After weeks of deciding and enlisting help from fans, Peter Andre and his wife Emily MacDonagh announced that their baby girl - who arrived on April 2 - finally had a name.
They revealed that the adorable newborn is called Arabella Rose - but seven weeks on and the Mysterious Girl singer has admitted he calls the tot something entirely different. In fact, he's even yet to call her Arabella at all!
In his weekly column, the star also opened up on Princess' latest career venture, Ant McPartlin becoming a dad for the first time and his thoughts on King Charles' first official portrait...
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My bubba
Arabella is now seven weeks old – where has the time gone? I still haven’t called Arabella by her name. I absolutely love it and she really suits it – but I still call her “bubba”.
As for sleeping, night and day are blurring into one at the moment. Ems is definitely getting less sleep than me because of the breast-feeding but we try to split the nights as much as possible.
Emily and I are hoping for a little date night soon but our focus is just on the kids at the moment. With all five of them living in the house – they all have different demands. It’s busy, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Mini Ant and Dec
I hear congratulations are in order for Ant McPartlin and his wife Anne-Marie who recently welcomed a baby boy, Wilder – cool name. Welcome to the dad club – it’s a beautiful thing. His best pal Dec also had a baby boy two years ago… Maybe they’ll set them up as the next generation of “Ant and Dec”?
King's portrait
Last week, King Charles unveiled the first official portrait of himself since his coronation. My first thoughts are, “Wow, it’s very red.” I mean there is a lot of red, but it looks great – it seems to be marking a new chapter for the monarchy. It’s no secret that the royal family are going through a tough time – especially when it comes to their health – so here’s to a great year for them.
Proud moment
I’m proud of all my children of course, but it was a special little proud moment for Princess as she was announced as the new face of Superdrug’s Studio London cosmetics. I always mentioned I was hesitant for her to do certain things before she turned 16 and now she’s nearly 17 I see her following her dreams. We have a good team around her.
Major milestone
columnist, surely – I can’t quite believe it! From what I remember, Junior was a newborn when I started it and he’s turning 19 next month.
What a way to remind myself of how I’m getting old... er, lol. It’s a great milestone. I’ll need to go back to my first ever column and read it. If next year is 20 years then I definitely need to do something special. Watch this space!
