Chris Evans has ‘less anxiety’ without a mobile phone

OHMYGOSSIP — Chris Evans has “less anxiety” now he doesn’t own a mobile phone.
The 55-year-old TV presenter first ditched his cell in 2019 and believes that smartphones are a “massive time thief” and he insists doing away with the gadget has boosted his mental health.
He said: “Even if someone says they’re not going to check their phone for an hour, they’re still thinking about when that hour is up … so you’re still thinking about it. It’s the whole ‘don’t mention monkeys, don’t mention monkeys, don’t mention monkeys’ thing. It’s both a massive time thief and a massive focus one. I have less anxiety without one — it’s that ping of uncertainty.”
The former ‘Big Breakfast’ star went on to explain that the technological advancements in mobile phones “scared the s***” out of him”, which inspired him to ditch his phone altogether.
In an interview with The Sun newspaper, he said: “Phones have changed so much [in the past three years], but you don’t realise it because you’ve become so accustomed to the micro-doses of the updates.
“It’s you against Silicon Valley but Silicon Valley is hidden behind the screen. It scared the s*** out of me. No thank you.”
Chris – who has children Noah, Nicolas and Eli Alfred with wife Natasha Shishmanian – went on to reveal that none of his young children have mobile phones, claiming that 13-year-old Noah is the only kid in his school without one.
He said: “Noah is the only kid in his year without a phone. He turned 13 a couple of weeks ago so we discussed it, and got him a device and let him download WhatsApp.
“But then immediately something happened — there was a bump in the road — and he came off it. It’s like stopping drinking. You can always start again but you can never undrink what you’ve drunk. Noah is different, and a better conversationalist for it. If you’re not on the phone as a kid, you’re a more present kid.
“I don’t understand how kids learn things now because the phone doesn’t want you to stick on something for too long — it wants to give you another advert for the next thing.”

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