Stacey Dooley says Liverpool move left her home after two years
stacey dooley said she and Kevin Clifton have lived in Liverpool for a couple of years, and she now describes the city as home when she gets off the train. The broadcaster and documentary maker made the comments while discussing the family move with Amy Jackson Westwick.
Speke and South Liverpool
Dooley said her own link to the city runs through her family, adding that her mum is Scouse and that relatives come from Speke in south Liverpool. She said: "So my mum's Scouse; my mum...my family are from Speke, so south Liverpool. My nan was scouse...all that side, you know, my grandad, they're all there. And obviously, I was born in Luton, lived in London most of my life."
She also said she has "always had an affinity" for Liverpool and that she "deeply love[s]" the city. That is more than a casual nod to a place she visits: she said the move has put her family there with Clifton and their daughter, Minnie, and that she is already settled enough to describe herself as feeling at home there.
Kevin Clifton and Minnie
Dooley said the difference between the north and the south is "night and day," then added that people in Liverpool "bend over backwards" for you. Her remarks land as a practical update on where the family is living now, not just where they are thinking about being based.
She previously called herself an "honorary Scouser," but her latest comments go further by putting a timescale on the move: "I've been up there a couple of years - so we live up there now. Been up there a couple of years." For readers who have followed the relocation, the useful detail is simple — this is no longer a tentative connection, but a settled family base in Merseyside.
Honorary Scouser
Dooley's point was not just affection for Liverpool as a label. She tied the city to family history, daily life and location, and that makes the move feel less like a celebrity postcode change and more like a long-standing return to the place she had already claimed as part of her own story.
