Coronation Street star Kym Marsh wants to keep her brood as close as possible for as long as she can manage, joking her son can stay at home into his thirties.
The former pop singer, 41, is mum to David, 22 and Emilie, 20 – as well as six-year-old Polly – and has made it clear she is in no rush to see her grown up kids fly the nest.
And it seems the devoted mother doesn’t care what anyone else thinks – tiler David and beauty salon worker Emilie are welcome to stay… even if they don’t seem to be in a rush to leave anyway!
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“They’re both still at home and not showing any signs of moving out!” she told Daily Express.
“I wouldn’t actually want them to go, it would be awful – my house will be so empty once they leave.
“I’ve said to David, ‘I want you to be one of those weird men who live with their mum until they’re 30!'”
Likening her relationship with her kids to that of ‘best friends’, the star’s personal life thankfully does not mirror that of her soap character Michelle Connor.
Michelle’s estranged son Ali recently returned to Weatherfield’s cobbles as a new local GP.
But having lost touch with her after it emerged he was swapped at birth in hospital with another child, Ali (played by James Burrows) has no desire to reconcile.
Meanwhile, Kym recently used her OK! magazine column to chat about proposals and family tradition.
The star, who is loved up with Matt Baker, mused about relationships following Kelly Brook’s admission she’d jokingly popped the question to her boyfriend, Jeremy Parisi, during a romantic holiday abroad.
Kym revealed she actually proposed to her ex-husband Jack Ryder – though only after they were already engaged.
“We just hadn’t done the ring thing yet,” she recalled. “I bought him an engagement ring and put it inside an advent calendar.
“I do prefer the guy to do the asking. I’m quite traditional in that sense. I’d expect Matt to ask my dad’s permission, and I’d expect Emilie’s dad to be asked when the time comes for her to get married.”
Kym added that she doesn’t agree the bride’s family should foot the whole wedding bill, but joked: “Having said that, I’m sure I’ll end up footing the bill when our Emilie gets married!”
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