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Topics: Celebrity, Sex and Relationships, Technology, Lily Allen
Callum Jones
Topics: Celebrity, Sex and Relationships, Technology, Lily Allen
We all have our ways of minimizing the amount of time we spend online.
It's fair to say that many of us are guilty of scrolling through the likes of X and Instagram too much on a daily basis.
So, adding time limits to some of your most used apps is often a good idea.
And Lily Allen has an unconventional way of limiting the amount of time she spends on social media.
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Speaking in an interview with The Sunday Times, the 39-year-old singer revealed she and her husband, David Harbour, 49, control what apps they have on each other's phones.
Allen and Harbour were first romantically linked in January 2019 when they attended the BAFTA Tea Party together.
Some months later in October, Allen posted a snap of the Stranger Things actor to social media with the caption 'mine'.
The pair were spotted kissing in public the next day.
They tied the knot in a Las Vegas ceremony in September 2020, a wedding that was, of course, complete with an Elvis impersonator.
There were rumors Allen and Harbour had separated late last year, but they were quickly debunked by the celebrity couple.
Opening up about her mobile phone use, Allen said: "I now have a kids’ phone called Pinwheel. It has no browsing capability and no social media, but you can still have Uber and Spotify.
"My husband is the caregiver on it, so he controls what I’m allowed to have as an app on my phone. I’m the controller of his as well."
The 'Smile' hitmaker joked how they act like each other's parents by limiting their mobile phone activity.
Allen also revealed that she is very much keeping tabs on her two daughters, Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11 - whom she shares with ex-husband Sam Cooper.
The 39-year-old revealed she recently took her children's phones away after reading a book that claimed kids shouldn't have access to them until they are 14.
And it's safe to say Allen is not a massive fan of smartphones, branding them 'evil' and saying they've ruined the 'creative side' of her brain.
She continued: "I feel like everyone feels the same. I don’t know anyone who could possibly say that the quality of their life is improved by the presence of a smartphone.
"I think it’s destroyed us as a species. It’s horrendous that they’re designed to be so addictive. Some of us have more addictive personalities than others."