Jordan tops documentary list

A show about Jordan has topped a list of the most-watched documentaries of 2006.

The Model Mum followed the glamour model at the time of the birth of her son Harvey.

It proved more popular than big-budget documentaries like the BBC’s Walking with Monsters and the Discovery Channel’s docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day.

The Richard Macer fly-on-the-wall documentary saw Jordan, also known as Katie Price, discover her son was blind.

She was also treated for a rare form of cancer on her finger, publicly split with footballer Dwight Yorke and got her modelling career back on track.

The film topped a list of the most requested documentaries on the on-demand Telewest TV service in 2006.

NTL Telewest chief operating officer Ernie Cormier said: “When it comes to our library of documentaries, it seems some viewers prefer to watch Jordan’s ‘wild life’ rather than wildlife.”

:: NTL Telewest Top 5 on-demand documentaries of 2006

1. Jordan: The Model Mum

Richard Macer BBC3 fly-on-the-wall documentary which saw Jordan learn her son was blind.

2. Walking With Monsters

Three-part BBC documentary series about life in the Paleozoic period, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles.

3. Pompeii: The Last Day

Dramatised BBC recreation of the destruction of the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD killing nearly 6,000 people.

4. Tsunami – Anatomy of a Disaster

BBC1 scientific account combining previously unseen footage and new accounts from survivors of the tsunami that claimed more than 200,000 lives on Boxing Day 2004.

5. Super Volcano

A BBC1 factual drama that took two years to make, charting the possible consequences of a supervolcanic eruption.