Peter Andre’s doctor wife Emily shares her thoughts on Boris Johnson’s lockdown ‘exit plan’

Peter Andre’s doctor wife Emily has shared her thoughts on Boris Johnson’s latest lockdown ‘exit plan’.

The Prime Minister, 55, dropped the ‘stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives’ slogan earlier this month for a new ‘stay alert’ campaign as part of a five-stage plan to get out of lockdown.

In a pre-recorded speech from Downing Street, Johnson urged those who can’t work from home to go back to their jobs, allowed unlimited outdoor exercise and hinted at schools returning in June and some public venues reopening in July.

Details about when people can see their families and friends were notably sparse, however. Britons have had to avoid meeting up with friends and families since March 16, a week before the full lockdown came in on March 23. 

Sharing her thoughts on the latest ‘exit plan’, Emily, 30, who has been working on the NHS frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic said ‘people’s expectations are unrealistic’.

Writing for OK! magazine, she said: ‘Some people were left confused by Boris Johnson’s speech about easing the lockdown and I can understand where they’re coming from, but I also feel some people’s expectations are unrealistic.’

The junior doctor added: ‘The government has to give very generalised advice that applies to as many people as possible, but there will always be individuals who the advice can’t apply to. 

‘It is frustrating that guidance around meeting up with family members isn’t clearer, but hopefully this will be addressed soon.’

Emily, who has been a doctor for five years, added that her parents live ‘hours away’ and so she is still unable to see them due to the restrictions. Both her mother and father are also on the frontline. 

The junior doctor has been working at a hospital in Surrey while husband Peter, 47, homeschools their children Amelia, six, and Theodore, three, at their house. They married in 2015. 

During a recent Loose Women interview, Peter praised his wife Emily for all she does as a mother and on the NHS frontline. He has previously called her his hero. 

The star said his wife has to disinfect herself for twenty minutes when she comes home from the hospital before she sees the children to protect them against coronavirus. 

Host Ruth Langsford asked Pete how Emily is and he said: ‘We’ve got a good balance. Obviously while she’s not here I hold the fort and I’ve realised I’m not a school teacher.

‘My respect for school teachers has gone through the roof and I can’t wait for them to get back.

‘When Emily is home, she is full on – she wants to cook, bake, she’s a really good person. I’m a very lucky guy and I know that. When she’s there I say “Why don’t you rest,” but she doesn’t want to.’

On Emily’s cleaning regime when she gets home from the hospital, Pete said: ‘She’s got to disinfect herself for 20 minutes.

‘She’ll come home, I don’t tell the kids she’s home. She comes in, she takes off all of her clothes – it sounds great, but what happens is she has to put them in the washing machine, wrap a towel round her, have a shower, completely disinfect herself.

‘Every time I say to her, “What’s it like?” – and this is why I respect her so much – all she ever talks about is people doing more.

‘Her Dad and Mum, they’re all on the frontline. She’s a good person – she doesn’t say a lot about what’s going on but I know she’s heavily exposed to what’s going on.

‘This is why I have so much respect for her, six out of eight of her family are doctors. She’s a good person she doesn’t say a lot about what’s going on but she’s dealing with a lot.

‘She leaves here at 7.15am and she’s back at 7pm at night, it’s not every day but the days she’s there, it’s pretty full on and sometimes she doesn’t see the kids at all.’

Saira Khan asked if Emily comes in from work and asks how homeschooling was going, and Pete said: ‘My wife has learnt to trust me. There comes a point in the day about 3 o’clock where I think, “If she walks in now, she’s going to have heart failure.”

In April, Emily admitted that working for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic is a ‘very anxious’ time.  

Sharing her experience of being on the frontline, she said she feels ‘lucky’ she can rely on Pete to take over at home and is overwhelmed by the ‘kindness’ people have shown to healthcare staff in recent weeks. 

Writing for The Sun, Emily explained how she leaves the house at 7.30am every day, without seeing the kids, to work long shifts due to hospitals seeing increasing numbers of unwell patients and NHS staff falling sick.  

‘I think I speak for many NHS and key workers when I say it’s a very anxious time at the moment,’ Emily said. 

Highlighting that her anxiety increases when she thinks about the risks her still working for the NHS could have on her and her family, Emily says her job has been made easier by the ‘overwhelming’ kindness people have shown medical staff. 

‘The number of kind gestures I have seen is overwhelming. People bringing in food for hospital workers, offering them places to stay or simply just words of encouragement,’ she added.   

Long days at work can mean that Emily can go a number of days in the week without seeing her children. 

While she works, husband Pete is at home looking after their brood, as well as his two children he shares with ex-wife Katie Price, Junior, 14, and Princess, 12.