'Pete, you are sick and lowest of the low!'

LOVE-SPLIT Jordan flew into a hysterical rage over Peter Andre wanting sole custody of their kids, and screeched: "To want to take babies away from their mother is sick!"

In a rant to a pal aimed at her estranged husband, the emotional glamour model raged: "You're the lowest of the low and I can't even believe I ever married you.

"Sick is exactly what you are. People have got into your head. It's unbelievable how you've changed."

As the pair's battle becomes increasingly bitter, we can also reveal how Peter, 36, has:

RIDICULED Jordan as a "robot housewife" in his latest video;

ATTACKED her over her boozing; and

STOPPED eating because of the stress she has put him under.

The feuding husband and wife were both talking to lawyers last week about their son Junior, four and daughter Princess, two.

Jordan, 31, also has an older son, seven-year-old Harvey, with footballer Dwight Yorke.

Yesterday she was opening a polo tournament in Epping Essex - wearing a knicker-skimming animal-print dress and towering pink stilettos. At the same event was her ex-boyfriend Dane Bowers, and the pair were seen sending text messages to each other.

Elsewshere, Peter was snapped with Junior and Princess at a village fete in Cowfold, West Sussex.

Originally he was seeking joint custody of the two kids - but after hearing of Kate's wild partying in Ibiza last month he changed his mind and told her: "I'm not taking any s*** any more.

"You need to change the way you're acting."

A pal of Jordan told us: "The priority has become sorting arrangement with the kids. It's the hot-button issue now.

"Pete wants them. Kate'll do anything to stop him getting them. All of a sudden she's less concerned about him taking any money.

"The battle lines have changed."

"Kate is petrified about losing her kids, she's terrified about losing her career - but most of all she's overwhelmed by loss because she always thought Pete would come back to her in the end."

With the custody fight raging on, Jordan is accusing Peter of getting publicity for his career by posing for snaps with their children. Last week it was announced he had a £1 million record deal with indie label Conehead, which is releasing his new album next month.

Jordan's pal said: "To use the kids to help publicise your music is pathetic. That's the main thing she's angry about. All he wants to do is sell his record."

The album was recorded in Los Angeles earlier this year - before the couple's split was announced.

Peter, who previously had a No1 with Mysterious Girl, now hopes to do more work in the States - and take the kids with him.

Unstable

He told the News of the World: "I would like to go back to record in America in the future. I met a lot of great people out there."

But Jordan's pal said: "She has started to get hysterical about the prospect of losing the kids to Peter.

"She let him take the children to Cyprus but now he's starting to get it into his head that they should travel with him when he's on business when it fits around their schooling and nursery here.

"She's beginning to think she'll lose the custody case because everyone's turning against her.

"The prospect of life without the kids has frightened her and makes her feel very unstable." The first single from Peter's album is Behind Closed Doors - and it will be released on August 10.

In the video he has a dig at Jordan's lifestyle by basing it around sexy housewives who act like robots.

It is already being compared to Justin Timberlake's controversial Cry Me A River video, which he filmed to relaunch himself after his split from Britney Spears.

A music industry source told us: "Peter's video is inspired by the original Stepford Wives film and features housewife robots.

"It's an attempt for Peter to explain through art how difficult his marriage had become."

Peter has also cast a string of sexy models to appear alongside him - a decision that will infuriate Jordan further.

The source said: "Peter plays a photographer who becomes obsessed with the models.

"It's something he would not have even been able to consider doing while he was with Kate, because she kept insisting on starring in his videos.

"It's like Peter's coming-out moment. He's finally his own man again - it will be very liberating for him."

But Jordan's pal hit back, saying: "Kate has laughed in his face about his so-called 'comeback'.

"She's also disgusted that he's using the breakdown of their marriage to try and have another hit."

ITV1 viewers will see her put her side across when she is interviewed by Piers Morgan next Saturday.

Last week Peter talked to the News of the World during a rare night out - and launched a thinly disguised attacked on his estranged wife's recent boozy antics.

Rival

He told us: "I haven't drunk or been out since my break-up. This is my first night out in months." Then he raised his eyebrows and added: "One is enough for me, though."

He also told how the split had taken a toll on his health, saying: "I've lost lots of weight - over a stone.

"I haven't been dieting - it's all from the stress of the last couple of months. The weight's dropped off. I've started training in the gym with my brother Michael though, to build myself back up again."

In another interview last week, Peter also hit out at rumours he was dating Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Haughton.

The pair, who are managed by the same company, were snapped leaving a champagne bash together a few days ago.

But Peter said: "There's not one little bit in my head that could think of anyone else to be honest."

Jordan still raged to her pal though: "That sl*t had better keep away from my husband or she'll have me to contend with."

The pal told us: "She's convinced that Chantelle wants to get her claws into Peter.

"She's got no proof but it's on her mind constantly.

"She knows how ambitious and determined Chantelle is to take over from her as the country's most famous glamour model.

"And if she manages to date Pete, that would go a long way towards that."

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