

7 Apr 2026 · 57m · 33 chapters

Peter and Emily Andre discuss their relationship, family life, and parenting, plus Peter’s “Legacy” album (30th anniversary remasters and new songs). They also answer audience questions about kids, openness, dating apps, and dating/marriage uncertainty.
Peter Andre is a British pop star whose breakthrough included “Mysterious Girl” (30 years ago). Emily Andre is a doctor (qualified in 2015) and author of children’s books, including puberty-themed titles. They have multiple children together (ages discussed: 12, 9, and a younger daughter around 2; plus older children).
Parenting changed their priorities immediately—sleep and self-first plans disappeared. Being open helps kids feel comfortable discussing sensitive topics. Dating apps/social media create minefields (unwanted messages, too-easy options), and behind-screen compatibility can fail once living together.
Peter’s “Mysterious Girl” Legacy album includes re-recorded features with Bubbler Ranx (re-recorded after 30 years), Montell Jordan, Brian McKnight, Leisha, and Kenny Thomas; a verse sung in Swahili by a Kenyan singer; album release set for April 10. They share stories about learning about tampons via TV, and family routines like kids entering their room at night.
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The hosts engage in light-hearted banter about fitness and body image.
“Because most footballers, when they quit, they kind of put a bit of weight on.”
Discussion about personal schedules and the challenges of family life.
“I don't know if ours is going to be similar because ours is going to give you a weekly shine.”
Peter shares insights about his music career and new album release.
“alright Right, shall we get into Peter Andre?”
A humorous exchange about cooking and domestic responsibilities.
“He only talks on this and then he's silent when we get into the house.”
Peter reflects on the impact of his hit song 'Mysterious Girl' after 30 years.
“Well, yeah, I haven't done a jack of potato for years.”
Discussion about the filming of Peter's iconic music video and its legacy.
“i do half microwave half of them that's why but in all the years i've cooked have i ever cooked a jack of potato that's probably why i don't know have you ever eaten one that i've cooked.”
Emily and Peter discuss Peter's music career, including nostalgic hits and new tracks.
They talk about the excitement and nerves of touring after a long break.
“First one in 15 years, just for fun, because I want to tour.”
Emily shares the unconventional story of how she met Peter through her father's medical help.
“We are kind of like a couple's podcast, right?”
The couple discusses the challenges and joys of parenting their children of various ages.
“And then you've got five, but three together, right?”
They reflect on aging, grandparenting, and the passage of time with their kids.
“Cause we're, I suppose we're, we're out of the deep end now.”
Emily discusses her medical background and her journey into writing children's books.
Discussing past book releases and the challenges of parenthood affecting memory.
Exploring the importance of open discussions about puberty with children.
“So the first one, which I do remember doing, was about a girl who wanted to be a pop star.”
Discussing the impact of differing family backgrounds on education and openness.
“I mean, Princess, you know, remember, she feels comfortable talking to me about things.”
Sharing a humorous anecdote about discovering what a tampon is through a TV show.
“Being a good girl, Dad, you'll go and get them.”
Discussing the realities of parenting and the challenges of keeping personal time.
“He said, oh, look at this little Mousie going for a little swim.”
Exploring how family dynamics shift with children's ages and needs.
“where they pour the water and the towel starts expanding.”
Highlighting the importance of taking time for oneself as a couple amid parenting duties.
“It's actually a really nice, but your whole mindset of life just changes in that split second.”
Discussing the challenges of maintaining privacy and personal space as parents.
Talking about the struggle of keeping children out of personal spaces for privacy.
“So when we go away, which we do once every two months...”
Discussing how children grow and age, bringing about new parenting challenges.
“And it gets more as they get older, I swear.”
Exploring concerns about dating apps and online communication for children.
“That takes me on to the next question, right?”
Explore the complexities and experiences of modern dating through apps.
“Well, yeah, my daughter put it on my phone.”
Discussion on how relationships have changed over time and the impact of social media.
“But I think on the dating apps, my understanding is you don't have to like woo people.”
A humorous take on the relevance of calendars and personal experiences.
“I don't know if you've done a calendar, Emily.”
Personal anecdotes about family planning and experiences with childbirth.
“It didn't happen to Pete this morning when he was singing naked.”
Discussion about the Inbetweeners movie and personal connections to it.
“Well, you're out of the happy stage now.”
Exciting plans for a Mamma Mia! performance and the immersive experience it offers.
“Inbetweeners is what we watch when we're in bed.”
Insights into cultural background and formative experiences growing up.
“So for me, it's kind of easy because I just think of my dad.”
Discover Peter's experience moving to Japan as a Michael Jackson lookalike at a young age.
“Which means please mind the gap when you enter the train.”
Listen to the couple's insights on choosing a name for a baby amidst differing opinions.
“You went as a Michael Jackson impersonator.”
The hosts discuss the implications of name choices and their future podcast plans.
“If I had to pick, I'd probably go with Louis.”

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2:41turn it on like what if i sing it to first hello and welcome to the therapy crouch with me abby
2:50Dr. Emily Andre: clancy me peter crouch so we've got some guests oh hello he was looking at you like i was like pick me pick me okay guys i'm great how are you guys sorry i was just overexcited for our guests today we've got peter andre on and his gorgeous wife emily dr emily and he's talking about his legacy album which is all as great as hits remastered with you know three extra tunes
3:15Peter Andre: sounds like a bit of a banger yeah bangers right i was a huge peter andre fan that wasn't you oh yeah like that's the first person i saw with like with some serious abs serious abs
3:25Dr. Emily Andre: but i i reckon you could compete with them now like you're you have got a top six pack Oh, thanks, babe. You have? Thanks. Don't you think? Yeah. Because most footballers, when they quit, they kind of put a bit of weight on. Oh, yeah.
3:42Peter Andre: You can go multiple different ways, can't you, when you retire? Yeah. You can go a lot of different ways. I thought mine would go different. I thought I'd blow up and then scolp and be an absolute, like, fucking geezer.
3:54Dr. Emily Andre: I didn't want you.
3:55Peter Andre: That didn't happen.
3:57Dr. Emily Andre: No, but I had this real fear of you, like, Keeping like skinny arms and legs and just go... No, but getting like a big fat belly to go with it.
4:06Peter Andre: Oh, I know people like that as well.
4:08Dr. Emily Andre: I know. I know people like that. It's an actual body type.
4:11Peter Andre: Yeah, like a slim floppy one, man.
4:16Dr. Emily Andre: Slim floppy man.
4:19Peter Andre: It's not a good look. What an image I've got in my head. It's not a good look, is it? Really?
4:23Dr. Emily Andre: Anything floppy we don't like?
4:25Peter Andre: No, we don't like floppy in general. It's a family show, come on.
4:31Dr. Emily Andre: Have you got any weekly ones for me? Can't cause I've got one for you.
4:35Peter Andre: I don't know if ours is going to be similar because ours is going to give you a weekly shine.
4:39Dr. Emily Andre: Oh yeah, enlighten me then, darling.
4:40Peter Andre: Yeah, just because I've played paddle and I've got two golf days in a row. Oh, nice. Coming up, yeah. So I just want to thank my beautiful, stunning wife for just, you know, kind of working the diary. But do you know what?
4:51Dr. Emily Andre: I'm starting to take it personally. It's like you're making every single effort to stay away from me.
4:57Peter Andre: No, no, no. God, no. I love you so much.
5:01Dr. Emily Andre: Why does that sound so insincere? Doesn't it, Gaz?
5:05Peter Andre: No, I just think, you know what, the sun's shining now.
5:09Dr. Emily Andre: What about the sun is shining, I'm going to take my gorgeous wife to a lovely restaurant for lunch?
