Peter Andre was seen for the first time since igniting an explosive feud with his ex-wife Katie Price as he ran errands on Friday.
The Mysterious girl singer, 52, cut a casual figure as he picked up a perscription and appeared to chat with a local construction worker.
The hitmaker sported a black T-shirt along with light grey shorts and a pair of white trainersw for the outing.
Peter’s outing comes just days after he locked horns with Katie by releasing a bombshell statement accusing her of ‘peddling baseless lies.’
The former couple were married from 2005 to 2009 and are parents to son Junior, 20, and daughter Princess, 18.
Peter Andre was seen for the first time since igniting an explosive feud with his ex-wife Katie Price as he ran errands on Friday
The Mysterious girl singer, 52, cut a casual figure as he picked up a perscription
Sharing a statement on social media about the living situation of their children in response to Katie’s recent remarks suggesting they live equally between them.
He wrote: ‘For sixteen years, I have stayed silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones, but staying silent has been incredibly frustrating. That ends today.
‘The latest comments about my children’s welfare and living arrangements compel me to set the record straight. For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood.
‘In 2019, the family courts issued a legally binding order to enforce this arrangement. I have never made this public before, out of respect for my children.
‘In 2011 and 2015, publicly documented court cases found my ex-wife had made false claims. She was ordered to pay substantial damages and legal costs, and to apologise to me and my management. The same falsehoods are being repeated today.
‘Unfortunately, there are many more lies and baseless accusations I have yet to address. Those will now be dealt with in the coming months.’
Rumours of a ‘rift’ between Katie and Princess, 18, have also been growing in recent weeks, after the mother-of-five was banned from appearing in her new ITV2 series The Princess Diaries.
Katie has since broken her silence on the drama in the newest episode of her podcast, saying she ‘refuses to be gaslit.’
Peter appeared to chat with a local construction worker
Peter’s outing comes just days after he locked horns with Katie by releasing a bombshell statement accusing her of ‘peddling baseless lies’
Peter and Katie were married from 2005 to 2009 and are parents to son Junior, 20, and daughter Princess, 18 (pictured in 2004)
Speaking to her sister Sophie on the show, Katie said: ‘It’s been full on [this week], but I want people to know: I own my s**t.
‘It’s very well documented, and I’ve always said how I’ve learned from my past. I’d always have a reaction to things, then it would spiral out of control, and this and that, and then spiralling out of control would make more headlines.
‘I’m so at peace with everything. At. Peace. I don’t need to rise to people, and what I say on my podcast is generally my opinion, what I feel, and I don’t lie about anything. Nothing.’
‘Everything’s in my lawyer’s hands now,’ Katie defiantly added. ‘I’m not being bullied or gaslighted anymore from anybody.’
Taking a swipe at her exes, Katie declared: ‘I find people from my past still go beyond about me. It’s like, are they all that’s obsessed? Just chill out and get on with your own life.’
The star went onto address speculation about her relationship with her son Junior and daughter Princess, insisting that they get on well, despite claims Junior has tried to ‘disassociate’ from his mother.
Sophie praised her niece Princess for being in ‘good spirits’ about the attention she’s faced since the show aired.
Katie then added: ‘She knows the score, she knows what it’s like, but she also knows, because we always talk, we know that everything’s not always what it seems.
‘I love my kids, and that’s all that matters – and they love me.’
Following his statement last week, Peter and his wife Emily are now reportedly furious by Katie’s ‘disgusting’ swipe at their children in a video shared by her ex-husband Alex Reid.
Peter wrote: ‘For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood’
In the video, Katie makes reference to Peter’s youngest children he shares with Dr Emily, in which she brands them ‘irrelevant’ in front if her then 13-year-old daughter Princess.
The video, believed to have been filmed in 2020, sees Katie telling her daughter: ‘Your dad is going to have to pay the school fees because of my bankruptcy. Does he moan about it? What does Emily say?
‘It’s money that could be spent on her and her kids. They’re not going private, are they, they’re irrelevant. No one even knows who they are.’
And now in the wake of the video’s release, Peter is thought to be horrified by Katie’s words about his kids, while Emily was left ‘stunned’, as a source said of the mother-of-five: ‘It’s a new low.’
An insider told The Sun: ‘Of course the focus has been on the fact Katie is counting cash while claiming to be bankrupt, but Pete has been left horrified by what she said about his family in front of Princess.
‘She would only have been about 13 then – and her mum was talking like that about her own brother and sisters. It’s disgusting. Emily is stunned that anyone could speak about children like that. It’s a new low.’
The source went on to say: ‘Emily’s really hurt by the whole thing. She’s always been classy and taken the high road, but her protective, motherly instincts have taken over and she’s adamant she won’t let her kids be dragged down by Pete’s ex.’
The insider noted that the family do not want Princess, 18, to be pulled into anymore drama, adding that Katie, who claimed to have wanted a peaceful life ‘isn’t leading by example.’
Katie responded to Peter‘s bombshell statement with a bizarre Instagram post about ‘fake Sinners who play the victim’ on Friday.
Rumours of a ‘rift’ between Katie and her daughter Princess, 18, have also been growing in recent weeks, after the mother-of-five was banned from appearing in her new ITV2 series
Rumours of a ‘rift’ between Katie and their daughter Princess have been growing in recent weeks after Katie didn’t attend Princess’s 18th birthday party, or appear on the nepo baby‘s fly-on-the-wall ITV television series.
Katie later claimed that it was her daughter’s management who had told her not to appear on the show.
In a lengthy Instagram statement, Katie pleaded ‘I’m trying to be the best I can’ while noting she hasn’t ‘always been the best mother’.
She wrote: ‘Saints and sinners. As we know, in this life we are thought of as Saints and Sinners. I know I will always be a Sinner. That’s fair, I allowed myself to fail into reliance on drugs and alcohol.
‘At times I was not the mother I should have been while I struggled with mental illness. I have been at times a poor friend, an awful sibling, an an untrustworthy partner. I’ve self medicated, been unfaithful, damaged myself and those that I love.
‘I’ve had many reasons – I was sexually abused when younger; I’ve had relationships that have been coercive; and my mental health issues – but I don’t want to make excuses.’
Katie continued: ‘I’ve recognised my issues and worked to put them behind me. Sometimes I tried and failed, sometimes I succeeded.
‘I’ve pulled myself out of suicidal spiral because I love my children and want to be there for them.
‘I don’t pretend to be perfect by any means – but I’m trying to be the best I can. Then there are the “Saints”. Some are genuine and some have helped me.
‘But some Saints are not who they would have you believe they are. They have a carefully managed image which must be exhausting to maintain.
‘Some Saints are fake. They play the victim and to succeed in life they need a villain… or at least a Sinner. Without the Sinner they don’t get to be the Saint…
‘As a Sinner – I sometimes get bored of these Saints. But maybe I should feel sorry for them, It must be such hard work having to pretend all the time.
‘Anyway, all you Sinners keep your heads up and keep trying to be better. All you Saints, it’s ok not to be perfect xxx’.
