Katie Price and Peter Andre's parent wars revealed: The 'nightmare' clashes ... trends now

For years, it was a matter of bemusement for parents at the school gates.

If Katie Price and Peter Andre’s children arrived on time, it was a clue they were staying with their dad. If they were late, they were with their mum.

‘It was like a guessing game,’ says one former parent at the East Sussex school. ‘It became a bit of a running joke and was much discussed in the playground. When they arrived with Pete it was calm, when it was Katie it was chaos and there was often an entourage.’

Today, siblings Junior, 18, and Princess, 16, are grown up and launching showbusiness careers of their own. This week it was revealed that Junior who is pursuing a singing career, is dating an influencer named Jasmine Orr, 23. I’m told Andre has met her and ‘approves’.

In the coming weeks Princess, who made her modelling debut in January with Pretty Little Thing after signing a four-figure deal with the brand, will be announcing what has been described as a ‘huge new deal’. Other brands are vying to work with her thanks to her 700,000-strong social media following.

Both appear to have reached their teenage years relatively unscathed, despite their mum and dad’s very public divorce in 2010, the bitter fallout and the subsequent high-profile relationships and personal turmoil of Price.

Glamour model Price and singer Andre, who catapulted to fame with his washboard abs in the video for his hit single Mysterious Girl in 1995 were, in the Noughties, Britain’s most famous reality couple. But after their split, their lives took very different paths.

Andre has taken a step back from the limelight and has been happily married since 2015.

Price, 45 – who is holidaying in Cyprus after missing her latest High Court hearing following her second bankruptcy – this week unveiled a new tattoo, matching with her new boyfriend, 31-year-old reality TV star JJ Slater from Married At First Sight.

And it is Andre that friends credit for the fact Princess and Junior are said to be ‘very well adjusted’ teenagers.

For Price and Andre have approached parenting from totally opposite ends of the spectrum. And this, the Mail can reveal, has led to numerous clashes between the pair.

In fact, relations are so bad that they are not even able to speak directly to one another, instead using lawyers to make arrangements and decisions over their children.

‘It has been a thing of nightmares at times,’ says one friend of the couple.

‘Katie doesn’t have the same respect for manners and decency as Peter. He is a traditional family man who wants his children well turned out in every aspect.’

After meeting on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity back in 2004, the couple began dating and a year later Junior arrived. Three months after he was born, in September 2005, they wed at Highclere Castle in Hampshire – where Downton Abbey was filmed – with Price arriving in a horse-drawn carriage, dressed in a light pink ‘meringue-style’ gown.

It was reality TV’s answer to a royal wedding. In fact, their ‘love story’ was such a ‘cultural phenomenon’ that they were paid more than £1million for the rights by OK! magazine and that edition remains one of their highest selling ever.

Then in June 2007, Price gave birth to Princess. But within two years, Price and Andre announced they had separated.

At the time, Price told me that her life was ‘over’ but it wasn’t long before she was dating cage fighter Alex Reid. Andre remained single, stating he wanted to provide a stable home for his children.

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