Peter Andre is going through main backlash for showing to mock Katie Worth’s son, Harvey, in a resurfaced clip.
The Mysterious Woman hitmaker, 52, was married to Katie, 47, from 2005 to 2009, having met within the I’m A Movie star jungle.
Throughout 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 additionally has the uncommon genetic situation Prader-Willi syndrome, which causes studying difficulties and behavioural challenges.
Katie’s son has lengthy featured in her social media content material and actuality exhibits within the late 2000s, together with her many fly-on-the-wall collection with Peter.
As the previous couple feuds as soon as extra and their turbulent marriage makes headlines, followers are digging up previous footage, with one scene making its solution to TikTok and seemingly exposing Peter making enjoyable of Harvey, who was a toddler on the time.
The clip, posted to 118,000 followers by @katiepricefanpage, exhibits Peter encouraging a younger Harvey to mimic Matt Lucas in Little Britain, wherein he performed disabled character Andy.
‘Harvey, say, “I need that one!”,’ he instructed 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 stated.
Katie then appeared from one other room to defend her son, saying: ‘No, he doesn’t. He’s my Harvey.’
‘He does a bit, identical to that,’ Peter retaliated.
Within the feedback, followers had been fast to blast Peter’s remarks, with @jeanette8898 calling them ‘appalling’.
@onamissionxox requested why the singer wasn’t ‘cancelled years in the past’, and @rabbit_lover45 stated he ‘did job in making individuals imagine Katie was the issue’.
‘I had large respect for Peter however it is a large eye opener for me.. 😳’, admitted @deep.information.
‘Making him repeat a catchphrase from Little Britain like he’s a joke for leisure? That’s not “humorous,” that’s merciless, heartless, and exposes precisely what sort of man Peter Andre actually is. Any grown grownup who can exploit and humiliate a susceptible baby for consideration is rotten to the core’, raged @snowflakely4023.
Some followers did come to Peter’s defence, although, arguing that he nonetheless ‘he cherished this child like his personal’, as written by @sunseasabd2351.
‘Why are individuals going at him for it? Its a joke’, added @bradleyhesford1998.
Whereas Harvey now solely makes use of his wheelchair occasionally, he used to make use of it each day.
His disabilities had been explored within the documentary Harvey and Me, wherein Katie additionally spoke about the racist on-line abuse he has suffered over time.
The mum-of-five—who has Princess, 18, and Junior, 20, with Peter—even demanded a brand new legislation, named Harvey’s Regulation, be enforced within the UK to make trolling a particular prison offence, which was backed by a number of MPs.
In 2021, after a lot deliberation, Katie determined to maneuver Harvey into specialised housing, as he went to varsity and realized new abilities.
Nonetheless, in July this 12 months, the ex-glamour mannequin shared on her podcast that he can be ‘coming residence for good’ and shifting to unbiased residing.
It got here after, in summer season 2024, Katie revealed she needed to take Harvey out of the £350,000-per-year faculty, because the native authorities would now not pay for it, deeming him to not have any ‘healthcare points’.
Harvey, who is because of begin taking the weight-loss drug Mounjaro, will now attend a spot in Southampton that specialises in aiding individuals with Prader-Willi Syndrome, which impacts 1 in each 15,000 people.
In the meantime, Katie and Peter proceed to face off within the press after he made a bombshell assertion on Instagram final week, writing that, in 2019, ‘the household courts issued a legally binding order’ to implement the association of Princess and Junior residing with him and his spouse, Emily Andre, 35, attributable to ‘well-documented’ causes.
Peter has vowed to expose extra of Katie’s ‘lies’ within the ‘coming months’.
Hitting again in response, the fact star’s staff stated she ‘doesn’t really feel the necessity to convey up tit-for-tat feedback’ and that she would ‘now not be gaslighted and bullied as she as soon as was’.
Reps for Peter Andre have been contacted for remark.
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