Peter Andre is facing major backlash for appearing to mock Katie Price’s son, Harvey, in a resurfaced clip.
The Mysterious Girl hitmaker, 52, was married to Katie, 47, from 2005 to 2009, having met in the I’m A Celebrity jungle.
During this time, he was stepfather to Katie’s eldest, Harvey, whose father, footballer Dwight Yorke, has no relationship with him.
Harvey, now aged 23, is autistic and has vision-impairing Septo-optic dysplasia. He also has the rare genetic condition Prader-Willi syndrome, which causes learning difficulties and behavioural challenges.
Katie’s son has long featured in her social media content and reality shows in the late 2000s, including her many fly-on-the-wall series with Peter.
As the former couple feuds once more and their turbulent marriage makes headlines, fans are digging up old footage, with one scene making its way to TikTok and seemingly exposing Peter making fun of Harvey, who was a child at the time.
The clip, posted to 118,000 followers by @katiepricefanpage, shows Peter encouraging a young Harvey to imitate Matt Lucas in Little Britain, in which he played disabled character Andy.
‘Harvey, say, “I want that one!”,’ he told him, which was Andy’s catchphrase.
With Harvey heard groaning in his wheelchair, Peter burst out laughing.
‘You look a bit Matt Lucasey, eh?’, Peter said.
Katie then appeared from another room to defend her son, saying: ‘No, he doesn’t. He’s my Harvey.’
‘He does a bit, just like that,’ Peter retaliated.
In the comments, fans were quick to blast Peter’s remarks, with @jeanette8898 calling them ‘appalling’.
@onamissionxox asked why the singer wasn’t ‘cancelled years ago’, and @rabbit_lover45 said he ‘did a good job in making people believe Katie was the problem’.
‘I had big respect for Peter but this is a big eye opener for me.. 😳’, admitted @deep.knowledge.
‘Making him repeat a catchphrase from Little Britain like he’s a joke for entertainment? That’s not “funny,” that’s cruel, heartless, and exposes exactly what kind of man Peter Andre really is. Any grown adult who can exploit and humiliate a vulnerable child for attention is rotten to the core’, raged @snowflakely4023.
Some fans did come to Peter’s defence, though, arguing that he still ‘he loved this kid like his own’, as written by @sunseasabd2351.
‘Why are people going at him for it? Its a joke’, added @bradleyhesford1998.
While Harvey now only uses his wheelchair on occasion, he used to use it daily.
His disabilities were explored in the documentary Harvey and Me, in which Katie also spoke about the racist online abuse he has suffered over the years.
The mum-of-five—who has Princess, 18, and Junior, 20, with Peter—even demanded a new law, named Harvey’s Law, be enforced in the UK to make trolling a specific criminal offence, which was backed by several MPs.
In 2021, after much deliberation, Katie decided to move Harvey into specialised housing, as he went to college and learned new skills.
However, in July this year, the ex-glamour model shared on her podcast that he would be ‘coming home for good’ and moving to independent living.
It came after, in summer 2024, Katie revealed she had to take Harvey out of the £350,000-per-year school, as the local authorities would no longer pay for it, deeming him not to have any ‘healthcare issues’.
Harvey, who is due to start taking the weight-loss drug Mounjaro, will now attend a place in Southampton that specialises in aiding people with Prader-Willi Syndrome, which affects 1 in every 15,000 individuals.
Meanwhile, Katie and Peter continue to face off in the press after he made a bombshell statement on Instagram last week, writing that, in 2019, ‘the family courts issued a legally binding order’ to enforce the arrangement of Princess and Junior living with him and his wife, Emily Andre, 35, due to ‘well-documented’ reasons.
Peter has vowed to expose more of Katie’s ‘lies’ in the ‘coming months’.
Hitting back in response, the reality star’s team said she ‘doesn’t feel the need to bring up tit-for-tat comments’ and that she would ‘no longer be gaslighted and bullied as she once was’.
Reps for Peter Andre have been contacted for comment.
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