Stacey Dooley - 'I'm keeping my baby out of the spotlight and we don't want her to dance'
ok.co.ukShe’s slept over with cage-fighters, eco warriors and a 70-year-old dominatrix, but now Stacey Dooley is spending the night with her own family in the latest episode of her W series, admitting the show is no less “bonkers” than usual – since it’s all about the birth of her daughter Minnie. “We don’t know what the f**k we’re doing,” the 36-year-old says in Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over: Family And Me, the latest of her W specials. “Do you remember that first night was just chaos?” she asks her partner, former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Kevin Clifton, who replies, “Absolute carnage. [Minnie]’s just screaming.
We’d been up for three nights straight!” During the show, the TV presenter looks back at the child-centric episodes of her docu-series to see whether becoming a mum has caused her to change her opinions on any of them.
Although, Stacey is certain from the start that Minnie’s arrival has made her a whole new woman. “I can’t sit here and say I was ever deeply obsessed with the idea of being a mum,” she tells the camera while tending to her daughter. “But it’s bonkers.
I sound so cheesy, but you’re so in love and my entire psyche just changed when I found out I was pregnant. And when they arrive, it’s next level.” Welcoming a camera crew into her London home, fans get their first proper glimpse of Minnie – however Stacey clarifies that they’ll only be showing the “back of her beautiful head”. “Me and Kev have had various conversations, you know – do we show Minnie?” she says. “I want her to be able to give genuine consent.
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