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Vicki Newman

Peter Andre says son Theo will shun showbiz to follow in doctor mum Emily's footsteps

Peter Andre reckons there's a future doctor among his brood.

While his older kids Junior, 16, and Princess, 14, who he shares with ex-wife Katie Price, have their hearts set on joining the showbiz industry, he says little Theo has very different plans.

The Mysterious Girl singer, who shares the five-year-old and his eight-year-old sister Millie, with wife Emily MacDonagh, an NHS doctor, says Theo is more interested in following in his mum's footsteps than his dad's.

The proud dad told new! magazine: "My son Theo, who’s only five, has been saying that he wants to be like Mummy and be a doctor. And weirdly, he loves watching Dr Pimple Popper!"

Millie and Theo (Instagram)

Big brother Junior has very different career plans though, having already signed a record deal, just like his dad.

Peter said: "I was 16 when I signed my first deal, because my dad wouldn’t let me sign it before I was 16.

"When I was taking Junior into the studio when he was 15 and he got offered the deal, I told him he wasn’t allowed to sign it until he was 16 either. So it was like history repeating itself."

Junior is set to release music in the spring, with Peter promising it'll be "fresh and unexpected".

And when it comes to Princess, who is often compared to her mum Katie, Peter predicts she could also launch a singing career thanks to her "beautiful voice".

Peter said: "I’m letting her develop over the next couple of years, because you don’t want to just be a singer, you want to be a songwriter, too. That’s how you become successful."

Katie has also said before that she's convinced Junior and Princess are going to be stars.

She once told the Mirror : "[Junior and Princess have] both started YouTube now - they won’t ever have normal jobs.

"Junior's doing a film this Sunday, he's got a part, I think Pete and Em [his wife Emily] will probably do the reports on that.

"I’m really proud of him, he'll definitely do an album, he's a brilliant singer and rapper."

Junior and Princess with Peter and Emily (Instagram)

Katie added: "Princess loves her YouTube, her subscribers are going up, they won't have normal jobs, they're little stars themselves.

"Harvey is a big star too, but Jett and Bunny [her kids with ex-husband Kieran Hayler] will have the normal jobs, just because they're different.

"Junior and Princess have been there since the start when it was the old-fashioned way when you had no social media and stuff, so they've been brought up in the public eye the hardcore way.

"On Instagram now, a lot of people don't know who anybody is because anyone can be famous overnight but because Junior and Princess have been brought up in that showman life they're both little stars in their own right."

Peter and Katie both think their kids will be stars (Peter Andre/Instagram)

Katie also said that she doesn't believe Princess would ever want to model the way she has.

She said: "Princess will never want to do what I do, she will never have surgery. She's more of an entertainer, she likes presenting, she's so good on camera.

"They'll do it different to me, and there is no glamour really anymore."

She added: "People underestimate Harvey because of his challenging behaviours but he's so intelligent, he knows what he's saying."

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