Katie Piper
{{short description|English philanthropist, television presenter and former model (born 1983)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Katie Piper
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=UK|size=100%|OBE}}
| image = File:Katie Piper (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Piper in March 2012
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1983|10|12}}
| birth_place = Andover, Hampshire, England
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| occupation = Activist, writer, television presenter
| spouse = {{marriage|Richard Sutton|2015}}
| children = 2
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Kate Elizabeth Sutton {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (née Piper; born 12 October 1983) is an English writer, activist, television presenter and model from Andover, Hampshire.
In March 2008, her ex-boyfriend raped her and stabbed her several times in the arms. Two days later she was attacked with acid by her ex-boyfriend and an accomplice, causing major damage to her face and blindness in one eye. Piper underwent pioneering surgery to restore her face and vision.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-16918223|title=Acid attack model Katie Piper gets sight back|date=7 February 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=7 February 2012}} Both attackers were convicted and given life sentences. In 2018, one of the attackers was released after serving nine years in prison.{{Cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/katie-piper-acid-attacker-stefan-sylvestre-released-from-prison-after-nine-years-11524849|title=Katie Piper acid attacker Stefan Sylvestre released from prison after nine years|work=Sky News|language=en|access-date=16 January 2020}}
In 2009, Piper gave up her right to anonymity in order to increase awareness about burn victims. Her experience was documented in the 2009 Channel 4 documentary Katie: My Beautiful Face part of the Cutting Edge series. It has subsequently been sold internationally.
Piper later appeared in multiple follow-up series for Channel 4, released a best-selling autobiography, and had a regular column in weekly magazines. She also presents the Channel 4 television series Bodyshockers about members of the public about to undergo body-altering procedures and those who regret procedures they have had. Her main work has been for the Katie Piper Foundation, which she founded to help victims of burns and other disfigurement injuries. On 13 August 2018, she was announced as the first contestant for that year's Strictly Come Dancing. In September 2020, she joined the BBC One programme Songs of Praise as a presenter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/songs-of-praise-katie-piper|title = BBC One's Songs of Praise welcomes Katie Piper}} In July 2021, she became a panellist on Loose Women.
Early life and education
Piper was born in Andover, Hampshire, to David and Diane Piper and attended Harrow Way School and Portway Junior School as a child. She has an elder brother, Paul, and a younger sister, Suzy.{{cite news|url=http://www.andoversound.com/pages/extranet/support-for-katie-i-3421.php|title=Support For Katie|date=20 October 2009|publisher=Andover Sound|access-date=11 November 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/4697466.Katie_relives_acid_attack_horror/|title=Katie relives acid attack horror|date=23 October 2009|work=Andover Advertiser|access-date=30 October 2009}}
After leaving school, Piper trained as a beautician, aiming to build on her fondness for fashion and beauty.[http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article7041129.ece "Relative Values", Times Online, 28 February 2010] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615173100/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article7041129.ece |date=15 June 2011 }}
Early career
Piper subsequently began a career in modelling, taking part in various fashion, glamour and promotional photoshoots, including modelling for national newspapers.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/8314689.stm|title=My Beautiful Face|date=19 October 2009|publisher=BBC |access-date=20 October 2009}} She also began work as a promotional model: appearing and carrying out publicity duties at live events, such as working as a ring-card girl at martial arts fixtures.{{cite web |url=http://www.katiepiper.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=29 |title=Images of Katie Piper working as a 'ring girl' |publisher=Katiepiper.co.uk |access-date=27 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012101614/http://katiepiper.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=29 |archive-date=12 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Piper also conducted a career as a digital television presenter, working principally on web-TV shows and features,{{cite web |url=http://current.com/groups/on-current-tv/77912371_super-smoke-me.htm |title='Super Smoke Me', a 2007 film for Current TV featuring Piper |work=Current.com |date=1 July 2007 |access-date=27 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202200604/http://current.com/groups/on-current-tv/77912371_super-smoke-me.htm |archive-date=2 February 2011 |url-status=dead }} and on small digital television channels, primarily in the shopping and live-chat fields. As her career began to develop, Piper moved away from her family home in Hampshire, and began to live with friends in a flat in Golders Green, North London.
