There’s a secret to parenting. When I say this, please don’t imagine I’m about to offer some infallible cheat code that will give you happy, compliant offspring and an Instagrammable life: if such a
Gyles Brandreth and Susie Dent seen in their last meeting in February 2020
With hugging between friends and loved ones allowed once again from May 17,
The Telegraph has asked some of the UK s best loved celebrities and public figures who they plan to hug.
Tell us yours in the comments section below.
Celebrities
Joanna Lumley, actress, I shall be hugging literally everyone I can get my hands on. I shall snatch babies from their mothers, and lean over zimmer frames: I shall hug girls at the till, the picture framer, and lads playing footie in the park. Much later obviously I shall be hugging police personnel as I am charged at the station. Hugger-mugger, that’s me!
While parents harbour fears about their children falling behind at school and the mental health impact of lockdown on young people, TV adventurer Ben Fogle has revealed his biggest pandemic worry for young people is how it s killing off risk.
The New Lives in the Wild presenter, 47, who shares two children with his wife Marina, Ludovic, 11 and Iona, 10, said that risk has become endangered to the brink of extinction , with the process accelerated by lockdown.
Speaking to Femail ahead of his Channel 5 summer series, The Farm, set in Yorkshire, he said: A lot of children have lost any sort of access to risk, they re completely mollycoddled, wrapped in cotton wool by protective parents, and the pandemic hasn t helped that.
Ben and Marina Fogle are set to star in a new film to help parents who have experienced baby loss as part of a charity appeal.
The couple were heartbroken by a miscarriage in 2008 before having their son Ludo in 2009 and daughter Iona in 2011, while their son Willem was then tragically stillborn in 2014 at 33 weeks.
Marina, 42, who said she felt numb after Willem s birth, was led to Tommy s, the UK s biggest charity funding research to find out why pregnancy goes wrong and how this can be prevented.
Documentary: Ben and Marina Fogle are set to star in a new film to help parents who have experienced baby loss
Jules Perowne This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
COVID-19 caused a baby boom for the wealthy, and now the 1% are competing for the best resources.
They re getting added to waitlists for luxury cribs, private nurses, and, eventually, preschools.
Meanwhile, for those outside of the stock market, birth rates have dropped.
Last August, Jules Perowne, a 39-year-old PR executive based in London, was thrilled to find out she was pregnant surprised, too, as she d long been told she d never carry a baby. Someone said, You ve lost so much weight, but your boobs are enormous could you be pregnant? she told Insider about how she found out. I was totally shell shocked.