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Katie Price satisfied with public apology from Heat Magazine
By admin | December 4, 2007
Heat magazine today published a public apology to Katie Price and her son Harvey. The former glamour model better known as Jordan was livid about the insensitive sticker the magazine published with a photo of her disabled son that said “Harvey wants to eat me”. It is public knowledge that Harvey has multiple disabilities that have left him almost 100% blind and makes him put on weight.
This is what the magazine has to say about the controversy:
The celebrity weekly said it would make an unspecified donation to The Vision Charity, a charity for blind and visually impaired children that Ms Price has worked with, in addition to publishing a short statement on the letter’s page in this week’s issue.
Those actions appear to have satisfied Ms Price, who, through her lawyers, has told the Press Complaints Commission that she does not want to take the matter further. The PCC can only continue the investigation with her support, so as far as the watchdog is concerned the matter is now resolved.
Heat said that it was “never our intention to cause offence to Harvey’s family and friends nor to you, our readers” and said it would like to “apologise publicly” to Harvey, his mother and her husband Peter Andre. Senior executives at Emap, the publisher of Heat, have been stung by the criticism, although it is not clear if any action has been taken against the title’s editor Mark Frith.
Over a hundred people complained directly to the PCC, and a day after the initial publication, Katie Price’s agent contacted the PCC to indicate that she would be making a formal complaint.
Harvey Price suffers from septo-optic dysplasia, a rare condition which means he is visually impaired and suffers from hormonal deficiencies. The portrayal of the child had also been attacked by disability rights groups — but was first picked up in a posting on Times Online’s Alpha Mummy blog that rapidly attracted reader attention.
Heat magazine’s non-stop diet of celebrity news, gossip and pictures, has made it one of the publication success stories of the last decade. This week’s cover story, headlined “Jen’s secret e-mails to Brad,” referring to emails send by an apparently unhappy Jennifer Aniston to her ex-husband Brad Pitt.
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