Stacey Solomon's bumpy love life from failed engagement to Jackass star fling
Stacey Solomon has been on a long journey to find her 'happily ever after' with husband Joe Swash.
It may look like domestic bliss for the popular Loose Women panellist, who now fronts her own show - Sort Your Life Out, with her big family and beautiful 'Pickle Cottage'. But it hasn't always been this way.
The 34-year-old TV star is now a mum to five children after she and husband Joe welcomed baby Belle last year. The family - including children Zachary, 15, Leighton, 11, Rex, three, Rose, two, and Belle, one - have been on a 'magical' adventure this recent half-term after Joe, 42, splashed £60k on a surprise new motor.
Expressing her gratitude, she told her millions of fans on Instagram: "On The Craziest Adventure Ever. 5 kids, 1 me, 1 Joe Swash & a caravan. I fell asleep somewhere in Essex & woke up looking for the Loch Ness monster. Joe's never been happier. Day one has been all about Inverness, and it is BEAUTIFUL. I don't know what I imagined travelling like this would be.
"Although it is hard with such little ones, it's magical. And I don't think I've ever felt so free. And off the grid. I feel Like we can go anywhere & do anything. It's special. I don't say this lightly… Joe was right. Happy Sunday Everyone. Lots of love from all of us!"
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Joe and wife Stacey Solomon share their family life together with fans on Instagram (Stacey Solomon/Instagram)
They've been enjoying a campervan trip around ScotlandBut before she embarked on her fairytale romance with Joe, the former X Factor singer had two sons from two previous relationships, while Joe has 14-year-old son Harry with his ex Emma Sophocleous. The presenter shares son Leighton with ex-fiancé Aaron Barnham and also had Zachary with teenage boyfriend Dean Cox.
She met teenage sweetheart Dean Cox, now 36, the father of Zach, at Havering College while studying performing arts. Stacey fell pregnant at the age of 17 and the couple later split. When Stacey appeared on X Factor, she was a single mum to her first son Zachary, making it all the way to the final.
Stacey then got engaged to painter Aaron in 2009, with him proposing in December 2011 during a romantic carriage ride around New York's Central Park. She had spoken about planning a summer wedding, hoping to have a ceremony in Essex with her sisters as her bridesmaids.
But two years after their son Leighton was born in May 2012, the couple had called time on their engagement, announcing they had split in 2014. Meanwhile, Stacey and Joe were first brought together on the set of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out... of Here! back in 2010.
Stacey had just been crowned queen of the jungle - stealing Joe's crown from the year before - minutes before they were introduced on the spin-off show Joe presented. Host Joe admitted he fancied the pants off the I'm A Celeb champ from the moment he saw her - but sadly the timing was all wrong as Stacey was coupled up with Aaron, and the pair drifted apart.
After taking part in I'm A Celeb and winning, the mum-of-two went on to appear in Channel 4's The Jump. While competing in the sport competition she got close to Jackass' Steve-O and revealed they were dating in March 2015.
But the unlikely couple failed to keep their romance alive, citing long-distance as the reason for the breakdown, going their separate ways in September of the same year. Stacey and Joe Swash were then rumoured to be dating in 2016.
Stacey was previously engaged to ex Aaron Barnham (Getty Images)
Just before getting together with Joe, Stacey dated US prankster Steve-O (FilmMagic)The pair confirmed their romance soon after and made their first red carpet-appearance together at a Game Of Thrones screening. Stacey later joined her boyfriend to host the I'm A Celeb spin-off later that year.
She spoke to Hello! in 2017, saying: "It’s going really, really well. I’m so happy. Everyone says we’re made for each other. We are like the same person, we come from really similar backgrounds and we’ve got so much in common. He’s absolutely lovely, I’m so lucky."
After three years together, the couple bought their first house together. And on Christmas Eve 2020, Joe proposed to Stacey in a romantic woodland setting, having decorated Stacey's "favourite place in the world" with white flowers before asking her to be his wife.
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They finally tied the knot after six years of dating in a private wedding in front of family and friends at their £1.2million Essex mansion, nicknamed Pickle Cottage. They welcomed their first child, son Rex, in May 2019.
In 2021, shortly after moving into their Essex mansion, which they call their "forever home," the couple announced they were expecting a second child together. They welcomed daughter Rose in October 2021, on Stacey's birthday. Following a surprise pregnancy, second daughter Belle then joined the brood last February.
Announcing the birth, she penned: "Belle, our little Belle. Our beautiful, delicate baby girl. Who will forever remind us of the bluebells that are about to bloom as you bring the spring with you into the world… And a little special connection to your Rose. To the moon and back Belle. Forever and always."
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