Peter Andre fans all ask the same question as Aussie singer plays Jamaican gangster in odd new film trailer

We certainly didn’t have Peter Andre playing a Jamaican gangster on our bingo cards.

The 51-year-old Australian singer, whose parents are both Greek Cypriot, can be seen donning fake long dreadlocks and busting out a seemingly dubbed Jamaican accent in the trailer for upcoming film Jafaican.

Mysterious Girl hit-maker Andre plays Gazza, a small-time London crook who takes on a high-stakes con job to cover a £35,000 bill for his grandmother’s care home fees. The plan is to impersonate a notorious gangster and steal £3m, all while navigating a crash course in Jamaican culture.

Last year saw Andre make his big screen debut in low-budget Members Club, which centered on a group of middle-aged male strippers who find themselves entangled in a dark plot to resurrect a 16th-century witch.

While the budget doesn’t seem to have improved, Jafaican marks Andre’s first lead movie role.

When he shared the trailer online this week, his fans were clearly confusing with many outright asking: “Is this real?”

“Peter, respectfully, what is this mess?” remarked another.

While another concluded that based on the trailer alone, it must have had a “script written by 10-year-olds”.

The flick, which is directed by Fredi Nwaka, also features Wil Johnson, Oliver Samuels, Jamie Lomas, and reggae star Sizzla. It’s set to premiere at the Gold Coast Film Festival next month.

Andre first shot to fame in the mid-90s with hits like Flava and Mysterious Girl, and went on to became a firm tabloid fixture following his stint on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!

While filming the ITV reality show he met future wife Katie Price, with whom he shares two children. The couple divorced in 2009.

He later married doctor Emily MacDonagh and together they have three children.

Andre has been teasing his transition into movies since 2017 when he first posted a picture of himself holding up a film script and declaring it was a “damn big role”, but it’s unclear if Jafaican is what he was alluding to.

Earlier this year he told The Standard he hoped to make comedy his niche and said he was looking forward to the Jafaican press tour as it would be taking him back down under where he hoped to spend some precious time with his elderly parents.