Emma Willis and husband Matt say they've 'lost' eldest children amid emotional admission about daughter

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Emma and Matt Willis have said they feel like they have "lost" their eldest children since giving them smartphones. The 48-year-old TV presenter and her 41-year-old Busted singer husband have looked into their own tech use after filming a new documentary.

They are fronting the new two-part Channel 4 documentary 'Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones', where they go undercover as 13-year-olds on TikTok to see what children are viewing online, as well as team up with The Stanway School, in Colchester, to challenge some Year 8 pupils to give up their smartphones for 21 days.

But the couple - who have kids Isabelle, 15, Ace, 13 and Trixie, eight, together - have given smartphones to their two older children but regret doing so because the consumption of social media is the "biggest disruptor" for them. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Dianne Buswell declared love by co-star as 'promise' supported Matt told The Sun newspaper: "Our daughter was 11 when she got a smartphone, it’s been the biggest disruptor between us and her, I feel like I lose her to it quite a bit.

I miss her. The only reason that we ever have any kind of bickering in our house is because of that." Emma added: "We never allow them to have social media.