Original Made in Chelsea cast now - scandal, royalty and baby with Katie Price’s ex Mirror 5 days ago
Staggeringly, Made in Chelsea has been on our screens for a decade.
The explosive E4 show, which delves into the love lives, businesses and drama of the posh London socialites, celebrates its 10th birthday this week.
Over the years we ve seen fights, snogs and tears in Belgravia, Knightsbridge, King s Road and across the globe as the cast flew off to the likes of Ibiza and Buenos Aires.
But now it s time to cast your minds back to the very first series in 2011, which burst onto our screens with not one but two love triangles.
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When David Spicer-Harden and his now-wife Virginia first began trying for a baby, they had an inkling that starting a family together could be a little more difficult than for other couples.
While they were both young – 27 and 29 respectively – they suspected their conditions would prevent them from conceiving without the aid of assisted reproduction technology.
David and Virginia Spicer-Harden have been trying to conceive for five years.
Credit:Justin McManus
Virginia has polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a complex hormonal condition associated with irregular menstrual cycles and reduced fertility, while Spicer-Harden was born with an undescended testis, a relatively common condition where one or both of the testes fail to drop into the scrotum by the time a baby is three months old and which, when ignored, can lead to an increased risk of testicular cancer and infertility.
It’s been exactly 10 years since the very first episode of Made in Chelsea aired on E4. For a decade now we’ve been getting to know the inner lives of Chelsea’s wealthiest and poshest residents, but where are the OG cast members now?
In the pilot episode we had peak posho – the opening scene is for Amber Atherton’s jewellery line, it’s in Raffles and Francis is wearing red chinos. You can’t get posher than that.
Spencer was with Funda, Millie was chatting up Fredrik and Cheska was trying to make her blog happen. Things have changed so much since those early episodes. Some of them are married, some have kids and some are millionaires from their post reality TV careers. And yet some are still filming Made in Chelsea. I guess you can always rely on Mark Francis to pop up with a sassy takedown.
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When David Spicer-Harden and his now-wife Virginia first began trying for a baby, they had an inkling that starting a family together could be a little more difficult than for other couples.
While they were both young â 27 and 29 respectively â they suspected their conditions would prevent them from conceiving without the aid of assisted reproduction technology.
David and Virginia Spicer-Harden have been trying to conceive for five years.
Credit:Justin McManus
Virginia has polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a complex hormonal condition associated with irregular menstrual cycles and reduced fertility, while Spicer-Harden was born with an undescended testis, a relatively common condition where one or both of the testes fail to drop into the scrotum by the time a baby is three months old and which, when ignored, can lead to an increased risk of testicular cancer and infertility.
It was a phrase that Laura Whitmore deployed in the immediate aftermath of her fellow television presenter Caroline Flack’s death. By urging listeners to her BBC Radio 5 Live show to ‘be kind’, she struck a compassionate chord by reflecting one of the last Instagram messages that Flack had posted before her suicide. At a time when her mental turmoil had become a matter of public debate, Flack asked people to treat one another nicely.
Whitmore, 36, who became her replacement as host of ITV’s Love Island, has been a champion of the ‘be kind’ movement ever since, using her social-media platforms, with a combined following of two million fans, to, in her own words, ‘call out the trolls’.