5:15Peter Andre: I thought that, but I just know in the mornings you like to get stuff done. I thought, you know, I'll probably be out of your hair. And then when I come home, just as the sun's kind of prime. This reverse psychology is just... No, because it's probably like, you know, when the sun sets, that's when the romance starts. what a that's actually a great quote when the sun sets that's when that starts no because i'm so
5:36Dr. Emily Andre: exhausted from doing everything else and the sunset i'm going to bed
5:42Peter Andre: sunrise there's pointless that you might as well you might as well you know we'll meet up at sunset you know that's that's when it's and he's like you can come and meet me at the golf club if you want
5:53Dr. Emily Andre: that's not even an invite
5:56Peter Andre: that's not even an invite that's like you can go and play can I play golf fine that's fine
6:04Dr. Emily Andre: it's just sad it's a sad state of affairs like if you've got to do all these things
6:08Peter Andre: it's a weekly shine get away from me
6:12Dr. Emily Andre: move your hand away
6:13Peter Andre: weekly shine do you want to tell me how much I love you no
6:16Dr. Emily Andre: well I'll put that shine where the sun don't shine you little monkey
6:21Peter Andre: alright Right, shall we get into Peter Andre? Let's get into Peter Andre.
6:26Dr. Emily Andre: So guys, welcome to The Therapy Crouch. We've got the gorgeous Pete and Emily Andre with us today.
6:31Peter Andre: Finally, we're on this. We've been, we love, how much do we love this? We really do.
6:36Dr. Emily Andre: Because I relate so much of the stuff that you guys talk about and your little bickers. Yeah. It's exactly like we are. I really love it. Well, this is our form of therapy. It's to give us therapy. Is that what happens today? It'll be a therapy session for sure for us. We're actually going to need your help with some of our audience they've written in with some agony abs and you can help us out with that
6:55Peter Andre: and I can't believe how close we live to each other I know that blows me away all this time because I did your podcast didn't I I think it was about I don't know a year ago maybe but we did that in London so I had no idea we have to get together now I know and the kids are such similar ages
7:15Dr. Emily Andre: I love it
7:15Peter Andre: it's quite emotional your one together I watched that it was amazing We went deep, Pete, didn't we? I definitely left going, I needed that. It was one of those, you know, sometimes you just open up and you talk and talk and I'm just honestly bump me when I talk too much. Just do that because I talk. She knows. I don't stop. I don't stop. I don't mean it. I don't mean it.
7:40Dr. Emily Andre: That's good. You don't talk to me. He only talks on this and then he's silent when we get into the house.
7:47Peter Andre: What are you guys up to at the moment? what's that it's pete away a lot you're saying emily a lot yeah he's touring so i'm like holding the fort a bit i know and and you know i love doing it i love it it's like when i'm not working i'm thinking i need to do something like my brain's always going like that but i have to admit when i come home and i don't mean it to sound like it's more workers in it's a bad thing
8:09Dr. Emily Andre: but it's definitely more full-on at home no it is then it is i agree with that it is more respect Do you know what's funny as well, guys? I'm going, so Pete's brother's getting married and I'm going to his fiance's, like, hen do in a few weeks' time. So I'm leaving for three days, okay? Three days. So this has never happened before. I'm petrified. Three days and... Is it two nights? Two nights, three days. He is so stressed about it. Because one of them's a school day. I've lost three kilos. Literally. And I said to him, you do know at the weekend, Millie's got spore and I said, you're going to have to wash the uniform.
8:44Dr. Emily Andre: and he was like his head fell off he was like what do you mean I'm going to wash the uniform I was like yeah I know but it's all these little things us women do and I'm not being sexist here but it goes they say a mother's work is never done and it's not appreciated like all of the she looked right at you
9:02Peter Andre: when she said that well Pete's just earlier
9:04Dr. Emily Andre: talking about how to make a jack of potato he said you boil it what I know do you know how to make a jack of potato
9:11Peter Andre: you don't boil it how would you make
9:12Dr. Emily Andre: a jack of potato I mean
9:14Peter Andre: You give them an easy way out there. This is great. You guys start, we'll follow. How do you? Well, yeah, I haven't done a jack of potato for years. You say, have a game? Well, now it's obviously not boiled, so it has to be in the oven.
9:30Dr. Emily Andre: How, though? Just rough, rough method.
9:35Peter Andre: Honestly, if you were asking, I would just put it in the oven. Obviously, I'd turn it on. I'm just trying to think of like... Well, if I sing it to you first.
9:47Peter Andre: very good
9:50Dr. Emily Andre: yeah but keep flabbergasted me with that one
9:53Peter Andre: oh god i don't know i'm not a jack of potato man i love cooking but i'm not a jack of potato you can also do them in the microwave that's what i do that's what i would have done
10:02Dr. Emily Andre: i do half microwave half of them that's why but in all the years i've cooked have i ever
10:08Peter Andre: cooked a jack of potato that's probably why i don't know have you ever eaten one that i've cooked. I do love them.
10:13Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah, lots of times. I do love them.
10:15Peter Andre: I'm a big fan of a jacket potato. It's a nice snack.
10:18Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah, it is. Snack?
10:20Peter Andre: No, it is a snack. It's not a meal, is it?
10:22Dr. Emily Andre: It's definitely a meal. It's a company's a meal.
10:24Peter Andre: Yeah, or it can go in, you know, alongside a meal. It's a snack on its own.
10:29Dr. Emily Andre: Oh, I'm stingy. That's a meal for us. What would you have on it, though? Would you load it?
10:33Peter Andre: Yeah, I have cheese and beans or tuna.
10:35Dr. Emily Andre: I'm tuna cheese and beans. Yeah, me too, tuna cheese and beans. I love that.
10:39Peter Andre: Shall we do that?
10:40Dr. Emily Andre: I do it all the time.
10:41Peter Andre: Oh, yeah. I'll bore you one after. That was my way of going, can you do that? Yeah, would you mind? So you've got a new album, right? Yeah, yeah. So some of your old tracks just redone. Yeah, because it's 30 years. I can't believe that. I can't actually believe it. 30 years since Mysterious Girl became a worldwide hit. And so it was this summer, 30 years ago. And so I thought, well, you've got to do something. The first thing I thought was, should I get the abs back, right? And then I thought, can I honestly be bothered? Can you tell me they've gone away? No, they're there, but they're just hibernating.
11:17Peter Andre: Yeah. So what I do is, because I train all the time, but because I love cooking so much, I can't just do all the, I'm not, you know, focused on clean eating all the time. And then the kids, whatever they've left over, I'm on it. So it's almost like they're there, everything's where it should be it's just covered in a little blanket yeah yeah yeah
11:41Dr. Emily Andre: I had Pete this morning getting in the shower naked doing the oh my man
11:46Peter Andre: I was like Pete
11:47Dr. Emily Andre: just get in the shower and go away from me now I'm trying not to picture this right now
11:50Peter Andre: I know
11:51Dr. Emily Andre: can you imagine me can you imagine me I'm like trying to put my makeup on she loved it she loved it I was like shut that door get away
11:57Peter Andre: because it's the it's the I see who we're going today babe oh it's yeah it's more the swinging side of it I'm trying to not focus on it's i can't but i think i think you brought abs mainstream might be my opinion because i i think for girls and for and for boys i was like i i want them and girls are like i want them as well but you know what's weird though i think back to that so that was 30 years ago and i remember guys i don't know if we're allowed to swear on this i'd do you can't say yeah okay so i remember guys i'd i'd you know do a show or girls would be you know it was great because that side of it you got that sort of attention but guys didn't like it and you know they'd call me a wanker all the time I'd be on stage and or walking down the street and someone would say something and I used to think but why you know I thought it was a great sort of image thing that's all I ever thought of it was image for music it's jealousy yeah but then I got so I used to get picked on as a kid for my nose right which we spoke about I think and so once I got that done I thought well I don't need to take the shirt off anymore literally it was that kind of switch in my brain going so take the attention away I used to take the shirt off all the time once I sorted that out I never ever took my shirt off again and guys all of a sudden were like hey come mate you're a great it was almost like overnight it it just changed guys didn't think of you as you know I guess someone trying to steal the I don't know what it is trying to show off or it just didn't come across like that anymore so it was actually a good thing at the time but also you know it caused a lot of you know punch-ups and all sorts of things that used to happen back then definitely had your shirt off this morning with the window yeah talking about that was my view this morning
13:43Dr. Emily Andre: was pete wandering around naked and the window cleaner was right there that's different at the window that's different oh pete you know i mean shut the curtains the poor guy get your money's worth i mean no just joking that's a stereotype listen that was iconic to be fair i like and i
14:01Peter Andre: remember doing it in garnell leisure center like you know swimming like i remember doing it trying trying to replicate what you were doing yeah it was an epic hey we need to talk there's a lot going on like swinging it was you're in the where were you it's like feeling like the jamaica or something no so everyone thinks it's jamaica but it was thailand and it was it was actually 10 years later they filmed the film The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio in the same spot
14:27Dr. Emily Andre: oh wow
14:27Peter Andre: but we were 10 years earlier and it does look like Jamaica I mean it does
14:31Dr. Emily Andre: yeah
14:31Peter Andre: beautiful place and now apparently tourists can't you can't swim there anymore which is such a shame yeah but it didn't become famous because of ours it became famous because of the beach because everyone thought ours was filmed somewhere else yeah it does does look that way yeah she make a bit of that video enjoy that have you ever seen it what's funny as well
14:50Dr. Emily Andre: is that the guys dancing in the background one of them is still pete's best friend now and still he still dances with him amazing it's actually it's so good and the curtains is the other thing as well that was because when i was at school yeah everyone had the curtain peter yeah did you have them did you have the undercut under the curtains yeah i love that hairstyle yeah that's what i tried it to
15:10Peter Andre: johnny's hair awesome there's a difference though pete and this is the truth you guys when you rocked it and some of the other footballers right it just naturally fell mine didn't i had to strategically put it there loads of gel loads of hair spray a lot of gel make so much so sorry i am talking a lot but i will calm down i'll start off like this and then i'll calm down i've got a lot of mysterious girl chat and then i would literally have a cup of tea i promise you and I would have to do that to drink the tea because if that bit, the spike, went into the tea, it would just dissolve the gel. It was horrible.
