Stacey Solomon recently quit Renovation Rescue to concentrate on a BBC show (Picture: Matt McQuillan / Channel 4)
Stacey Solomon’s replacement on Renovation Rescue has been unveiled after she quit to reportedly concentrate on her new BBC reality show with husband Joe Swash.
Vogue Williams, 39, will now take charge of the Channel 4 DIY show alongside trained heating and plumbing engineer and former Love Island star Luke Mabbott, 29.
The duo will pick up where the bad builders have left off, bringing their expertise, warmth and passion to help homeowners wanting to transform their home all by themselves
The series will follow ambitious renovations as Vogue and Luke share money-saving skills, offer design inspiration, and demonstrate simple DIY techniques.
Vogue said: ‘Home renovation is a huge passion of mine, and I am excited to put my degrees in Construction and Quantity Surveying to the test.
‘I’m very happy to be joining forces with Luke – we get on like a house on fire and I think I’m gonna learn a lot of DIY skills from him.’
Vogue and Luke have replaced Stacey on the Channel 4 show (Picture: Channel 4)
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Earlier this week, Stacey announced on Instagram her new Kardashians-style reality show with Joe, 42, along with their youngest children, Rex, Rose and Belle, Stacey’s first son with ex-boyfriend Dean Cox, Zach, and her son Leighton with ex-fiancé Aaron Barnham.
The BBC One series aims to show how the pair balance family life at their Pickle Cottage home in Essex with their work schedules and passion projects, such as building a two-acre fishing lake.
Speaking about Stacey & Joe, which will launch in Spring, Stacey wrote on Instagram: ‘It was a huge leap into the unknown & it’s been an absolute whirlwind making it. But last year as a family we decided to say yes to more & do things we’d never done.
‘We have spoken about making a documentary for a long time, lots of you have asked too. So here we go. A journey with us every second of the way. Through the laughter the tears & the craziness.’
Stacey previously said it was her dream to quit TV to become a stay-at-home mum (Picture: Channel 4)
The show is a change of heat for Stacey who said in May it was her dream to quit TV work to become a stay-at-home mum, saying she wants to only take on work she can do mostly from home apart from the occasional ‘passion project’.
With her eldest son about to leave school and become an adult, Stacey said she felt like she was at a ‘pivotal’ moment in her life, and she didn’t want to ‘miss what I potentially feel like I missed with my older children’ with her younger ones.
Speaking on the Glad We Had This Chat podcast, Stacey said she wanted to have more time to spend with all of her kids, which was leading her to reconsider her work commitments.
‘Each year I have a team meeting with my agent and everyone on the team to say, “What’s your plan, what’s your goals, blah, blah, blah”,’ she explained.
Joe and Stacey are fronting a new documentary about their family life (Picture: Instagram)
‘And this year when they asked me my five-year goals, I was like “I want to be a stay-at-home mum”.
‘That is like my dream, my ultimate dream. I just want to be with my kids.’
She added: ‘I mean it is conflicting, because I also want to fulfil my dreams and my goals and the things that I’m passionate about, because if I don’t have that, will I feel unfulfilled?
Stacey went on to share that what she was currently trying to do was ‘make sure everything that I work on I can work on 90% of the time at home’.
After appearing on The X Factor in 2009, Stacey went on to win I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! the following year.
In 2016 she began appearing as a panellist on Loose Women and has since gone on to present Sort Your Life Out and Bake Off: The Professionals, while also being one of the stars of Celebrity Gogglebox.
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