‘It was a really scary house’: Princess Andre on privateness, enjoyable, ambition – and life with Katie Price | Katie Price

Princess Tiaamii Crystal Esther Andre is not any stranger to TV. She made her debut within the actuality present Katie & Peter: The Baby Diaries which documented the primary six weeks of her life. Her first two years have been chronicled in subsequent actuality exhibits, till her mother and father, the mannequin and entrepreneur Katie Price and the singer Peter Andre, break up up in 2009. Andre continued to make common appearances on her mother and father’ solo actuality exhibits.

Now that she has come of age, 18-year-old Andre has her personal four-part actuality present, The Princess Diaries, on ITV2. As you’ll anticipate, it has already made headlines. While her father is a daily on the present, her mom isn’t. As I strategy the cafe in Surrey the place we’re assembly, the Sun and the Mirror publish tales saying that Price is devastated to not have been invited to Andre’s 18th party or to have been included within the present, including that her daughter is “too scared” to inform the reality in regards to the household rift. So, enterprise as regular.

Andre is right here right this moment together with her supervisor, Marie-Claire Giddings – one other echo from the previous. When Peter and Price have been making actuality exhibits collectively, their supervisor, Claire Powell, was omnipresent. After their bitter divorce, Powell continued to handle Peter. Neither she nor Peter discuss to Price right this moment. Giddings works for Powell.

I inform Andre that we now have met earlier than. She appears stunned. No marvel. Andre was eight months outdated on the time and I used to be interviewing her mom. There is a symmetry to their lives that astonishes Andre. Price, then generally known as Jordan, was queen of the Page 3 slot within the Sun by 18. “As I started building my own career, Mum said it’s crazy that I was your age when I started doing these things. I was like: really! I was shocked.” About her doing topless modelling at such a younger age? “No, that she was so successful at that age.”

Andre says she most likely wouldn’t do topless modelling herself. “That’s not as popular nowadays and it just doesn’t appeal to me. But I have nothing against anyone who does it, obviously.” She orders a scorching chocolate.

Price grew to become a vastly profitable model. By the time we met in 2007, she had traces in make-up, books, bras – you title it – and was value an estimated £30m, though she was subsequently declared bankrupt twice (in 2019 and 2024). Andre says in her present that few individuals are conscious of her personal ambitions to be a profitable businesswoman.

I present her the headline from the 2007 piece I wrote about her mum: “Who wants to be a billionaire?”

“No way! That’s crazy.” Would the identical headline be applicable for her? “Would I want to be a billionaire? Well, that’s my aim!”

“You just want to be successful,” Giddings corrects her.

“Yeah, I just want to be successful and be able to provide for my future and my family when I have one,” Andre says.

She sips her drink thoughtfully. Then she has a brainwave. “I want to take a picture of my hot chocolate,” she says. Will it’s Instagrammed? She shakes her head. “No, this will be Snapchatted.” Giddings laughs. “This is literally my life,” she says apologetically. “So don’t feel insulted!”

Did Andre all the time need to star in her personal actuality present? “I always loved being in front of a camera.” She thinks again to when she was a toddler on TV. “I’d come in the room and …” She tilts her head to the facet, in modelling mode. “I loved the entertainment. When I was asked to do my own, I was sceptical because of my age, but, yes, I’ve also always wanted to do it.”

As effectively as the apparent similarities, there are additionally big variations between Andre and her mom. While Price is a humorous, reckless, potty-mouthed drive of nature, Andre is extra like her father – well mannered, respectful, extra reserved. I ask if she ever fancied being a physician, like her father’s spouse, her stepmother Emily MacDonagh, who can be distinguished within the present. “No, the doctor path was never for me.” She went to a non-public college in Surrey and left to check magnificence at 16.

Were you swotty at college? “What does that mean?” Did you’re employed laborious? “Oh, yes, in the subjects I liked, I was good. I left after GCSEs.” Did you cross them? “Yes,” Giddings solutions on her behalf. Andre says: “I passed three of them. Music, fashion and English language. I like creative writing. I’m quite good at waffling.”

Perhaps Andre was destined for a life in actuality TV. Yet she says she is self-conscious. In the present, she says she all the time thought her nostril was too massive and her lips too skinny and that she “hated” the way in which she seemed. Whereas surgical procedure was the reply for her mom, make-up is Andre’s answer. “You can change anything with makeup,” she says. “Now, I feel a lot more confident.”

