Abbey Clancy asks 'where are you going' as Peter Crouch crept off to 'new love'

Abbey Clancy was left puzzled when her husband Peter Crouch started disappearing to his "new love2 early in the mornings during a recent holiday. The model revealed that she would wake up to find Peter was "nowhere to be seen".

It later emerged that the former Premier League footballer had taken up a new hobby. Abbey shared that Peter, 44, had started taking tennis lessons after accompanying their 14-year-old daughter Sophia to her own training sessions.

Peter, who has also recently started playing padel, confessed he's now "caught the bug" for tennis, having played it as a youngster. This revelation comes just weeks after Abbey, 39, Peter and Sophia were seen enjoying a day at Wimbledon.

During an episode of their podcast, The Therapy Crouch, Abbey said: "Pete's found a new love. So everyday on holiday, I'd wake up, Pete nowhere to be seen. I'd be like, 'Where the f**k has he been going?'

"He'd been booking himself tennis lessons. Tennis lessons, taking Sophia, who is doing the lessons anyway with her coach and Pete's booked himself in. And he's also joined a tennis club here, at home, and he's in a tennis competition and a tennis team."

To which Peter responded: "You know what's happened? I've got the bug massively. I was taking Sophia and said, 'Do you know what, I'm going to start taking lessons.' I got a lesson and then got the bug, and saw myself getting better."

Peter, who netted 22 goals in 42 appearances for England, revealed he "could play" tennis as a youngster but ended up chasing a career in football. He reminisced about his childhood summers, saying they were filled with "football, tennis, football, tennis".

He elaborated: "I could play when I was a kid but I didn't pick up a racquet for 20 years. But my summers consisted of a ball and tennis racquet and when we got slightly tired of football we'd go and play tennis.

"For six weeks, football, tennis, football, tennis, and by the end of that you get alright. So I was decent as a kid."

Abbey however says Peter was "playing down" his abilities on court and said he had to make a "crucial decision" between the two sports. Peter added: "It was something that I never revisited so I'm trying to get back on the horse."

Throughout his professional career, Peter played over 700 professional matches for clubs such as Liverpool, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, and Portsmouth. He hung up his boots professionally in 2019.

Mum-of-four Abbey, who married Peter in 2011, concluded she is "really happy" he has found a new hobby. She added: "He's happy, he's keeping fit, he's keeping moving."

The couple first crossed paths in a Liverpool bar in 2005. Recalling their initial encounter during a chat on Good Morning Britain , Abbey said: "When we first met, he begged me for my number and then I went to the loo or the bar, and when I came back, he was talking to another girl. I was like, 'How dare you?'".

Peter maintained that he was "just talking" to the other woman, but Abbey insisted on getting her number back.

He retorted: "I said, 'You can't give someone your number and then take it back'."