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has quit her donut shop business .
The former star, 31, resigned as a director of Dolly Donuts earlier this month and has removed the shop’s handle from her Instagram bio.
The company’s Instagram account has been set to private and says the business is now ‘temporarily closed’.
Following Kate’s resignation, her friend Lisa Moralee remains the company’s only active director.
The Bromley business first opened during the Covid-19 pandemic before receiving a cash injection from Kate, her husband Rio, 44, and Lisa.
Bowing out: Kate Ferdinand has quit her donut shop business following a reported legal battle over the venture
Business: The former TOWIE star, url shortener 31, resigned as a director of Dolly Donuts earlier this month and has removed the shop’s handle from her Instagram bio
Closed: The company’s Instagram account has been set to private and says the business is now ‘temporarily closed’
In November, Kate was accused of attempting to force baker Aimee Clayton out of Dolly Donuts and even offered to buy her share of the company for just £37.
An insider told The Sun that the row had got ‘very ugly’.
The shop, which was founded as a home-run business, specialises in sweet treats and even employed Rio’s brother Jeremiah.
However, things reportedly turned sour between baker Aimee and her investors and she left as a director of the company last year — just months after the store opened.
An insider told the publication: ‘Aimee has gone legal after feeling edged out of her own business.Things came to a head and Aimee has launched a legal case. It’s got very ugly.’
Kate and Lisa were appointed ‘persons with significant control’ within the business before being made directors in September 2021.
It comes after Kategave social media followers a second glimpse at her growing baby bump on Monday, and six months after suffering a miscarriage.
The former TV personality, already a parent to son Cree, two, with husband Rio, confirmed the news in a pregnancy reveal video over the weekend.
From sweet to sour: Kate was accused of attempting to force baker Aimee Clayton (pictured) out of Dolly’s Donuts and even offered to buy her share of the company for just £37
She’s expecting: Kate recently gave social media followers a second glimpse at her growing baby bump
Blended family: The former TOWIE star is also stepmother to husband Rio’s children Tate, Lorenz and Tia from his first marriage