Katie Hopkins: "I'll choose my children's friends"

Outspoken former Apprentice star Katie Hopkins has once again courted controversy by admitting that she won't let her children play with friends who she deems to be beneath them.

In an article in a national newspaper she says: "Call me controlling, call me ruthlessly aggressive. But I'm convinced one of the best things I can do for my children - India, eight, Poppy, seven, and Max, four - is to choose their friends for them."

Katie, who lives in Exeter, has in the past said that smokers should pay for their own medical treatment and that a female boss is a woman's worst nightmare.

In her latest Daily Mail article she says her 'heart sank' when her daughter bought home a garish party invitation from a girl she disapproved of and so she offered her an extra tennis lesson if she agreed not to go.

She continued: "I have absolutely no intention of letting my two precious daughters get dragged down into the quagmire of underperforming children. So I work hard at targeting the right sort of friends for them. 

"From the moment they started school, I have kept an ear out for little snippets of information about their classmates. I know who is falling behind and who is clearly not interested in their work or study."

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