BBC fans have switched off minutes into Stacey Solomon’s new reality show Stacey & Joe. The doors to Pickle Cottage were thrown open on Tuesday night (April 1) with the Loose Women panellist’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary inside her family home.

The six-part series follows the life of Stacey and the former EastEnders star Joe Swash and their children, four ducks and two dogs and gives fans a refreshing insight into their modern blended family life. But fans weren’t impressed by the couple’s new reality show as they flooded to X – formerly known as Twitter – to share their complaints online.

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash

BBC fans have slammed Stacey Solomon’s new reality show (Image: BBC)

Stacey Solomon posts stunning with her huge family

Stacey Solomon is a proud mum to five children (Image: staceysolomon/Instagram)

One user fumed: “Stacey & Joe. F**k sake @BBCOne stop wasting our licence fee #staceyandjoe” as another agreed: “I’m sorry byt who the f**k signed this off? #Stacey&Joe.”

A third echoed: “Just looked on BBC One and there’s a ‘reality’ show called Stacey & Joe. Why are people so obsessed with watching utter crap like this?” A fourth agreed: “Why on earth are @BBCOne commissioning this absolute trash. What a colossal waste of public money #staceyandjoe.”

A fifth chimed in with: “The TV license goes up and what do the @BBC give us in return? Stacey and Joe, two empty headed morons living an uninteresting life. Stop making stupid people famous #staceyandjoe.”

Despite the backlash, the couple certainly didn’t shy away from the realities of married life, openly sharing their silly arguments on the six-part show. The couple first started datin back in 2016, and have since started a bustling family, tied the knit and moved into a charming Essex cottage which they transformed into their dream home.

In anticipation of the BBC programme, Joe reminisced about his first encounter with Stacey after her I’m A Celebrity win back in 2010 when he was hosting the spin-off show.

Sharing the meory on camera, he chuckled: “I was like a weird little stalker watching from afar. The day that she won the jungle, I remember thinking, ‘Right, I’m going to meet her now’.”

Describing the memorable scene, Joe continued: “The sun was lit from the back of her head, she was walking across the bridge, the wind was blowing. I was thinking, ‘this is like a film!’ Then she came over, and the first thing that hit me was the smell.

“I’ve never smelt nothing like it in all my life! I’ve smelt so many people coming out of that jungle and thought, ‘Oh, they smell a bit pongy’. Stacey was on a different level!”