Sophie Ellis-Bextor is the proud mum of her 5 youngsters however made a heartbreaking revelation about her brood. 

The Homicide on the Dancefloor singer, 46, shares Sonny, 20, Package, 15, Ray, 12, Jesse, eight, and Mickey, 5, together with her husband Richard Jones and confessed that the youngest of the pack are being bullied for his or her lovely pink hair, as they don’t seem to be “mixing in” with their friends.

Sophie instructed Andreas Wild on her Salon Confidential podcast: “It is [bullying] undoubtedly been one thing they’ve skilled, which is admittedly harsh. 

“You get to secondary faculty and something that marks you out turns into the factor you’ll be teased about. 

“It is extraordinary how you could have this want at that age group simply to mix in, to be a part of the pack. It is a actually sturdy intuition.”

“However relatively than letting it make you are feeling down, hopefully by having conversations, you’ll be able to really control it and hold it on the correct aspect of issues.”

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She added: ‘And you then get a bit older and you are like “Truly, all these issues about me that set me aside are the issues I am going to now give area to and spend money on and revel in myself”.

“My children have gotten some totally different shades of pink, however it’s so attractive – and I can all the time discover them so simply in a playground.”

Sophie’s uncommon residing preparations

The noughties popstar has a sprawling mansion in West London the place she raised her youngsters however now her eldest son lives along with his grandmother, Janet Ellis. 

“I feel it bought to the purpose, again dwelling, the place I wanted more room,” admitted Sonny.

“Three of my brothers shared a room. The one time the home bought quiet was when everybody was in mattress,” he instructed The Instances. “So once I was coming to the tip of college, my grandmother requested if I wished to maneuver in. I have been coming right here all my life, so it is all the time felt like a second dwelling anyway. 

“It hasn’t been that a lot of a change, actually. Plus, my dad and mom and brothers go to on a regular basis,” he added. “I feel if I did go away, I might miss the house comforts. I might additionally miss my grandmother. We have all the time been shut however we’re nearer than ever now.”