Stacey & Joe - BBC 1

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On in about 15 mins, anyone planning to watch?

Well I quite enjoyed it. Stacey comes across very well, hardworking & a good mum. Her dad is brilliant also! Not sure about Joe. I think he comes across OK atm. What was wrong with him on Masterchef?

I nearly didn't watch as I didn't want to be envious of their lovely house interior but their house seemed quite lived in so that was OK with me!

What a sillubcomment, no one thinks you'd actually make that choice. I know you don't care but it's not giving classy

I don't have any strong views on them and did catch a bit of it and found myself cringing at the way Stacy was eating a meal in bed before feeling sorry for her having to put up with Useless Joe

The description of it being about love and laughter made we think temu With love, Meghan. Although probably more watchable.

I think Joe has realised that Stacey is the more marketable and likeable out of the two of them so he'll be hanging on for dear life so he can have his lazy and childish lifestyle financed by her.

Joe was doing a weird batch cooking programme on Ch4 or maybe 5 and he just was just talking absolute bollocks and I just thought poor Stacey If this is what he's like at home!

I thought this programme perfectly illustrated the very low bar which is accepted for men as a “good” bloke/dad.
Here is a hard working, kind woman carrying a lazy, selfish and immature man.
He markets his selfishness up with supposedly “cheeky chappie” humour.
His idea to have three children in four years and apparently wants her to have even more so he puts procreation over her health and expects her to do all the real parenting whilst he does whatever he likes best and plays popular dad by not enforcing and boundaries or standards.
She earns more money than him too.
I look forward to the day she realises she is accommodating a useless parasite and chucks him out.
She would have been better off just buying sperm if she wanted more children.

And he is a terrible role model to those boys as he sets the example to ignore women and just do what you like.

Brilliant summing up @Somethingthecatdraggedin7 . You must have been listening to me and DH this morning as it is pretty much the same as we were saying.

DH's considered opinion was 'I always thought Joe was a bit of a knob, now I know he is'.

Watched it and can honestly say I enjoyed it. Love Stacey such a sweet girl. Beautiful children.Look fwd to next episode .

That was so awful. My heart broke for her, watching her trying not to cry as all of the execs there were watching the kids' meltdowns. Half an hour late, bad enough. But five hours late?? And for him to have picked the day before an important meeting to go on an optional fishing overnight was the height of selfishness.

To be fair to him, he said there was a crash on the road

Although he did say he'd have been 20 mins earlier when he was 5 hours late!

If he was otherwise contributing well to the family it might not seem quite so sabotagey, road crash or not.

I only watched about 10 mins of it last night, but this was the first thought that crossed my mind! 😂 I wonder if she's on here and sees peoples' posts about their own husbands?!

Straight to the comments this morning to see what others were saying.

Stacey doesn't have 5 kids, she has 7 (including Joe and his son)!

I did see her dealing with her teenagers though and thought the kids are very lucky to have her. She's letting them be teenagers but with decent boundaries and expectations of them.

I think I saw that her eldest has left school now and is working as an apprentice at a car mechanics.

I follow her on Insta and do like her. She's done brilliantly for herself and her family.

That said, I agree with others that have said I have no idea why this is even a show! It seems a very strange choice for the BBC.

I definitely would much rather watch Stacey than Meghan! It's definitely more "real world".

They were all excited on Insta last night about it. I wonder how Stacey's feeling today if the comments they're getting are along the same lines as this - "love you Stacey, but my God Joe's a bit of a dick isn't he?"!

This kind of show is usually really not my bag, but I’m watching it because I really like Stacey. I think she’s navigated being a single mum and famous at a very early age with grace and smarts. She’s not going to revolutionise the world but she’s found things she can do well and turned that into a business to support her family. She’s got a great can do attitude and just seems like a lovely person and mum.

Don’t know what she sees in JS but there you go!

Me! Honestly it’s so much easier than a knife.

I love Sort Your Life Out, but no desire to watch this. As someone said, love Stacey, but in small doses.

I watched it and on the whole I enjoyed it. I really admire Stacey, she's made a very successful career and she's a great mum. Joe on the other hand 😡😡😡😡

How unnecessary. Really rude.

I feel the kids are being exploited tbh. The older ones live in an annex don't they? All about the dollar after all.

I like Stacey a lot and her dad, those two would have made a better programme I think! He seems a delightful character.
Dh reakons she isn’t that keen on Joe .. he was selfish and seems a bit clueless
He was funny in Eastenders , but as a dad he isn’t setting a great example really.
I am a cynic, but I can’t see them lasting. Hope I’m wrong as I do like her can do attitude and she seems really nice.
It’s six episodes too, which seems a lot of the same type of thing.

Perhaps she's happy with the set up?

She at least would be able to get out if she wanted to.

I was also surprised to see this on BBC. I knew it’s coming but thought it’s something for ITV/ Channel 4. I don’t watch these programmes but watched this one. It looked like an extension to her Instagram really. Nothing surprising or more revealing… I imagine her thinking I’ve already got 5m people watching my family on sm, I might as well get paid to make a programme.

To clarify, her Instagram didn’t become popular because she was presenting a perfect family life that people would aspire to, as pp said. It actually became popular because she was very open, very imperfect and very relatable. I remember her sharing photos of herself in swimming costume soon after having Rex and it became viral as a genuine body positive image. She also did a lot of dancing with a mop sort of things, lots of vinyl sticking on cupboard doors, plastic flowers and plants… Just very accessible and not done before by ‘celebs’, who usually do (did at that time) try and appear perfect.

I think if she knew she’d be so successful on SM, and consequently have all these other opportunities, may be she would have not settled for Joe Swash. But when she met him he was doing better than her and she was a young, single mum of two boys with not much of a career.

If you watch Stacey on comedy panel shows it’s easy to see how smart she is. She’s very quick and if wanted to be a comedian would definitely do well. in contrast, JS is just cringe and a bit daft.

I remember meeting people from her community, from when she was a child. They didn’t have much positive to say about her, implying things like she was more interested in boys than anything else, while at secondary school. I don’t think she had an easy childhood with her parents divorce etc. Clearly didn’t have an easy late teens/ twenties being a young mum, judged by many. I am happy she found (created) her niche and is doing so well. Not sure about the children being broadcasted but it’s not as bad as other influencers using their children, (she seems to share only snippets and doesn’t have them in front of the camera every day).

It does feel more channel 4 or 5 than bbc. Might be a mash up production from both channels or something like that ? Ch 4 do receive some funding from bbc I think. Although I’ve no idea if this is the case.
Pickle cottage is a lovely place , but I couldn’t tolerate duck poo in the house ! It’s a very stylish house ,

On Celeb Gogglebox she didn't seem to like him at all!

I'm going to watch it and I'll report back with my thoughts in a bit.