Myleene Klass leaves BBC The One Show host Alex Jones gobsmacked with extreme parenting tip

Former Hear'Say singer Myleene Klass left The One Show host Alex Jones 'panicked' after she shared her parenting advice on the BBC chat show. The 44-year-old mother-of-three told Alex and co-host Jermaine Jenas that as a child her father held 4am fire drills.

And, after swearing that she never would carry out the same routine, the star now holds her own emergency rehearsals with her daughters Ava, 14 and Hero, 11, and son Apollo, two. She said the family wear blindfolds as they practice what they would do in the eventuality of a fire and they 'make a game' out of it.

"He would do a fire muster at 4am. I never thanked him then," she said about her dad's drills. "What like a fake alarm?" asked a gobsmacked Alex. "Yeah like a fire drill," said Myleene, 44. And she explained: "We all know at work we get a fire drill and nobody moves a muscle but with fire it happens when you least expect it."

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She continued: "I remember saying 'I'm never going to do this with my children, this is some kind of toture.' Now I do it with my children We make a game out of it. I put blindfolds on them."

Explaining the importance of the drills to her and her family she said: "From working with charities you hear terrifying storyies about children who don't know what to do. So they do the first thing that comes naturally to them and they hide under their beds.

"Or they hide in cupboards. If you're teaching your child how to hold a knife and fork, if you're teaching your child to cross the road. These are basic life skills."

Mother-of-three Alex asked Myleene if she has an escape plan for her house and said: "It's making me panic now." And Myleene