Peter Andre talks ahead of anniversary show in Birmingham

Following his breakthrough in Australia which saw his second single Gimme Little Sign peak at number three in the Australian charts, Andre released his second studio album, Natural, in the UK which reached number one in the album charts. It included the infamous Mysterious Girl, which shot to number two in the UK singles charts, and later went on to hit the top spot when it was re-released by public demand in 2004.

Peter says: “This tour has been a long time in the making and I can’t wait to get back out on stage in front of the fans that have supported me over the last 25 years. I’m blessed to have had such a great career in entertainment for that time – it is something really special, and this tour will be a celebration of everything I have worked for.”

It’s not just music that has kept Andre in the public eye. During his time on I’m A Celebrity, he developed an on-screen romantic relationship with fellow contestant Katie Price. Andre and Price got married two years after the show’s finale; they had two children, and released the 2006 album A Whole New World together, before divorcing in 2009.

In 2009, Andre released the album Revelation with the single Behind Closed Doors, which reached number four on the UK Singles Chart. He followed it up with his sixth studio album Accelerate in 2010.

There have been four subsequent albums, though his most recent, 2015’s White Christmas, stalled just outside the top 150.

Andre has had a number of well-publicised bust-ups with Price and he’s also had to step in to protect his fans from being targeted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by scammers.

He said: “There are lots of messages being sent on Facebook Messenger, Twitter and Instagram asking certain personal details.

“Please be safe, I would hate for anything to happen to any of you. Always look for the blue tick so you know it’s a verified account!”

Andre has been taking his 11-year-old daughter, Princess, on his tour. And it was reported that the super-polite youngster made her own bed after she spent the night at the four-star Crowne Plaza near Plymouth Pavilions. She also wrote a thank you note to staff on behalf of her dad: “Thank you very much for looking after us from Pete and children.”

Andre says fans can look forward to a big show on his present tour. “It was 25 years ago that I did my first concert and I was the opening act for Madonna.

“Twenty five years later I’m now celebrating with my own tour. It will be a collection of everything, from the very beginning. There’ll be songs that people never even heard, but that were big hits in Australia.

“And then we’re going to go through chronologically, right up until now. I’m really excited about playing the songs that people know, like Flava, which was number one in the UK. Mysterious Girl was also number one and I Feel You was number one. These are songs that I’m really excited about. There’s another song that we’re going to do called Funky Junky, which I have never performed since it got released in 1992 in Australia.

“I’m really excited about the very first album that I did, because there’s stuff on there that no one ever heard. I’m even thinking, just for a laugh, of actually getting my hair in curtains just for that little section. Going through the process for this show has been incredible and there has been a lot of reminiscing and a lot of nostalgia. I’ve had to go and look at a lot of old videos. We’ll be playing some of those while we’re performing the song, so there’s the old me and the new me performing the same song.

“I found that quite nostalgic. It’s gonna be great. Great musicians, great backing singers, great backing dancers. We’re gonna have fun.”

In a recent interview with Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield on ITV’s This Morning, Andre admitted he’d been surprised when he went back through his back catalogue.

“Some of them were good and then some were just… you know. When you think about some people cringing at some things that you’ve done and at the time, you think ‘No, no this is great’. Then you look back at it twenty years later…”

Andre was determined to get into the music industry from an early age. “So I used to enter competitions from when I was 13 years old. My first time was with my brother Chris and I would literally enter competitions – wouldn’t win any of them – and I thought, well, okay maybe I’m picking the wrong songs.One year in 1989, there was a competition called ‘New Faces’ which was a national competition and it was a bit like Britain’s Got Talent. And everyone was telling me you should audition for it. So I went on New Faces and got offered a recording deal live on air!”

The rest is history and he’s looking forward to celebrating his successes when he appears in Birmingham.