Stacey Solomon was in tears as she described her father’s nice gesture as they headed out to Abu Dhabi for their first large family vacation since the epidemic.
It was also her and Joe Swash’s first trip with their baby Belle, whom they welcomed in February.
The couple originally met when Stacey won I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2010, began dating in 2016, and have a three-year-old son Rex and an elder daughter Rose due in October 2021.
Stacey has two boys from prior relationships: Zachary, 14, and Leighton, 10, who accompanied them on vacation, and Joe has a son from a former relationship, Harry, 16.
On Saturday evening, the 33-year-old reported on her Instagram Stories that they were all safely home, but she was suffering from a loss of voice.
The Loose Women actress consoled a sobbing Belle as she told what her ever-helpful father Dave had done for her.
‘When my dad came away with us… Usually any pictures or videos of me when we’re out together or we go somewhere is because I’m like, “Joe, take a video of me right now” or “Take a picture of me right now”.
‘I want the boys to remember I was actually there because most the time I’m filming them or taking pictures of them and I’m not in it unless I beg for a picture,’ she explained.
‘And when my dad was there, he must film me the same way that I film them!’
Joe then chimed in from the background, hilariously adding as Stacey giggled: ‘He doesn’t film me, does he? You wouldn’t even think I was on that bloody holiday.’
The mother of five later revealed that it had made her’really sad’ after her father sent her all of the vacation footage in which she appeared.
‘It sounds so stupid but I’m actually in the videos, just doing normal stuff,’ she continued.
‘They’re not even ‘special’ videos, they’re just normal videos of me with the kids doing normal stuff.
‘I don’t know what it makes me so emotional, I just think one day they might watch them all or need to watch, I don’t know.’
She tearfully added: ‘They’re just the best. I’ve made a montage, I’ve cried about 150 times,’ as she reflected on her luck over having ‘all those little memories’.
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Stacey then shared the reel she had made of some of her dad’s footage of her and the kids to her main grid on Instagram, writing in the caption: ‘I’m crying 😭 So turns out my dad still takes videos of me the way I do of my babies 😭
‘I hardly ever get videos of me like this. It’s usually pictures I force Joe to take so they know I was actually there 😂 My camera roll mostly looks like I just popped in with a selfie or in the mirror video… ‘
She continued: ‘I can’t tell you how emotional I feel right now. One day in years to come please g-d the pickles will have these to watch & remember the special times we had 😭 I don’t care about the angles, my hair, my face, my body or the fact I’m mostly sun creaming everyone half the time 😂 I’m just so grateful to have these… forever and always Dad…’
‘What an adventure we will treasure forever,’ she concluded.
Joe and Stacey had even managed to have a rare date night in Dubai while they were gone, sitting together at a table for two while granddad oversaw the kids at a nearby table at the same restaurant.
Source My Celebrity Life.
