Cold Feet’s Fay Ripley hides her daughter’s contraception because she wants to be a grandmother

Fay Ripley has revealed she has been actively hiding contraception from her 20-year-old daughter because she’s desperate to become a grandmother. 

The actress, 57, said she is ‘encouraging an early pregnancy’ for her 20-year-old daughter Parker and will start pestering her 16-year-old son Sonny to think about children in a years’ time.

‘I am so broody, and all the time,’ she told the White Wine Question Time podcast. 

Faye continued: ‘My daughter is actually now 20, and it’s not right but I’m encouraging an early pregnancy. I’m actively hiding contraception.

‘I was an old mum in the first place, I can’t hang about. I understand it’s your life but what about mine?

Broody: The actress, 57, said she is ‘encouraging an early pregnancy’ for her 20-year-old daughter Parker and will start pestering her 16-year-old son Sonny in a year 

‘And my 16-year-old son… you know, again, I’ll give it another year and then I’ll start going in there as well, saying “Come on, what you got for me?” 

Fay shares her two children with her husband, Australian actor Daniel Lapaine, 51.

Parker is a budding actress signed to talent agency Curtis Brown, whose clients also include Florence Pugh, Adjoa Andoh and new Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa.

Fay said she has struggled with being in the ‘second half’ of being a mother now her children are growing up.

She said she is aware she is being ‘claustrophobic’ with them but can’t resist helping them around the house.

She said: ‘I think maybe I’m taking it a bit far. Like I still do a turn-down service. Like literally I do a fold-down.

‘I’m putting a flipping pointy thing on the loo roll for when they have their next poo. That’s because I think ‘Ah, that’ll be nice for them’. And I fill a glass of water. At 20 and 16, what am I doing?

‘I think if they were on here they’d say it’s quite claustrophobic. So, I’m clearly not getting it all right.

Family: Fay shares her two children with her husband, Australian actor Daniel Lapaine, 51 (pictured last month) 

Just like mum: Parker is a budding actress signed to talent agency Curtis Brown, whose clients also include Florence Pugh, Adjoa Andoh and new Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa

‘But I really have felt that to this point it’s been a privilege. I don’t know what will happen. 

‘I feel like I’ve kept them alive to this point and I’m proud of that, and now ‘Hey, kids, got to keep me alive now!’

She said she was grateful for the time she got to spend with them during lockdown as it meant they weren’t out ‘taking drugs and abusing alcohol’.

‘I think they would tell a different story,’ she said. ‘But I was able to cook for them… They were forced into a relationship with me that they would have, and have, long since bunged in the bin.’