‘Emotional’ Stacey Solomon shares moment she met Joe Swash on I’m A Celebrity

Stacey Solomon has shown her sons the adorable moment she and Joe Swash first met on the set of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

The Loose Women star, 32, was crowned Queen of the Jungle in 2010 after coming in third place on The X Factor the year before.

Her future fiancé, Joe Swash, famously won the 2008 series of I’m A Celeb, and the pair first met – albeit briefly – on the set when Stacey was crowned the winner.

Joe gave the singer a quick hug as she sat on the wooden throne, but the pair didn’t speak, with the elated Stacey instead being immediately asked by Ant and Dec how she felt after winning the series.

Stacey’s son, Zachary, was only a toddler when his mum was on the series and doesn’t remember it, while her younger son, Leighton, wasn’t yet born.

On Monday night, the presenter showed her older sons clips of her appearing on the show, and ‘stumbled across this one, the first time I ever met Joe’.

Taking to Instagram stories to share the sweet clip, the family could be seen watching the clip on a tablet, with one of her children excitedly pointing to Joe as he gave their mum a hug.

‘The boys couldn’t believe it was him’, she wrote. ‘It feels like yesterday.’

Also present in the clip was the late presenter Caroline Flack, who died in February 2020.

Addressing the hug Flack gave her in the short video, Stacey wrote: ‘And then seeing beautiful Caroline.

‘Didn’t realise how emotional this would make me.’

Stacey became emotional upon seeing Caroline Flack congratulate her on winning I’m A Celeb (Picture: WireImage)

Following the sweet video, Stacey also shared a photograph of Zachary, who was two years old at the time, sitting on her lap after she was declared the winner.

Captioning this image, she wrote: ‘No one knows what the future holds… Hold them tight. Always.

‘Never forget.’

Stacey, whose sons Leighton and Zachary are from previous relationships, has two children with Joe: Rex, three, and two-month-old Rose.

The family are preparing for Christmas, with Stacey ramping up the festivities with an incredible Christmas display at their home.

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Over the weekend, Stacey again took to Instagram to share an adorable family photo to unveil all the new Christmas decorations at their home, which they’ve dubbed Pickle Cottage.

The couple posed with their family in front of the beautiful decorations, which included a sled, skis, and even a reindeer, along with twinkling lights woven into the branches. 

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