Apprentice Katie Hopkins 'wrecked my family'

Charlotte, 18, told Closer magazine her world was turned upside down by her father's affair, which was discovered by wife Tina, 45.

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Scroll down for more Hopkins, who was recently caught in an embarrassing romp in a field with a married former colleague, Mark Cross, started the affair with Damian McKinney after she joined his business consultancy.

The mother-of-three grew suspicious after Damian, 46, the managing director of the Devon-based firm, began "raving about his new employee Katie".

Charlotte said mother Tina dropped in unannounced at the family's London flat, to find it full of Katie's clothes. She said Tina found a list written by Katie which listed the pros and cons of the affair.

The pros were his flat in New York and his job as an MD. But on the cons side Charlotte alleged "Katie had written that Dad already had three children".

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Just three months after her parents had split - Charlotte's world was turned upside down when Damian announced he and Katie were expecting a baby. She gave birth to baby India in 2004, after which she married Damian.

A distraught Charlotte developed the eating disorder anorexia.

She said: "I stopped eating to get Dad's attention and to regain some control in my life. I was at boarding school and hated going home.

"I'm 5ft 6 and weighed 9.5 st, but I dropped to 6.5st in two months by skipping meals - sometimes I'd fast."

Charlotte alleges Katie criticised her for "being skinny" and that "one day she sent me a card with a stick person drawn on the front and inside she wrote: 'I saw this and thought of you'."

Charlotte claims Katie was never interested in either her or her siblings and the mother-of-two "doesn't have a maternal bone in her body".

However, Katie and Damian's marriage didn't survive the birth of their second child Poppy, and the couple split up in January last year.

Charlotte has since recovered from anorexia and is back to her original weight. And both her mother and father have moved on with new partners she likes.

But she has not forgotten the damage done to her family by her dad's relationship with Hopkins and blames her for ruining their lives by having an affair with her dad.

She said: "I don't think Katie ever really loved him...she was just sh*gging her way up the career ladder."

Mother-of-two Katie, now in the final five of the BBC1 show The Apprentice, is accused of stealing three men from their wives and is fast becoming the most hated woman on television.

She even had a fling with fellow contestant Paul Callaghan, infuriating the show's boss Sir Alan Sugar.

Hopkins met current married lover Cross when she began work at Devon's Met Office. His devastated wife Ruth said her cheating husband had told her about the affair.