Mum-in-law hits out at Kerry Katona

Kerry Katona has been branded a bad parent by her mother-in-law Marilyn Croft.

As previously reported, Katona rowed with the mother of her husband Mark at a New Year party which was held at her home.

Marilyn has claimed that Kerry, who is currently five months pregnant, reacted in fury when she complained about guests who were smoking over her 11-month-old granddaughter Heidi.

"I have to speak out. Kerry is five months' pregnant with my new grandchild - yet she was roaring drunk on vodka and smoking like a chimney," Marilyn told the News of the World. "Heidi was still up at midnight being passed around like a parcel in a smoke-filled room when she should have been in bed. But like everyone in Kerry's life, Heidi is just a prop for her celebrity."

The heated scenes were caught on camera for Kerry's new reality series, but Marilyn has suggested that they will never be aired because the footage would be too damaging to her daughter-in-law's career.

"I bet that she makes sure this footage never gets aired because it will prove that I did nothing wrong," Marilyn said. "Her behaviour beggers belief. She is five months pregnant. She almost suffered a miscarriage early on in this current pregnancy.

"What's the betting the baby is born early or with complications because of Kerry's irresponsibility? No doubt that will give her another magazine cover - and she can tell the whole sorry story."