The presenter is filming a home crafts series to help take everyone´s minds off things. She discusses privilege, pressure and her worries about Britain´s housing divideCoronavirus - latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThere is a `terrible fight` going on in Kirstie Allsopp´s kitchen. Her two sons, who are 11 and 13, are making a chocolate cake. Allsopp, speaking on the phone, takes a pause to listen out. At least they´re not on screens - she has been trying, and not always succeeding, to implement a no-screens-before-6pm policy. How is that even possible? `Screaming. Threats. I haven´t resorted to physical violence yet,` she says with a laugh. (In 2018, Allsopp became notorious, briefly, for saying she had smashed her children´s iPads because they were spending too long on them.)Allsopp, 48, has presented the property show Location, Location, Location since 2000. And there are other TV shows, including a property renovation programme, Love It Or List It. She has also become known for shows about home crafts, and is about to begin filming a lockdown crafts special for Channel 4, with a team of 11 who are arriving at her house this week. They have all been in self-isolation for a couple of weeks in preparation - the channel believes the team can travel and work safely - and Allsopp has turned her tennis court into a kind of field canteen, where they will all eat together twice a day. She is putting them all up, and somehow, she says, will all observe the physical-distancing rules (yes, her house must be huge). Continue reading...
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