The Radford's life of luxury.

[Popxsixcle]

There's no hate In this post. Just watched some of their YouTube content this morning as years ago I saw them on TV. Wow their lives look like one big ball of fun. I'm guessing they have made alot of money from going on TV? Hot tubs and holidays and refurbishing a huge home whilst keeping all those kids in clothes. Not to mention they spend a fortune on every occasion.

I remember it was budgets before. Now it seems they have a never ending supply of money. Certainly not having to count the pennies now. .

Somehow they make family life look constantly fun. I only have 2 children and can't offer mine anywhere near What they have.

They seem to have a lovely family and seem nice people. Just amazes me now how social media has allowed people to get rich for contributing nothing of value to society. Not taking away Noel works hard. Again no hate. But it's ridiculous when normal people struggle to make ends meet.

The kids appear happy though and well brought up, don’t seem to mind helping out. They might not get everything needed to meet Mumsnet middle class standards but they all seem happy and healthy

They do seem to mind helping our though and have said so in interviews, one of them said live on This Morning that she didn't like having to help out. They've also said several times that they don't want their parents to have more babies.

I wonder what sort of childhoods Noel and Sue had and how much that has shaped their lives.

@RosesAndHellebores

I wonder what sort of childhoods Noel and Sue had and how much that has shaped their lives.

I think they both grew up in the care system but I'm not sure at what age they entered it and how they were cared for eg children's home, fostered, adopted or for how long etc.

I cant imagine thinking ' I dont know what to do with myself,I'll have 22(?) children'

@DinosaurDiana

I wonder if Millie’s child sees it’s dad, or if he was just a provider of a baby.

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@welshflowerpower
Zerogravity is it that Norris lot?
Yes!

@sadperson16

I cant imagine thinking ' I dont know what to do with myself,I'll have 22(?) children'

I can't imagine remembering all their names!

@MartinaMcBride I go through two children's names and three dog names just to get to my husband's when I'm shouting for him!

@Popxsixcle
That in itself shows they have too much money having 4 dogs!

They are making crazy money and spoiling their children rotten with "things"

Because you shouldn't have the items and luxury they have based on what they've done

They just show off their house full of possessions in these times when people with a couple of kids need to budget

Have you heard yourself? Really, what the fuck you on about??!!

Let's be honest, its not a nice set up is it?

It really is sickening that people like these two have made such much money basically from doing something that most responsible people take steps to prevent.

They are famous for one thing only. For Sue constantly getting pregnant. They have done nothing special. Many other women could have done the same thing and did when there was no conception available.

I find them the opposite of inspiring. I imagine things wouldn’t be so pleasant for them if they didn’t have the money they have made off the back of this but they probably wouldn’t have continued having children without it.

Sad indictment on society that there is a market for them though along with all the other ‘reality’ TV stars when how they portray themselves is probably far from reality. Shame we don’t value truly inspiring people in the same way.

Maybe they did have awful childhoods and being in care made them think we should surround ourselves by children and make up for what we didn't have. It's become an addiction for them. But when they saw how much they could get If they had a few more they probably thought yes why not. The kids seem to grow up so fast. The youngest is already a toddler.

My son's the same age as Archie and I remember watching him just doing his own thing and thinking how much my son still needed me. He would have been about two. I felt sad for him. He just looked like he should have still been being babied himself but was not the baby anymore so was sort of just walking around alone.

The kids must be used to all the chaos and noise but it can't do them any good never getting any calm time. Having to shout over everyone else to be heard etc. I remember when she got pregnant with the last one Tilly was suffering still with her operation and stuff. You'd have thought she'd have been to busy with Caring for Tilly than getting pregnant.

I guess they both needed therapy when they were younger to deal with trauma from not being with their biological families.

I think some of the kids will work potentially and stuff. But I think they will be materialistic and will get into debt. They have been spoilt at such a young age. I also think some will be embarrassed and angry at the exposure. I think a variety of issues will come up in these children when they reach adult hoods.

I think sue and noel genuinely believe they are giving them an amazing life but there's no getting away from this. I don't even share photos of my 15 year old nephew on Facebook now as a toddler. All it takes is someone to see him running about in his nappy and he will be mortified at school. It's too much. They are too young to know what's happening to them.

[quote Nohomemadecandles]@MartinaMcBride I go through two children's names and three dog names just to get to my husband's when I'm shouting for him! [/quote]
Thats exactly what I was picturing! She'll have 7 kids standing around her before she gets the one she wants when she calls them 😆

She was still a child when Noel got her pregnant.

That alone puts me off.

The house is big but it's full of gifted clutter. Not my cup of tea

I don’t think they were brought up in care, they got adopted by their parents (who they seem close to) very early on. So they came from loving homes, they didn’t have ‘awful childhoods’

Ah well it's not stemmed from not belonging then.
On another note. I can't believe how her body has coped. She has no stretch marks. my backs never been right after my second. I can't believe how she springs back and her energy stays up. If her eldest is 32 she has been in the baby stage now for that long constantly.
Jeez!

I don't get the jealousy angle on this thread, the horror that they have stuff. They have nothing I would want - I look at that house and see clutter- no books, no music, no paintings - nothing that adds joy or pleasure to a home.

At Christmas I often have about 14 for meals for 3/4 days. I find that level of cooking arduous so I don't know how they do it. I really don't. We have a larger than average fridge/freezer and it just about contains our weekly needs for a big shop.

Pregnant at 13. I wouldn't want to encourage people like them by watching their programme.

@Viviennemary

Pregnant at 13. I wouldn't want to encourage people like them by watching their programme.

I don’t imagine they’ll miss you.

I've got zero interest in this family, but hell they've made a career out if it and clearly can't be milking benefits. I think the child pregnancy is vile but she's been an adult for many, many years and would have left if she wanted to.

Not every person who was adopted goes on to have 20 plus children.Thats just nonsense.

[quote ChildOfFriday]@DinosaurDiana The younger ones go to a different primary school to the older ones because the distance shrunk one year and one didn't get into the school the older ones went to- I don't know if they have no sibling policy or a policy of kids in catchment before kids out of catchment with siblings. There were some Facebook posts about it at the time and Sue wasn't happy, so I don't think they were unhappy with the original school. Since then the younger ones have gone to the other school. [/quote]
@ChildOfFriday it’s because the original school is a very oversubscribed church school with Church attendance above siblings in the admissions criteria. The Radfords don’t live anywhere near the school, which often doesn’t have space for children who live on the surrounding streets if they haven’t been to church. For a long time (thanks to another wannabe influencer head teacher I think) they somehow always managed to get in on appeal but then the head teacher changed at the children have since started going to a closer school to them.

@Popxsixcle

Expensive dogs too. Id love a Frenchie. But at £2000 I can't have one.

This is what I mean. Expensive dogs. Luxurious items. Massive home projects. Kids all in Clarks shoes and constantly getting new clothes. Expensive holidays.

They were having a MacDonalds on one episode and I thought I bet that's £100 gone. Days out they eat out aswel. Buying drinks from Starbucks for the whole family.

I watched 3 vlogs and it was all about spending.

Jesus christ, flog those high rollers.

I also can't believe how well her body has kept going. We have 6 dc and my body feels broken.

@Blossomtoes

Just amazes me now how social media has allowed people to get rich for contributing nothing of value to society.

Like footballers? And celebs? And influencers?

Lots of footballers and celebs do a lot of charity work, and mentoring, which is of value to society actually.