OK! Magazine UK – 05 August 2019

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TONY WARD

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I

t’s hard to remember a time before their

hugely successful ITVBe show The Mummy

Diaries, but in 2014 Sam Faiers and Billie

Shepherd were best known for their roles

on The Only Way Is Essex. Their lives were

changed with the introduction of Nelly,

now five, who is Billie’s daughter with Greg

Shepherd. After the arrival of Billie’s first child,

the famously close sisters’ bond grew even

stronger, and they celebrated with an exclusive

OK! shoot. ‘I think Nelly’s brought us closer,’ Sam told us at the time. She

continued: ‘I was at Billie’s house every day – probably driving Billie and Greg

mad – but I couldn’t help it! I just needed a cuddle and to hold her all the time.’

Despite Nelly still being a baby she was already showing signs of the TV

star she was to become. ‘Nelly talks to us all and laughs. When I say talk, I

mean the cooing she does!,’ Billie explained. Now those coos have become

hilarious one-liners, and fans of The Mummy Diaries have even begged for

the tot to have her own show.

Nelly’s arrival had Sam – who was dating Joey Essex at the time –

thinking about starting her own family. ‘I don’t want there to be too much of

a gap because I want Nelly to have a best friend,’ said Sam, now 28. Luckily

little Nelly didn’t have to wait too long for a cousin, with Sam giving birth to

her son Paul, who she shares

with partner Paul Knightley, in

December 2015. She added

during our exclusive shoot: ‘I

want a big family, maybe three

or four children.’ The Essex

girl is halfway there, as she is

now also mum to one-year-old

Rosie. Billie, now 29, and Greg

also have son Arthur, two, to

keep them busy!

Already used to having

the cameras around during

their most personal moments,

Sam, who was a birthing

partner for Billie, hilariously

revealed she brought recording

equipment into the delivery

suite. ‘I had the camera and

the headgear... I filmed bits

and bobs, talking to myself like

a little commentary, right until

the point that Billie was getting

agitated and the contractions

were getting closer.’ Billie

sweetly added: ‘I’d have been

devastated if Sam wasn’t with

me at the birth.’

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Above, below and

right: Sisters Sam and

Billie were brought

closer by the birth of

Billie’s daughter Nelly