Strictly’s Tess Daly has admitted she is often a “nervous wreck” over the whereabouts of the children she shares with husband Vernon Kay, and uses a special app to track them.
While her youngest, Amber, has only just begun her teenage years, she’s terrified over eldest daughter Phoebe, 18, as she’s just started driving.
Exclaiming on a new podcast interview that a daughter who drives is “a whole new minefield” to negotiate, she added that she uses the LIFE360 app to monitor her.
The cutting edge technology won’t just keep Tess informed about her location at all times, but it uses car crash detection software, which will automatically notify her if Phoebe has been in an accident on the road.
The app also uses GPS technology to keep Tess informed on her daughter’s driving speed.
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According to its website, a message can be sent to her if she begins “driving erratically” or exceeding the speed limit.
“I track Phoebe on [the app] obsessively until she gets to her destination,” Tess told pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor on her podcast Spinning Plates.
“It’s because she’s a new driver… you never stop worrying. She’s only gone for 20 minutes and I’m a nervous wreck. It’s ridiculous!” she exclaimed.
She added that she is “in denial” about the prospect of her daughters growing up or ever leaving home, joking: “[Phoebe’s] not ever leaving. I can’t think about it!”
Tess continued sentimentally: “You never stop parenting, I don’t know when that all-seeing eye ends!”
The LIFE360 app is also understood to boast a Drive Reports feature, providing “an in-depth overview of each journey” that someone takes.
It includes “detailed information like average speed, route taken, and even how many hard accelerations or decelerations occurred during the trip”.
This means Phoebe is unlikely to get away with careless driving, while dad Vernon has stated that he would like his kids to “find themselves” as opposed to living with a “silver spoon” in their mouths as a result of their famous parentage.
“It’s important that you allow them to find themselves, which is character building and personality development,” he reasoned in an interview with Mail Online.
“Sometimes I think that the old silver spoon and life on a plate in front of them… I think that’s quite contradictory to how you want them to be.”
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