A Whole New World

British celebrity husband and wife Katie Price and Peter Andre will be raising money for Jewish children’s charity Norwood after they teamed up to produce a album of duets.

 

Norwood, based in Stanmore, north west London, was one of five charities chosen by the singing duo to benefit from the record sales.

 

Welsh-born Price, better known by the nickname Jordan, found fame in the late 1990s as a topless model who regularly appeared in tabloid newspaper The Sun. She met Australian singer Andre on the television show I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here in 2004, and the pair were married in 2005.

 

Price had a number of media-focused relationships including one with former Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke which produced a son named Harvey in 2002. Harvey was born blind with a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia whereby his optic nerve had not developed correctly.

 

Norwood’s chief executive Norma Brier has shown her appreciation for the celebrity pair’s support.

 

“We know, that as parents of a child with a learning disability, Katie and Peter understand only too well the challenges as well as pleasures that this can bring and how vital it is to have people to turn to for support when the going gets tough,‚Äù she said. ‚ÄúWe hope the album is a great success.”

 

The money raised will help to fund Norwood’s wide variety of services, including the respite care centre, Buckets and Spades; its new school project providing education to children with profound learning disabilities, and its social work team who give vital support to children and families.

 

According to media reports Price is in fact Jewish as her maternal grandmother was Jewish, but she does not identify publicly with the Jewish community.

 

But it is her relationship with Norwood president Richard Desmond which is likely to have encouraged her and Andre to include the Jewish organisation amongst their list of charitable causes to benefit from the album.