Lily Allen puts her family to work at home as she admitted she has no idea how a washing machine works. The singer, 39 – who is married Stranger Things star David Harbour and has children Ethel and Marnie with ex-husband Sam Cooper – admitted to getting her kids and husband to deal with the laundry Speaking on her Miss Me? podcast with co-host Miquita Oliver, Lily explained: ‘Do you want to know a secret? I don’t know how to use a washing machine. I have this fear of shrinking and dyeing clothes so I just don’t do it.
‘David and the kids do the washing, I’ll iron but I don’t even like putting things in the drier. I’m scared. ‘The kids are really good at it.
Ethel is particularly good at using the washing machine but I have a fear of it. I don’t want to go near it.’ She’s not the only celebrity averse to household chores, with the likes of Beyonce and Eva Mendes previously admitting they can’t cook.
Priyanka Chopra once described herself as a ‘terrible wife’ to husband Nick Jonas as she is certainly no culinary wizard. ‘I can’t cook. And I told him that when he proposed.
I was like, “Listen, you’re from a good southern home, you’re used to your mom making you amazing food. You’re not marrying that girl.” I cannot cook.
I can make eggs, also sporadically, maybe at night,’ she told The View. Girls Aloud star Cheryl also admitted to not knowing how to clean her own home, telling Weekend Magazine: ‘I was in a band at 19 so I never .