15:53Peter Andre: Would it go up early on the end? Yeah, it would be like... So, mysterious 12. Curl? No, okay. But yeah, so I used to have to do that. I mean, it was actually... When I think back, it was like, yeah, not great. very very very vain if i think about high maintenance you know you'd go out on a date and you would be like if they don't touch your hair if they did they'd be like because it was like a rock not a good look when i think back but yeah so you were asking me about an album and i went all that way i'm sorry but the album's not just about mysterious girl
16:36Dr. Emily Andre: you've got so many hits it's the legacy album and you've got new tracks on there so like i've
16:41Peter Andre: been lucky enough to have nine top five hits and three number ones and so we've redone all of those wow um kept them nostalgic made them current and fresh and three brand new songs that i've written
16:52Dr. Emily Andre: so yeah i can't wait we're definitely going to come and see you and we want to sign copy 200 200 it must be it must be so nostalgic to bring all them songs back and then along with
17:04Peter Andre: your new stuff yeah to get back on the road yeah and it's great so to celebrate it i i i got bubbler ranks who was the original rapper on it after 30 years we've been friends ever since but he's come back and he's re-recorded his bits but he's rewritten it wow but with the same melody so when you're hearing it it's exactly the same melody but different lyrics and it's actually really funny and i found a guy in kenya who sung a verse of it in swahili i saw it online and i was like this guy's great so he's singing on it so we got swahili on it it's mad we got a jamaican bubbler ranks is jamaican so we've got a jamaican guy on it we've got someone from swahili we've made this song a bit more international and the other songs yeah we had montel jordan who sung this is how we do it yeah he's featuring on it now brian mcknight lady leisha who i love kenny thomas great do you know kenny thomas great song look up Kenny Thomas great great songs in the 80s 90s I feel like I know the name yeah have I mentioned anyone you know so far yeah yeah
18:13Peter Andre: Montel's great yeah they're really good guys and and and to have them all on so we did all that made it different so it's not like the same but it's still nostalgic and then three new tracks and that comes out on April the 10th. Oh, my God, what date is it now? A little far off. A little far off. First one in 15 years, just for fun, because I want to tour. I love touring. And are you nervous bringing an album out after 15 years? Yes and no, because I love gigging, I love touring and it's just another excuse for me to be touring because I want to put a tour. I haven't done a tour for 15 years either.
18:50So nervous, you know, you want people to like what you do,
18:54Peter Andre: but it's different now to what it was back then because back then you're competing for number one chart positions. It's not like that now. You do it now because it's like it means you can then do a tour. Yeah. And all your fan base hopefully that have liked your stuff before hear new versions of it and new songs and go, we've got to go see that. And we still dance like we did when we were 20. So do we.
19:18Dr. Emily Andre: Yes, so do we. Especially in the mornings, naked.
19:23Peter Andre: I'm still...
19:24Dr. Emily Andre: But there's a lot of fans, there's a lot of, like, Five have just come back recently. Like, there's talks of, like, the Spice Girls reunion, the Pussycat Dolls are back together, and everyone is so excited for it because, you know, it's memories for us, you know, like when we were younger and going out and having great... You know, it brings back great memories and fun times. It's great fun. We'll be there, Pete.
19:46Peter Andre: You better be there. We will be. With clothes on.
19:49Dr. Emily Andre: With clothes on. You've got to put clothes on, Peter. You need a bloody spray tan if you're going to do that.
19:54Peter Andre: Do what?
19:55Dr. Emily Andre: The dance.
19:56Peter Andre: Do I?
19:57Dr. Emily Andre: Well, you're rounder than me.
19:59Peter Andre: But you know what? We are kind of like a couple's podcast, right? Yes. Talk us through your first meet.
20:06Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah, how did you guys meet? It's actually a random story. So Pete was touring and he was down in the West Country. Actually, you were rehearsing. You hadn't started the tour yet. And he basically got ill. He kind of like collapsed and was rushed to hospital. Oh my God. And my dad operated on him. Oh, no. And like save the tour or whatever, you know. No love without pain.
20:28Peter Andre: Wow. So what's your dad? What surgery is your dad?
20:31Dr. Emily Andre: He's a urologist. So we had kidney stones. So yeah, so they met and like became friends. And then our families kind of met. And then it kind of just happened slowly. We were like friends for quite a long time first. And then when he had to ask my dad's permission. My dad was like.
20:48Peter Andre: I know I felt so because I always thought what if he knew then what he knows now he might have done a different operation
20:53Dr. Emily Andre: my dad loves you he just gets my dad loves Pete he just gets really awkward talking about stuff like that he was like yeah yeah fine anyway when you guys come around that was it so yeah
21:02Peter Andre: that was it yeah did you ask
21:04Dr. Emily Andre: what did my dad say when you asked
21:06Peter Andre: yeah are you sure brilliant
21:11Dr. Emily Andre: he probably did to be fair
21:12Peter Andre: he did
21:12Dr. Emily Andre: did he
21:14Peter Andre: but isn't it nice how long have you guys been together for over 20 years. Wow. Really?
21:19Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah. See, we're like nearly 14 now.
21:23Peter Andre: Yeah, we are actually.
21:24Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah, quite long. We've married 10, yeah.
21:26Peter Andre: Oh, wow. And you've got three kids, right? And then you've got five, but three together, right? So is it, and they're kind of a wide range of ages, right? Yeah, similar to us, 12,
21:38Dr. Emily Andre: brand new baby, haven't you? Yeah. And nine? Yeah, so 12, nine, and Belle's nearly two now. Yeah. But she's still a baby. baby.
21:47Peter Andre: How do you, how do you find that? Cause we're, I suppose we're,
21:51Dr. Emily Andre: we're out of the deep end now.
21:52Peter Andre: Yeah. We're kind of out of the.
21:53Dr. Emily Andre: Cause your youngest is six. Yes.
21:55Peter Andre: You know, kind of.
21:56Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah. You're, you're in your home and house now.
21:58Peter Andre: They're all at school. Isn't the golden age, like don't you reckon three till about eight? It's just. Yeah.
22:04Dr. Emily Andre: Gorgeous.