What made her so self-conscious? “Social media,” she says immediately. “When I was younger, I got comments about my appearance.” If this was Price, she would inform you each element. But not Andre. She merely smiles and asserts herself. “I don’t let the comments get in the way of anything.”

In The Princess Diaries, we see her displaying her father among the feedback. When she tells him that one man has posted about her “finally being legal”, he’s livid. But that’s merely the generational distinction, she says. “Dad grew up with TV. Social media, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat weren’t around then. Those comments are everyday, normalised, so they don’t really shock me.”

In Andre’s world, you reside and die by social media. As an “influencer”, you’re nothing with out it, nonetheless hurtful it may be. I inform her that, as an outdated git, I’ve by no means fairly understood what it’s to be an influencer; I ask if she will clarify. “I guess it’s someone who influences people to do stuff. I influence younger people with what I post.” Does she affect what they put on and purchase? “Yeah. My content is very organic, though – very real. Make up stories, which is what I do.”

Giddings, a former tabloid journalist, rushes to the rescue. “Makeup! Not as in ‘making up stories’. I didn’t want you to think she’s sitting there busy making up stories.”

Does she receives a commission to advertise stuff? “Yes. I don’t get paid for normal posts. I like to post for my audience out of choice, not because I’m getting paid for it. But then there are branded posts or PR posts that I would get paid for.”

Giddings: “But it’s only brands that she’s using already.”

Andre: “I would never promote a brand that I don’t like or don’t have an interest in.” Are you making a superb dwelling out of it? “Yeah.” Are you rich? “Well, you could say so!” How a lot do you earn in a yr? “I can’t tell you that, sorry.”

The most vital model is, in fact, Andre herself. She prides herself on being pure (no fillers, no Botox), however stresses that it’s neither a political nor a everlasting place. When she was coaching as a beautician, it was an space of curiosity. “I would have loved to have done that as a job,” she says. “I was going to go into aesthetics, doing other people’s fillers and stuff, ’cos the way it works interests me. But personally I don’t think I will get any, just because my audience is so young. I want to be an inspiration for them. You should love yourself for you and not have to change yourself.”

Has her mom, who has had quite a few surgical augmentations and reductions, suggested her on this? “Yeah. Mum said: ‘Don’t ever get anything done to yourself. You’re so beautiful the way you are.’ I found that interesting because I get told I look a lot like her at a young age. She’ll say to me: ‘In that picture, you look just like me when I was younger.’” Does she suppose Price regrets all her surgical procedure? “No. There are pictures that I’ve seen of her before [surgery] and I was like: ‘You look so beautiful then,’ and she’s like: ‘No!’ She doesn’t see it. So I don’t think she does regret it.’”

In her present, Andre says she needs her childhood had been happier, however she doesn’t go into particulars. Today, I ask if she will clarify a bit extra. Instead, she chooses to clarify a bit much less, telling me that she has so many joyful reminiscences from childhood – holidays, using horses, having enjoyable together with her siblings. You sense she desires to present simply sufficient to fulfill actuality TV, however not a lot that she ransacks her privateness.

I ask once more in regards to the unhappiness. “Oh!” she says. Giddings prompts her. “You talk about South Africa in the show.”

“Oh yeah, we got hijacked in South Africa when I was 10 and [her brother] Junior was 12. I was terrified. We were filming for a show with mum and her best friend.” It does sound terrifying. They have been surrounded by six gunmen and her mom was sexually assaulted. “It’s one of the worst things I’ve experienced in my life. You don’t think of anything else apart from trying to survive it. The police said it was a miracle that we all survived.”

It nonetheless impacts her. “I get scared of the dark and driving at night-time, ’cos that’s when it happened. I get random flashbacks. If I’m driving at night, I’m like: ‘Oh my God, just get me home.’ I don’t even look behind me.”

There are different sources of unhappiness that she prefers not to enter: her mother and father splitting up; Price’s separation from her third husband, Kieran Hayler, the daddy of two of Andre’s siblings. She had been near Hayler, however now they don’t see one another. Many of Price’s actuality exhibits have been set within the aptly named Mucky Mansion, a nine-bedroom property in Sussex previously owned by Price. Did Andre like dwelling there? “No. It was a really scary house. A lot went on there. So I didn’t really like it.” Again, she doesn’t go into particulars. “I guess when you have bad experiences somewhere you don’t like the place.”

