
Davina McCall has confessed how difficult it was for her when her teenage daughter relocated to Australia.
The Big Brother host, 55, and ex-husband Matthew Robertson have three children: Holly, 21, Tilly, 19, and Chester, 16.
The Masked Singer judge recently saw farewell middle child Tilly at the airport as she packed her luggage and headed to begin a ‘new chapter.’
Davina recounted an eye-opening talk with current partner Michael Douglas, who has children from a previous relationship, when explaining what she went through prior to Tilly’s move.
The mum-of-three began discussing her emotions before to Tilly’s departure on Sophie Ellis-Spinning Bextor’s Plates podcast.
‘I had such an interesting thing because I spoke to my partner about her, pre-leaving, and everything in my makeup was saying, “Go out for dinner as much as you can, sit down and have one-to-one meals, go and talk to her as much as you can in your bedroom, go and do things together, spend as much time together as possible…” and before she went, she didn’t really want to spend any time with me at all!’

Davina continued: ‘She was in Newcastle seeing her sister, visiting other friends, saying goodbye to her mates… and I was talking to Michael and I was like, “I’m really struggling with this”.
‘He said, “Ok, let’s go back to when you were 19. What were you doing?”, I said, “I was leaving home and moving into a room in someone’s flat”.’
Michael then asked her: ‘How did you feel?’, to which Davina replied: ‘I was so excited.’
She went on: ‘And he said, “Did you think about your parents’ feelings and how they felt about you leaving?”, I said, “No.”

‘He was like, “There you go! It’s not even on her radar that you are pining”.’
Boyfriend Michael had some more words of wisdom for his other half, in order to make the transition as stress-free as possible for Tilly.
‘And don’t tell her you’re pining, because it’ll just make her feel bad about going and this is the most exciting thing she’s ever done,’ he told her.
‘I was like, that is the best advice ever,’ Davina exclaimed.

She added: ‘I sort of, sucked it up and when she said, “No I’m busy, I can’t do that night”, I’d say, “Ok, I’m really happy you’re having a good time, let’s try and get together for at least one dinner before you go” and she said, “Yeah definitely”, and we did.
‘It was just funny, trying to be brave. Wept all the way back from the airport, obviously! But wept with pride, I think, pride and joy to see her skip off looking so happy and excited about this new chapter and where that might take her.
‘And it might bring her back here, it might take her to another country, who knows? So exciting!’
Holly, Davina’s eldest child, is currently a student at Newcastle University and lives in halls.
Meanwhile, Chester is the only one who has not fled the nest, remaining at home with his mother and her celebrity hairdresser boyfriend, whom Davina met after being one of his clients for 20 years, and whose friendship turned to romance following her divorce.