To think Peter Andre and Emily are the strangest couple?

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I went down a bit of rabbit hole the other day (triggered by a random Facebook article), checking out Peter Andre and his wife Emily’s social media.

I get that he’s pretty well off (although he only had one good song so I’m not sure how well off), but how the fuck does Emily put up with him? She is obviously very intelligent, as well as beautiful, and a lot younger than him…I guess the heart wants what the heart wants but honestly the man has the IQ of a walnut, and he is also intensely irritating. I can’t imagine them having deep and meaningful conversations because I don’t think he’s capable of that.

I know this is a mean thread but it just seems like a very peculiar mismatch. Watching a 30 second reel of him on insta makes me feel stabby, how on earth does she live with him?

Yes. Why would you want your daughter who is young and incredibly smart, and very attractive to be with a man who's already got children, in the spot light, 17 years older than your daughter and a celeb.

She doesn't seem to have anything negative against her.

She was 22 and he was 38 when they dated... Just seems an unlikely couple

However I know a student brain surgeon who was dating a subway worker, the sandwich place

And if it wasn't for Katie Price, he'd be a long forgotten relic if the 80s which is something he refuses to acknowledge.

Katie likes to peddle the notion that Peter would be nothing if it weren’t for her but that cookie crumbles both ways. She was an ex-glamour model whose star was already fading so it suited her to link up with him and have the whole “I’ve settled down and am now a family girl” persona established. That was largely down to Claire Powell, Peter’s manager. He remained with her after the split and he continued to make money whilst Katie’s career has nose-dived, largely due to poor choices she has made (substance abuse, for instance).
And I wouldn’t pay any attention to any seemingly positive posts Katie makes about Peter. She has spent the last 15 years trying to get his attention and he has successfully ignored her. This is a new tactic. She does nothing that has no underlying agenda (namely media attention and money).

I agree with this. I would think that it’s quite unusual for a doctor to be in a relationship with someone where there is such a big mismatch in intelligence.

That’s a good thing. Not every man is able to say the same.

Yes what’s up with that. Growing up and to a large degree now, surrounded by Drs, both the medical and academic sort.

They’re really not special or different. Just experts in a narrow field. Definitely not socially more functional or interesting than the rest of us. They go in, do their doctoring and come home to do the same basic things as everyone else.

Several of my best friends are Drs for example, and a significant time of our conversations is spent debating, which would probably drive most people nuts.

Family are Drs and you really wouldn’t know unless they told you, when I’m socialising with them and their friends, conversations outside of medicine are very basic a lot of the time, and lacking range/ curiosity.

I agree, they are a bit of an odd couple, and there's a big age gap. From what I remember, Emily was a literal child when they first met.

But from what I've seen, Peter Andre seems a nice enough man. Not over-burdened with intellect, but there must be something about him that she likes.

They've been together quite a long time now as well. Not to mention they share (I think) 3 kids.

”Emily was a literal child when they met.”
Er no, “literal” would mean under 18 and she wasn’t.

Why is this of such interest to you? It feels a bit as though you are seeking an opportunity to mock them. Why do you want to do that?

Many years ago I worked at a small unglamorous young people's project in a small unglamorous town. Peter Andre literally knocked on our door, asked what we did and offered to sign autographs or say hello if any kids wanted to. He was being driven past on his way to a gig, seen the sign on the building and chose to stop. He had no handlers with him, it was never mentioned in any media at the time or since as far as I know. He didn't do it to look good as there was no publicity and if he'd just driven past no one would have known.

I don't know him, I think he doesn't come across well and his relationship looks odd from the outside. But maybe there's more of that side of him that his wife sees, the man who interrupted his day to pop into a run down project in a small town with no payback of media attention or anything.

He’s never been one to pass up a bit of free publicity.

He didn't get any from that visit. We never told the media, he never mentioned it in any interviews in the local paper or anything. He got nothing out of it in terms of publicity at all. That was my point.

Of course he did, here you are talking about it. That’s publicity.

Years later…

is it so hard to believe that people do things out of kindness? You may hate him for some reason but most people are capable of kindness no matter how “stupid” or fame hungry you think they are.

I think it says more about us than him if we can’t imagine that he could do something like this out of the kindness of his heart.

what have you done lately to help others?

It depends which clips you watch on YouTube. There are clips of PA being horrible to KP and just as many of KP being horrible to PA. I think there's was a toxic relationship and they were as bad as each other.

I'm just a random on MN talking about a nice thing he did over 20 years ago on a thread mostly criticising him. If he was doing it for good publicity he was playing an extremely long game.

Yes. He always strikes me as being quite a nice chap and i don't think his marriage is odd at all, they seem well suited.

We don't hear that much about him now. I know his poor old mum is on her last lap, bless.