Peter Andre weighs in about 'drama with exes' after Katie Price's surprising comments about his wife
Earlier this month, Katie revealed what she really thinks about Peter's wife Emily, noting the fact that she and Peter always used to step out with the whole family, while Emily 'doesn't do all that' for him.
Although Peter did not address the comments, he opened up on his thoughts about navigating exes during his latest new magazine column.
Addressing Zara McDermott 's ex and new boyfriend coming face to face recently, he shared: ' Sam Thompson and Louis Tomlinson were both at Soccer Aid together for an incredible cause. The fact they've both been involved with Zara McDermott at some point is secondary for me.
'I think people will always try to make a fuss about dramas with exes, but we don't know what happened, and having been part of Soccer Aid in the past, I know people just focus on the game and the cause, everything else is left off the pitch. That's how it should be.'
Peter and Katie split in 2009 after meeting and falling in love on I'm A Celebrity five years prior.
Katie addressed her thoughts on Peter's new wife during appearance on comedian Katherine Ryan's What's My Age Again Podcast, admitting their daughter Princess was left baffled by his new relationship.
The mother-of-five recalled: '[Princess] says, "You're just so nuts mum. When I see you and Emily, you're just so different. I can't imagine you and dad."
'I said, "I was with your dad six years. Trust me, we had a laugh and bantered together, we did."
'She said, "I just can't imagine dad being like that." I said "But he was, he was like that. We had a laugh."
'And you know, she can't believe that whenever he went anywhere or me, we were together with the kids. And we'd go as a family.
'Emily doesn't do all that for Pete. Me and Pete just did it all together as a family. If we'd got you kids, you would come with us.'
Yet she did have kind words for Emily, with Katie adding: 'I'm glad he's with Emily. She seems like a proper lady. I think it'd be weird if he went for someone like me.'
Katie - who has revealed she and Peter don't talk at all anymore - recently opened up about the real reason for their divorce.
It had long been rumoured that the glamour model and her ex split over her close relationship with her dressage rider Andrew Gould.
During an appearance on Paul C Brunson's podcast We Need To Talk, she said: 'We broke up because he thought I was having an affair with my dressage rider, and I've never slept with him. I just kept my horse there, and I was happy keeping my horse there, and he was married.
'But when me and Pete split, because he used to keep saying, "That's it. I've had enough. I've had enough". It got to a point where I went, "Well f***ing divorce me". And I remember the day, because then I flew to the Maldives with the kids.
'That day, I'm at the airport, it's all on Sky News, it wasn't mutual at all. And then I released a statement saying I don't want to split with Pete, it's Pete that's splitting with me. Until this day, me and Pete have never sat down and spoken about it.
'It's all through lawyers. I've never sat down with him, we probably would've sorted it out but we were kept apart.'
After they announced their split, Peter said he was 'gutted' that Katie had taken their children to the Maldives villa where they had honeymooned in 2005.
He told the Daily Star: 'Being apart from my kids is just breaking my heart. It's destroying me - I'm absolutely gutted.'
Katie added that it is 'the most difficult thing' to co-parent, saying: 'But I realised you get to know what people are really like, and I've had it tough. But yeah, it is sad.'
The TV personality and her ex-husband were honest about their jealous rows and were regularly seen arguing on their reality show, Katie & Peter.
However, it came as a shock to their huge fanbase when they decided to go their separate ways - and seemingly to Katie, too.
Revealing it wasn't her choice to split at the time, she said: 'Pete is the love of my life and my life. We have children together, and I am devastated and disappointed by his decision to separate and divorce me as I married him for life.
'This is not what I want, and the decision has been taken out of my hands. I will not comment further or do any interviews regarding the separation, but I will always love my Pete.'
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