We're going to initiate a moment's silence at the end of this story to remember all the brain cells millions of pounds which these ten celebrities have loved and lost. Because however hard it must be to declare yourself bankrupt as a normal person. It must be even harder as a Famous. If only because you have to put up with us writing articles about it.
1) Shane Filan - Owed £18 million
We'd have probably given Shane-from-Westlife a pretty high position anyway, because of it being "current" and "timely" and everything, since it only happened a day ago. But then we realised that he's actually managed to wrack up more debt over the years than most of the others. So he's really earned the number one spot.
Read the full story of his bankruptcy here.
2) Kerry Katona - couldn't pay the final £82,000 of a £417,000 tax bill
Ahh. Yes. Ms Katona. To give her credit (which nobody else will be doing for a while, that's for sure) Kezza did make a go of paying back her £400,000 tax bill. She just didn't quite make a go of it enough. And in 2008 she had to hold her hands up in the air and admit defeat. The year later, her £1.5million mansion was repossessed.
3) Miquita Oliver - Owed £174,514.47 in taxes
To be fair, we're not sure why BFF Lily Allen couldn't just auction off some of her clothes/saliva on ebay and help Miquita out a bit. But somewhere along the line things went a little bit wrong for the cheerful Popworld star, and she had to declare herself bankrupt last autumn. Oh dear.
4) Mike Tyson - Owed £8.62 million to the IRS, £5.79 million to his ex-wife, £5.79 million in legal fees, £148,000 on pagers and cellphones, £264,000 on a birthday party, £5000 on care for his tigers and £42,000 for limos.   Â
Sorry. We're too busy focusing on the tiger-debt to write any more here. Except that this was in 2003, and that Mr Mike was supposed to have earned over £300,000,000 at that point in his career. Which is quite a lot of money to misplace, really. Even if you are distracted by oversized cats.
5)MC Hammer - Owed £8.8 million
This is a serious subject, so for the first time ever, we're going to refer to MC Hammer by his real name - Stanley Kirk Burrell - and not only because we just found it out on Wikipedia and really really want to show off about it.
SKB forgot to pay his taxes for a few years back in the late nineties (he probably lost the bills in his pants, or something), and had to declare himself bankrupt. Duh duh duh duh...
6) Sarah Ferguson - Owed £5.15 million
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T FALL OUT WITH THE QUEEN.
That's all.
7) Michael Barrymore - Owed £1.4 million
Let's play a game of Would You Rather.
Would you rather be Michael Barrymore in August 2001 when you were at the centre of a rather huge scandal involving your swimming pool, or be Michael Barrymore in May 2004 when he had to pay over a million pounds in taxes and probably had to give up having a swimming pool altogether?
8) Meatloaf - Owed £1.03 million     Â
It's quite bad luck to go bankrupt. But going bankrupt twice in the same decade (the 80s, obvs) just seems a little bit careless. Especially when your name is Meatloaf, and we imagine you could just sing really really really loudly in the bailiffs' faces until they forgot what was going on and went home.
But maybe that's just something to keep in mind for the third time.
9) Perez Hilton - Owed over £32, 000
Back in 2005 Perez Hilton had only been blogging for four years, and he had to file for bankruptcy due to soaring credit-card bills and sky-high college debts.
Thankfully it would appear that he managed to keep his computer. And his hair-dye collection.
10) Walt Disney - Probably-owed-less-than-Mike-Tyson-but-we-can't-be-sure*
Back in 1923, Walt was so broke, he had to officially declare bankruptcy, give up all of his possessions, live in his uncle's house and start afresh. And by "start afresh" we mean "start drawing cartoon rodents".
*We can be sure. Walt Disney did not own tigers.
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