Dec 5, 2007 • 1 min read

Heat apologise over Harvey sticker

Heat has apologised for a sticker mocking Jordan's disabled son Harvey, and Katie Price and Peter Andre have told the PCC they accept the complaint is resolved.

Heat magazine has published an apology over that previously reported sticker, given away in a set of 50 c'leb stickers last week, which mocked Jordan's disabled son. As previously reported, the sticker featured a picture of the son with the line "Harvey wants to eat me!".

The Press Complaints Commission received thirty complaints from members of the public while Jordan, real name Katie Price, of course, and her husband Peter Andre let it be known they planned to make a formal complaint to the PCC on the grounds the gossip mag had breached PCC clauses 6 and 12, which cover the treatment of children and discrimination.

Heat editor in chief Mark Frith quickly apologised for the sticker last week, telling reporters: "I would like to unreservedly apologise for any offence caused". A statement in this week's edition of the mag, meanwhile, reads: "We now accept that the decision to include this sticker was a mistake. It was never our aim to make fun of Harvey's disabilities. We recognise that it has caused offence, not only to Katie and Peter Andre, but to a number of readers". It added that the magazine had made a donation to a charity chosen by Price.

Price and Andre, meanwhile, have said they are now happy to let the matter drop, with the PCC confirming yesterday that the couple had told them that they "accepted the complaint was resolved".

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