Assault and acid attack
Daniel Lynch, a martial arts enthusiast who had been tracking Piper's media and modelling career, met her through Facebook.{{cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Model-Katie-Piper-Reveals-Her-Plight-At-Acid-Attack-Injuries-To-Her-Face/Article/200910315408548?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15408548_Model_Katie_Piper_Reveals_Her_Plight_At_Acid_Attack_Injuries_To_Her_Face|title=Model's Struggle After Brutal Acid Attack |date=20 October 2009|publisher=Sky News|access-date=20 October 2009}} The two first met in person in Reading, Berkshire, where Piper had been working, and initially Piper was pleased with the relationship.
Two weeks into their relationship, the couple booked into a hotel in Bayswater, following a meal out. In the hotel room, Lynch raped and beat Piper, threatened to cut her with a razor and hang her, and stabbed her several times in the arms. After eight hours at the hotel, they drove back to Piper's Golders Green flat. Piper was treated for her wounds at Royal Free Hospital, but withheld the nature of the incident from the doctors and police, because she was afraid of Lynch.
Piper received numerous phone calls and apologies from Lynch. On 31 March 2008, two days after the initial attack, Lynch persuaded Piper to go to an internet cafe to read an email he had sent to her Facebook account. Luring Piper to this location was a ruse, as he had given her details to Stefan Sylvestre, who identified her on Golders Green Road. Wearing a hoodie to obscure his identity, Sylvestre approached Piper, who thought he was going to ask for money, and then threw sulphuric acid at her face.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6384367/Acid-attack-model-talks-about-recovery.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023080753/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6384367/Acid-attack-model-talks-about-recovery.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2009|title=Acid attack model talks about recovery|date=20 October 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=20 October 2009 | location=London | first=Myles | last=Burke}} Piper later said: "When the acid was thrown at me, it felt like I was burning in hell. It was an indescribable, unique, torturous pain."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/30/man-who-arranged-katie-piper-acid-attack-could-get-parole-in-july|title=Man who arranged Katie Piper acid attack could get parole in July|first=Mabel|last=Banfield-Nwachi|date=30 June 2024|work=The Guardian}}
The acid attack was caught on CCTV and Lynch and Sylvestre were arrested.{{cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/19/acid-attack-model-katie-piper-reveals-she-wanted-to-die-after-burns-wrecked-her-face-115875-21757661/|title=Acid attack model Katie Piper reveals she wanted to die after burns wrecked her face|date=19 October 2009|publisher=Mirror News|access-date=20 October 2009}} Lynch received two life sentences, with a minimum of 16 years to be served. He had a previous conviction for pouring boiling water over a man.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/24/katie-pipers-acid-attacker-to-be-released-from-prison|title=Katie Piper's acid attacker to be released from prison|first=Sarah|last=Marsh|date=24 August 2018|work=The Guardian}} Sylvestre received a life sentence, and was told he would serve a minimum of 6 years. Sylvestre's parole application for release was approved in 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/katie-piper-s-acid-attacker-stefan-sylvestre-to-be-freed-from-jail-ddwnts7bd|title=Katie Piper's acid attacker Stefan Sylvestre to be freed from jail|date=25 August 2018|work=The Times|access-date=28 August 2018|language=en|issn=0140-0460}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/24/katie-pipers-acid-attacker-to-be-released-from-prison|title=Katie Piper's acid attacker to be released from prison|last=Marsh|first=Sarah|date=24 August 2018|work=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=28 August 2018}} In 2022 it was reported Sylvestre had breached the terms of his parole on numerous occasions; and had allegedly fled the UK that August.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63197564|title=Katie Piper attacker might be abroad after licence breach police say|date=10 October 2022|work=BBC News|language=en|access-date=23 November 2023}}
Treatment and recovery
Immediately after the attack, Piper ran into a local café, where an ambulance was called. Piper was treated in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where her treatment was led by plastic surgeon Mohammad Ali Jawad. The acid, some of which Piper had swallowed, blinded her in her left eye, and caused partial thickness and full thickness burns. The surgeons completely removed the skin off Piper's face, and replaced it with a skin substitute, Matriderm, to build the foundations for a skin graft. This procedure was the first of its kind to be done in a single operation.
