Show caption Kirstie Allsopp said she smashed the tablets by banging them on a table leg. Photograph: Beretta/Sims/Rex/Shutterstock Kirstie Allsopp Kirstie Allsopp: I smashed my kids’ iPads after they broke rules TV presenter says she took action because her two sons refused to follow her screen-time rules Press Association Mon 10 Sep 2018 07.45 EDT Share on Facebook

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Kirstie Allsopp has said that she smashed her children's iPads after they broke her rules about screen time.

The TV presenter, who is mother to sons Oscar Hercules and Bay Atlas with husband Ben Andersen, said she went to extreme lengths when they were playing games outside their permitted time.

She told Channel 5's Jeremy Vine: "This is the first time I've said this publicly. In June I smashed my kids' iPads, not in a violent way. I actually banged them on the table leg."

She added: "There is a game called Fortnite and another [called] PUBG and I decided ... we had made all sorts of rules and all sorts of times when we said you can't play them and all those rules got broken and in the end I said: 'Right that is it, I have to physically [break them]."

Asked to show how she did it, she replied: "It was remarkably easy. I didn't intend to speak about it but it's come up now."