Radio star Kate Ritchie has been arrested and banned for drink-driving on the eve of her TV comeback as a judge on Australia’s Got Talent
Kate Ritchie was arrested by police for drink-driving in Paigewood, Sydney
She returned a positive breath test and was fined and her driver’s license revoked
Driving ban comes as it is makes her TV comeback on Australia’s Got Talent
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Radio host Kate Ritchie has been arrested for drinking diving after being detained by police in Sydney on Monday.
The Nova FM personality and former child star on Home and Away was stopped by police in Paigewood, where she returned a positive breath test.
Ritchie, 44, has since been fined and her driver’s license revoked, Seven News reported.
The driving ban comes just as she is about to make her TV comeback as a judge on Australia’s Got Talent.
Radio host Kate Ritchie has been arrested for diving under the influence after being detained by police in Sydney on Monday
Nova FM radio host Kate Ritchie certainly had her hands full three days before her arrest as she ran errands in Sydney while dressed in a casually chic ensemble.
She was spotted shopping in Sydney three days before her arrest while wearing a casual dressy ensemble.
Ritchie held two punnets of raspberries, her iPhone and a folded piece of paper in one hand, a takeaway coffee in the other.
Kate was wrapped in a white hoodie layered under a stylish Hunter raincoat, which retails for around $300.
She completed her laid-back look with Golden Goose leopard-print sneakers, worth nearly $1,000, and ripped jeans.
The former Home and Away star slung a woven bag over one shoulder and remained unobtrusive in a green New York Yankees baseball cap.
Kate and her fellow AGT judges David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Shane Jacobson filmed the show’s season finale at Sydney’s Riverside Theater last month.
The TV talent competition, which returns to the screens after a three-year hiatus, will air on Channel Seven later this year.
Although no premiere date has been announced, the program will most likely start after the end of My Kitchen Rules.
Kate and her fellow Australia’s Got Talent judges David Walliams (top right), Alesha Dixon (bottom right) and Shane Jacobson (bottom left) filmed the show’s season finale last month
Daily Mail Australia revealed last December that after a whirlwind romance lasting less than a year, Kate had divorced her last known boyfriend, John Bell, a cybersecurity expert in her mid-20s.
“Kate is single. Lockdown is to blame,” a source said at the time.
Kate and John haven’t seen each other since January [2021], even though the borders to Victoria opened a few weeks ago. She didn’t say she wanted to visit him sometime.’
The pair were last seen holidaying together in Byron Bay, NSW in January 2021.
The former soap star was previously married to retired NRL player Stuart Webb, with whom she shares a daughter, Mae.
Daily Mail Australia revealed last December that Kate had split from her last known boyfriend, John Bell (pictured), a cybersecurity expert in her mid-20s, after dating for less than a year
The former soap star was previously married to retired NRL player Stuart Webb, with whom she shares a daughter, Mae. (They are pictured here in Sydney on January 11, 2019)