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Former EastEnders star Joe Swash has opened up on family life with wife Stacey Solomon and their six children as he admits one part of their marriage is ‘bizarre’<\/p>\n

07:00, 08 Jun 2025Updated 07:09, 08 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

\"JoeJoe Swash has opened up on family life with wife Stacey Solomon and their six children <\/p>\n

Joe Swash is savouring family life with his and his wife Stacey Solomon<\/a> \u2019s six children, and says he has one goal \u2013 to look back on these years and feel proud. The couple live in a house they\u2019ve called Pickle Cottage in Essex and have children Rex, six, Rose, three, and Belle, two, together.<\/p>\n

They also have Joe\u2019s son Harry, 17, and Stacey\u2019s sons Zachary, 17, and Leighton, 13. In this exclusive chat with OK<\/a>!, the former I\u2019m A Celeb winner, 43, opens up about how losing his own dad at the age of 12 influenced the type of parent he\u2019s become and, as the summer holiday approaches, why he \u201chungers\u201d to create happy family experiences.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Olay Day & Night anti-ageing skincare heroes worth \u00a374 get slashed to under \u00a320<\/a>\"JoeJoe will be spending the summer holidays with his children and Stacey(Image: instagram\/ @staceysolomon)<\/p>\n

Hi Joe! Summer holidays are coming \u2013 have you got the usual parental excitement and anxiety? <\/strong>Yeah, definitely! We get so excited because we spend so much of the year with the kids going to school, the clubs, me and Stacey working, so we always take a chunk of time off for the summer holidays. It\u2019s our way of reconnecting as a family. Those holidays are really important to us. Do you try hard to coordinate your calendars to make sure you\u2019re both off work? <\/strong>We do because what\u2019s the point in working all year if you can\u2019t get a chunk of time off together? We know once the summer\u2019s gone they\u2019re back to school, another school year older, so we want to make the most of it. Do you have happy memories of your own childhood holidays? <\/strong>We didn\u2019t know how short our time was going to be with our dad, so those are really happy memories. We would get a caravan, hook it up to the car and drive it to a campsite in the South of France for four weeks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the sort of thing that Stacey and I are trying to provide for our kids. It\u2019s what I hunger for and look back on with really fond memories.<\/p>\n

\",JoeHe spoke about his own childhood(Image: BBC\/Firecracker Films)<\/p>\n

How do you navigate having kids of different ages and keeping everybody happy? <\/strong>The most important thing is making time for them, and their own hobbies and interests. We\u2019re at a point now where Rex loves his tennis, and Rose and Belle are into their dancing, and Zachary loves his cars \u2013 so they\u2019re all very different. We try to make sure they know that me and their mum know about their interests and no one is ever overlooked.<\/p>\n

Then when they get time together \u2013 the older ones and the younger ones \u2013 they love it. It\u2019s amazing to see them all having fun, playing in the pool or whatever. We have moments where we\u2019re just like, \u201cWow, look at this!\u201d It\u2019s amazing. Are you at a point yet where you feel proud of the dad you\u2019ve become? <\/strong>I don\u2019t think so actually. I\u2019m very much still in the midst of the kids growing up and they\u2019ve all got different needs and are at different stages. I\u2019m maybe too much in the moment to step back and think, \u201cOh, that was good.\u201d I think in a couple of years\u2019 time, once the kids have all sort of found themselves, found their feet a bit more and established themselves a bit more, I\u2019ll be able to look back and think, \u201cYeah, that was good.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m learning all the time as a parent too and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a real right or wrong way to do it. So maybe that\u2019s one for the future because I would love to look back at this time and feel proud.<\/p>\n

\"Joe admitted he is yet to feel proud of the dad he is(Image: OK!\/Lee Malone)<\/p>\n