22:05Peter Andre: The most incredible. They're so loving. Theo's nine and he's still, he just hasn't come out of that stage yet. And I'm like praying.
22:14Dr. Emily Andre: I want him to stay young forever. it's so like Sophia recently celebrated her 15th birthday and I'm like she's five foot 11 I'm like how the hell did this happen you know I love being tall does she like it or does she no she I tell her every day it's a gift it is a gift but she I don't think because you know that age she's taller than the boys at the moment you know the boys catch up though yeah definitely I love it I love being tall just seeing her going from a baby to like a young woman it's just petrifying just so i just want to stop time and be like don't go anymore yeah yeah i think girls do stay close to their parents do you know what i mean definitely especially when they have a family i think they come they'll they'll come back and yeah because i want your like support and yeah of course whereas i think boys do fledge the nest a little bit more and maybe go like where their wives are they go to the boys yeah but can i ask you a question right so because i've thought
23:03Peter Andre: this right you know for so long i was like i just want them to get out of the nappy stage i like them when they're more three, four, you know, that sort of age growing up. And then all of a sudden I've had a realisation that Belle's like the last one and you sort of go, you know, I have to enjoy every moment because it's going to go. But then don't you have a moment where you think, yeah, but one of them might give us, one of them might have kids. Yeah, not yet. And then you'll go through it all again.
23:30Dr. Emily Andre: I'm not ready to be a grandma yet.
23:32Peter Andre: No, no, I know, I know, but that's the only thing that seems to. No grandmas on this couch, Pete.
23:35Dr. Emily Andre: Absolutely not. I've even said to Julia and Princess, I was like, no grandma before 40. That is not happening, okay? I was like, you need to wait until I'm at least 40. I'm 40 now and I feel like a grandma. I feel like I could be a grandma.
23:48Peter Andre: Really?
23:49Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah. Not at all.
23:51Peter Andre: I'm not ready. What would you go for? I don't want to be called granddad. No chance. I'm already braced the whole granddad thing. No, I'm not bothered now. I'd be granddad or something. Granddad? Granddad or vice.
24:02Dr. Emily Andre: Grandpa.
24:02Peter Andre: Imagine being grandpa. I'd be so happy with that. We'd be the best grandparents. Can I ask how old you are? 45. Yeah. When you get to 53, you're going to...
24:13Dr. Emily Andre: Are you 53?
24:13Peter Andre: 53. You're going to change your mind about wanting to be called granddad. You look like I'm going to be young again. Because you feel it. At 53, you feel it. At 40-something, you probably still feel so young. You're like, yeah, you can call me granddad. Wait till you start feeling your age. You're like, yeah, no, don't call me granddad, please. Not yet, not yet.
24:30Dr. Emily Andre: You don't even have any grey hair. How can you be...
24:32Peter Andre: I am lucky. If you look close, you'll see. He's got like three. No, I've got three grey hairs.
24:38Dr. Emily Andre: My dad's like that. He's 93 and a third of his hair is still black. Wow.
24:44Peter Andre: And he used to get asked when he was 50, why are you dyeing your hair? And he's going, I'm not. People ask you sometimes. I know, and that's a compliment. They ask me and I'm like, no, doesn't dye his hair. It'll happen though, it'll happen. Look, look, he looks like a model. Look at him.
24:57Dr. Emily Andre: You've got a couple of greys. Yours is more receding than going grey.
25:01Peter Andre: Yeah. But you could do the curtains right now and it would still work. He could curtain it right now and it would still work.
25:08Dr. Emily Andre: But if you did the curtains, you did the fence apart. They're coming. I'm growing at the moment.
25:13Peter Andre: I'm going to just get one last hurrah. Do you know what I mean? I'm going to see what I'm doing. Are you going for like a man bum? I'm just going to grow and see what happens. You can't grow anymore. You might get to be like long there.
25:21Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah. I like it.
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27:27Peter Andre: What's your background? So you were a doctor?
27:29Dr. Emily Andre: yeah i am so what yeah so i qualified 2015 so yeah when just after millie was born
27:36Peter Andre: which feels like ages ago now oh yeah it's amazing so you kind of followed in your father's footsteps
27:41Dr. Emily Andre: yeah and my mom and your mom yeah yeah and one of my brothers is a doctor the other one's training to be a doctor and the other two were like we're not doing that i would have loved to have been a doctor it's nice it's like it's quite a full-on career i always feel like if you can if you can put it first before anything else it's amazing if you've got something else that comes like for me the kids and things it's it is hard that juggle because it's a lot of shift work and you have to move jobs quite a lot so it's yeah but it's very rewarding
28:09Peter Andre: it's very nice like i feel lucky yeah and you do it in other ways now like you do you've got books
28:14Dr. Emily Andre: out right yeah i've got my books kids books i actually can't believe i've written a book yeah i love that i still get excited we were talking about because i brought a book out years ago which I forgot about didn't we what was the book I'll Be Home for Christmas that was book two was it like a novel it was a novel but I had no recollection of it
28:34Peter Andre: really no
28:35Dr. Emily Andre: no because I think I was I was you know so deep into having all the kids like I had three and five years and I brought this novel out and someone wrote in about it
28:46Peter Andre: and I was like no I haven't done that brilliant so by the goal
28:53Dr. Emily Andre: memory loss
28:53Peter Andre: So we just started, each episode we started to really extracts from it.
28:59Dr. Emily Andre: Is it?
29:00Peter Andre: It is now that we've promoted it. I've got to need to buy it.
29:02Dr. Emily Andre: You can have one. What's it about? We can't remember. It was about this girl. So the first one, which I do remember doing, was about a girl who wanted to be a pop star. And she got like an internship and, you know, a bit of a love triangle and she made it as a pop star. And the other one was when, the second one, was when like fame took over and she just kind of wanted to go back to her roots and come home for Christmas, basically. She'd do a sequel.
29:28Peter Andre: But when you read extracts, was there any of it when you read the extracts that you go, no, I do remember that bit?
29:37Dr. Emily Andre: Not really.
29:38Peter Andre: Right.
29:39Dr. Emily Andre: Were you really sleep deprived at the time? Must have been. So tell us more about your books. They're kids books. I've done five now. So yeah, the first two were about like puberty, which are now really handy because obviously the kids are getting to the age where I'm like, ooh, yeah, let's get the book out. Because, you know, it's like awkward starting those conversations, right? And you're like, ooh.
29:59Peter Andre: Just read that. Just read the book. If one of the kids comes at you and asks, you go, just have a look at that.
30:04Dr. Emily Andre: Well, see, I actually quite love the conversations. That sounds really weird.
30:07Peter Andre: I go and read that book. I quite like it.
30:09Dr. Emily Andre: I'm like, ooh, okay, yeah, let's chat about it. Sophia's so good at that. Like, she gives me all the goss and, you know, she's very open, which I love because I didn't have that. I didn't do that with my mum and I are so close, but we didn't have that. oh mum I fancy this boy or you know if I had a like a period issue or whatever I wouldn't say to my mum I'd just feel so embarrassed yeah we've got quite an open policy on that one even Pete
30:33Peter Andre: I have to be honest you have changed me a lot because I I come from an old school family yeah where the dad doesn't talk about anything and the mum sort of you know we we weren't as kids we weren't allowed to even have sex education at school so my parents were really strict Jehovah's witnesses right and everything was very kind of very religious and there were certain things we weren't allowed to do so when sex education happened at school we weren't allowed to attend it so I learned the hard way right and then and then when we had children before sorry when I had children first I remember I couldn't discuss the subject and it freaked me out I can admit that now but something I 100 % think being with you has taught me and has made me understand that being open means they feel comfortable.
31:25Peter Andre: I mean, Princess, you know, remember, she feels comfortable talking to me about things. Now, I could never have done that 10 years ago. 12, no, she's 18. Yeah, probably when she was up till about eight or no, around that time, I couldn't remember. I was so like...