Piper was put into an induced coma for 12 days. She has been through numerous surgical operations to treat her injuries, and wore a plastic face mask for 23 hours a day, which flattened the scars and helped retain moisture. As part of her care from the National Health Service, Piper was treated at a clinic in Southern France. The treatment she received there was designed to break down scar tissue and prevent skin contraction. Subsequent to the attack, Piper moved out of her London flat and returned to Hampshire to live with her parents and younger sister Suzy.{{cite AV media|title= Katie: My Beautiful Face|publisher= Channel 4|date= 29 October 2009 |medium=Television production }}
Personal life
Near the end of 2009, she established a charity, the Katie Piper Foundation, aimed at raising awareness of the plight of victims of burns and other disfigurement injuries: the charity also campaigns for the specialist treatment Piper received, such as the after-care scheme undertaken in France, to be more widely available to patients in Britain.{{cite web|url=http://www.katiepiperfoundation.org.uk |title=Katie Piper Foundation official website |publisher=Katiepiperfoundation.org.uk |access-date=27 August 2011}}
Following her recovery and the establishment of the Katie Piper Foundation, Piper again moved out of the family home and returned to living alone in London, a process documented in episodes of Katie: My Beautiful Face; she later moved to live with her partner Richard Sutton, a carpenter. On 14 March 2014, she gave birth to their first child, Belle Elizabeth.{{cite web|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/mother-and-baby/2014031417518/katie-piper-gives-birth/|title=Katie Piper gave birth to her first child on Friday March 14.|date=14 March 2014}} In December 2014, she announced her engagement to Sutton. They married on 6 November 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-piper-marries-richard-sutton-6787172|title=Katie Piper marries Richard Sutton and calls it one of the best days of her life|last=McGeorge|first=Alistair|website=Daily Mirror|date=7 November 2015|access-date=24 September 2016}} On 13 December 2017, she gave birth to their second child, Penelope Diane.{{cite web|url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/mother-and-baby/2017121544762/katie-piper-welcomes-second-child/|title=Katie Piper welcomes second child, a baby girl|date=15 December 2017}} Piper turned to Christianity after the attack.{{Cite web |title=Acceptance without judgement: Katie Piper interviewed |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/5-november/features/features/acceptance-without-judgement-katie-piper-interviewed |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=www.churchtimes.co.uk}}
Filmography
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! Year | Title | Channel | Notes |
2009 | Katie: My Beautiful Face | Channel 4 | Documentary |
2009 | 60 Minutes | Nine Network (Australia) | Interview |
2009 | The TV Show | Channel 4 | Discussion |
Unknown | Live From Studio Five | Channel 5 | Interview |
Unknown | Woman's Hour | BBC Radio 4 | Interview |
Unknown | BBC Breakfast | BBC One | Interview |
Unknown | This Morning | ITV | Interview |
2009 | Alternative Christmas Message | Channel 4 | Message about Piper's experiences |
2011 | Alternative Christmas Message | Channel 4 | "Just Be Yourself" |
2010 | 20/20 | ABC (US) | Interview |
2011 | Katie: My Beautiful Friends | Channel 4 & OWN (US) | Documentary |
2012 | Katie: The Science of Seeing Again | Channel 4 | Documentary |
2012 | Hotel GB | Channel 4 | Participant |
2013 | The Secret Millions | Channel 4 | Participant |
2013 | Gok Live: Stripping for Summer | Channel 4 | Participant |
2013 | Celebrity Deal or No Deal | Channel 4 | Box-opener |
2014–2015 | Bodyshockers | Documentary | |
2016–present | Never Seen a Doctor | Channel 4 | Presenter |
2018 | Strictly Come Dancing | BBC One | Partnered with Gorka Marquez and was the third to be eliminated. |
2020–present | Songs of Praise | BBC One | Feature presenter |
2021–present | Loose Women | ITV | Panellist |
2021 | Car SOS | National Geographic | Guest |
2022–present | Katie Piper's Breakfast Show | ITV | Presenter |
