Davina McCall has shared the emotional struggles she experienced when her teenage daughter was preparing to move to Australia.
The Masked Singer judge, 55, has three children with ex-husband Matthew Robertson: Holly, 21, Tilly, 19, and Chester, 16, with her middle child recently leaving the UK for a “new chapter” down under.
Speaking on Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Spinning Plates podcast, McCall discussed how the family coped in the lead-up to Tilly’s departure and recalled some advice from her partner Michael Douglas, which helped her deal with the mixed emotions she was experiencing.
“I had such an interesting thing because I spoke to my partner about her, pre-leaving, and everything in my make-up was saying, ‘Go out for dinner as much as you can, sit down and have one-to-one meals, go and talk to her as much as you can in your bedroom, go and do things together, spend as much time together as possible…’ and before she went, she didn’t really want to spend any…