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Waterloo Road’s Lisa Faulkner talks boundaries she and John Torode set for blended family

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Waterloo Road actress Lisa Faulkner, 50, and her MasterChef star husband John Torode, 57, have a blend of teenage and adult children between them from before they got together.The former Celebrity MasterChef winner described how the pair sometimes enforce certain boundaries, including phones being "taken away" at dinner time, to ensure they have meaningful chats with their kids in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk last year.Lisa spoke about her family life with John as part of a wider interview about encouraging families to be more connected during meal times.The star teamed up with cracker company Carr’s to help create some tasty recipes that will hopefully spark conversations and deter families from looking at their phones during dinner.Lisa opened up about her blended family - and how taking the time to eat at the dinner table was often the best way to get some “proper conversation” with their teenage children.The actress and presenter is mother to 16-year-old adopted daughter Billie, while John has grown-up children Casper and Marselle from his first marriage, and teenagers from another relationship, Jonah, 17, and Lulu, 15.The star spoke about how we are “all guilty of not spending enough time away from our phones”.“I do think our kids in the younger generation have grown up with phones, so they don't think of it as bad manners or rude to be with each other and on their phones,” Lisa explained. “They're just also used to doing it.

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