2022 | Celebrity The Wall | BBC | Contestant |
2022 | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | BBC Two | Herself{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-h6yquy/celebrity-antiques-road-trip-season-11/?episode=b-z2411d|title=Celebrity Antiques Road Trip|website=radiotimes.com|accessdate=6 December 2022}} |
2023 | Katie Piper's Jailhouse Mums | W | Presenter{{cite web|url=https://corporate.uktv.co.uk/news/article/katie-piper-heads-w-documentary-jailhouse-mums/|title=Katie Piper's Jailhouse Mums|website=corporate.uktv.co.uk|accessdate=26 June 2023}} |
Television and radio
= ''Katie: My Beautiful Face'' =
Although Piper had the right to remain anonymous because of the sexual assault, she chose to waive her anonymity, in an attempt to increase public awareness of the situation for burn victims, and also the treatment they go through.{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/katie-my-beautiful-face/articles/interview|title=Katie: My Beautiful Face Interview|date=20 October 2009|publisher=Channel 4|access-date=30 October 2009}} Piper also took part in a documentary about her experience, Katie: My Beautiful Face, which was aired by Channel 4 on 29 October 2009, and, according to figures from Attentional, gained over 3.3 million viewers.{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/ratings/katies-face-brings-33m-to-c4/5007516.article|title=Katie's face brings 3.3m to C4|date=30 October 2009|publisher=Broadcast Now|access-date=30 October 2009}} The programme has been rebroadcast several times and in a number of territories.{{cite web|last=Rosser |first=Michael |url=http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/international/katies-beautiful-face-to-be-seen-worldwide/5012108.article |title=Broadcast |publisher=Broadcastnow.co.uk |date=25 March 2010 |access-date=27 August 2011}}
= Alternative Christmas Message =
On 25 December 2009, Piper read the Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4.{{cite AV media |title= Alternative Christmas Message|work= Channel 4|date= 25 December 2009|minutes= 5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6791355/Acid-attack-victim-Katie-Piper-to-give-Channel-4s-alternative-Christmas-message.html|title=Acid attack victim Katie Piper to give Channel 4's alternative Christmas message|date=12 December 2009|work=The Telegraph|access-date=26 December 2009 | location=London | first=Murray | last=Wardrop}} The message was about Piper's own experiences, family and not judging people by their appearance.
Piper also featured in one of the two Alternative Christmas Messages in 2011 with the theme "Just Be Yourself".
=''20/20'' =
On 8 January 2010, the ABC (US)'s news-magazine television series 20/20 featured Piper as its primary subject. The programme consisted of an interview conducted by Elizabeth Vargas, and footage of Piper at home, including material which had appeared in Katie: My Beautiful Face.{{cite web|url=http://www.c21media.net/features/detail.asp?area=100&article=53642 |title=C21 Media |publisher=C21 Media |date=8 January 2010 |access-date=27 August 2011}}
= ''Katie: My Beautiful Friends'' =
Piper worked again with Mentorn Media, producer of Katie: My Beautiful Face, in a series titled Katie: My Beautiful Friends. In this, she met people who were disfigured, disabled or physically altered as a result of illness, injury, assault, accident or surgery.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a240675/katie-piper-lands-own-television-show.html |title=Digital Spy, July 2010 |work=Digital Spy |location=UK |date=9 July 2010 |access-date=27 August 2011}} The films also chronicled the development and growth of the Katie Piper Foundation and began its four-part run on 22 March 2011. Items of supporting information and relevant associated content relating to the programme were placed on the Channel 4 website in tandem with the programme's broadcast.{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/katie-my-beautiful-friends |title=Channel 4 programme page for 'Katie: My Beautiful Friends', activated autumn 2010 ahead of early 2011 broadcast |publisher=Channel4.com |access-date=27 August 2011}} The series was broadcast in the US on the OWN channel from 16 August 2011.
