Joe Swash made a heartbreaking parenting confession as he was ‘taken advantage of’ by his children in the finale of his reality show Stacey & Joe.

The former EastEnders actor was filmed juggling the chaotic school run while wife Stacey Solomon travelled to Italy for a series of photoshoots.

Joe, 43, was seen getting increasingly stressed as he tried to get his two daughters, Rose, 3, and Belle, 2, and son Rex, 5, off to their pre-school, and his step-son Leighton, 12, to school.

In the scenes that aired this week in the final episode of the BBC reality show, Joe rushed the kids to the car as part of the early morning routine.

But as they prepared to leave, with Joe calling Stacey to update her on how the day was going, Leighton was still missing and taking too long to get ready.

‘Where’s Leighton?’ Stacey asked as she and Joe spoke on video call, to which the actor replied, hooting his car horn: ‘I’m just waiting for him to get in the car.’

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Joe Swash made a heartbreaking parenting confession as he was ‘taken advantage of’ by his children in the finale of his reality show Stacey & Joe

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The former EastEnders actor was filmed juggling the chaotic school run while wife Stacey Solomon travelled to Italy for a series of photoshoots

Stacey was then seen telling him: ‘You need to get in that room and drag him out of there,’ to which Joe retorted: ‘I’ve been in there twice already.’

‘These kids are losing their will to live in the car,’ Joe added, before he was seen storming back into the house to tell Zach to hurry up or ‘miss his bus’.

‘Leighton! We’re going mate are you coming or not?’ he’s heard shouting. ‘No mate, you’ve had your time, you’ve been up there 25 minutes!’

Stacey then calls Leighton to tell him to ‘stop making everyone late’ and ‘get in the car’.

Speaking to the camera once the couple had been reunited, Joe added: ‘Stacey’s like the permanent teacher and I’m the substitute teacher that the kids just take advantage of.

‘Stacey goes to me, “Go and drag him out of bed”, the kids nearly 6ft and I can’t be dragging him out of bed before he starts dragging me out of bed.

‘I’ll get the backlash of this.’

It comes after Stacey, 36, revealed the reality of being an influencer as she self-shot her latest Rehab. product on a boat in Lake Como, Italy.

Stacey, who invested in the hair care brand in 2023, jetted to the idyllic location to launch her new shimmer spray and had booked a boat trip to capture aesthetic promotion pictures in the final episode.

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Joe admitted he felt like a ‘substitute teacher’ as he did the school run without Stacey

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Joe, 43, was seen getting increasingly stressed as he tried to get his step-son Leighton, 12, in the car for school on time

As she laid at the back of the boat, the mother-of-five held up the new product attempting to show it off but joked, ‘How do influencers do this, all I can see is my t*ts’.

She said: ‘I had a vision we would stop and take some pictures in the middle of the lake but that is not the case. It is so rough.’

The presenter was forced to make three outfit changes – into a stunning maxi dress, a white swimsuit and a white satin mini dress – on the rocky boat and admitted she ‘feels very unsafe’.

As Stacey attempted modelling while her team helped take pictures and videos of her, she added: ‘All I can see is my tits, how do people do this. If this does well we will invest in a photographer.

‘I feel very unsafe but you have to put your life on the line for the job. Influencers’ jobs are hard’.

She added: ‘Getting changed on a boat in the middle of what felt like a monsoon, was interesting. Hopefully I make it to the end without throwing up.’

Stacey & Joe is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.