{"id":483147,"date":"2026-03-19T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483147\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:14:12","slug":"junior-andre-has-a-surprising-9-5-job-to-fund-music-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483147\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Andre has a surprising 9-5 job to fund music career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Junior Andre, son of Peter Andre<\/a> and Katie Price<\/a>, absolutely rejects being a ‘nepo baby’, and instead is working a surprising 9-5 job to fund his music career.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old hit back at claims that his famous parents gave him a leg-up in the industry, insisting he’s worked hard for his success.<\/p>\n

‘It’s not just going to be handed to me,’ he refuted.<\/p>\n

\"PrincessPrincess Andre and Junior Andre. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n

Junior and his girlfriend, Jasmine, have moved in together, and he’s working full-time on the London Underground. A job we weren’t expecting him to set his sights on!<\/p>\n

In 2022, a then-17-year-old Junior release his debut single Slide, which climbed to #1 on the UK’s iTunes pop chart, and it looked as though the youngster was emulating his dad’s success.<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,Emily Andre, Junior Andre, Princess Andre, and Peter Andre. Pic: Mike Marsland\/WireImage<\/p>\n

The track quickly caught the attention of music executives, and he signed his first record deal. In the months that followed, however, delays stalled the release of any further music.<\/p>\n

Junior later revealed that he’d been quiet on the music front as he’d been busy ‘overcoming a couple of challenges’, but that new songs were coming ‘in due time’.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his younger sister Princess’ reality show, Junior admitted that one of the obstacles he’d been trying to overcome was the financial side of pursuing a singing career.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old revealed he’d landed a 9-5 job (and has also been working night shifts) on the Tube in order to fund his music, saying that he ‘doesn’t live off my mum and dad like people think’.<\/p>\n

\"JuniorJunior Andre and Princess Andre at global premiere of Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning in Leicester Square Gardens. Pic: REX<\/p>\n

Princess gushed over her brother’s work ethic, explaining how proud she is that he’s worked hard to chase his dreams, and branding his output ‘genuinely so good’.<\/p>\n

‘His last two singles went\u00a0in at number one, but while he was sorting differences out with his label he went to work through the nights and work a full-time job, so he was fully self-sufficient. Which I\u2019m super proud of,’ she said.<\/p>\n

Chatting to his sister in the recording studio, Junior admitted: ‘It’s been a long time coming and it’s been hard.’<\/p>\n

\"JuniorJunior Andre with his girlfriend, Jasmine. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n

‘You know I\u2019ve obviously had to do nine-to-five, Monday to Friday, I’ve done night shifts because you have to actually pay to do music.\u00a0People don’t really know that. And I live off myself, I don’t live off mum and dad like people think\u00a0that we do,’ Junior continued.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the camera, he said: ‘I’ve really learned that I’ve got to work for what I want. It’s not just going to be handed to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I found a night job basically just working on the London underground, grafting, lifting heavy metals, cutting, filing, painting. I got them jobs so I could do my music career, so I could fund it.’<\/p>\n

\"JuniorPic: Junior Andre\/Instagram <\/p>\n

‘When I do achieve what I set out to achieve, I’m gonna be so grateful because I know I worked so hard for it,’ Junior added.<\/p>\n

Princess said: ‘It really annoys me when people are like, “Oh, you’re only where you are because of your parents”.’<\/p>\n

‘Yeah and people say nepo babies, but\u00a0I’m doing what I love and what I’m inspired to do. And it’s great that my dad was part of that,’ Junior replied. ‘My love for music is intense; I love performing just like my dad.’<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,Junior Andre and Princess Andre. Pic: Dave J Hogan\/Dave J. Hogan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Princess added: ‘People say that but people don’t know that you worked a 9 to 5 job. Do you know what I mean?\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Like we\u00a0can both appreciate the fact we’ve been brought up with a lot of privileges. But the thing is now, we’re going our own ways, we’ve got our own talents that we’re doing.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior Andre, son of Peter Andre and Katie Price, absolutely rejects being a ‘nepo baby’, and instead is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}