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Real Housewives of Cheshire star ‘threatened to stab worker in eye at crisis-hit care home funded by billionaire fiance’
Mar 14, 2025
A REAL Housewives of Cheshire star threatened to stab a worker in the eye at her crisis-hit care home, a tribunal heard.
Ampika Pickston opened the home for teen girls in social care after it was bankrolled by her billionaire West Ham owner fiance David Sullivan.
But AP Care Homes Ltd in Cheshire was permanently closed by Ofsted, which Pickston is now appealing at a Care Standards Tribunal.
The panel was told the 43-year-old reality star made a threat against her employee, Natalie Canavan.
Ms Canavan said: "Ms Pickston … blurted out, looking directly at me, if you say anything to Ofsted, my colleagues at Real Housewives of Cheshire, or the media ‘I will stab you in the eye with a fork’.
“In the moment, I laughed it off, as I didn’t want to appear undermined, however, it made me feel intimidated and threatened.
"This incident made me see Ampika Pickston … as controlling and negative.”
Pickston was permitted by Ofsted to open the "luxury" home for girls aged 12 to 16 using a £1.2million loan from porn baron Sullivan.
The move came despite neither having any experience in the children's care sector.
Since its opening in July 2023, the facility has twice been suspended from caring for kids by the watchdog over a catalogue of failures.
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After it was closed for good last year, Pickston, who appeared on The Real Housewives of Cheshire between 2015 and 2017, launched an appeal.
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