There have been a number of complaints following an interview on Sky News yesterday in which pop singer Peter Andre became upset after being questioned about his children.
The interview took place on Kay Burley’s 'Afternoon Live' programme. Andre decided to cut the segment short after he became upset when Burley asked him several times how he would feel if his ex-wife’s new husband wanted to adopt his two children.
Andre and glamour model Katie Price have two children together. Price married Celebrity Big Brother winner, Alex Reid, on Tuesday and Andre revealed at the start of the segment that he had been unaware of her plans.
A spokesperson for Ofcom, the media regulator in Britain, told BBC News today that it had received complaints about how the interview was handled. The spokesperson would not confirm how many complaints had been made.
Former tabloid editor Kelvin MacKenzie, who did the newspaper review on Sky last night, said viewers had also contacted Sky directly to comment on the interview.
He said on This Morning "I know, because I was at Sky News last night, that they received a load of emails from their viewers saying that they didn't warm to that."
Kay Burley has said she was "mortified" at having upset the singer. Writing on her blog last night, she said she had apologised to Andre backstage for upsetting him.
She wrote "What a day. Peter Andre broke down on my show and when I went to check during an ad break that he was okay, he sobbed on my shoulder in the green room.
"He'd discovered not 12 hours earlier that the mother of two of his children had married without even bothering to tell him and was devastated at the very thought that she might want take the youngsters away from him.
"I was mortified at having upset such an obviously doting family man and was keen to offer sincere apologies, but he was his usual charming self. As we stood and chatted about parenthood he said he was relieved he'd finally vented some of the pent-up tension he'd been feeling and I sympathised but warned him not to ever cry in front of the children."
