Peter Andre is not happy with Lee Andrews claiming he’s adopted his children.
The Australian pop star, 53, shares daughter Princess, 18, and son Junior, 21, with Katie Price, 48, to whom he had a rocky, highly publicised marriage from 2005 to 2009.
Katie also has three other children from later marriages (and has been open about wanting more), with fourth hubby Lee boldly claiming he is their new adopted dad.
Taking to Cameo, where he is charging £26+ for personalised video messages to pay off his debts, the Dubai-based businessman responded to a fan who requested a Father’s Day wish for her dad.
In the clip obtained by The Sun, he says: ‘I haven’t got children, but we’re trying.
‘I’ve adopted five of them. I love my wife, and I love her children.’
Now, a representative for Mysterious Girl hitmaker Peter has informed Metro that, despite what Lee said, nothing has changed as far as he’s concerned.
They told us that the adoption claims are ‘categorically untrue’ and ‘yet another lie’ from Lee, whose identity and money-making schemes have been questioned since he proposed to Katie within days of meeting her in January.
Peter’s rep added of his kids: ‘They haven’t even met him!’
Indeed, this is quite the opposite of what Lee has said in the past.
In April, Lee, who has lived in Dubai for 21 years and has a travel ban, said he has had face-to-face interactions with Katie’s eldest kids, which include Princess, Junior, and 23-year-old son Harvey, the latter of whom she has with estranged Dwight Yorke.
Shortly after, an insider told Closer that the former glamour model had been left ‘genuinely shaken’ after some of Lee’s mistruths came to light, especially those concerning her children.
And upon Lee insisting that he had been jetting ‘back and forth’ between Dubai and the UK for family gatherings ‘people don’t know’ about, Katie’s spokesperson also denied such a thing.
Still, this hasn’t stopped Lee from getting inked with the name of her eldest child.
In March, a mere two months after his quickie UAE wedding to Katie, Lee unveiled a tattoo of Harvey’s name on the side of his hand. It is accompanied by his favourite animal, a frog.
Lee has also been lapping up the affection from Harvey from another country, having shared a photo of a drawing he had done, showing Katie, Lee, and Harvey as frogs. It also referred to Lee as ‘Daddy’.
Captioning the post, Lee wrote: ‘Harvey’s beautiful picture for me and his mummy. Aww Daddy Lee x Cute. If you love your wife your love their children [sic]’.
Katie’s family were reportedly ‘blindsided’ when she announced her marriage to Lee, with kids Princess and Junior confessing in her Princess Diaries reality show that they found out she was getting hitched again via a WhatsApp group chat.
Then, in an interview with The Sun, Princess said she ‘doesn’t know anything’ about her mum’s new man.
Meanwhile, brother and budding musician Junior said he was ‘confused’, calling the speedy union a ‘bombshell’.
‘At this point, I don’t know what to think. She’s flipping married him,’ he quipped. ‘I don’t know the guy, so it’s shocking. Of course it is. It is weird.’
Everyone was right to be wary, of course, as Lee was released from the notorious Al-Wir prison last week, having ghosted Katie and making her fear he had been kidnapped while he was really behind bars, allegedly for owing thousands of pounds of unpaid debts.
Even Princess and Junior’s dad, Peter, who married NHS doctor Emily MacDonagh, 36, in 2015, has raised concerns about his ex-wife’s latest relationship.
When asked what he makes of the so-called millionaire entrepreneur, he replied: ‘So my thing to Kate is, “Are you genuinely happy?” And if you are, then that’s great.’
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‘Who am I to tell someone what they should or shouldn’t be doing,’ Peter added. ‘Or even giving an opinion about it?’
‘I want her to be happy,’ he stated.
His comments came after he and Katie released a joint statement in February, in which the exes called a truce and vowed to ‘move forward’, ditching the mud-slinging once and for all.
‘Katie Price and Peter Andre have decided to close the door on the past and move forward into a new chapter with positivity and respect,’ the message, which was posted to both of their Instagram Stories, began.
‘We are both focused on creating a calm and supportive environment for our children.
‘We have reached a mutual agreement, both legally and personally confirming that neither of us will speak negatively about the other going forward. This decision reflects a shared commitment to our family and stability.’
They concluded that they ‘want to stand united for [their] children’, hoping to now start ‘a positive relationship’.
‘We ask for understanding and support from both the media and the public as we move ahead.’
Everything Lee Andrews has been accused of since marrying Katie Price
Misleading claims of being a multi-millionaire business owner
When Katie named Lee as her new partner, he was selling himself as the CEO of Aura Group Future Urban Travel 2027 and an ‘investor in SpaceX Hybrid Fitness’.
His profile, which had 111k followers, was littered with photos of the entrepreneur in the gym and enjoying the high life in Dubai – also appearing to rub shoulders with Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.
However, it was all later exposed as a farce – with no information about his company on its website, and his snaps with celebrities appearing to also be AI-generated.
Being banned from leaving Dubai
After meeting and marrying her new husband in Dubai, it came time for Katie to fly home to the UK – however her husband was unable to join her.
This was due to the fact that he’d allegedly served time in Dubai’s Al Awir central prison for suspected fraud, for allegedly taking out a £200,000 mortgage in his ex-girlfriend’s name without her knowledge.
The UAW bans people facing criminal investigations from leaving the country, however Lee denied he was unable to return to the UK and said there must be some ‘wrong details’.
However, Katie later confirmed he was subjected to a ban, but didn’t clarify why.
Teasing a fake pregnancy
Just a few weeks into their relationship, both Katie and Lee teased they were expecting a baby. After Katie declared she was ‘having his child’ Lee wrote they were a ‘perfect couple soon to be triple’.
At one point, the mum of five even urged her followers to pay £2.99 to find out the results of a pregnancy test.
Despite the attempts to generate publicity, she then confirmed she was not pregnant.
Scamming a string of women
Days after Katie and Lee tied the knot, two of his exes accused him of being a ‘liar, narcissist and manipulator’.
Two months later, it was then reported he’d been begging women for money weeks before he married Katie.
His ex Alana, then shared a post on Instagram calling him the ‘Tinder Swindler’ and claimed multiple women had contacted her saying he’d tried to scam them out of money too.
‘Ghosting’ his wife
After Lee failed to return to the UK last week, Katie revealed she had concerns he’d been kidnapped and then reported him as a missing person.
However, it was then reported that Lee had actually ‘ghosted’ his wife and was ‘squatting in a slightly run-down villa’ in Dubai and using a burner phone.
The Sun claimed he was ‘frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in’.