He’s hoping to rekindle his romance with ex Diane on a reality show. And now, Peter is opening up about how his failed marriage led him to take a leap of faith and sign up for Back With The Ex.
“My ex-wife and I fell out of love with each other,” Peter tells TV WEEK.
“I realised a few years into our marriage she wasn’t the one, but I hung in there – probably a little too long, to be honest.”
Peter admits Diane, who he had met in the US five years prior to his marriage, had never left his mind.
“I always thought about Diane,” he reveals.
“From that first night with Diane in New Orleans, an inner fire of desire was created that has never completely extinguished.”
Peter and Diane had a two-year long distance relationship.
The 58-year-old even says he couldn’t commit to marriage with his ex-wife until he was certain Diane had moved on.
“Before I was thinking about getting married, I needed to make sure that door was shut,” he confesses.
“I spoke to her father, who politely told me Diane had married and had a small child.
“As much as it stung me, it meant I could also move on.”
Peter went on to enjoy a decade-long marriage before he and his wife separated.
“There was no third party when we split,” Peter says.
Peter never stopped thinking about his lost love, Diane.
The dad-of-two says his children are supportive of him being on the show.
“They’ve seen me go through ups and downs,” Peter explains.
“They just said, ‘Dad, you deserve to be happy and you can’t be single forever.'”
Meanwhile, Diane is excited for another shot at love, adding she’d always wondered how her life would’ve panned out if she followed Peter to Australia.
But Diane reveals she’ll only commit to a relationship with Peter if it is “incredible”.
“I’m at a point in my life where if it’s not incredible, I just don’t want it,” Diane says.
