To cringe a bit when i hear or see joe swash.

[VIX1980]

Urgghhh even that name makes my stomach flip, i dont know what it is about him, i just cant wantch or listen to him speaking without feeling a bit ill. I didnt like him in eastenders (how he got the job i will never know, but then i wonder the same about most soap "actors")

maybe its the 2 year old in a mans body thing he has going on, but still tell me im not alone.

Great. I just google-ised Gloobee doll and its official - I am going to have nightmares about a Nick Clegg Gloobee doll chasing after me!

What the actual fuck are they

www.google.co.uk/search?q=gloobee+dolls&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OSG0UOSoFuS80QXR8IHwDg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=768&bih=928#biv=i|5;d|DxnZrrkMHQJzuM:

Seriously, whoever made this needs to be carted off to the asylum.

Agree he makes my skin crawl

Had no prior idea who he was, but saw the programe about teenagers in care. His interactions with young children and teens, made him seem like a decent person.
The tearful stuff at the end should have been edited out, IMO, but that's because I'm interested in the subject not the presenter, but it's probably what others want to see.

I'm glad he's highlighted that while quality of living is much higher for kids in care than it used to be, they continue to face a hard lonely, fearful and disadvantaged start into adulthood. The words 'care' and 'looked after' are oxymoron's.
His child/adult persona helped highlight how kids in care can't choose to be like him. They wouldn't make 20.

ZOMBIE reported

Why have you resurrected a thread to attack him? Very odd 🤔

He used to live near me and I’d see him out and about. He seemed pleasant and respectful towards people, smiled warmly and was clearly not an arsehole. I can’t particularly dislike anyone who comes across as a decent human being.
Also near where I used to live I’d see the only way is Essex ‘stars’, he certainly came across as human and decent in comparison!

Why does a zombie thread need to be reported? It’s not against the rules to post on an old thread.

If MN didn’t want people to read and resurrect old threads then they shouldn’t have done the new(ish) thing where they put a list of old similar threads at the bottom of the one you’ve read.

You’re not the MN police.

Yes I agree the new thing is annoying.

I think this thread is bad taste. Stacey could be a mner for all we know?

Hahahahahaha I agree

I’m sure he’s lovely as a person but IMO he always looks like he needs a good wash!

personally not keen on him but watched it too - and it was really good to be fair, an emotional watch

Because I saw an advert for his new documentary and thought it better to add to an already established thread rather than repeating the topic elsewhere which is a rule on Quora. (Am new to MN so apologies if this is the wrong thing to have done).

Because I saw an advert for his new documentary and thought it better to add to an existing topic thread rather than repeating the topic elsewhere which is a rule on Quora. I'm new to MN so apologies if I have done the wrong thing. I personally think it would be more appropriate that an ex care leaver made a documentary on the matter.

Thanks! I'm new to MN. Didn't realise people on here were so overly sensitive! 😂

You could have started one that wasn't so negative. I'm not overly sensitive just think MN is full of so many nasty threads nowadays. Anyone is fair game it would seem.
Bullying twats who must be so miserable in their own lives they think it's ok to be unnecessarily awful about someone they've never met. Or may have met in passing? I have met him he was the nicest, down to earth bloke. Took time to chat to my son even though he was busy filming.

Babyandfurbabymum

He was in care and all power to him making such a documentary. Far more worthwhile than resurrecting an old thread simply to say somebody makes your skin crawl. It’s so nasty, unpleasant and unnecessary.

He wasn't actually in care. His mother was a foster parent.

The failings of the care system is a subject that needs all the attention it can get. It's not trendy or glamorous, but the difference some basic intervention can make in the lives of young people coming out of care is massive. I think huge credit to JS for giving enough of a shit to lend his celebrity to get the subject some air time tbh. He's obviously a pretty decent guy, whether you approve of his accent or not!!

He hasn't been in care. His mum is a pretty fab woman who's held a lot together in her life and seems to have brought him up pretty well.
He's her clearly loved son and she also fosters. His dad died when he was eleven.
Daniel at age 7 or 8, joined the family a decade ago, and Joe considers him as his brother. JS also has a biological sister. It's a close family.
Daniel became and remains a fully integrated family member regardless of paperwork, and is about to go to uni with a created family through fostering, continuing supporting him after 'the fostering contract' runs out. One of the lucky ones, comparatively.

As an adult JS initially lost contact with his first child, when he and his then fiance's relationship broke down. Both he and Stacey Solomon have children from prior relationships, as well as marrying and having children together.

As said earlier I had no idea of him prior to watching the program, but I think he's quite well placed in having an interest and recognizing how fragile and strong family ties can be, how horribly easily fate can intervene or not, and how unlucky, and lucky, different children can be as their parents, carers, and council and state decisions, play out over their childhoods.