Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy have always been open when it comes to sharing the chaos of family life on their podcast, and a recent episode of The Therapy Crouch didn’t disappoint.
This time, the pair looked back on a recent trip to New York that took an unexpected turn the moment they landed.
While England’s national team were busy soaking up their World Cup summer, the couple’s own transatlantic adventure came with a scare involving their eldest daughter, 15-year-old Sophia, and a run-in with US immigration that could have gone very differently, with no detail being spared on the show.
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Clancy explained that US border control is a different beast entirely to the UK, and by no means a place to be messing about: “We’re landing in New York, it’s different to the UK, it’s kind of security heavy. Strict. Those immigration officers are not fun. You cannot crack a joke with them,” she said.
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Sophia had to give her fingerprints after renewing her passport since her last US visit and questioned why. In doing so, she joked it might be:
“In case there’s like fingerprints on the gun.”
It didn’t land well. Officials asked her to repeat herself, prompting Clancy to step in and clarify her daughter wasn’t confessing to anything, just asking how fingerprints help catch criminals.
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Sophia was eventually waved through, but there was one final sting in the tail. By the time the family collected their bags, their driver had given up and left without them.
“So then we got our bags and the driver left us because we were taking too long and I just burst into tears,” Clancy admitted.
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The couple also touched on a parenting call they made over Christmas 2024, cutting phones and iPads out of their kids’ lives for good.
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“We said to them iPads and phones are gone, and I feel we’ve stuck to that,” Crouch said, adding they’d made a conscious effort to remove the devices entirely. Both said they’d noticed a real shift in their children’s attitudes since, with the family still holding firm on the rule well over a year later.
As well as Sophia, Crouch and Clancy, who have been married since 2011, have three other children. Liberty Rose, Johnny and Jack, all between the ages of 10 and six.