== Episode guide ==
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! Episode | Description | Airdate |
1.1 | Katie meets Chantelle, who has arteriovenous malformation and requires urgent surgery, and Adele, a teenage ballerina scalded when she had an epileptic seizure in the shower. | 22 March 2011 |
1.2 | Katie meets Will, a teenager beginning his road to recovery after a recent barbecue explosion, and Emily, a graduate burned in a house fire as a child. | 29 March 2011 |
1.3 | Katie meets Amit, a university student with neurofibromatosis, and aspiring comic book illustrator Andrew, who has Treacher-Collins syndrome. | 5 April 2011 |
1.4 | Katie meets Kayleigh, who has Pfeiffer syndrome, and George, who is undergoing surgery for a form of skin cancer. She also revisits Chantelle to check on her progress. | 12 April 2011 |
= ''Katie: The Science of Seeing Again'' =
On 7 February 2012, Channel 4 broadcast a new one-off film featuring Piper as she prepared to undergo stem-cell surgery in a bid to restore sight in her damaged left eye. Katie: The Science of Seeing Again{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/katie-the-science-of-seeing-again|title=Katie: The Science of Seeing Again|website=www.channel4.com}} saw Piper look into the biology of the eye, visit the US to look into the religious and moral debate around the use of embryos in stem-cell research, and monitored her as she underwent the treatment. Within the programme Piper revealed she had undergone 109 medical operations in the four years since the acid attack, with the eye operation being her 110th.
= ''Bodyshockers'' =
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In spring 2013, at around the same time as Piper's participation in Gok Live was confirmed, her next solo Channel 4 project was announced, which was to be a new documentary series, provisionally titled Undo Me, which would look at cosmetic and surgical procedures, and give advice to those looking to restore a more natural look having previously undergone treatments they now regret. It was initially slated for broadcast in late 2013{{citation needed|date=October 2019}} but eventually began to air weekly from 30 January 2014, by which time the proposed six-episode series had shrunk to four parts and acquired the name Bodyshockers, with each episode having a sub-title linked to the episode's main theme.
In summer 2014 it was confirmed that a second series of Bodyshockers had been commissioned, thus becoming the first of Piper's programmes to be reordered for a second run. This second series, which has seen the show acquire the sub-title "Nips, Tucks and Tattoos", began transmitting from 5 January 2015. In February 2015, it was announced that a third series had been ordered commissioned.{{cite web|url=http://atvtoday.co.uk/65237-c4/|title=Third series of Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks and Tattoos for Channel 4|date=4 February 2015|access-date=11 February 2015|archive-date=12 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212043818/http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/65237-c4/|url-status=dead}}
= Other TV and radio work =
Piper has appeared on a number of television and radio programmes to talk about her experience; the Australian series 60 Minutes featured Piper in November 2009.{{cite web |url=http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/katie-piper/xobkksj |title=Katie Piper on Australian TV |publisher=Video.au.msn.com |access-date=27 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721082301/http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/katie-piper/xobkksj |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} In the same month, she appeared on Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy-hosted television-led debate The TV Show{{cite web|url=http://blogs.channel4.com/thetvshow/2009/11/06/katie-piper-the-tv-show-qa/ |title=The TV Show, Channel 4 |publisher=Blogs.channel4.com |date=10 May 2011 |access-date=27 August 2011}} to discuss the reaction to the original documentary.
