Joe Swash breaks down as he delivers emotional speech about wife Stacey Solomon on I’m A Celeb tonight
JOE Swash breaks down on I’m A Celebrity tonight as he delivers an emotional speech about his wife Stacey Solomon.
Joe, 41, tells his campmates in South Africa how much he’s missing home earlier on in the episode.
He says: “I’m really missing my kids… I don’t know how to get rid of the feeling.”
“I was a different person the first time [I did I’m A Celeb]. This time there’s so much at home waiting for me.”
He adds: “Everyone wants to do their family proud and I want to do the same.”
Later in the episode, the former EastEnders actor then gets emotional as he discusses his TV star wife Stacey.
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Joe tells camp in an honest confession: “Honestly, I genuinely feel like I’m the biggest winner ever from anyone who’s done this show. It gave me my wife, my kids, a career for over a decade.
“Growing up, all I wanted to be was a dad and have a family. The jungle came along and I met my wife on the jungle.
“I have two amazing kids, me and Stacey have had since we’ve been in the jungle. I feel like I’ve won this already. I don’t know where I would be without it. I’d just be that dude that was on EastEnders years ago. Now, I’m Stacey Solomon’s husband.”
In the Bush Telegraph he adds: “I find it hard to talk about the jungle without getting emotional. I wear my heart on my sleeve anyway. You’re going to have to bear with me.
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“I feel very blessed, very lucky. It was my chance to come back and say thank you. You pulled me through some very dark times and gave me everything I ever wanted.”
Before he fell into the arms of his Loose Women star wife in 2016, Joe spent six years solo.
His previous relationship had been with fellow EastEnders actor, Kara Tointon.
When he began dating Stacey, not only did Joe have to adjust to living with her kids, he also had to introduce her family to his own son, Harry.
The dad has previously hinted about his ‘tricky’ relationship with Harry’s mum Emma, revealing that the pair had to go to court to settle custody issues over their son.
Stacey and Joe have both said that their relationship had a good basis as they were good friends before anything turned romantic.
The pair were introduced during I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in 2010.
They became good friends, and Joe later admitted he'd fancied Stacey back then, but it wasn't the right time.
It wasn’t until six years later that the pair finally got together.
The pair first sparked dating rumours in January 2016 when Stacey posted a snap of herself on a spa weekend stating that she felt like a "new woman".
Just days later she was spotted arm-in-arm with Joe in Essex.
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That same month, Stacey made it official on Instagram - sharing a snap of her new boyfriend with some flowers.
I'm A Celebrity... South Africa airs tonight at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX, catch up on the full series on ITVX.
