Peter Andre to host teatime chat show
Peter Andre is to present a new teatime show on Channel 4. The singer and reality TV star announced he would be presenting The 5 O'Clock Show, which replaces The Paul O'Grady Show, in his regular Planet Pete column for New! magazine. Pete said: "I won't be presenting it every week, as unfortunately I can't fit it in with everything else I'm doing, but I'll be doing the first couple and then I'll appear regularly after that for a week at a time." He added: "I don't know who the other presenters are yet, but I'll keep you posted. "I'm so excited about this. It's great to be focusing on my TV work now that my tour is over." He added he was also busy filming a further series of his reality show, which begins again in June. Pete and Katie Price, aka Jordan, divorced in September last year after marrying in a 'fairytale' ceremony almost four years before. The pair have two children together, Junior, four, and Princess Tiaamii, two, alongside Price's son Harvey with footballer Dwight Yorke. Katie married cage fighter Alex Reid in Las Vegas in February. Sky News was last week cleared of breaching rules by the broadcasting regulator Ofcom after Pete broke down during a live interview following Price's wedding, prompting hundreds of viewers' complaints.
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An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.