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June 20, 2024 10 mins

Peter Andre joins us to discuss

  • How he regrets not knowing he sat next to Jay Z,
  • Why he was in swimming jeans in the mysterious girl's video
  • How he found himself to be naked with the backstreet boys! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You too, guys.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Now, Peter, we always enjoy catching up with you. How
have you been. How's life been? It feels like about
a year since we spoke.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Have you just recently had another kid? Is that right?

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Yeah? Literally, this house is so full and we've just
had a newborn. She's ten eleven weeks old. Literally, I thought,
I'm ready for this, fifty one. I feel as young,
got the energy, I'll go in the gym. Nothing prepared
me for lack of sleep. You feel bad saying it
because obviously, no matter how tired I my wife's going
to be a lot tighter because she's breastfeeding.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
So I can't even complain that.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I thought, well, you can complain to us. This is
a safe space. We won't say a word. We're all
the way on the other side of the world.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
You're right, no one will here.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
This won't get back to your lovely wife. What do
they think? What do they think? You know?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Have they seen some of the kids, the older ones
seen dead on the beach in Thailand and his jeans
swimming in the Mysterious Girl music video.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I mean they're as confused as I am. And most
people ask why the hell I wore jeans for in
the water. I still don't have an answer for that.
But that was thirty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Now, she was that city way to make us feel older.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
That water safety in New Zealand did not approve of
those jeans in that beach either, by the way. And
did you have to wander around and soggy jeans for
the remainder of the day because I imagine there were
spear peas lying around.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
You know, I'm going to be honest with you. This
is this is the most in depth I've ever been
in this subject. This was a real thing. You know,
I walked around my jeets. Have you ever had that
thing where you're walking around all day and you're kind
of just your muggy and there's sad Chafing.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Chafing would have come and to play this.

Speaker 6 (01:35):
Yeah, well yeah, did I don't feel comfortable with you
muddying the image of that music video with.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Chafing, John, Yeah, I don't want to think about Chafing.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, here's something about that video. The girl in the
video was her name was Champagne. So her name was
Champagne and she was a model in Thailand and she
was half Swiss and half tight and I met her
three days before the video. Literally, I was like a
lost puppy. We just started dating before the video. Like
literally it was instant. We just started dating instantly, which

(02:06):
just crazy. And we stayed together about a year and
a half after that video.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Did you It's a quick turnaround three days boom, you're dating,
you're filming music videos, you're chafing.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's all got what we're champagne nowadays?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Apparently she's still I mean she was one of the
one of the big models in Thailand back then. I
don't know, I've never I should look her up, actually,
can we.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Look her off?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't know if you should.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
As you.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Said, your left kid, don't be tired, don't be catching
up with Easters now. Looking back, as you say, the nineties,
you became a mega star around the world. You know,
the song was massive and you know in New Zealand
it was huge. But then you kind of you know,
it was quite quite a lot for you, which I

(02:55):
mentioned to go through. You still went through a sort
of breakdown mentally, Is that right?

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yes, I'll see what happened Like in the nineties, this
song was huge, but what that actually did was that
set me on this great path where I worked with
Montel Jordan Coolio, the Fujis literally talk about name dropping.
Monteal Jordan was the one that saw the video and
he said, I need you out in America, and I
went out there and I worked with all these incredible artists,

(03:20):
and then I got in the studio with the Fujis.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm getting to the point of what you're asking, but
I'm going to name a couple of people. I love it.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Keep going and.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm sitting in the studio this is how it was
back then in.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
New York with the Fujis, and they stopped the session
halfway through because this guy walks in. I'm like, really
keen to get this session done. And he comes in
and they stop the session. He hugs us all and
then he sits there right next to me and we
listened to his whole entire album and I didn't know
who he was. I didn't know anything, and this was
an album that was about to drop. Every time he

(03:52):
looked at me, I was nodding my head as I pa,
I'm loving this. And every time he was looking away,
I'm thinking, come on, you know, I want.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
To get the session now.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
How much I regret this because if I had known
who was sitting next to me.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Come along. Story short. We finished the session.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
He was a lovely guy, gave us all a hug,
We talked for ages, he left, got on with the session.
Two months later, I'm driving in the car in Los Angeles,
roof down and his song comes on the radio and
it was It's a hard knock Life.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Was jay Z that was in that studio with us.
That's one of my biggest regrets toff.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
What if it happened to that jay Z guy?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Do you know? And I thought to myself that what's
the kind of thing we were doing?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
We were amongst every bode But what with that came
this sort of I don't know, the pressure wasn't that
that was a joy. That was me feeling on top
of the world. The pressure would have come from way back.
I can only blame myself. I wanted it so bad.
But I think at sixteen, when you're made to go
to college and your made to go to university and

(04:48):
you're thrown in an industry, that's amazing. But it's the
most eye opening experience everything I could have ever dreamed of.
But something happened later on, I think all the stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
That bottled up has been bullied.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
As a kid because we moved to this part of
Australia on the Gold Coast, there was literally I don't
think there were any other ethnics at the time. I
remember being the only Greek family. I'm sure there were
other Greek families, but in our school, we were the
only Ethnics, and it was It was pretty brutal back then,
but obviously now Australia is so multicultural. Right at the peak,

