David Tennant's wife Georgia Tennant has opened up about raising the couple's "neurodiverse kids"

During an appearance on the Five Brilliant Things podcast, Georgia explained: "I don't understand how people sit around and all eat together.

"We've got a lot of neurodiverse kids so a couple of them don't like eating around other people. They go and eat in separate rooms.

"A couple of them won't eat the same food, so we have to cook a different meal for them. Mealtime is like two and a half hours of me wandering around the house serving different people in different rooms."

She added that they try to sit down for a meal together at Christmas, but going out to eat is too difficult.

Georgia said: "We never [eat together]. [At] Christmas, I think we do. Every now and again, we'll go to a pub and we'll all sit down and it's just a f****** nightmare. I just want to go home.

"They're crawling on the table, one's got headphones on. It's just like, no."

Georgia, 40, first became mother to Ty when she was a teenager and she admitted her experience with him convinced her to have a big family.

She explained: "That [having a child so young] was obviously not planned, but it was actually so much easier when I was 16 because I didn't have any preconceived ideas about how difficult parenting was.

"He was really easy and lovely and great. And I was able to work and so that was a really positive experience. Probably if that hadn't been so positive, I might not have gone on to have four more ...

"I got together with my husband and I was like, well, we want to add another one. And then they came out and they were already great. And then there was one time where I got a bit drunk and then another one came out - but also great."

She added of her children: "I like how different they are. It seemed weird that two people can keep creating such a different smorgasbord of humans. And that's really fascinating."