Two-metre Peters ward off intruders

Peter Crouch is using a life-size cut out of himself to ward off intruders from his Mottram-St-Andrew home.

Peter, 39, took the 2D model from the set of his new BBC show, Save Our Summer, and placed it in the window to make it appear he was staring out across the garden.

The models, nicknamed Two-metre Peters, are used to help social distancing on set.

Peter said: “I’ve got mine in the top bedroom.

“We threw it in there when it first came. And I walked down to the bottom of the garden, turned around and thought: ‘Who’s that in my bedroom? What’s going on here?”

“But now I’ve left it in there because security wise, if anyone comes in it is perfect.”

Peter, who lives in the plush pad with his model wife Abbey Clancy, 34, and their three kids, has fallen foul of robbers in the past.

In 2006 the footballer, who retired last summer, had a £100,000 Aston Martin stolen during a raid on his house in Alderley Edge.

Then in 2011, he and Abbey saw their current home in Mottram St Andrew, ransacked by burglars who stole their kids’ Christmas presents.

Peter’s new primetime TV show on the Beeb begins this Saturday and will see him taking on a number of challenges including sky diving and tight rope walking.