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I don't really give a shit about 'Katie and Peter' but, I will say that ...

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DisElfchanted3 · 22/12/2009 19:52

everytime I see this bloke with his kids he looks so happy and so do they

He comes across as a genuinly good Dad who absolutly adores his children.

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notnowbernard · 22/12/2009 19:54

The old PR is working then...

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DisElfchanted3 · 22/12/2009 19:56

Naw, you see plenty of celebrity Dads with faces like fish pulling their kids about, he always seems happy to be with them.

I don't like him, Can't stand her. Don't watch their show or read sleb mags but just happened upon that article and made the observation that everytime I have seen him with them he looks darn jolly.

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notnowbernard · 22/12/2009 19:59

It's kind of his job to look happy with his kids in set up paparazzi shots family snaps though, isn't it?

How else would he make his money

cornysxmasmuffmusic · 22/12/2009 20:00

they are all staged though

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DisElfchanted3 · 22/12/2009 20:02

Maybe I'm gullible as hell, but I never think the same when I see Tom cruise whith his kid or anyone else with theirs.

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MrsMattie · 22/12/2009 20:04

I know someone who worked for Katie and Peter. They said he was a controlling, domineering and verbally abusive bastard. Hmmmm.

notnowbernard · 22/12/2009 20:04

I guess that for some other slebs they might be a bit pissed off with being papped with their kids

KP and PA set it up on purpose as a money-making exercise and mediamanipulating-courting event

coolasfudge · 23/12/2009 00:24

his great, good luck to him

serajen · 23/12/2009 13:23

Can't bear either of them, always banging on about what great parents they are and the kids mean everything to them, yet still chose to move to LA for Peter's 'singing career', spent so much time away from the kids when they were together, on some PR stunt or another, if you took the media away from them, either when they were a couple or as individuals, they'd crumble

StrawberryBeret · 24/12/2009 21:45

So if someone were to randomly snap a photo of any of your "DHs" with your "DCs" in your local park of in the street and he just happened to be smiling or laughing we'd all be expected to say it was staged woule we?

So, no one in the so-called public eye is for real at all then? - even when it comes to loving their own children and enjoying spending time with them?

Come on, to say what you lot are saying is tantamount to inferring that this bloke doesn't really genuinely care for his children at all.

Some of you need to have a look at yourselves, you really do.

Some of the comments made here are taking cynicsm to a whole new level which is quite frankly wholly distasteful and very cruel too.

StrawberryBeret · 24/12/2009 21:49

And as for the post about "I know someone who worked for Katie and Peter and they said dah de dah de dah..." Puuullleasssee!

I'm sure the small-minded morons at the News of the World would love to hear from you.

PrincessToadstool · 24/12/2009 21:52

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satc2bringiton · 24/12/2009 21:53

Im sorry but they are not staged.

Any fool can see how much he adores those kids.

wannaBe · 24/12/2009 22:02

I think it's a damned if he does, damned if he doesn't senario.

If he didn't look happy people would say he was a miserable bastard and showed no affection for his children. But he looks happy and it's staged and all for show.. what is the man supposed to do?

The problem is that they have made so much of their private lives public property that people seem to feel that it's their right to comment on it, when actually we do still only see what the media wants us to see.

I don't think that there's any doubt that he loves his kids.

I also think that any man who is prepared to raise another man's severely disabled child essentially as his own, and to maintain that relationship even after the marriage has ended is a decent human being. I don't imagine there are many people (men or women) who would do that. And I also don't think you can fake that.

StealthPolarBear · 24/12/2009 22:04

Aren't they back together yet? Bit behind schedule I think

harimorrychristmas · 24/12/2009 22:09

If someone started taking photos of me and my kids, I would not look happy.

He may well love his kids to bits (as, I am sure, she does) but neither of them seems to have stopped for even a second to wonder if all of this is right for the kids.

I heard Peter Andrew banging on about all he wants is what's right for the kids. Well, that probably wouldn't be another fucking TV show for ITV2 then, would it???

Have had it with both of them.

Other 'slebs' may not look quite so happy with their kids, but then perhaps (i) they haven't had so much notice and (ii) actually care about the effect being in the public eye might have on young kids.

harimorrychristmas · 24/12/2009 22:11

wannabe - the other side to that idea is that KP is allowing a relationship between Harvey and PA.

So, for PA to be maintaining that relationship must mean that KP isn't as big a bitch as he'd like to have us believe.

Half a dozen of one and 6 of the other. And ALL to do with £££££££££££££££££

Bessie123 · 05/01/2010 12:05

I always thought he came across as controlling and verbally abusive. The only 5 minutes of that katie and peter show that I ever watched contained him being truly vile to her and trying to show her up as being a terrible person, I think he must really have chipped away at her confidence and was only happy when she was doing exactly what he told her.

She is also a complete pita, I'm sure.

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