31:41Dr. Emily Andre: It's actually very good now. I couldn't do it. Being a good girl, Dad, you'll go and get them. supplies
31:47Peter Andre: before he'd be like oh
31:49Dr. Emily Andre: I can't pick that up that's only an excuse
31:52Peter Andre: to get chocolates as well yeah I do
31:54Dr. Emily Andre: you need to educate our producer who thought women wear a tampon one tampon for a week I cannot I'm so sorry I can't believe that
32:03Peter Andre: it's sticky guys
32:04Dr. Emily Andre: I just couldn't believe that I can't believe that my first thought was he obviously doesn't have sisters but you do have sisters I know what is going on
32:13Peter Andre: yeah
32:13Dr. Emily Andre: eight hours max just so you know yeah You can die if you leave it in too long.
32:18Peter Andre: Oh, I didn't know that. Toxic suction. Oh, really?
32:21Dr. Emily Andre: I'm so educated now. I've taught her a thing or two in a few weeks. I didn't know that. No.
32:27Peter Andre: So do you know how I learned about a tampon?
32:29Dr. Emily Andre: No.
32:30Peter Andre: There was a show. Oh, God, I don't know this story. There was a show called The Young Ones. Do you remember The Young Ones? The Young Ones was Rick Mayall, Aiden. Gosh, I am old. You remember. Rick Mayall, Young Ones? Rick Mayall, yeah? Yeah. So The Young Ones, right? Which was what the in-betweeners is. He rescued you there. But wait, thanks. He put a tampon, Rick Mayall, as Rick, that was his name and thing. He put a tampon in a cup of tea and it started to expand.
32:58Dr. Emily Andre: The first time you've seen the tampon? Yeah.
32:58Peter Andre: And he said, oh, look at this little Mousie. There's a scene. You can find it. He said, oh, look at this little Mousie going for a little swim. And then he put the tampon in the tea and it expanded. And my jaw dropped. what did you think it was no never in a million years did i think it was for that so i thought because everyone was laughing and i'm thinking what is that thing to be fair it's
33:25Dr. Emily Andre: quite a jump in your head to assume it's for that if you put it in a car i had no idea it had anything
33:30Peter Andre: to do with anything i just thought wow look at this technology this is great um and yeah yeah so yeah it was just it expanded my knowledge that's for sure who broke the news to me well again because we came from a really different you know we weren't allowed to do anything so i found things out a very different way did anyone say to you right this is what that is and then you went oh and then and then
33:59Dr. Emily Andre: i kid you not i had no idea i had no idea have you ever had them in your bag and your kids have They'd have gone in their bag and think they were like sweet or something. Or when you're on the toilet and the kids go, what's that? You've got that a few times and you go, ah.
34:18Peter Andre: And then, you know, you get those things at restaurants where they pour the water and the towel starts expanding. Oh, yes, it's like that.
34:23Dr. Emily Andre: I love that.
34:23Peter Andre: I remember seeing that as a kid and I thought. Oh, my God. And I was trying to put it all together and I just couldn't for years. But anyway, I know now. I know they're two separate things now. I should have made you a cup of tea with one. That would have been something. Yeah. I got some fan questions here. Are you right with that? Are you right with a few of these, right? Yeah. Yeah, we've been in on that, you know what we've got, to be fair. Oh my God, yeah.
34:51Dr. Emily Andre: When we put the thing up, it's like a million questions.
34:53Peter Andre: Yeah, we got a load. We got a load. I think we've kind of covered this, but this is from Jade C from Corp. Pete and Emily. How has having kids changed your perspective on life? It's a deep start, isn't it?
35:05Dr. Emily Andre: That's a deep question. Do you know what? I remember when, because I was 24 when I had Millie I was quite young and I remember I gave birth and I was exhausted so I was like right I need to have a sleep and I shut my eyes for about 10 seconds and she start she started crying and my mum was like um excuse me you have to feed the baby and I remember just being like oh my god I can't just sleep when I'm tired now I can't just do what I it was like my world just kind of came crashing down at that point and and it is that's the truth of being a parent, isn't it? You suddenly, you never put yourself first anymore, ever again in your whole life, really.
35:42Dr. Emily Andre: And it's actually lovely. I don't mean it's a bad thing. It's actually a really nice, but your whole mindset of life just changes in that split second. Because at 24, you're still quite selfish. I'm still quite selfish at 24.
35:52Peter Andre: I agree with that. That is true. Although on the last podcast, I think last week, we decided that we were going to put ourselves first more.
35:59Dr. Emily Andre: Did we?
36:00Peter Andre: Yeah, I think we just said, fuck them. We're going to ditch them. Wow. I think we were a little bit like, yeah, like, you know, we're saying our weekends our weekends were we thought about them when we were kids and it was all about what our mum and dad were doing and we were along with them and now it's about what the kids want to do and we're taking them there
36:20Dr. Emily Andre: do you know what I mean
36:21Peter Andre: when did that shift happen when it was like you know now we need to go shopping and you're just going to come with us
36:26Dr. Emily Andre: yeah we used to have to go to the garden centre every weekend
36:31Peter Andre: that's a good point do you know what I mean
36:32Dr. Emily Andre: true and I do
36:34Peter Andre: we do have that conversation where sometimes I'm like come on we don't let's not ask them let's just take them yeah and I know I think things times have changed it is a bit of a weird thing the difference I've noticed 100 % is I always the the selfish thing is a good point because I always used to think I want to be this or I want to be number one or I want to be this and 100 % I now know what my greatest achievement is yeah then that's kids but i did i would have never known that before and i would have never even thought about it and i would have thought no no not for me not for me and then it happens and they are because they are everything happens after doesn't it yeah yeah yeah they're way more important than what you want to do oh yeah absolutely happiness really yeah what do you do what do you do for yourselves to have a bit that because we were just saying we
37:27Dr. Emily Andre: are due a little adult night away so we do it occasionally it's pete's birthday recently so we went just went away for the night yeah we try if we don't we should do it more i know it's so nice having that reset yeah it needs to be done though yeah but it does because i always think when you recharge yeah and you're strong as a couple you're better as parents that's how i justify it to myself when we go away because i always feel guilty every time last time pete and i went to a way we we didn't even go out we just had an we got an audiobook we sat in bed we were so engrossed in this book we had an air pod each and we just lay in bed listening to this Martina Goldberg
38:06Peter Andre: it got to the point where we were so engrossed in this book and we were listening to it together that we went for dinner and we couldn't put the book down so we were just sitting there like that and I think if you didn't see if you were fake and we both had an air pod in this way you looked at us we didn't see what words it was the audiobook was the audio book kama sutra or anything no no it's just a novel it was just so ridiculous but
38:27Dr. Emily Andre: we were so into it every now then i'd go oh you know what can i ask you guys a question about this
38:35Peter Andre: right because i want to know about this because i i totally get why you do it i totally get it no no no no it's a good thing i want the doors shut at night like out in our room i like it i like to know that your door's closed it's not the front door no no no bedroom door she won't she won't close it because and i get it but we've got the monitor the heart monitor the the breathing monitor every monitor you can think of we haven't had the breathing monitor from about 18 months whatever the other monitor is the monitor's not on your side of the bed
39:09Dr. Emily Andre: monitor wow if you'd roll off the thing and then it'd beep off and i'd be like oh my god Once they get big enough, I'm just like...
39:15Peter Andre: Do you know what I mean? So when we go away, which we do once every two months... Well, I shut the door then. We shut the door. You're not in a hotel with the door open. I keep thinking this means something else, this door shut open. No, it's just... I just always wondered that. Because I think when the door's open, you're sort of... I mean, Princess, she'll walk in our room. Like, she'll walk in... Because, right, this is Princess in a nutshell.