(05:21):
when everything was at the absolute peak, I just had
this horrific breakdown. Didn't know where it came from, but
years and years of therapy and medication kind of got
to a lot of a lot of the root of
the problem. And it was to do with a lot
of things when I was really young, So you know what,
loads of millions of people go through this all the time,
so I was nobody special. It's just that it just

(05:43):
happened at the worst time because I was riding so
high at the time.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
You know when.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
People sort of disappeared for a while and you think, Okay,
they disappeared because no one's buying their music anymore or whatever.
But I left at a time when we were selling
out arenas out. It was huge and I don't regret
it because going through that breakdown meant I could come
out the other end and now be, you know, look

(06:09):
at it through a different lens, and be so grateful
and so happy with everything I've got and everything I've
ever had. But they were they were incredible days, mate,
really incredible days.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
So you but you bowed out at the peak of
your career, is that what you're saying?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Adita didn't even know.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
So I had a manager in the UK and I said,
I just want to go home and see mom and dad,
because I was about twenty six, twenty seven, and I said, look,
I've been going since sixteen and it was NonStop. You know,
once you start in that industry, it's go, go, go,
go go. And but really I was having a breakdown,
but I didn't tell her, and she said, how long
are you going to go back for? I said three months,

(06:45):
and that three months turned to three and a half year.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
It is Meanwhile, I would.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Like I check myself in psychiatric wards in New York.
I just didn't know what was wrong with me. It's
not like now you can talk about mental health that's.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Kind of the same. I think even these days, like
Justin Bieber and Shaw Mindy's have canceled tours and stuff,
and I think people find it really hard to understand
because from the outside, super famous, rich, like everyone thinks
you've got it all, but it's just not the case.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
You know.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I've realized this, and it's taken me a long time
to realize this, and now I'll never forget it. If
you do not have the right frame of mind, if
you're not happy mentally, nothing nothing will make you happy.
None of it can make you happy. If you're not
feeling right mentally, you know, to get that back, to

(07:35):
get that feeling, you know, life kind of back on track,
meant that I just everything else was a bonus, you know.
Now when I tour, Now, when I do things, it's
a bonus. I don't look at it like I need
to be number one, I need to do this. It's
much more like, thank God, I've still got my legs
and I can take that still.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Do you know crazy?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, what's well, then you've just told us a crazy
story from a crazy story. You just told you it
was a crazy story. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
You want to hear another one.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Sorry, I'll take it back.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
This one's a different kind of crazy Backstreet boys right now.
Back in the day in the nineties when they came
to England, they were unknown and they would turn up
with these really cool leather jackets with Backstreet Boys on there,
and they looked the part. And we end up we're
in the same hotel, and because we're mates, we say,
oh yeah, let's go, let's go do the gym.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Let's go to the gym, and we'll go in the
steam room and whatever.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
But in Europe, but I don't know if you know this,
it's not guys and girls separated. Everyone's together and everyone's naked.
Oh we walked in and we're all wearing towels and
short and everybody's naked and it's massive.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
It was a steam room.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
But we're all looking at each other going, they're all
looking at us like we're straight all right, So come on,
I'm getting rid of the towel, George a go on,
everything's gone. Some of the boys did, some of the
boys didn't. I can't say who didn't. You look, we
took the steam room outside. We'd open the door, My

(09:11):
brother Danny had opened the door. We'd run out of
the snow because it was proper snow. So we'd go
from the steam room in the snow, naked me and
the Backstreet Boys. But that's I think that kind of
tops a little bit at the other story.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Hey, and a naked steam room with the back Street
Boys in Europe and free loving Europe.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's a craziest story. Nineties get a person's dream, isn't it.
And now if you come back and say jay Z
was naked on the couch and that's the only.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Thing I went back to my hotel and jay Z's dig.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
We love catching up with you.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Look, we'd love to one time you because I know
you've got family in Australia when you come back to
a strake We'd love to try and get you from
Australia to New Zealand because we'd love to hang out
with you. We'd love to do something with you. It's
kind of like a dream of the show's because you
and David Williams, the comedian I'm the UK there seemed
to be our celebrity friends.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
You know what, I will say, My dream is to
come back and tour New Zealand and I'm going to
do it because it nearly happened five years ago. I'm
going to so make it happen. Our new film comes out,
and in the film, I've written a song for the film,
so that's going to be my first single.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Backup. I'm done for years and years and years. Hopefully
it'll be liked.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
But what I'll do is come back and do the
old stuff because I would love that awesome.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, we can be your tour promoters who are a
shaky pair of hands, but.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
We're happy to get naked in the steam room, so
you know that's it. Actually, to be honest, I think
I can.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I do apologize, but it was too good enough.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh, there's been a wonderful Chip Peter.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Always great catching up with you and you keep safe
over there with your your huge football team of children.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Thank you guys man. Lovely to talk to you always
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