Katona: 'I'm the British Britney Spears'

Kerry Katona has claimed that the media treat her in the same manner as Britney Spears.

The reality TV star said she is continually labelled as a drug addict, despite the fact that she kicked the habit three years ago.

She told Channel 4's Richard and Judy: "I'm the British Britney Spears, which is ridiculous. The press write what they want to write about me. Once they've built you up, they try to pull you down and they've been doing it for the last two years now.

"You show me one picture of me taking cocaine or coming out of a nightclub in the last two years. I've admitted taking it for about a year but look at Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty and Kate Moss. They're legends for it and I don't do it anymore."

Katona, who won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2004, added that a recent court-ordered drug test had come up negative, saying: "It's just unfair. I want people to forget what they read and remember the Kerry that won in the jungle because that's still me."

She also denied rumours that she has been dropped as the face of the Iceland supermarket chain, insisting that she has signed another contract.