Joe Swash Returns as Stacey Solomon Shares Family Update After Month Away
joe swash is back in the frame only by absence: Stacey Solomon posted her first Instagram update in more than a month, sharing April family photos as she eased back into May. The 36-year-old said she had been “shutting off from the world,” a pause that comes after online speculation over the couple’s marriage.
April Photos and a May Return
“A slow April, in our little world…missed coming on here and chatting to you all, but had a lovely April shutting off from the world and just being. Hope you’re all OK,” she wrote in early May, alongside a roundup of snaps taken across the month. She also replied to comments under the post, telling followers, “Your comments on here are so lovely, thank you.”
The update matters because it is her first social media post in more than a month, and it gives a direct read on how she chose to re-enter public view: with family photos rather than a statement. In a feed where silence tends to invite its own storyline, the post reset the conversation on her terms.
Pickle Cottage Without Joe
The photos showed the family outdoors at Pickle Cottage in Essex, where Solomon and Swash live with their six children between them: Rex, Rose, Belle, Zachary and Leighton among them. Joe Swash did not appear in the photographs she shared, a detail that has more weight now because the pair had already faced split rumours after she was spotted without her wedding ring.
Solomon shut down those rumours during an appearance on This Morning, and the timeline around the couple is plain enough. They met in 2010 while filming I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!, started a relationship in 2016 and tied the knot in 2022. The post does not add new relationship details, but it does show she is still using the couple’s family life as the central public image, not a breakup narrative.
One and iPlayer Return
The has also said a third series of Stacey and Joe is coming to One and iPlayer, after one six-episode run has already aired. Its line about “five children at home, a menagerie of animals and a house that's always full” points to the same domestic setup Solomon just put back on Instagram, which means the family brand around the pair is still active even as the online chatter runs ahead of it.
For readers watching the couple’s public footing, the practical read is simple: Solomon’s first post in over a month is not a split announcement, and the family images suggest business as usual around the household she and Swash have built in Essex. The next move belongs to the show, not the speculation.
