Peter Andre: 'If My Kidsare Brats, They Get Nothing!'

Singer Peter, 44, has two children with wife Emily MacDonagh, 27; Amelia, who’s three, and six-month-old Theodore. He also has two children with his ex-wife Katie Price: Junior, 12, and Princess, nine.

- Lucy Gornall

Hey Pete! What would you say you’re like as a father?

I’m a firm dad, but I’m fun. Junior and his mates did this thing where they judged who had the strictest dad. I came out on top – I was devastated! But I also came second in the ‘most fun dad’ [laughs]. I try to have the balance. 

[Now laughs] Sounds ideal…

It’s hard sometimes because people say: ‘Oh, you shouldn’t be friends with your children – you should be a parent.’ I’m like: ‘What a load of absolute rubbish. You should be both.’ A parent first, but you can’t be friends with your children? What’s all that about?

You say you’re a firm dad – what are your biggest rules in the house? 

Manners. I don’t mind kids being spoilt, but I hate them being brats. I don’t like that. A kid can have nice things but what I don’t like is them going: ‘Dad, I want this and I want it now.’ You can forget it! They ain’t getting nothing if they’ve got an attitude.

We agree! Anything else? 

I’m pretty strict on cleaning their teeth, bath and showers and doing their homework. I’m a bit too strict about it, I think. Whenever Princess and Junior come to our house they never ask for the rules – they know the rules.

Do you help them out much with their homework?