Stacey Dooley stayed with a family who believe in ‘off-grid’ parenting for her new documentary series Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over.
On the show she joins Matt Allen, his wife Adele and their children – son Ulysses, daughter Ostra and baby Kai – in their council house in Brighton.
The family previously appeared on This Morning in 2017, and didn’t reaction when Ostra weed on the floor.
In Stacey’s new show, Matt insists that he won’t find full time work because it’s ‘not in my psyche’.
Stacey asks him: ‘How do you do it all, Matt, is it benefits?’
He answers: ‘Mostly, mostly, but we claim the very bottom line.’
All three children co-sleep with Matt and Adele in the same room, and the couple support natural living.
Their kids, who are not vaccinated, don’t have a set bed time, can eat whatever they want and aren’t allowed mainstream medicine.
At one point in the programme Ulysses is seen eating a meal of raw mushrooms and Brussels sprouts, and crisps.
Matt, who has an autoimmune disease, tells Stacey that he doesn’t believe they are ‘abusing the system’.
‘ I really don’t think we are, because we have a minimalist impact on society in many respects.
‘In regards to social systems – schools and the NHS – we save money on that. Adele didn’t have births at hospital so we saved money on that.
‘So in our own unique weird wonderful way we balance the books.’
Stacey finds out that Matt believes in fasting and wouldn’t encourage the children to eat if they didn’t want to.
‘I’m a big fan of fasting – even the dog does it sometimes,’ he tells her.
Adele gave birth to her children with no medical intervention, with only Matt by her side.
The couple also had ‘lotus births’, where the placenta and umbilical cords are not surgically removed at birth. Instead Adele carried the placenta in a cool bag around with her until it fell off naturally.
Writer Adele previously said of their controversial lifestyle: ‘Off-grid is moving towards self sustainability and being a bit more free range and less institutionalised.’
Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over airs Wednesdays at 10pm on W.
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