PETER ANDRE has paid a Father’s Day tribute to daughter Princess as she builds a business empire that spans her own TV show, brand deals and a new make-up collection.
The teenager hopes to become a self-made millionaire in the next two years — but to her dad Peter, she is still just “my baby”.
In an exclusive interview to mark Father’s Day, Peter revealed: “I love all my kids equally but there’s an innocence about Princess that I love.
“She’s 18 but to me she is a young 18. She’s still my baby.
“I can’t explain it. She’s doing amazing. But she’s just a teenager and I want her to live her life and do all the things that we weren’t allowed to do. I want her to have fun and to travel.”
Peter lives in Surrey with wife Emily and kids Millie, 12, Theo, nine, and
Arabella, two, plus Princess. She and eldest son Junior, 21, are from his previous marriage to Katie Price.
And the father-of-five is determined not to repeat the mistakes of his strict Jehovah’s Witness parents.
The Mysterious Girl singer added: “I was a lot stricter 21 years ago because I’d come from a family that was very strict. I instilled things I was told.
“As the kids have grown older, I’ve realised I no longer agree with a lot of what I was taught , even though it was done out of love.
“Like when my daughter talked about having a boyfriend and I would say, ‘No no, you’re going to become a nun’ and stuff like that. Times have changed.
“But when Princess got to 14 and started talking to Emily about boys, it softened my heart because I saw the innocence in it.
“I remembered I was like that and I wasn’t allowed to have a girlfriend.
“We grew up as strict Jehovah’s Witnesses and there’s no such thing as girlfriends and boyfriends — you meet someone you are going to marry and that’s it.
“But by the time Junior got to 12 and Princess ten, I sat both of them down and said, ‘Guys, I don’t agree with all that, I want you to be happy. As you get into your teenage years, I want you to be able to talk to me about things’.
“I remember they looked at me and were like, ‘Why are you telling us this?’.”
As the four-time winner of Celebrity Dad Of The Year, it is clear Peter takes huge pride in his kids.
Junior is a talented singer-songwriter who Peter hopes will carve out a career “ten times bigger” than his own.
Millie is the academic one, while Theo is artistic and another chip off the old block. Peter feels little Arabella has only just started to bond with him through games of “splash splash” in the garden hot tub.
Peter said of his blended family: “The kids have grown up together so they don’t know any different and they just love each other so much. It’s such a beautiful thing to see.”
Asked if they find his pop fame embarrassing, Peter added: “They’re actually really encouraging.
“They will say, ‘Why don’t you wear your hair like that? That was cool. That is back in fashion’.
“What they all know is a shocker are my dad jokes. They are getting worse as I am getting older.”
Before the Father’s Day celebrations can kick off, however, the family will have to wait patiently for reality star and influencer Princess to emerge from her bedroom.
Peter said with a laugh: “Princess will come down when she wakes up, which could be any time after midday. She is currently filming a lot, so she is tired.
“Princess will wake up when she’s ready. That must be why her name is Princess, right?
“Hopefully we will go out for dinner. That would be nice.”
Peter will be expecting Junior and his girlfriend Jasmine Orr, 25, to drop by to celebrate.
He added: “We all recently celebrated his 21st birthday at Zuma restaurant in London. The other three will be up nice and early.”
It has been 30 years since Peter became an overnight heartthrob by stripping off and gyrating under a waterfall for the video of Mysterious Girl.
Peter says as a kid to Greek immigrant parents he was bullied when he was youngCredit: Xposure
And the singer reveals he is considering bringing his famous abs out of retirement to celebrate the anniversary.
But far from voicing their embarrassment, his kids are actively encouraging him to revive his Nineties heyday.
He said: “This summer marks three decades since it went to the top of the UK charts so it might be a good time.
“My abs have been hibernating for quite a few years. Shirt-off videos are not my thing any more. I’m in good shape. I train. I exercise. I feel good.
“I’m not in that shape, but I am always six to eight weeks away from abs again.
“But then I’m thinking, I’m 53, do I really want to be doing that again?”
Peter says his own fitness obsession was born out of childhood trauma.
He was picked on by school bullies after moving from Harrow, North West London, to Australia’s Gold Coast with his Greek immigrant parents in 1979.
Despite the protests of his record company, who knew his abs were a money spinner, he stopped taking his shirt off after the release of his 1997 single, All About Us.
Peter said: “My training was a coping mechanism because of the bullying and being picked on.
“I was a Greek kid with curly hair and a big nose, and I would train because I thought if they could see my body, they wouldn’t notice my face.
“I know that sounds ridiculous, but it’s true.
“The second I got my nose job just before All About Us, I never took my shirt off in a video again, because I didn’t feel I needed to.”
Decades after finding that inner confidence, Peter has also found ultimate contentment in his personal life.
Peter reveals he has kept the romance alive with doctor Emily, 36, by making time for regular date nights despite their hectic schedules.
He is currently performing seven shows a week in Mamma Mia! The Party at London’s O2, while Emily works around the clock in the NHS.
He explained: “Emily realised we were spending no time together. It was always kids and work so she started putting in date nights again and they have been a game changer.
“Sometimes you’ve got to step out of parent mode, which is hard because we’ve got a two-year-old and she doesn’t want to leave the baby for a minute, which I understand.