Do any of your kids take after you or Stacey? Are any of them destined for a life on television? <\/strong>Rose and Belle love their singing and dancing, and they go to classes with their cousins. They sort of come as a package and bounce off each other. Rose is very dramatic and loves acting. She\u2019ll get on her pretend phone and have a 35-minute conversation with nobody \u2013 it\u2019s lovely to see.<\/p>\n

Rex is slightly more reserved but he loves his tennis and his piano lessons, and he\u2019s a brilliant singer. They\u2019ve all got their little talents that they might get from me and Stacey but, honestly, we always say they\u2019ll find their own feet and we\u2019d never push them in one direction<\/a>. You\u2019ve teamed up with Jammie Dodgers and Nerf for a Super Soaker campaign \u2013 Pickle Cottage\u2019s garden seems the perfect place for a water fight! <\/strong>Absolutely, and I\u2019m always encouraging the kids to play in the garden, especially in the summer when the weather\u2019s hot. I\u2019m very happy for them to get out there and soak each other with the Super Soakers. They have actually tried them already and came in very wet, so it\u2019s been great fun to be part of.<\/p>\n

\"JoeJoe has been having water fights with the kids<\/p>\n

Have you taken on Stacey in a Super Soaker water blaster fight yet? Who would win that battle? <\/strong>Oh, 100% me \u2013 I would be all over Stacey! She can\u2019t do anything quietly so I\u2019d hear her rustling through the forest or falling through a bush. I would definitely get her first. What do you make of the public interest in your family? You\u2019re all stars! <\/strong>To be honest, I think me and Stacey find it quite bizarre. We don\u2019t really flirt with the showbiz world<\/a> \u2013 we very rarely go to openings and stuff. When me and Stacey are at work, we\u2019re at work \u2013 then when we\u2019re at home we just shut the door like any other family.<\/p>\n

My dad was a London taxi driver and he\u2019d come home for the evening and he\u2019d shut the door and he wasn\u2019t a London taxi driver any more, he was just my dad. It\u2019s the same for me and Stacey and, although we both love what we do and feel so privileged to do it, when we come home our jobs are irrelevant. Your new Channel 4 show, Meal Deals: Behind The Bargain, is an interesting topic\u2026 <\/strong>Well, anything to do with consumers interests me. I knew the meal deal had been around a long time and it\u2019s a part of British culture. Did you know there are 20 million different types of meal deals out there? We didn\u2019t! You must have banked a lot of random facts from some of the shows you\u2019ve done\u2026 <\/strong>Yeah, I do like to learn. I didn\u2019t really like learning as a kid in school \u2013 I didn\u2019t really have the capabilities for it because of my dyslexia and stuff, so I just had to get through school. So now, yes, I suppose I do like things that pique my interest, like the meal deal journey.<\/p>\n

\"The actor has had a successful TV career since EastEnders(Image: Brian Cassey\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Are you a five-year plan type of person or do you have a go-with-the-flow attitude? <\/strong>I think Stacey is the planner \u2013 she does the manifesting. I do watch and take on board how she approaches things but I\u2019m a bit more easy breezy. I\u2019d love to say I have a five-year plan but I sometimes think if I have one and say it, I\u2019m going to jinx it. I love cooking, I love working with the public and doing consumer stuff, so I feel like I\u2019m on the path I want to be on at the moment. Do you find it hard saying no to jobs you\u2019re offered? <\/strong>That\u2019s the scary thing with our jobs \u2013 you never know how long you\u2019re going to be working or how long someone\u2019s going to be flavour of the month. It\u2019s really unnatural to say no to stuff because you just don\u2019t know what\u2019s around the corner. But, at the same time, that\u2019s one of the most exciting things about my job, that I just don\u2019t know. I think that\u2019s one of the things I actually love. I could be here today and somewhere completely different tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Joe has joined forces with Jammie Dodgers and Nerf to launch a limited-edition Super Soaker available to win on Jammie Dodgers\u2019 Instagram @jammiedodgersofficial. Or see jammiedodgers.co.uk\/win<\/a><\/p>\n

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