Geordie actress Denise Welch has taken aim at Katie Hopkins in a sarcastic tweet after she lost her £1m home.
Ex-columnist Hopkins admitted in an interview with the Sunday Times last week that she'd been forced to sell her family mansion in Devon and rent a home for herself and her three children to pay off legal fees.
Hopkins was forced to cough up £500,000 in legal fees after losing a libel case to anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe, who she had falsely accused of vandalising a war memorial.
The notorious former apprentice candidate has found herself frequently under fire for sharing cruel or offensive comments, including a fat-shaming tweet cited by Little Mix's Jesy Nelson as contributing to a suicide attempt, and calling for a "final solution", following the terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena.
Sharing a news story about the admission, Loose Women star Denise sarcastically said: “Poor old Katie Hopkins. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.”
The tweet received 4,200 likes and several hundred replies praising her comment - including from her former Corrie co-star Kate Ford.
She said: "WOULDNT have happened to a nicer person xxxx"
And plenty of Denise's 430,000 followers were impressed.
One wrote: "Oooh Denise, I used to have a lot of time and respect for you... Now I have a whole lot more ."
And one person cheekily chimed in with a recommendation for Hopkin's, sharing a picture of Jack Monroe's cookbook, which teaches people to make cheap homemade food, saying: "As she is broke may I suggest a great cookbook for her to cook on a budget."
Hopkins told The Times she regretted that she hadn't acted sooner to settle the case out of court.
Cookbook writer Jack had asked to apologise and donate £5,000 to a migrants charity - but when she refused, Jack took her to court.
Hopkins told the paper: "I live in a rented, modern, four-bedroom detached house with my husband Mark and our three children, aged 15, 14 and 10.
"It's tucked out of the way for security reasons - our last home was rigged up to the local police station and had panic alarms fitted because of threats I received to my life.
"I was forced to sell it for £950,000 in early 2018 to pay off a legal bill in excess of £500,000."
