Richard Jones<\/a> – with whom she has sons Sonny, 21, Kit, 16, Ray, 13, Jesse, nine, and six-year-old Mickey – since 2005 and she credits some advice she was given from her mother, Janet Ellis, for their long relationship as the former Blue Peter presenter told them to always put each other before anyone else.<\/p>\nShe told the new issue of Good Housekeeping UK magazine: \u201cWhen we got married, we\u2019d already had our first baby.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mum said: \u2018Make sure you always choose each other over anything else, even the kids.’<\/p>\n
“She was right. Even though the kids might roll their eyes if they see us hugging or whatever, they\u2019re happy that we\u2019re happy. And we have fun as a family, too. Last year, they came with us for a lot of the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJanet lives around the corner from Sophie’s family and the pair are “very close”.<\/p>\n
\nThe 46-year-old singer said: \u201cWe\u2019re very close. [She\u2019s] always been so good at encouraging me and giving me the toolkit I need to get out and do what I do. Raising a family alongside that is a constant thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAnd Sophie’s eldest son, Sonny, is currently living with his grandmother.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cHe moved in when he was doing a foundation course at uni a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cShe lives 10 minutes away and was on her own, so they\u2019ve got each other. It\u2019s given him his own space, but also kept him close \u2013 he comes over all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSophie has always had open dialogue with her sons about the dangers of the online world and toxic masculinity, but she doesn’t want to “demonise” anything in case they are left feeling alienated.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI\u2019ve always had a lot of faith in my boys. We\u2019ve openly chatted about toxic masculinity for a long time. My eldest is very articulate about these things, so none of it was new to my house.<\/p>\n
\n” Sometimes people have an idea of what boys are like, as if they\u2019re a different species. As I far as I\u2019m concerned, I\u2019m raising five people who happen to be boys. <\/p>\n
\n“I keep an eye on [mobile phone screen time], because that\u2019s parenting, but if you start demonising things, you shut down communication. Then you\u2019re like those parents in the 1950s who made kids burn their rock \u2019n\u2019 roll albums.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe full interview can be read now in the August issue of Good Housekeeping UK and visit www.goodhousekeeping.com\/uk\/sophie-ellis-bextor-marriage-advice for more.<\/p>\n
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