It's been 15 years since Kay Burley reduced Peter Andre to tears on Sky News. Burley interviewed the Mysterious Girl singer at a sensitive time - after ex-wife Katie Price had just got married to cagefighter Alex Reid - by asking him an outrageous question about his kids.
Burley said: "Because we were wondering how you might feel if Alex Reid said he wanted to adopt your kids".The singer, now 51, appeared visibly upset, telling Burley: "No-one is going to take my kids away from me" before pulling out his ear piece and walking out of the studio.
At the time, Kaye wrote in a Sky News blog that she'd done Peter "a favour".She went on: "What a day. Peter Andre broke down on my show and when I went to check during an ad break that he was OK, 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." Following the interview, Ofcom received 881 complaints from viewers, the majority of whom were concerned by the "intrusive" manner in which Andre was interviewed.But neither Andre, nor anyone authorised to act on his behalf, complained of unfair treatment or infringement of privacy to the regulator.Ofcom found it was "in keeping" with the established editorial line of the programme to ask Andre questions about the new marriage given that it was a major news story.Ofcom said: "Further, it was understandable that the presenter focused on the human interest angle of the wedding by asking Peter Andre for his reaction, and how it would impact on their children."In Ofcom's view, the audience could therefore reasonably have expected the
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