Strictly’s Kym Marsh on being grandmother at 46 and pride for kids – special

December 17, 2022 – 14:07 GMT

Sophie Hamilton

Strictly Come Dancing and Early morning Live star Kym Marsh talks special to HELLO! about the dance program, her domesticity and Christmas strategies

Starlet and television speaker Kym Marsh wowed us on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing with her expert partner Graziano Di Prima, and she’s spoken solely to HELLO! about her Christmas strategies and life far from television.

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Kym, 46, who discovered popularity in truth television band Hear’ State and now co-hosts Early Morning Live with Gethin Jones, is wed to army significant Scott Ratcliff and is a mum of 4. She shares her oldest kids, David, 26, and Emilie, 24, with ex-partner Jack Cunliffe, and child Polly, 10, with ex-husband Jamie Lomas. She’s likewise step-mum to Scott’s child, Renee, 6.

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The star is a happy grandma to her child Emilie’s kid Teddy and step-daughter Polly, and to her kid David’s kid Clayton.

Kym spoke with us as part of Snapchat’s brand-new ‘Take My Words’ effort, which is assisting moms and dads deal with hard discussions about online security by carrying them back to their teenage years, through their old journals.

Learn what Kym needed to state on the subject listed below, plus her ideas on parenting her own kids and grandchildren …

Kym with partner Scott Ratcliff

Hello Kym, we liked you on Strictly this year! What has amazed you about participating?

The most significant surprise to me has actually been the physical fitness side of things. The dancers have a lot endurance and it’s so remarkable. They can actually keep going and going!

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What are your Christmas strategies and what is Christmas Day like in your home?

Christmas Day is constantly a huge household affair. This year Emilie is hosting Christmas supper. In 2015 was a catastrophe due to the fact that I got Covid on Christmas Day now that I have actually had it, I understand it’s not going to occur once again! So we’re truly anticipating this year. A huge household Christmas, as constantly!

Kym with child Emily Cunliffe

How does it feel to view your child end up being a mom herself? Do you provide her parenting recommendations?

Emilie is such a caring, caring individual so I understood she would make a fantastic mum. I’m so happy with how she’s doing, and I take pride in what a fantastic dad my kid David is, too.

If they ask me for recommendations I will constantly assist where I can. Frequently, it’s simply a case of supplying some peace of mind that what they’re doing is right, and they’re both doing a fantastic task of raising their children.

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How is life as a grandma?

It’s excellent! There’s something so unique about the bond you have with your grandchildren. Teddy is at the age where he is getting his own character and he makes all of us laugh, and Polly is so creative and amusing. Clayton is becoming such a stunning little young boy and all of us love him.

I enjoy costs as much time with them as much as I can, and it’s likewise good to be able to hand them back to their moms and dads when it’s bedtime!

Kym with her grand son Teddy

Inform us about the Snapchat project and why you wished to be included …

A brand-new research study by Snapchat discovered 66 percent of moms and dads state their teenagers’ flexibility is very important, which social platforms offer an outlet for this. Nevertheless, 40 percent stay worried about the security and personal privacy of their teenagers online.

As moms and dads, the digital world and how our teenagers are engaging with it can feel exceptionally unidentified and having those challenging discussions about digital security can be tough to browse.

To assist get these discussions began, Snapchat’s effort ‘Take My Words’ asks moms and dads to restore their teenage journals. In doing so, Snapchat hopes that reviewing their own teenager experiences will assist develop commonalities for more open discussions, by revealing moms and dads and teenagers today that their experiences are not as different as they may believe.

When I reflect to when I was a teen, I had the ability to get back from school, head out on my bike and leave a lot at the school gates. Nowadays I believe it’s more difficult to distance yourself.

As a moms and dad it can typically feel tough to understand where to begin when it pertains to speaking about remaining safe online – specifically as I’m still discovering how social networks works myself!

However by digging out our old journals and even reviewing the recommendations we ‘d offer to our teenage self, it assists to bridge the interaction space in between us and our teenagers by making use of resemblances in our experiences.

Kym and her child Polly

How did you browse online security with your kids and what’s your recommendations to other moms and dads?

When Emilie and David were maturing, apps like Snapchat were only simply beginning to enter into our lives. Now I have Polly who is 11 and the digital world is such a huge part of whatever she does – it’s not just how she constructs bonds with her pals, however it’s likewise how she does her research!

So, we’re beginning to consider how to approach discussions around guaranteeing she’s safe online. I believe the most crucial thing is to attempt and be as open and truthful with your kids as possible, and to hope they’re the very same in return. Knowing how to utilize apps such as Snapchat is likewise truly crucial.

I believe numerous moms and dads – including me – will confess they count on their kids to reveal them how to utilize social networks. By discovering your own method around them and utilizing functions like Snapchat’s Household Centre, which provides moms and dads and guardians insight into what their teenager depends on on the app, it can make discovering how they utilize apps that bit simpler.

What have you got showing up career-wise?

I’m presently recording Waterloo Roadway for the BBC. It will be striking screens early next year and I can’t await individuals to see it!

Kym Marsh partnered with Snapchat as part of its Take My Words effort, that intends to motivate open and truthful interaction in between moms and dads & & teenagers about online security. Learn more at TakeMyWords.co.uk

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