Peter Andre

Trivia

• In 1992 and 1993 Peter Andre defied the odds by becoming a pop star in Australia when the last thing the country was looking for was a singing dancing muscle flexing r&b pop hero.
• In 1995 he achieved the near-impossible again by repeating the same feat across Europe.
• This proved to be a major turning point in Peter's life and ultimate career.
• He had just started getting into dance and soul music and found none of it on Australian radio.
• Listening to that music, turning his friends onto it, and performing it himself became Peter Andre's mission in life.
• Eventually that mission broadened to harassing a national TV talent quest by singing to the producers down the phone and begging for a chance to perform.
• His persistence paid off and Andre performed a version of Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel," and he was offered a recording contract live on air by one of the judges, who happened to be a record company head.
• The breakthrough came in December 1992 with the second single, a fairly straight version of the mid-sixties Brenton Wood track, "Gimme Little Sign" becoming the highest selling single of the year by an Australian artist.
• More hits followed until he shifted base to London, a virtual unknown.
• Through hard work and his bump and grind stage image on stage and video he slowly built a fan base in England and Europe until Peter Andre's fourth international single "Flava" entered the English charts at 1 in September 1996.

Quotes

• "They are genuinely nice people and made feel at ease."
• "If Posh [Victoria Beckham] stopped pouting so much, admirers would be forming an orderly queue."
• "There's nothing nicer than a girl who looks happy and comfortable in her own skin."
• "All you need to do to be a bit sexier is to smile once in a while!"
• ""I had a really Roman nose and thought it was too big, so I booked myself in to the LA surgeon who'd done Toni Braxton's nose. I thought her nose was great and fortunately he did a good job of ming as well!"
• "She is a tad bitter. After all, she has yet to land a number one and I have had three, so I kind of see where her demons lie."
• "I've written this song called Insania - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!"
• "I hate feet, they're disgusting ... what are they even for?"
• “A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.”
• “Whatever happens, I can't take half of what she's got. I don't want anything from her apart from her love.”