Stacey & Joe: In Too Deep review – Solomon deserves better than these dismal old misogynistic tropes

The presenter is an absolute powerhouse – a responsible, clever, ambitious woman without whom nothing and no one around her would survive. So why is she constantly described as bossy? Stacey Solomon is taking care of five children, 25 chickens, uncountable quail, a large house, a

The presenter is an absolute powerhouse – a responsible, clever, ambitious woman without whom nothing and no one around her would survive. So why is she constantly described as bossy? Stacey Solomon is taking care of five children, 25 chickens, uncountable quail, a large house, a disabled dog and a hugely complicated, successful, busy and lucrative career.

Her husband, Joe Swash, is dreaming of a hereditary lake business and adopting an emu. Everything, in short, is much as it was as the third series of the reality show, Stacey & Joe (this time subtitled In Too Deep), about the nation’s noisiest celebrity couple, begins. Everything is still very loud.

Well, Joe is still very loud and thus everyone else still has to strain to be heard over him. Except the cockerel, to whom it comes quite naturally. Joe is afeard of the cockerel.

That is because the cockerel clearly hates him. If there ever came a time that the nation was required to choose sides in their war, I would side firmly with the fowl. But we’ll come back to that.

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