Former soccer star Dwight Yorke has launched a scathing attack against Peter Andre and the Australian pop singer's ex-wife, Jordan.
Yorke, who played for A-league team Sydney FC in 2005-06, has said he wanted to "throttle" Andre, who recently divorced glamour model Jordan, the mother of Yorke's seven-year-old son, Harvey.
"When I met Andre I wanted to throttle him," Dwight told News of the World.
"I'm not a violent man and it takes an awful lot to rile me. But this man got under my skin at the outset.
"The first time I saw them together they immediately put on this ostentatious display of affection, kissing and cuddling each other and calling one another `Babes' and `Precious'. Somewhere between laughable and pathetic."
Jordan - whose real name is Katie Price - married Andre in July 2006 after they appeared together on reality TV show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2004.
But the pair, who have a son and daughter together, were granted a divorce earlier this month.
Former English Premier League player Yorke, 37, said he was particularly annoyed by talk of Andre adopting Harvey.
"They had the gall to talk about Andre adopting him," Yorke said.
"I so, so wanted to grab him around the neck and throttle him ... no way would I ever, ever allow Harvey to be adopted by him.
"Over the years I've heard Katie saying how Andre is Harvey's dad and what a terrible, uncaring father I've been, all of which sticks in my throat.
"Maybe if she hadn't made life so difficult for me, I might have been able to take a far more proactive role.
"But I had as little to do with them as possible. I couldn't bear going to their home because they'd turned it into a shrine to their own vanity. How many pictures of yourselves is it possible to put up on the walls?
"I found it creepy. I couldn't walk down a hallway without his preening mug staring back at me or the pair of them draped over each other."
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