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Billie Faiers’ husband Greg Shepherd opens up about being a dad of three and the couple’s plans for their second wedding
Greg and Billie Shepherdhave delighted fans by sharing their marriage and family life on screen – the good times, the bad times and everything in between.
The couple have been married since March 2019, after tying the knot in a lavish Maldives wedding, which is said to have cost them a cool £229k.
And now Greg tells Closer that he and Billie are keen to follow in the footsteps of Victoria and David Beckham by renewing their wedding vows.
TEARFUL
The Family Diaries star, 38, says, “We always say that after 10 years [of marriage] we’ll attempt to get everyone back to the Maldives, but I don’t know what island would have us!
“There were 120 of us [the first time] but it was just brilliant – the best week of my whole life. We’re definitely going to do it again.”
The couple met in 2011, with Greg popping the question three years later when Billie was pregnant with their first child, Nelly, now eight. The couple are also parents to Arthur, six, and newborn Margot, who they welcomed in December.
Recalling the moment Greg got down on one knee, Billie, 33, gushed, “He said, ‘I love you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I know our baby will be just as beautiful as you are. Will you marry me?’ Then he started crying.
“It took a while for it all to sink in and then 10 minutes later I got a bit tearful too.”
Their wedding – which almost didn’t happen after Billie and and her sister Sam’s stepdad Dave Chatwood was allegedly refused on the flight for being drunk – made headlines when other holiday makers complained about the wedding party’s “yobbish behaviour” at the luxury resort on the Island of Kuramathi, which Billie and Greg strongly denied.
Among the guests was Billie’s best friend at the time Ferne McCann, 32, who is unlikely to be invited this time round after a series of voice notes allegedly featuring her fat-shaming Sam were leaked last summer.
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Although Greg didn’t appear in TOWIE alongside Billie, Sam and Ferne, he was thrust into the spotlight when he starred in the sisters’ spin-off show The Mummy Diaries. The show also made little stars of Nelly and Arthur, with the same likely to happen to baby Margot on their latest show The Family Diaries.
Of having three children, Greg says, “It’s a complete game-changer. Arthur and I are outnumbered now, but it’
