TAUNTON will be welcoming a famous county face next week when Peter Andre comes to town for his first signing event of the year.

The star will be at Orchard Shopping Centre on Saturday, March 11, to launch his new fragrance ‘Timeless’ and to sign copies of his 2017 calendar.

The Mysterious Girl singer says he is looking forward to meeting his fans in the town during his first signing event this year.

“I am so excited to be launching my new fragrance ’Timeless’ and doing my first signing of the year at The Orchard Centre,” he said. “Looking forward to seeing you all there.”

He will be at the shopping centre from noon until 3pm during the event which was organised with the help of Genius PR.

Trish Caller from organisers Genius PR and Events, said: “We are delighted to have been working with Peter’s management company The Can Group to welcome Peter to Taunton.

“We are confident that Peter will be surrounded by many smiling faces and will make a lot of local people very happy.”

Tickets aren’t necessary for the event but orderly queues will be in place as Pete’s arrival is highly anticipated.

The announcement was welcomed by excited fans in the town as more than 100 people shared and commented on the news on the County Gazette Facebook page. People were quick to inform their friends that Taunton’s favourite celebrity will be in town.

The former I’m A Celebrity Star has links to Somerset after marrying county woman Emily MacDonagh in 2015, who was a medical student when they met in 2010.

The couple have since welcomed two children to the world, a girl named Amelia and a boy named Theodore James. Peter has two other children with Katie Price, Junior and Princess.

Emily and Peter met in 2012 after Emily’s father, Ruaraidh MacDonagh, a consultant urologist who works at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital, performed surgery on him.