'Never getting drunk now!' Stacey Solomon's fiancé Joe Swash talks family priorities

express.co.uk:

Eastenders star, Joe Swash was "free and easy" and living the high life. Now, however, he's assured the world that wife-to-be Stacey Solomon and their children are his future - and he's abandoned the party lifestyle altogether.The 40-year-old TV star has matured significantly since he started his Eastenders role as Mickey Miller aged just 21.He now has two children with Loose Women and X-Factor star Stacey - son Rex and baby daughter Rose.He also has another son, Harry, from a previous relationship, and he is stepdad to Stacey's two eldest sons, Leighton and Zachary - so it's safe to say much of his current lifestyle involves family.Looking back at the party-fuelled lifestyle of his younger years, Joe seemed to barely recognise himself."When I first got on EastEnders I was like the ginger kid who could suddenly get into nightclubs, and I was free and easy, and I really enjoyed that period of time," he told The Sun."And then you grow up, and I had Harry, met Stacey, we’ve got Rex and Rose, and Zach and Leighton."When I look back it feels like a different person.

I could never imagine going out and getting drunk [now]!"As they balance family life, Joe and Stacey have together taken on the mammoth task of renovating their "forever home" together, Pickle Cottage."Me and Stacey try so hard to keep this house warm and friendly and happy, let the kids express themselves," he added to the same publication."I love my family, they’re my biggest priority."Stacey has warmly reciprocated his feelings, decorating and spray-painting rooms in their home, as she gushed on Instagram: "You’re always doing everything you can to make us happy so making your man cave was just the best project ever."You mean everything to us.