Daily Mirror

No regrets over controvers­ial move

- BY TOM BRYANT and JANE ODDY

Kirstie with iPad-free sons Bay and Oscar skateboard­s, their rollerblad­es, playing chess. They don’t have any devices at the moment. I have not replaced them. KIRSTIE Allsopp says she does not

“Absolutely, no. And I don’t intend to regret smashing up her children’s

do so. It’s not worth the fight.” iPads… and will not replace them.

Kirstie added: “There were letters She insists their lives are better since from other mums, saying: I ran over she broke the devices in front of sons iPads in my car, I cut the plugs off, I hid Oscar, 11, and Bay, nine, in them in the attic. And some June to punish them for sad ones, saying: I want to spending too much time do what you’ve done.” playing computer games. Kirstie told of her move

The Location, Location, on Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine Location host, 47, sparked show in September, saying: fierce debate after admitting “I smashed my kids’ iPads… what she had done, I banged them on the table but says her sons had a leg. There’s a game called “much better summer” Fortnite, we’d made all sorts without their devices. of rules and times when we

She said: “They were fine said you can’t play them. All about it. It was 24 hours of those rules got broken… I tears and then gone. They said, ‘That’s it, I have to have loads of other things BAN No iPads for her kids physically [break them]’.” they can be getting on with. ■ Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas,

“It’s not like they are living in a 5pm weekdays on Channel 4. vacuum where that was the only thing.

They really discovered their toys; their

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