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To think that showing the abuse fest that is Katie & Peter on TV is responsible broadcasting?

48 replies

jawjawnotwarwar · 12/09/2008 00:16

I was just watching the programme (honestly didn't mean to, was just putting off going to bed!) and I just can't believe what's going on. She has so obviously got a personality disorder and is abusing that poor old Peter Andre!!

He'll say some loving thing to her and she'll be totally abusive back - she's a bully. It just makes my stomach churn. If the roles were reversed, there'd be uproar!!

It's one thing having a jokey 'oh, she wears the trousers in this relationship' type scenario, but that relationship is downright abusive and someone should tell that bloke to get the hell out!! Apart from anything else they've got loads of young, impressionable fans, who will think that this is ok, which is so badly isn't.

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mayorquimby · 12/09/2008 12:47

"yes she talks to Pater Andre like shit for the cameras, it doesnt make her a bad mother though, so why shouldnt she get moty? "

well surely it sets a bad example to her children.
anyone who abuses their childrens father surely isn't a great mother
by your logic a man who abuses his wife should still be a contender for father of the year because he is still fine with the children.

foothesnoo · 12/09/2008 12:54

ooooh I saw 5 mins of this last night. She was sitting talking about doing a parliamentary campaign against the paps outside her house.

Ssying she knew they were celebrities but it wasn't acceptable to take photos of the kitchen, and the kids and Harvey's bedroom. ....to the camera crew. In her kitchen. Who had just filmed her kids in the swimming pool.

noddyholder · 12/09/2008 12:58

They are a nightmare pairing thats for sure.Not really interesting or intelligent enough to make a tv series about.Talk about dumbing down

LittleBella · 12/09/2008 13:11

Being abusive to your partner, either verbally or physically, is modelling abuse as normal behaviour for your children. As they get older, if they come across abusiveness (either as abusers or victims) in their relationships, they will experience it as familiar, normal, rather than outrageous. Not good parenting then.

wigparty · 12/09/2008 13:14

Wannabe, must clarify, I'm fascinated watching their lives as in 'how the other half lives, like babyinbelly said, not I'm entertained by watching an abusive relationship!

...although the level of deluded self-importance (probably the only thing they are in synch with) is hugely entertaining to watch.

GreenMonkies · 12/09/2008 13:15

mummy2katelyn,

are you watching a different show featuring a different couple or something? I can't see how you could be describing the people I have seen on that show!!

specialmagiclady · 12/09/2008 13:16

My DH has worked with both and I've met Peter. He's actually a sweetie. No brain, bless him, but he's not a bad man.

She, on the other hand.... Harridan. (So says DH)

noddyholder · 12/09/2008 13:18

I am sickened that people like her and ms katona are voted mums of the year when there are so many women doing a great job of nurturing and teaching their kids and get no recognition and these 2 silicone pea brains are PAID for their antics

wigparty · 12/09/2008 13:20

Interesting special, that's just the image I get. Peter's an annoying sod but seems to have a kind heart and is great with the kids.

Was anyone else shocked by them BURNING all that perfectly useable stuff? I can't remember exactly what but Katie kept saying to her mum, 'do you want this, otherwise we're going to burn it'. They could just as easily have got their people to have taken it to the tip or charity shop, but they burned the lot of it.

I was really shocked about that.

rislip · 12/09/2008 13:26

I think she is just dreadful. Why do people think she is a role model? She is a glamour model. Do people honestly want their little girls to grow up to become her? Surely not.

Janni · 12/09/2008 13:31

I just think they deserve each other, but it's a shame if their children are growing up witnessing such a dysfunctional relationship.

captainmummy · 12/09/2008 13:37

Not watched it - is it better or worse than the Osbournes?

(Not watched that either....but I know people who do )

TheHedgeWitch · 12/09/2008 14:08

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smartiejake · 12/09/2008 14:11

I agree noddyholder. Mother of the year my arse.

Didn't Kerry Catona win this two years in a row too?

Who actually chooses the winners for this obviously worthless and crapp accolade?

God help us! Are these two really the best examples of motherhood the comittee who decide the winners of this prize can come up with?

Surely they can find a more worthy winner than these two who seem more interested in exploiting their kids than mothering them.

Original poster
jawjawnotwarwar · 12/09/2008 14:17

Think Mumsnet should have an input into who gets mother of the year awards!!! (who does actually vote for these people anyway?)

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shinyshoes · 12/09/2008 14:32

I love it, love it love it and I think the pair of them are great

sueellenewing · 12/09/2008 14:40

At the risk of inviting much derision I have to say that I quite like them both. I am quite convinced that the TV personas they adopt are done entirely for the audience and to allow ITV2 (or whichever miserable channel commissions it)to rake in the profit. She is a successful and astute businesswoman and their admittedly unconventional behaviour in front of the cameras is not of itself a reason to declare her a bad mother. Peter Andre seems to have a great relationship with all of the children including Harvey (where exactly was Dwight Yorke when Katie Price was bringing him up on her own?). She fights tooth and nail to defend him against the most terrible intrusive and negative publicity (remember the Heat magazine 'comedy' Harvey stickers?) and she has succeeded in legal challeneges when they have overstepped the mark. Of course she courts the press - her larger than life pen sketch of herself is what brings in the cash - but I really dont think it is for me to judge whether she is a good mother or not. Her kids seem happy and loved and well adjusted. Good for her. And him.

CrushWithEyeliner · 12/09/2008 15:04

Her kids seem happy and loved and well adjusted."

Oh come on; how can you deduce that? isn't Tiammmiii about 6 months?

noddyholder · 12/09/2008 15:26

defend them against intrusive publicity?She sells every bloody thing they do.Just because someone is a success financially and is in teh public eye or famous does not make them a good person She mutilates herself and has a little girl who will see all this

foothesnoo · 12/09/2008 15:34

I think she's on a sticky wicket defending her kids against intrusive publicity when the pair of them sell everything about their own and their children's lives to the highest bidder.

I will be amazed if those kids turn out well.

freshprincess · 12/09/2008 15:43

MOTY is awarded to whoever will generate the most publicity for the company sponsoring it.

Award me MOTY and it might make page 6 of my local paper. Give it to Jordan/Kerry Katona and its front page of The Sun. Its obvious who must companies would go for.

southeastastra · 12/09/2008 15:44

has anyone seen jordan's new equestrian range, she's made bright pink nail varnish for horses hoofs

mumonthenet · 12/09/2008 15:45

i thought the same foothesnoo....pics of themselves, their home and their kids are OK...

if someone's paying her for it!

Well, I suppose she is a business woman.

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