‘Gentle parenting at its finest’ people sigh as Billie Faiers reveals son, 6, spent THOUSANDS playing FIFA on his iPad
MUM-OF-THREE Billie Faiers has revealed how she’s had to put her foot down after discovering her six-year-old son Arthur had spent thousands on her bank card while playing on his iPad.
In a clip from the family’s reality show Billie and Greg: The Family Diaries, Billie was seen talking to the camera about the “frustrating situation”.
“Arthur has been spending on my card,” she began.
“Yes, I didn’t say, you know, you’re never to spend anything on this without my permission.
“You always come to me and ask me first.
“I didn’t do all of that because I just put the lock on it and thought, oh, he’s not getting into that.
“Little did I know.”
The episode then showed Billie talking to mum Sue and another female friend, as she said: “I noticed before, ages ago, he’d like done a couple of big spends on it.
“So we put like a parent lock thing on it where if they want to buy something, it gives you alerts so you get permission.”
And it was only when Billie was going through her emails that she found “hundreds of invoices” detailing payments Arthur had made playing football game FIFA on his iPad.
“Tell her how much,” Sue instructed her daughter.
To which Billie replied: “I had to stop scrolling because it was like £199, £99.99, £29.99, £299.99.”
She then asked husband Greg if there’d been “fraud” on her account, before realising what had actually happened.
At that point, she marched up to Arthur and told him that she’d be taking him to the police station if he didn’t confess what he’d been doing.
“It is really, a really frustrating situation because it’s kind of like, how do you get the money back?” Billie said.
As Sue asked if she knew what Arthur had actually spent the money on, Billie said: “It’s just like all things like players, games… it’s air, nothing!”
Following the shocking blunder, Billie has taken the iPad from Arthur and he’s not even asked for it back, with the mum noting “he knows” how much trouble he’s in,
The clip from the show was shared on TikTok ahead of the new series premiering on Wednesday night.
Billie Faiers and her growing family
BILLIE Faiers first found fame alongside sister Samantha on The Only Way Is Essex.
She has gone on to forge a successful career for herself, and is appearing alongside husband Greg and their kids in reality series Billie and Greg: The Family Diaries.
The pair are parents to daughter Nelly, 10, son Arthur, six, and daughter Margot, who will turn two this December.
While Billie had previously said she wanted more than three kids, Margot’s arrival made her think twice.
“Three feels like having ten,” she sighed.
“It’s crazy how having that one extra little person to look after can make life so different.”
And people in the comments section were quick to comment on Billie’s situation, with one writing: “And that ladies and gentlemen is ‘gentle parenting’ at its finest.”
“Imagine having that much money that you don’t know it missing until you check your emails?” another added.
“Didn’t even notice it was missing. Rich people problems,” a third sighed.
“This is exactly why I got my kid his own bank card and that is connected to his Xbox and only his money is in it,” someone else wrote.
“Absolutely no chance I’m being robbed blind for some players on FIFA!”
“Oh God, we’ve been through this!” another commented.
“Hundreds gone and no way of getting it back.”