Huge ITV reality show ends after 10 years as stars bid emotional goodbye

Billie Faiers has waved goodbye to the ‘best location movie ever’ The Family Diaries aft 10 years and six series.

In September, it was claimed the former The Only Way Is Essex was leaving the ITVBe world amusement but present the 34-year-old has officially confirmed it volition beryllium nary more.

The amusement followed Billie and her hubby Greg giving viewers a warts-and-all penetration into their matrimony and location beingness and featured their children Nelly, nine, Arthur, six, and Margot, one.

The extremity of The Family Diaries has devastated fans who are inactive coming to presumption with Billie’s sister Sam Faiers, 33, stepping down from their massively palmy show, The Mummy Diaries, aft 7 years.

On Instagram, staceymilburn commented: ‘End of an epoch 😢❤️ but the astir fantastic memories and achievements x x x x.’

Echoing their sentiment, one_fourfive wrote: ‘Watched you from the precise beginning, gutted this is the extremity 😭 xxx.’

riamandry said: ‘Oh no, myself and my children person loved watching from the beginning. Will miss the amusement x.’

natooxxx added: ‘This is heartbreaking quality to me😭.’

Billie announced the extremity of The Family Diaries connected Instagram, and described the amusement arsenic a ‘journey.’

She wrote: ‘After astir 10 years of filming for The Mummy diaries and @familydiariesofficial We tin officially denote our travel has travel to an extremity ❤️🥹.

‘And what a travel it has been !! From giving birth, raising our children, the highs and lows of genitor hood, tears and tantrums, celebrations, amusive times, pugnacious times, hen and stags dos, a location physique and of people getting joined 🫶🏼✨.We are truthful grateful to person been capable to seizure each of these memories and stock them with you all!

‘Thank you @suziewells_ @chatty.dave for being progressive each measurement of the mode ❤️ and convey you to everyone that has supported america implicit the past decennary , it means truthful overmuch 🥹🫶🏼🙏🏼. A peculiar acknowledgment to @itv for the champion location movie ever!!

‘But present feels similar the close clip for the adjacent section ✨🫶🏼 Thank you again for each of the emotion and enactment implicit the years 🥹❤️ tons of emotion Billie, Greg, Nelly, Arthur and Margot xxxx.;

According to a root successful The Sun, Billie decided to locomotion distant from The Family Diaries to let her children to turn up retired of the spotlight.

They said: ‘Billie has loved her clip connected the amusement and had loads of fun, but thinks it’s clip she fto her kids turn up distant from the cameras for a bit.

‘She adores the memories she has made and volition treasure them forever, she’s truthful grateful to the accumulation company, but is excited astir exploring caller options with ITV.’

The insider added: ‘There is nary atrocious humor and the entity is the limit.’

Billie and Sam became household names successful 2010 erstwhile they joined Towie, which Sam near successful 2014 earlier Billie dipped retired successful 2016.

The ITV amusement catapulted them to fame, with millions becoming invested successful their lives and keen to travel them online during Towie’s heyday erstwhile the likes of Amy Childs, James ‘Arg’ Argent, Jess and Mark Wright, Kirk Norcross, Lauren Goodger, Lauren Pope, and Lucy Mecklenburgh starred.

Sam and Billie person gone connected to look connected assorted different deed shows since, with Sam appearing connected Celebrity Big Brother successful 2014 and Billie connected Dancing On Ice successful 2021.

In November 2021, they began co-hosting a podcast, The Sam & Billie Show.

The Family Diaries is disposable to watercourse connected ITVX/

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