Just a few years in the past, Price skilled extreme melancholy and grew to become suicidal. In 2021, she had a horrible automotive crash whereas inebriated and medicines. By this level, Andre and Junior had been dwelling with their father full-time for 3 years. “There was a period of time when me and Junior actually had to live with my dad,” she says, referring to a 2019 household court docket order made public this week by her father. (In response, a spokesperson for Price mentioned she was “at peace with the situation”.)

Andre says Price is in a significantly better place; she strikes between their houses relying on how she feels. “Dad’s house is a lot quieter, a lot more peaceful, a lot more organised. Whereas my mum’s house is much more just do what you want.” Does she favor self-discipline or chaos? “I love being in the middle. I love the two different houses, because if I fancy a bit more chaotic and busy I’ll go to Mum’s and if I fancy more relaxed I’ll go to Dad’s.”

Has her father been a stabilising affect? She appears at Giddings anxiously. “This is going to come across really bad, isn’t it?” she asks. “Like, it’s talking about how Mum’s a mess and Dad is stable, d’you know what I mean?” It’s touching how protecting she is of Price. She turns again to me. “Right now, Mum is completely different to how she was four years ago. If we’re talking about the past, yes, my dad was more stable and Mum is naturally more crazy than my dad.”

“Not crazy!” Giddings corrects. “Out there!”

“If you saw her now, she’s way different,” Andre says.

She talks about how shut she is to all seven of her siblings, giving a particular point out to Theo and Millie, the eldest of Peter and MacDonagh’s kids, who’re born entertainers, she says. Has she discovered quite a bit from rising up with Harvey, Price’s eldest youngster, who’s severely disabled and a actuality star in his personal proper? Her eyes mild up. “Yes, 100%. You learn patience. Ways of communicating. How to deal with his outbursts. How to calm him down. And as much as he is hard work, he is the funniest person I know.” I ask if he’s nonetheless into trains. “He loves trains. He loves frogs. He loves rainbows. And food.”

“Well, you’ve got that in common,” Giddings says.

I point out the tales which have simply been revealed on-line, saying Price is upset with Andre. The factor is, Andre says, there’ll typically be some reality within the tabloid tales, however it gained’t be the reality. Take the fact present. While it’s true that Price wasn’t filmed for it, we do hear mom and daughter chatting lovingly on the cellphone. “There’s been a lot of articles about ‘Princess doesn’t want her mum in the show’,” she says. Why was that call made? “There was actually no decision, really. But because I’m living with Dad at the moment, he was in it more.” Well, that and the truth that her administration crew can be Andre’s administration crew. “It was never true that I said I didn’t want her in it,” she insists.

As for the concept of Peter Andre and Price being in it collectively, that by no means would have occurred. “They don’t like each other,” she says, merely. Which takes us to Birthdaygate. Yes, it’s true that Price wasn’t invited to the occasion Princess had with Peter’s household, however that was by no means on the playing cards. “It would be quite strange for my mum and dad to be in it at the same time, just because that’s never been the case in my life since they split up.’’ The reality is she would usually spend part of her birthday with each parent, she says. “The problem is the media like to twist the knife,” she says.

Ah, however this time it isn’t the media twisting the knife, Giddings says. “It was your mum that put that story out there.”

“Yeah,” Andre says, looking for a diplomatic response. “Which is … interesting.”

“That was Kate that said all of that about her and her family not being invited,” Giddings continues.

Why don’t you simply ring your mum and ask her what she is taking part in at, I counsel. No, she says, it’s not value it. “Mum can be annoyed about something and then we send each other a message and we’re fine.”

Blimey, I say, it’s not straightforward having mother and father is it? “No,” she says. “Especially divorced parents.”

Andre hopes her actuality present is the gateway to a profitable enterprise profession. She says she understands the positives and the pitfalls. “No matter what I do in my life, I’ll get compared to my mum. I guess it’s always going to be a headline.” And now it’s as much as Andre to point out the world whether or not that has been her fortune or misfortune.

The Princess Diaries is on ITVX now