Ex-Atomic Kitten Kerry held captive

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The 26-year-old singer, her husband Mark Croft, 36, and five-month-old daughter Heidi were attacked at around midnight at their home in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

The masked gang, armed with a sledgehammer, crowbar and large kitchen knife, held Ms Katona and her daughter in a downstairs room while her husband was taken through the house by raiders.

The family were left unharmed but the robbers escaped with their blue BMW and numerous valuable items.

A Cheshire Police spokesman said the family were left "extremely alarmed" by the ordeal, but were unharmed. The family managed to free themselves at around 12.30am and contacted police.

PR guru Max Clifford, who represents Katona, said: "Kerry is in a terrible state. When I spoke to her this morning she was in floods of tears and absolutely distraught.

"It was a terrifying experience. Luckily they weren't hurt, but Kerry was held at knifepoint and the robbers threatened to kill them. It was such a horrible thing to happen.

"Kerry and Mark managed to raise the alarm afterwards although the men had taken their mobile phones. They are staying with family now and I'm not sure when they will go back to the house."

The robbers stole around £150,000 worth of belongings, Clifford said.

The couple only moved to the £1.5 million property a few months ago. Katona's two daughters by former Westlife star Brian McFadden, Molly and Lilly-Sue, were not in the house at the time as they were staying with McFadden's parents.