Sam & Billie - The Mummy Diaries

[DBoo]

Omg Gaynor is an MNetter. Hello Gaynor 😁.

Just watching this now. First of all makes me mega broody!!! Secondly I really like Billie and Gregg, seem really down to earth and I know others probably won't agree but I quite like big Paul and think he's just not up for the fame thing.

Anyone else watching?

[BuzzKillington]

I watched this today. Those horrendous Essex accents are painful on the ears.

It's so vacuous, I felt I had lost several brain cells afterwards plus I am a bit scared of 'I love Jesus' Gaynor.

[MaryPoppinsPenguins]

Sam does seem to want everyone to know what they have... Billie in her smaller, simpler House seems more realistic!

[LinesInTheSand]

I saw a trailer for this programme. I decided not to live in it as it was already apparently full.

[ObiJuanKenobi]

I stopped watching after that awful awkward kiss between big Paul and Gaynor last year

[DBoo]

I really don't know. If I was Sam I'd have given up on trying to keep Gaynor on side. Gaynor is happy to make the most of being baby Paul's gran and is obviously very firm. She could steer big Paul in the right direction about proposing to Sam but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Saying that I bet any money they are engaged by the end of the series.

The Essex accent is strong but I don't mind it tbh it's the teeth and face work that distracts me. In most cases there really is no need.

[BuzzKillington]

I thought it ironic that Billie was advising her partner of not getting fake looking, gleaming white teeth when she herself has a mouthful!

[ReggaetonLente]

I’m from Essex and don’t sound too different to B & S so I don’t mind it. When I lived abroad I used to put TOWIE on itv player at night to sleep cos it made me feel at home!

[AdidasGirl]

I bet Sam and Big Paul are raging that she now shares the new series with her far more likable sister etc.
I thought that Billie, Greg and their children came across so well and more down to earth and far more relatable to the audience.
Sam now pretending to be a photographer was so cringe.She didn't have a clue.Her fiddling with her expensive camera whilst her sister happily just snapped away on her iPhone shows how opposite they are now.
Sam has always behaved as though she is the only woman to ever have a baby.Clearly aspires to not keep up with but BE The Joneses.Cringe.
As for the MIL..Don't think there's any love lost between her and Sams mum.
Will be Interesting to see what things are like since Baby Paul's accident.Imagine if it had been Sams mum with him when it happened and not Big Pauls.

[DBoo]

Oh god Gaynor would have gone through the roof!

I wonder if Sam's mam ever even has the opportunity to have him.

Even Billie said Sam had no idea what she was doing with the camera and props.

Nelly saying Billie pop pops was funny.

[Mammyloveswine]

Oh god the photography was so cringe!!!

[PointlessUsername]

I think Sam should have backed her mum with the pendulum. How pathetic did Gaynor look!?, what an odd thing to get irrate over.

I find Billie & Greg way more likeable.

[QueenOfIce]

Gaynor saying she doesn't believe in anything else because she has Jesus..

[DBoo]

I agree Sam definitely should. It was so awkward. I don't mind Gaynor but she needed to back off then.

Some people think of Jesus what she does the pendulum but it's each to their own.

[sheldonesque]

And Gaynor saying to them 'you're talking out to something that aint there'

Like God and Jesus?

Sam has no need to worry about 'bringing things in'

They cant be worse than Gaynor. She's a fright.

[DBoo]

Hahaha Sheldon that actually made me laugh.

[stitchbitch]

Gaynor is odd. As someone up thread mentioned, big paul never speaks of a dad, wonder what happened? Don't know what Paul does for a living, but I remember Gaynors house in the last series and it was stunning, so maybe big paul comes from a "few Bob"?

[Snoopyokay]

Gaynor is hilarious! Very intense! I really like Billie and Gregg too!

[Sparklesdontshine]

I really like Billie too, she seems lovely and normal

[OneInAMillionYou]

Just watched the second episode.

Sam is a trouper, schlepping around Legoland when she was so heavily pregnant.

I found the birth of Rosie very moving, baby Paul is a bit heavy handed with her though!

[Mammyloveswine]

Oneinamillion i thought baby Paul was lovely with Rosie! But only because my own 2 year old routinely wanders over and tries to hit his newborn brother 😂

I did love the waterbirth scenes but god imagine having your sister, mother and mother in law casually hanging round the birthing pool!

I decided i love Greg the most.. howled when Nellie was asking him to pump on her 😂

[OneInAMillionYou]

I do love baby Paul but I thought he was going to poke her eyes out! 😱

I think he is a charming and delightful child, but oh, he has SO much STUFF! The conspicuous consumption, with a whole room of sit on toys, does make me feel a little queasy.

I think Sam has a great entrepreneurial spirit and a head for business, maximising her social media popularity. Seems to me she is definitely the worker in that household...

[Slat3]

Ha my first though was Gaynor is a mumsnetter.
I actually really like Billie & Greg!

[Bugjune]

I still haven't got over my disappointment at Rosie not being named Paula.

[CherryChasingDotMuncher]

I'm so pleased there's a thread for this show! It's my guilty pleasure.

I wondered how long it would take for Gaynor to mention "Baybay Jesus". She totally reminds me of Jonny's Mum in hotel Transylvania BTW (pic below!)

Loved the scenes after Rosie was born, Sam was in such shock bless her.

Can't stand Big Paul, he's like a dopey child who Sam keeps having to prompt. How that half-wit is a property developer I'll never know (and he's scared of wizards 😂).

I agree about Nelly, what an annoying child 🙊 Baybay Paul is beyond cute though, I love his little shopping trolley.

I think Sam is desperate to show us her perfect life. And BTW it's a bloody conservatory not an orangery!

I agree that Billie and Gregg are a more likeable couple, I don't think the show would have survived with it just being Samanfa and Pawwl.

[OneInAMillionYou]

Cherry your post made me laugh!

I agree with so many of your observations. What does 'Big' Paul actually do??
They have managed to produce a delightful cutie in 'Baby' Paul ( how long does he get called that? 5? 10? 25????)