39:39Dr. Emily Andre: We put a lock on our door for the kids to stop coming in. So we haven't got a lock. Well, someone took it off. someone unscrewed the lock I thought that was you or one of the kids no it wasn't me
39:46Peter Andre: I thought you unscrewed the lock
39:47Dr. Emily Andre: no Pete put it on but I'm sick of like Sophia comes in she takes my makeup she takes my clothes everyone's getting a shower I'll be getting a bath they'll come and sit and have a number two yes yeah that's what they do and leave my towels wet or I'm getting a bath and they'll come in and have a number two yeah same I'm like sorry
40:03Peter Andre: what are you doing but this is what your home is like fantastic and then Johnny will just come and have a shit in front of her so princess she'll come down mind she
40:13Dr. Emily Andre: i just can't bear it someone unscrewed our lock what have you ever found out her no because no one will be one of the kids it's got to be but we'd never lock it while they were there but i just thought when i go out i'm gonna like you know more if we're going on holiday i'd lock
40:29Peter Andre: my door just i don't know so princess will get up about 11 12 right we've we've done a whole day by then like we're we're exhausted exhausted now she comes down and then of course now when we want to go to bed at night she's got energy she's wide awake so she just strolls in our bedroom because
40:44Dr. Emily Andre: the door's open it's not open it's open like that much it's not like wide open inviting no but and then she'll just come in and she has a little we'll just talk for ages and i'll be like we
40:57Peter Andre: really want to sleep we've got duvet up to there it's like any hint i can i go i start yawning fake yawning anything I could do but she I mean it's brilliant because I love that she feels that comfortable but I'm thinking this is the door open situation because if your door's closed automatically you just kind of
41:14Dr. Emily Andre: the invite's closed yeah
41:17Peter Andre: but then again would I have it any other way people ask do that though
41:20Dr. Emily Andre: like Sophia doesn't speak to us all day and then we're just supposed to go to sleep come in the room
41:25Peter Andre: can I have a cuddle
41:26Dr. Emily Andre: I'm like I've been with you all day when I've asked you for a cuddle you've ignored me now you want one now when me and your dad have got our own time together. It's exactly the same. And it gets more as they get older, I swear. Yeah. You think they're hard at work when they're younger. I feel like kids actually need you more the older they get. They need advice about everything. That's a good point. Yeah.
41:46Peter Andre: That takes me on to the next question, right? How do Peter and Emmy feel about the future of dating?
41:51Dr. Emily Andre: Kids being on the apps feels like an absolute minefield.
41:55Peter Andre: I don't know how to deal with it. That's something, yeah.
41:58Dr. Emily Andre: Well, they're all on the Snap thing, whatever it is. Snapchat. Do you have Snapchat? No, I don't have it. Well, yeah, my daughter put it on my phone. I've got seven million people asking to be my friend. I'm like, who's this? I don't know how to work it.
42:10Peter Andre: That's how they talk through that now, right? Yeah, through Snapchat.
42:13Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah, I've got no clue.
42:15Peter Andre: I said to her, have you got beyond this? Because you've got to not understand it. Yeah, do research. Yeah, like the same, I had to get on Tinder because I was like, you know, I just need to know what they're up to. Yeah, just to make sure everything's all right. I don't know. I see it's a weird thing right because back in see again this is an age thing back in when I was a kid if I wanted to to call a girl I had to call the house yeah um and then obviously mum or dad would normally pick up the phone and then you had to know what to say how to be polite everything to just even to get to say hello your dad threw you under the bus didn't he oh dad used to throw
42:54Dr. Emily Andre: me under the bus was that Pete oh yeah he says he's not here yeah oh my god I didn't want to
43:00Peter Andre: speak to i'd say dad i'm going upstairs tell him i'm not here what is it yes he said he is not here right like and he would do that all the time shut up that oh but we used to do that back then so it was like things were a lot you know harder to get to take someone out or whatever yeah but there is a benefit with like dating apps i think because so many people we know have ended up being married for a long time through dating apps because you you kind of find someone that has similar interests or so i kind of get it yeah but a lot of my friends who've been on dating apps
43:37Dr. Emily Andre: have had bad experiences of like unwanted material being sent to them oh yeah yeah yeah right like that apparently that just happens every time and i'm like really thinking what's going through these guys minds they're like i know this will make her want to meet up with me let me send her And I'm thinking if someone sent me something like that, I'd be like, ooh. No, it's just rude. No, thanks. But I think on the dating apps, my understanding is you don't have to like woo people. It's just readily available. And if you don't reply to them, they'll just go on to the next one. So people don't have to try hard.
44:14Peter Andre: My issue as well is when you meet someone, I think in the back of your mind it's like, yeah, but there could be someone else. You know, like whereas back in the day you meet someone, you're happy you're happy yeah yeah you know like i think if you well i might as well you said that
44:27Dr. Emily Andre: three times recently is that what you're thinking no we've honestly hasn't he gas he said like you know i wonder if we've just settled it's because lots of people have wrote
44:38Peter Andre: in and said that like they they keep going back to it even though they're happy you know because it's like a it's like instagram like you go i don't want to you know i want to have a conversation but I just wonder what's going on on Instagram. Do you know what I mean? Do you ever wonder about shows like Married at First Sight or the one where you don't see each other behind the screen? Oh, Love is Blind. Oh, yeah, I love that. So here's the thing, right, because I said this to Emily, how can any of that work? The same with dating apps to an extent, because someone could tick all the boxes, right, for you or you could tick all the boxes for them.
45:10Peter Andre: But until you're actually living together, they could have the most horrific laugh. I'm just being, or they could have a habit that's just really odd or you could have something that you're not going to know that until you're with them.
45:26Dr. Emily Andre: There's no substitute for like.
45:27Peter Andre: So yeah, getting to know is different. No, exactly right. I know that doesn't make sense because you would get to know them behind the screen, but it's not. What if then someone's a dog lover and you married at first sight and then they've got a dog and you're a cat person and you've got a cat and they don't like cats and it just, anything. I know, I know I'm random, but I just, I just, I need to get it through. No, I get it.
45:54Dr. Emily Andre: I get it.
45:55Peter Andre: I get it. Okay, I'm going to move on, right? Are you going to do another calendar? I don't know if you've done a calendar, Emily. Not me, no. No one would buy that, can I just say.
46:06Dr. Emily Andre: Sales would not be good at my calendar, right? Things weren't. Bloody hell.
46:11Peter Andre: It would very much sell. Mine, on the other hand, I used to do. Jill's a big fan of the calendar by the sounds of it. Oh, you're going to do another one. I said no, but then I heard Cliff Richard does it every year and he gets number one calendars. He's 80-something. Do you remember when calendar was a thing, though? Calendars was a big thing. He's getting for Christmas. Who's number one on the calendar chart? Yeah, but you must have been number one on the calendar chart. I was number one once, but then, in all honesty, I was also number one in dolls. but I then found out there was no other dolls out at that time.
46:48Peter Andre: So I have been number one. Just take it. Just take it. Number one doll, right? For years and then someone, you know, dropped the news to me. And also on the back of the doll, sorry about this, the first thing you read it says not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts. and I've had that said to me every time someone shows me a doll. I'm like, I don't want to hear it. A small doll. Honestly. It didn't happen to Pete this morning when he was singing naked.
47:20Dr. Emily Andre: You had a doll?
47:21Peter Andre: Yeah, I've had a doll. Did you? Did you? Well, I don't know. It was just a football doll.
47:26Dr. Emily Andre: It was like a Ken but in a football kit, in a football kit with Crouch on the back. And I'd had it for years and years and years and then my kids got hold of it. it was out the box clothes off hair cut why do they always take the clothes off I don't know our kids do that so we suppose just naked dolls and they cut all the hair off and the curtains can you believe it
47:49Peter Andre: it's outrageous well we have a thing on this podcast called a weekly shine to be fair and Lacey Birchall has got in touch and she's just given you a weekly shine to be honest which is not a question but I think Peter and Emily have done a great job in bringing their children up
48:01Dr. Emily Andre: they are very lovely children thank you that's very sweet there you go that is you are you done on the kids kids a hundred percent oh really i said that though and then yeah but this time i had quite a difficult time after she was born i had to have emergency surgery she was only a week old and the doctor i was literally she was being like prized from my arms it was horrible and the doctor said are you gonna have any more and i was like no and he said he definitely wouldn't recommend it so that was enough for me i was already kind of decided he said like you could what happened so i had a really rare type of hernia which which was like quite severe so they said if you basically if i get pregnant again it's going to stretch all the repair back out and a bit nasty actually sorry guys a bit gory that i've never ever seen
48:49Peter Andre: you like that before i was really worried and i you know you've taught me not to be so worried because you being adopted... I just form everything off.
