Stacey Solomon’s sister Jemma has hit out at the TV Baftas after the Sort Your Life Out star’s BBC show lost out on a gong – hours after the presenter’s own outburst
Stacey Solomon’s sister is speaking out after star’s BAFTAs snub
Stacey Solomon’s sister, Jemma, has hit out at the BAFTAs after Stacey’s show, Sort Your Life Out, failed to win an award. Jemma voiced her disappointment just hours after Stacey expressed her own “upset and devastation” to her fans.
Jemma, 37, had joined Stacey, 35, at the Television Baftas on Sunday night and was in the audience when the BBC series, which started airing in 2021, lost out in the Factual Entertainment category to Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour. Jemma later posted a photo of herself and Stacey at the glamorous London event, criticising the Academy and suggesting that the public would have chosen differently.
She wrote: “You may not have won but you should be proud of everything you have achieved. If only it were a public vote I think things would have been a little different…. Just saying.”
Jemma took to Instagram to stick up for her sister after she lost on getting a BAFTA for BBC show Sort Your Life Out(Image: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Jemma also shared an inspiring quote about “losers”, adding: “Love this!” Fans were shocked on Monday morning when Stacey, a former X Factor contestant, took to Instagram to express her disappointment about missing out on a Bafta. Dressed casually in a green Nike sweatshirt and blue cycling shorts, she admitted she was “devastated” and was struggling to “take it gracefully.
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She told her followers: “We didn’t win a Bafta. And I know I’m supposed to take it gracefully like a champ, but I’ll be honest, I’m devastated! I’m not handling it very well, I’m not taking it very gracefully – I’m devastated! I’m devastated for our whole team, like I’m so gutted for our team. Everyone got dressed up and was really hopeful, I think because they work so hard.”
“It’s not an easy show to make… and they so deserve the Bafta,” Stacey continued. “The Sort Your Life Out team deserved a Bafta and I’m devastated. I’m not saying that everyone else didn’t deserve their Baftas, they absolutely did… but I’m just gutted for my whole Sort Your Life Out family because I feel like they deserved a Bafta. I’m gonna say it – I’m gutted!”
She went on to explain the effort that goes into each episode: “We’ll pack up a house and within seven days that house is packed up, into vans, over to a warehouse, laid out on the floor. We go through it meticulously, we make sure it doesn’t just get chucked away.
We donate, we recycle, we resell things. We put it all back and try and put it in systems to help families move forward..”
Stacey praised her Sort Your Life Out team(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty I)
“The families give up so much to be on the show, they deserve that away. It’s so hard to let someone into your house when you’re going through a really difficult time and you know there’s going to be people out there that will judge but you need the help also.
“The families just…” she added before showcasing her frustration by shaking the hose around before laughing.
Stacey gave a shoutout to the cast and crew of the show, telling them they’re the “best people I know” before telling fans how proud she is to be part of the programme.
“Rant over,” she joked in the caption as she returned to her morning gardening. Along with the two Sort Your Life Out nominations, Loose Women – which has Stacey on as a panellist – was nominated for Daytime Award against Morning Live, Richard Osman’s House of Games and Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure.