Piper has also appeared as a guest on a number of British magazine and news programmes including Live From Studio Five, Woman's Hour,{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2009_43_wed.shtml |title=BBC Woman's Hour |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 August 2011}} BBC Breakfast{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/8314689.stm |title=BBC Breakfast |work=BBC News |date=19 October 2009 |access-date=27 August 2011}} and This Morning.{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/more/beautifulmodelscarred/ |title=This Morning |publisher=Itv.com |access-date=27 August 2011}}
In October 2012, Piper participated in a new week-long series for Channel 4. Hotel GB saw a group of Channel 4 personalities - headed by Mary Portas, Gordon Ramsay, Gok Wan, Kirstie Allsopp, Phil Spencer, Christian Jessen, Kim Woodburn and Piper – running a London hotel with the aim of training a group of young unemployed people for potential careers in the hospitality industry, with viewers able to visit the hotel as guests and use the facilities. Piper drew on her past as a beautician to run the hotel's salon/spa area, assisted by one of the apprentices, Manisha.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
In 2013, Piper took part in The Secret Millions, a Secret Millionaire spin-off in which each of five C4 hosts—Piper, Gok Wan, George Clarke, David Fishwick and Jimmy Doherty—work with a charitable or public-service organisation, running a scheme or pilot with the aid of disadvantaged or unemployed individuals, with the aim of convincing the Big Lottery Fund to give up to £2 million of funding (per scheme) for such projects to be rolled out more fully. Piper's episode aired on 14 April 2013 as the fourth of five transmitted; it featured a project in which prisoners were prepared for re-entry into the workplace by undertaking working placements in furniture manufacture. In the week leading up to the Secret Millions broadcast, The Community Channel repeated several of Piper's Channel 4 documentaries.
In summer 2013, Piper worked alongside Gok Wan as a regular participant in a new live fashion series on Channel 4. The three-part Gok Live: Stripping for Summer was broadcast over three weeks from the plaza of MediaCityUK in Salford Quays, with Piper in attendance at each week's makeover, as well as filing filmed reports on summer beauty tips for each episode. The commission of Undo Me was confirmed around the same time as that of Gok Live, but Gok Live went to air first.
Piper also appeared as a box-opener in Gok Wan's edition of Celebrity Deal or No Deal in 2013.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
Piper presents Channel 4's Never Seen a Doctor, which began on 4 May 2016.
In 2018, Piper became a brand ambassador for Swarovski, alongside celebrity chef Nadiya Hussain and CoppaFeel founder, Kris Hallenga.{{cite news|last1=Calder|first1=Emma|title=Swarovski partners with UK personalities to encourage female empowerment|url=http://www.professionaljeweller.com/swarovski-partners-uk-personalities-encourage-female-empowerment/|access-date=15 May 2018|work=Professional Jeweller|date=15 May 2018}}
On 13 August 2018, Piper was announced on BBC Breakfast as the first contestant in that year's Strictly Come Dancing.{{cite news |title=Strictly Come Dancing: Katie Piper announced as first contestant |work=BBC News |date=13 August 2018 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45168010 |access-date=13 August 2018}} She was partnered with professional dancer Gorka Marquez and was the third contestant to be eliminated.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/strictly-come-dancing-week-four-katie-piper-eliminated-seann-walsh-katya-jones-kiss-a8583926.html|title=Katie Piper eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing|last=Stolworthy|first=Jacob|date=15 October 2018|work=The Independent|access-date=19 October 2018|language=en-GB}}
Piper became a feature presenter on Songs of Praise in September 2020. In July 2021, she became a panellist on Loose Women.{{Cite web|last=Warner|first=Sam|date=2021-07-23|title=Loose Women announce Sunetra Sarker and Katie Piper joining as panellists|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a37112343/loose-women-new-panellists-sunetra-sarker-katie-piper/|access-date=2021-07-26|website=Digital Spy|language=en-GB}}
Writing
= Autobiography =
Piper's autobiography, called Beautiful, was published in paperback by Ebury Press on 17 February 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/125658-ebury-press-acquires-katie-piper-memoir.html |title=The Bookseller on Katie Piper's book Beautiful |publisher=Thebookseller.com |access-date=27 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829110706/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/125658-ebury-press-acquires-katie-piper-memoir.html |archive-date=29 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}
= Subsequent books =
Following the success of Beautiful, Piper signed a three-book deal with publisher Quercus. The first of these was a self-help book titled Things Get Better: If you believe then you will survive,{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quercus-buys-three-remarkable-piper.html|title=Quercus buys three from 'remarkable' Piper - The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com}} followed by a page-a-day compilation of positive affirmations, quotes and mantras, Start Your Day with Katie, both of which were published in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://startyourdaywithkatie.blogspot.com/|title=Start Your Day With Katie}} A second volume of memoirs, titled Beautiful Ever After, was released in 2014.
