At first, Lisa O’Neill put it down to “typical mumbling teenagers”.
The motivational speaker, author and former Weekly fashion editor found herself asking her four children, three of them teens, to repeat themselves. “Constantly,” she tells. “I was always asking, ‘What? Speak up! Speak clearly!’”
Not long after, Lisa (48) says, she got “really grumpy” with her husband Mark, who was listening to English football on the radio in the dead of night.
“Nothing new about that,” she acknowledges cheerfully.
“If we ever get divorced, it will be because of the English football. On this occasion, the radio woke me up and I did a bit of a huffy rollover to physically show him how cross I was.
“I was lying on my right side and thought, ‘Oh, that’s nice,…
