Stacey Solomon has confirmed that she and her husband Joe Swash have filmed a reality show focusing on their family life.
Following reports that they were filming a ‘Kardashian-style’ series at their beloved Pickle Cottage, the Sort Your Life Out star, 35, took to Instagram on New Year’s Day to officially announce the news.
Sharing a sweet trailer to promote the series, the clip showed Stacey and Joe’s five children playing in the garden of their £1.2 million home in Essex, alongside their dogs Teddy and Peanut, and their ducks Daisy and Delilah.
The show, titled Stacey & Joe, will air on the BBC later this year, with an air date yet to be announced.
Captioning the post, Stacey wrote: ‘A new year. A very new adventure. Coming Spring 2025. We were so nervous and excited to share this. Here we are. All of us.
‘In 2024 we opened our house and made a series about our lives, family, work and everything else.
Stacey Solomon has confirmed that she and her husband Joe Swash have filmed a reality show focusing on their family life
The Sort Your Life Out star took to Instagram on New Year’s Day to officially announce the news, following reports that she and Joe were filming the Fly-on-the-wall series.
‘It was a huge leap into the unknown and it has been a real whirlwind to achieve it. But last year as a family we decided to say yes to more and do things we had never done before.
‘We have been talking about making a documentary for a long time and many of you have asked about it too. So here we go. A journey with us every second of the way.
‘Through the laughter, the tears and the madness… We hope it makes you smile, feel good and hopefully enjoy getting to know us all a little more.’
Stacey and Joe signed a lucrative deal with the BBC after bosses realized how popular the Loose Women star has become.
They are also delighted with the success of their Sort Your Life Out programme, where she and her team help families transform their homes.
Network insiders say bosses see her as their “new golden girl” because of her “identity.”
It also has a large following, especially among the young viewers the BBC is so keen to attract.
Sharing a sweet trailer to promote the series, the clip showed Stacey and Joe’s five children playing in the garden of their £1.2million home in Essex.
Along with Joe and Stacey’s children, the series will feature their dogs Teddy and Peanut, and ducks Daisy and Delilah.
Along with the television couple, who will marry in 2022, their children Zach, 16, Leighton, 12, Rex, five, Rose, three, and Belle, 22 months, will appear on the show.
Alongside the TV couple, who tied the knot in 2022, their children Zach, 16, Leighton, 12, Rex, five, Rose, three, and Belle, 22 months, will appear on the show.
Filming the reality show hasn’t been entirely easy, and Stacey was reportedly left in tears after having what seemed like a fight with Joe in the street in November.
In a video obtained by The Sun, the mother of five was seen being comforted by her reality TV team as she tried to hide her appearance.
Recognizing the famous couple, who married two years ago and share three children, an onlooker claimed he saw Joe, 42, storming down the street outside Westcliff on Sea train station in Essex while smoking furiously. a vaporizer after the discussion.
They revealed: ‘Joe came out of a building alone and ran down the street, he looked upset and sat on some steps for a while.
“Stacey came out of the building crying and seemed very emotional, she was hugging someone.”
The video showed Stacey being hugged tightly before another member of the production went to check on Joe.
In May, Stacey revealed that her dream was to quit TV work entirely to spend time with her five children, explaining that she only wanted to take on jobs she could do from home.
But she gave fans some hope by hinting that she could always be tempted to return to TV screens to work on a passion project.
Discussing her work on the Glad We Had This Chat podcast, Stacey explained that she wanted to spend more time with her children and has had to reconsider her work commitments.
“Every year I have a team meeting with my agent and all the team members to say, ‘What’s your plan, what are your goals, blah, blah, blah?'” he explained.
“And this year, when they asked me my five-year goals, I said, ‘I want to be a housewife.’
Stacey and Joe will show the ups and downs of family life with a large brood, after revealing they had adopted ducks while building their Pickle Cottage.
Amid her makeover, Stacey revealed the addition of two ducklings to her family on Instagram in June, while sharing a video of two of her children, Rex, five, and Rose, two, hugging them while asking fans for ideas for names.
She wrote: ‘Welcome to the little ones of Pickle Cottage. We are so excited to love you and hope you love living here and being part of our crazy family. We still have no idea what to name our new babies, so any suggestions are welcome.
“I honestly wanted our garden to be home to the ducklings for so long, so thank you @luisazissman for giving us the opportunity to raise your chicks.”