Piper released her next book Confidence: the Secret in late 2016.
In 2018, Piper and her mother published the book From Mother to Daughter: The Things I'd Tell My Child through Quercus.
= As a columnist =
Piper wrote a regular column in Reveal magazine between April 2011 and July 2012. In October 2012 she began contributing a weekly column for Now magazine, which ran until January 2014. She has also written occasional one-off 'guest columns' for newspapers including the Sunday Mirror and its stablemate, the Sunday People.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
Honours, awards and nominations
Katie: My Beautiful Face was nominated for Best Single Documentary at the BAFTA Television Awards in June 2010.{{cite web |url=http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/television-awards-nominations-in-2010,1095,BA.html |title=Television BAFTA winners/nominees 2010 |publisher=bafta.org |access-date=27 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530211603/http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/television-awards-nominations-in-2010,1095,BA.html |archive-date=30 May 2010 }}
Piper won the "Women to Watch: Inspiration" award at Red magazine's "Red's Hot Women Awards" in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.redonline.co.uk/red-women/red-s-hot-women-awards/red-s-hot-women-awards-2011/tips-from-previous-red-s-hot-women-award-winners?img=5 |title=Red's Hot Women Awards: Tips from previous winners |work=Redonline.co.uk |date=19 August 2011 |access-date=27 August 2011}}
In February 2011, Katie: My Beautiful Face won the "Best Documentary Programme" award at the Broadcast Awards; Piper attended to collect the prize alongside the film-makers.{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/225521-broadcast-awards-2011-a-full-list-of-all-the-winners/ |title=STV report on Broadcast Awards |work=Entertainment.stv.tv |date=3 February 2011 |access-date=27 August 2011}}
Piper was awarded the "You Can" Award at the Sainsbury's Women of the Year Awards 2011.{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/10/17/lulu-and-katie-piper-recognised-as-women-of-the-year-115875-23495307/|title=Lulu and Katie Piper recognised as Women of the Year|website=Daily Mirror|date=17 October 2011}}{{better source needed|reason=tabloid|date=March 2025}}
In 2012, Piper received a 'Pride of Britain' award.{{Cite web |title=2012 Winners Archives - Pride of Britain Awards |url=https://www.prideofbritain.com/news/category/winners/2012-winners/ |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=Pride of Britain |language=en-US}}
In 2014, Piper became an Honorary Doctor of Health Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University.{{Cite web |title=Katie Piper |url=https://aru.ac.uk/graduation-and-alumni/honorary-award-holders2/katie-piper |accessdate=2023-02-08 |website=aru.ac.uk |language=en}}
Piper was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to charity and victims of burns and other disfigurement injuries.{{London Gazette|issue=63571|supp=y|page=N14|date=1 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1044471/new-year-honour-list-2022.pdf|title=Awards for NY22|page=54|website=Gov.UK|access-date=31 December 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59809682|title=New Year Honours: Whitty, Van-Tam and Blair knighted, Lumley and Redgrave made dames|work=BBC News |date=31 December 2021}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.katiepiper.co.uk/ Official website]
- [http://www.katiepiperfoundation.org.uk/ The Katie Piper Foundation]
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