48:57Dr. Emily Andre: I'm like, oh, it'll be all right. But it was quite that.
48:59Peter Andre: This was horrible. I didn't go as far as I was going to go because I realised I didn't need to. But yes, you went through it big time.
49:06Dr. Emily Andre: That's why no more babies, guys. How about you guys?
49:09Peter Andre: Yes.
49:10Dr. Emily Andre: No, I'm not allowed anymore.
49:13Peter Andre: It's a no from me.
49:14Dr. Emily Andre: Well, you're out of the happy stage now. I'm also 40 now and we're out of the baby phase. So I'll be... I'm just going to be awake to be a granny now.
49:23Peter Andre: We've just replaced them with animals now. Yes, exactly.
49:26Dr. Emily Andre: And my sister and brother will probably have kids soon. And then I'll just take them. Surely one of my, I've got four brothers. I'm thinking one of them's got to have kids at some point. Yeah.
49:34Peter Andre: And our kids at some point, which is what I was saying before. And then you've got that, you know.
49:39Dr. Emily Andre: And then we can give them back.
49:40Peter Andre: Yeah.
49:41Dr. Emily Andre: Exactly.
49:41Peter Andre: There you go.
49:42Dr. Emily Andre: Just do the odd night shift and then come back.
49:45Peter Andre: Pete, this one's for you, right? The second Inbetweeners movie, what took me through the car? Do you know, obviously, know about the car. But we love the in-betweeners.
49:54Dr. Emily Andre: So do I.
49:55Peter Andre: So what did you think about that when they got your faces on the car? Yeah. So the first film was brilliant. And then I couldn't, everyone was talking about the second film and I saw it. And the first thing that got me was that they were filming on the Gold Coast, which is where I grew up in Australia and Byron Bay. And I'm like, oh my God. And then they turn up in this car called the Mysterious.
50:15Dr. Emily Andre: You didn't know, did you?
50:16Peter Andre: I had no idea. No, it was a surprise.
50:19Dr. Emily Andre: We were like, what?
50:20Peter Andre: Yeah, and it was called The Mysterious Girl was the name of the car and it was a custom job and it was my face over the whole thing and it's right throughout the whole movie. And I remember someone rang me, a lawyer, and said, do you want to sort of, you know, you should have been told about this, do you want some conversation? I said, hell no. I said, the whole world's seeing this is great. I said, the song will go back in the charts.
50:44Dr. Emily Andre: Why would I complain about that?
50:46Peter Andre: And it was brilliant. Yeah, I couldn't believe it.
50:49Dr. Emily Andre: You should have said, give me the car at the end of it.
50:51Peter Andre: I know. I know. Oh, yeah. And when I saw the boys, actually, that was one of the things they said. They said, we felt like you were in the film.
50:59Dr. Emily Andre: Amazing.
51:00Peter Andre: Because they talk about you as well in it. They talked about me because of the car. And it's just so weird. It's one of my favourite films. Probably both. I do love both of them. They're great.
51:12Dr. Emily Andre: Inbetweeners is what we watch when we're in bed. Is that really weird? No.
51:15Peter Andre: We used to do that. I remember it was early on Channel 4. late late and it was on late at night wasn't it I didn't even know what it was and then I was like oh my god this is incredible
51:23Dr. Emily Andre: it's genius
51:26Peter Andre: it's weird bedtime watching
51:28Dr. Emily Andre: I feel like it somehow works for us
51:30Peter Andre: it feels like it does Dan says this one's for Emily when you guys have a karaoke night do you let Peter pick his own songs or is he not allowed
51:42Dr. Emily Andre: he actually yeah I would say he picks his own songs The thing is, you're not going to get me on the karaoke. I love karaoke.
51:50Peter Andre: Terrible. No, I would much rather, I would never get up and sing one of my own on a karaoke. Never. But when you say I pick my own songs and then I pick the songs I want to sing, is that what you mean? Yeah. So I'd pick Elvis or I'd pick Tom Jones or I'd do something like that.
52:06Dr. Emily Andre: Would you not sing your own song? Surely that's the perk of the job.
52:10Peter Andre: No, no, no, no.
52:10Dr. Emily Andre: Sometimes the kids put them on when we're in the car, especially Theo, because he's a mini Pete. He loves it.
52:16Peter Andre: We were driving the other day. I was doing that this morning, that one. Yeah.
52:21Dr. Emily Andre: Theo's putting it on, blasting out the car. Pete's like putting the windows up.
52:24Peter Andre: I know, I get so shy, but you know what? It's fun. I love it when other people do it, but I could know. Could you imagine me sitting there just doing that in front of you all? Anywhere we go, people play it. We could be on an aeroplane.
52:36Dr. Emily Andre: Actually, it's happened loads of times on an aeroplane where Pete will walk in and you'll just hear someone start to play it at the back of the plane and you see it. I'll do the dance
52:44Peter Andre: I'll walk in and just do it you've got to join in
52:47Dr. Emily Andre: but that's like you with the robot everywhere you go people make you do the robot don't they
52:51Peter Andre: people ask to see it yeah and you do it
52:54Dr. Emily Andre: and you do do it
52:55Peter Andre: well you know you do it voluntarily it's like a robot dance that you did the robot yeah yeah yeah brilliant
53:02Dr. Emily Andre: the robot's legendary
53:04Peter Andre: wow it's you know well I've been watching it
53:06Dr. Emily Andre: for like 25 years
53:07Peter Andre: yeah I've been watching it but never mind you know
53:10Dr. Emily Andre: let's talk about Mamma Mia because that's one of my favourite. Me and Sophia are obsessed with it.
53:15Peter Andre: So you've got the film, obviously, and you've got concerts, but there's this thing in London at the O2, which is Mamma Mia, the party, and where you have a three-course meal. The whole theatre is done as a taverna, Greek taverna on different layers. Oh, my God. And I'm going to be playing Nikos, who owns the taverna. So it's all acting all the way through. So while you're eating, all the acting and the music's happening around you. it is phenomenal oh my god we went i went and saw it we're going to go and see it together um and it was sold it's always sold out it's just one of those great great shows um so i want to take you to see it so we're going to go and watch it together but i'm now going to be nikos so i'm going to be you're coming to my tavern you're going to go and see it and then you're going to what be in it yeah so i want emily to see it before i'm in it okay i want to go and experience with her because it's a great night out and then once we've you know just say you've seen it and
54:10Dr. Emily Andre: then when you see me do it it's different because yeah so we're going to go see whoever nichos is
54:15Peter Andre: at the moment no way but i think it's great to do something different like that isn't it no like
54:19Dr. Emily Andre: just like the other night we went to like a cabaret show and it was amazing and the singer was walk around the tables and i'm sort of just like going to a normal bar it's good to yeah well
54:28Peter Andre: you have to come to see this because it is literally it is one of those nights out where you just leave going that was epic that was a great night out and the music the musicians are all within the within the tables wow and so all the live music all the smashing of the plates it all happens around you while you're reading it's crazy sounds good sophia would love that because that's her favorite she has that one all the time yeah we've been to see the show we've watched the
54:53Dr. Emily Andre: film on repeat oh she'd probably love it yeah she'd love it so it's an acting thing more than
54:57Peter Andre: a singing thing but there is all the songs are in there yeah but you know my wife is singing
55:02Dr. Emily Andre: most of this not me sorry i'm not singing i threw you in that so yeah anyway so that's that yeah thanks so i have to speak with a greek accent the whole time and speaking greek which
55:19Peter Andre: is great because i'm great yeah and my dad's greek no i know i know yeah but you know yeah But my dad speaks, you know, welcome to my taverna. That's how my dad speaks. So for me, it's kind of easy because I just think of my dad. You're kind of like, I don't know where you're, you've got lots of different parts to you, haven't you? Because you've been in England for so long. You know, the Greek side, Australian. So I was born in England. I was born in England. I bet you were born in Harrow, is that true? I was born in Harrow. I lived in Harrow for a while, yeah. I grew up in Ealing. Just on the hill there, yeah.
