Team Katie vs. Team Pete

- The Reality Cheque

Okay, so she’s a glamour girl called, Katie Price and he’s a pop singer called, Peter Andre. They met on a reality show a couple of years back; fell in love, got married, bred-up the place, and filmed it all for their reality show which I’ve already forgotten the name of.

About seven months ago they separated; got divorced, each got a new reality show (surprise-surprise) and both milked the publicity for all it was worth – ka-ching!

Cue: backbiting, spurious claims of press intrusion, and the birth of, Team Katie and Team Pete.

Recently, she married a cross-dressing, reality show winning, cage fighter called, Alex Reid. And he [Peter Andre] released a pop song in homage to the disabled, black, blind child that Katie had with a footballer back-in-the-day (don’t even go there).

The latest squabble is over a picture (left) of the former couple's daughter, Princess Tsunami [sic] – which was posted on the glamour girl’s sister’s Facebook. The image hit the headlines and polarized public opinion, as it has been deemed too sexual for a 2-year-old child by some, and as harmless “dress-up” by others (click here for full story).

Team Katie made this statement: "If I am such a bad mum then I would have been reported to social services…"

And

Team Pete made this statement: “To be honest I'm disgusted with it [the image]”

It’s funny, cos the people who believe that the image is harmless, often cite the fact that, “People in America do it” – a reference to the child beauty pageants popular in the States. I personally, think that’s a dumb justification; they still hang women from cranes in Iran, that doesn’t mean I’m gonna go out and do it or, indeed, that the majority of people in Iran approve of it.
 

Anyways, here’s my two Dinahs worth (Arab currency)…

There’s nothing wrong with "dress-up" although, I can’t imagine how she got them fake lashes on the child – the glue stings my eyes like a bitch. “Dress-up” only becomes a problem when:

A)  You choose to put your children in the public domain (as they both did via their reality shows).

B)  You allow images of the “dressed-up” two-year-old child to be posted on-line, when you know full well, that because of clause 'A' a large number of people/weirdos will get to see them.

Whatever happened to, "Team Common Sense"? Duh!

- Cheyelle Omar

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