Peter Andre’s wife Emily ‘hurt by Katie Price’s disgusting swipe at her children’

Peter Andre’s wife Emily has been left ‘hurt’ after her husband’s ex Katie Price brutally labelled her children ‘irrelevant’.

After meeting on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2004, Peter and Katie got together and went on to welcome son Junior, 20, and daughter Princess, 18.

They later divorced in 2009, with Peter then beginning a relationship with Doctor Emily MacDonagh, who is 16 years his junior. In the years since they’ve had three children together – Amelia, 11, Theo, 8, and Arabella, 1.

The couple have chosen to keep their children out of the spotlight, keeping their faces obscured or completely covered in photographs shared online.

However, this week a video released by another of Katie’s ex’s – Alex Reid- showed the former glamour model making a dig at Peter and Emily’s children.

In the video, Katie, 47, referenced Peter’s, 52, youngest children, labelling them ‘irrelevant’ in front of her then 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.’

After hearing about the dig made about her children, Dr Emily, 36, was reportedly left taken aback by the remark.

‘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,’ a source told The Sun.

‘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 family don’t want Princess pulled into anymore of her mum’s drama.’

They added: ‘For someone who claims to want a peaceful life without any feuds, Katie isn’t leading by example.’

The source also claimed that Dr Emily had been left ‘really hurt’. ‘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.’

In 2023 Peter revealed it was his wife’s decision to keep their children out of the limelight.

‘I’ve got to be honest, this was an Emily decision, and I respect that,’ he said on the Netmums podcast.

‘Obviously the other two, from very young they were… we did what a lot of parent love to do. You get excited and you want to show your kid riding his bike or you want to show this awesome photo of your kids because, for me, you’re sharing something joyous.”

‘But when we had Millie and Theo, [Emily] said “I don’t want that”, I had to respect that, and I understood her reasonings for it. She’s right, she doesn’t want them at school to be recognised. She just wants them to be what she says is normal and I respect that.’

Earlier this week Peter took aim at his ex – posting a lengthy statement on social media following comments about his and Katie’s children’s welfare.

‘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.’

He then went on to write that he wanted to ‘set the record straight’ and revealed that Junior and Princess came into his care in 2018 and remained with him 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.’

Katie later shared a statement of her own, sharing that she had ‘allowed myself to fall into a reliance on drugs and alcohol’ and was ‘at times, not the mother I should have been while I struggled with mental illness’.

Metro has contacted representatives for Katie Price and Peter Andre for comment.

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