

The Big Brother star battled debilitating stomach pain, and was eventually rushed to hospital in Greece, before being reassured by doctors that ‘everything was fine.’

Kate told The Sun On Sunday that it took rounds of tests and several misdiagnoses back in the UK before doctors finally discovered she had pelvic congestion syndrome, a little-known condition caused by hidden varicose veins around the ovaries and womb.

She revealed: ‘It was a sharp, stabbing pain that would last from 10 seconds to several hours.

‘Then we were on holiday in 2018 and I thought I had a serious hernia or something was wrong with me, to the point that I went to hospital.

‘But doctors thought I was just going mad. They just said, ‘You’re fine,’ and left it at that. I was made to believe it was simply caused by my hormones, or ovulation.’

Kate, who shares daughter Noa, four, with husband, added that she visited her GP twice, and was instead told it could be a hernia or endometriosis, and even a visit to a private gynaecologist failed to provide answers.

She went onto reveal that it was during a chance conversation at a routine appointment for her varicose veins in August 2022 that she discovered she had PCS.

The condition is most common in women aged 20 to 45 who have given birth more than once, as well as those with varicose veins, a family history of them, or polycystic ovary syndrome.