Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash endure a blazing row in the latest instalment of their BBC reality show Stacey and Joe. The power couple, who are raising five children together, clashed over the phone with Joe hanging up on his wife after allowing their kids to eat baked beans on the sofa. The pair rowed over the potential for the furniture getting dirty, but things escalated when Joe told Stacey he expected her to phone him back and apologise.
She fumed: “Wow. The argument was I came home and thought I’m going to tidy the front room because the front room is a sh**hole and all over my sofa was beans!” Stacey said she found “about 10 baked beans” smeared over the couch – but Joe wasn’t having any of it. He argued back: “I’m not you! You go on as if you’ve never ever given those kids food in the front room, which would be a lie!”
He went on: “Your reaction to me giving the kids beans on toast on the sofa is an overreaction. You’re out of order Stace. I spent the day looking after the kids. I cooked them lunch…” Stacey shot back that as a dad, that’s a “normal thing to do” with the kids.
At the time, Joe was away from Pickle Cottage filming another TV show, and was forced to stay in a hotel miles from his family home. The argument ended in a tense moment, with Joe telling his wife to “have a lovely evening” as an emotional Stacey aired a confessional to cameras, calling the baked beans “just the icing on the cake”.
The BBC reality show premiered on April 1, offering a “refreshing and honest take on their modern blended family”.
Joe said of the programme: “Over the years, we’ve been asked a lot to do a show like this, but getting the opportunity to work with the BBC and Optomen felt properly exciting. There will be the normal madness of a family with lots of kids, plenty of animals and two busy parents. Here we go!”
The couple told OK!: “So many people represent their lives as being so perfect on Instagram. It’s our responsibility to show the real – the highs and the lows. It’s not all a bed of roses. Sometimes we argue.
“What you see is what you get. What we’ve learnt about each other is that we’re not a perfect couple. We’ve never said we’re a perfect couple, but you get to watch yourself back, which is something that doesn’t happen often.”
