News | Entertainment
27 Apr 2024 3:32
NZCity News
NZCity CalculatorReturn to NZCity

  • Start Page
  • Personalise
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Shopping
  • Jobs
  • Horoscopes
  • Lotto Results
  • Photo Gallery
  • Site Gallery
  • TVNow
  • Dating
  • SearchNZ
  • NZSearch
  • Crime.co.nz
  • RugbyLeague
  • Make Home
  • About NZCity
  • Contact NZCity
  • Your Privacy
  • Advertising
  • Login
  • Join for Free

  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Danniella Westbrook once threw all her children's belongings into a skip

    The former 'EastEnders' actress was infuriated when Kai, now 22, and Jodie, now 18, ignored all her warnings to tidy their bedrooms so she took some drastic action


    She admitted on 'Jeremy Vine': "I got a skip once for my kids, I cleared their whole bedrooms because I was sick of it.

    "Kai said to me, 'Where's my games?' 'In the skip'."

    Asked if they were allowed to get their things back, she added: "If they wanted to get in and get it out, yeah. I'd been telling them for weeks, 'Tidy your room, tidy your room, tidy your room' and they didn't so I said, 'I will get a skip.'

    "It was only a mini skip, but that isn't the point. I just want my house clean and tidy.

    "Cups and plates, I don't like those in the bedroom."

    The 45-year-old actress insisted it is important to teach kids to be tidy and organised because one day they will have families of their own.

    She said: "One day you're going to grow up and have children, you need organisation."

    Earlier in the show, Danniella admitted her own struggles with addiction had stopped her kids wanting to drink alcohol.

    She said: "I was 14 years clean until my relapse, they see the decline in me and thought no way to drink and drugs."

    When Kai wanted to try alcohol for the first time, Danniella was keen for him to do so when she was around so she could help him to learn his "limits" and not get drunk.

    She said: "When I lived in the states [where the legal drinking age is 21], we moved back when Kai was 16, so it was never an issue, I was in recovery. we came back and his friends gave him pressure to drink, at parties and things like that

    "We were at a friend's barbecue so decided he could do it in front of us, know your limits, don't be that kid on Facebook, face down in a bush being sick.

    "Neither of my kids really drink."

    © 2024 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

     Other Entertainment News
     25 Apr: Céline Dion has no idea when she will be able to get back to touring
     25 Apr: The original 'Blair Witch Project' cast are furiously demanding more cash from the ongoing horror franchise
     25 Apr: Tom Brady faces being mocked over his divorce from Gisele Bündchen and her new relationship as he's signed up to be brutally roasted in a Netflix special
     25 Apr: Tiffany Haddish secretly taunts her trolls from a fake X account
     25 Apr: Justin Bieber has said he will see rapper Chris King "in paradise" after the singer was shot dead
     25 Apr: Halle Bailey is so deep in the grip of "severe" postpartum depression she feels like she's drowning and suffers dissociation from her body
     25 Apr: Céline Dion feared it was her "fault" she had been afflicted with Stiff Person Syndrome when she was first diagnosed with the rare condition
     Top Stories

    RUGBY RUGBY
    The Chiefs are preparing for a tough physical match-up, when they take on the Waratahs in Sydney More...


    BUSINESS BUSINESS
    New Zealanders saw the second-largest tax hike in the developed world last year More...



     Today's News

    Politics:
    Hospitals across the country have been asked to make millions in savings to bring them back to budget 21:57

    Law and Order:
    25 years after the murder of BBC presenter Jill Dando on her front doorstep, unanswered questions remain 21:47

    Environment:
    Fire and Emergency is urging the public to take extra care with controlled burns 21:17

    Rugby:
    The Chiefs are preparing for a tough physical match-up, when they take on the Waratahs in Sydney 18:57

    Rugby:
    The Chiefs are confident they'll be able to get a result in Sydney tonight without captain Luke Jacobson 18:37

    Business:
    New Zealanders saw the second-largest tax hike in the developed world last year 18:07

    Rugby:
    Confidence from the Crusaders coach, heading into tonight's must-win home game against the Melbourne Rebels in Christchurch 17:27

    Law and Order:
    Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd and others react to the overturning of Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction 17:27

    Environment:
    Severe thunderstorms are forecast for Canterbury this evening 16:58

    Rugby:
    The Crusaders coach isn't mincing his words about the Super Rugby Pacific champions' situation 16:58


     News Search






    Power Search


    © 2024 New Zealand City Ltd