55:52Peter Andre: Wow, I was on Sudbury. I was in a sub-bree, yeah. So number one sub-bree court road. I remember that forever. And then I moved to Australia when I was six. Stayed there till I was, well, till sort of early to mid-twenties and then moved back.
56:09Dr. Emily Andre: You went to Japan when you were 16. Actually, this is great. Please say why you went to Japan.
56:13Peter Andre: Which means please mind the gap when you enter the train. And I remember that like it was yesterday.
56:21Dr. Emily Andre: Why did you go to Japan? Because there's a great reason.
56:23Peter Andre: Oh, yeah, I went to Japan. Oh, my God. And don't forget, my parents were so religiously strict. We weren't allowed to do things like that. But this agency said, look, we really think he's talented. Can he come out? And we know he's a Michael Jackson fan. So can it be a Michael Jackson lookalike? They had a Madonna lookalike, a Charlie Chaplin. We went out there for, I think, a year or whatever, lived in Japan. I grew up from 16. I just became overnight. The things I saw, oh, my God. The things I learned. And remember, we'd been kind of sheltered for so long. It was brilliant.
56:57Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah, when he says he'd learnt a lot, I think...
56:58Peter Andre: I learnt a lot. I didn't know. I was a young kid and all these, you know, it was just new and there was no one there to say no. So, and I loved it. Japan was amazing. I loved it.
57:11Dr. Emily Andre: You went as a Michael Jackson impersonator. I was as a Michael Jackson impersonator, yeah.
57:15Peter Andre: I was bad. Yeah.
57:18Dr. Emily Andre: So every week on this, we have Agony Abs where people write in with their dilemmas. Will you guys help us as a couple? Okay. I'd like your take on it. My husband and I are childhood sweethearts and have been together for 14 years and married for nearly two. And now we're expecting our first baby boy in July. We need Abby and Emily's expert baby naming advice. My husband loves the name Louis, but it seems to be getting more popular where I like the name August. My husband said August is too pretentious and he would be taking the mick out of as we live in the northwest please give your opinions on the name and any other suggestions would be appreciated p.s i've been listening to oh sorry p.s i've been listening to beautiful boy on repeat since finding out the gender thank you beth oh that's so sweet what was your process when you were naming your babies so i think i like quite i don't want to say boring names but traditional i think because so my maiden name my surname is really difficult to spell it's an irish name and people always got my name wrong they pronounce it wrong on the register at school and I always used to be embarrassed.
58:21Dr. Emily Andre: So I always had this thing. I'm going to name my children something that's easy to spell and easy to pronounce. So that's why we went for the names we went for. But they weren't like Theodore. At the time when we named them Theodore, it was a little bit unusual. And Arabella was like... I love Arabella. A little bit unusual. I love Arabella. It's a nice name. It's beautiful. But you guys have chosen lovely names. Yeah. I do love our names. But I used to have you up for months, didn't I? Oh, shabby. We play it every night.
58:46Peter Andre: That's my favourite game.
58:47Dr. Emily Andre: Lists of boys' names, lists of girls' names. but we had like because I liked Allegra as well but then I was like if Sophia's too tall I can't didn't want her to be called Leggy although I think that's cute but you didn't
58:57Peter Andre: I would have never thought of that no when I was a kid I wouldn't want to be called Leggy Leggy what do we think of these names
59:05Dr. Emily Andre: that she's got then August August at least everyone will know how to pronounce it and know how to spell it so it's a bit unusual but it's not going to they're not going to get to him on the register and go what was the other name
59:16Peter Andre: so there was August and then Louis
59:17Dr. Emily Andre: Louis Well, because Prince Louis, I feel like it got more popular. That's what I was looking for. They're both nice names, though.
59:27Peter Andre: Louis and August, I personally prefer Louis.
59:31Dr. Emily Andre: If I had to pick, I'd probably go with Louis. Yeah, I would.
59:36Peter Andre: Yeah, that's an interesting one, actually. Because August, yeah, it's kind of specific, isn't it? Orgy, that's quite cute. Orgy. Orgy. Okay, so I think we've gone with Louis there, just from our professional opinion.
59:47Dr. Emily Andre: I think she should wait, though, until she sees the baby's face. Because it might be born in August.
59:52Peter Andre: You don't know.
59:52Dr. Emily Andre: Yeah, exactly.
59:53Peter Andre: Well, that would make more sense, wouldn't it? We played a nickname game on this, didn't we? And someone's nickname was June because they were called Ender May.
1:00:03Dr. Emily Andre: Ender May. Her name was Ender May.
1:00:06Peter Andre: Her name was Ender May. Ender May. Her nickname was June.
1:00:09Dr. Emily Andre: That is hysterical. Well, guys, I hope you've enjoyed being on this today. Thank you. I know it's a bit random. we've gone from tours to jack of potatoes to naked Peter.
1:00:21Peter Andre: There's a lot going on.
1:00:23Dr. Emily Andre: To Pete Danson to Mysterious Girl this morning. There is a lot.
1:00:25Peter Andre: But hold on, you guys are going to do a podcast yourself, right? We have got something coming soon. And honestly, we love podcasts. I mean, you being the first to say it is great. We'll do a pod swap. We'll come on. We'll come on.
1:00:42Dr. Emily Andre: If you have guests, that'd be great.
1:00:43Peter Andre: That'd be great. well I'm I'm more the thing that's made me more happy is knowing that we're so close to each other I know
1:00:49Dr. Emily Andre: but we're going to swap numbers and meet up we can take the kids out
1:00:53Peter Andre: we'll do it
1:00:54Dr. Emily Andre: come up next weekend yeah exactly thanks guys
1:00:57Peter Andre: really nice to see you honestly thanks a lot thanks for coming I really appreciate it thank you so much for having us
1:01:01Dr. Emily Andre: it was fun
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On today’s episode of The Therapy Crouch, we are joined by the one and only Peter Andre and his incredible wife Dr. Emily Andre for a hilarious, honest and surprisingly deep conversation about fame, family life and everything in between.
Pete takes us back 30 years to the moment “Mysterious Girl” became a global hit, opening up about the highs, the ego, and the unexpected backlash that came with fame — including why he suddenly stopped taking his shirt off and how it completely changed the way people treated him. He also shares the story behind his brand new “Legacy” album, featuring remastered classics, brand new tracks and some huge collaborations from around the world.
Emily gives us a real insight into balancing life as a doctor, a mum of three and being married to one of the most recognisable faces in British pop culture — including what it’s actually like holding down the fort while Pete is away touring.
We also get into how the couple first met (and it involves a hospital visit you won’t believe), parenting across different ages, the realities of long-term relationships and why communication has completely changed Pete’s outlook as a dad.
Plus, there’s plenty of classic Therapy Crouch chaos — from cooking disasters and naked dancing to brutally honest relationship moments that every couple will recognise.
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00:00 Introduction
04:07 Welcoming Peter & Emily Andre
05:33 Touring Life & “Home Is More Full On”
08:27 30 Years Of “Mysterious Girl” & New Album
11:18 Iconic Music Videos & Behind The Scenes
14:13 Legacy Album, Collaborations & Touring Again
17:45 How Peter & Emily Andre First Met
18:42 Relationship Beginnings & Asking Permission
19:06 Parenting, Kids & Growing Up Fast
23:08 Emily’s Career As A Doctor
24:00 Writing Books & Life With Kids
28:13 The Tampon Story (How Pete Learned The Hard Way)
30:28 Fan Questions Begin
33:00 Relationships, Marriage & Long-Term Love
38:00 Family Life, Balance & Career Pressures
43:00 Parenting Challenges & Modern Family Life
48:00 Looking Back On Career & Lessons Learned
53:00 Final Thoughts & Reflections
56:30 Outro
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