BILLIE Faiers has revealed the strict rule that guests have to follow when visiting her £1.4m Essex mansion.
Over the past three years, the former Towie star, 33, and her husband Greg Shepherd, 38, have been busy renovating since they bought it at the beginning of 2020.
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The couple have kept fans up to date with the property makeover on Instagram, as well as their ITVBe show The Family Diaries.
Just before the telly favourite gave birth to her youngest daughter Margot in December last year, Billie, Greg, and their kids Nellie, eight, and six-year-old Arthur, were finally able to move in.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun about Disney’s The World of Play campaign, Billie opened up about how “lovely” it is to finally be living in the former 1920s property as a family of five.
But there is one thing that she asks guests to do when they arrive.
“I do have one rule which is politely for people to take their shoes off at the door,” Billie told The Sun.
“That’s that’s probably my only thing that I’m most fussy about.
“But do you know I think it is, like we’ve worked so hard to get this house.
“We’ve taken so many years, and I think it’s just that feeling of where it’s not completed yet, I don’t want things to be ruined before it’s totally done.”
Billie is over the moon with the progress that they have made over the last three years.
“I remember the day that we actually moved on my house, there was about 30 people in here,” she said.
“Like there wasn’t carpets laid and that was moving in day and it was just it was really really overwhelming.
“I was obviously heavily pregnant. But anyway, since then we have come so far and it’s been lovely.
“We’re just we’re really excited for the summer in his house because we’ve got the garden and the kids just love being outside as well.”
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Since moving in, Billie’s life has dramatically changed as the family had a new arrival Margot at the end of last year.
The mum-of-three felt like it was “quite a lot” at the beginning, but they are “settling down now” as a family of five.
“When I think about it now, it’s actually a bit blurry, because I think there was so much going on, like, I had Margot. Then it was Christmas.
“Don’t get me wrong, that was amazing. It was lovely because the kids had the time off as well, which was really nice.
“Like for them to like bond with Margot, we didn’t have to rush around for that school routine or anything like that. But also, because it was Christmas, I still had to deal with Christmas traditions as I normally would.
“But yeah, it was, you know, amazing, lovely, but also a bit of a whirlwind and a roller coaster as well.
“I feel like now Margot’s at four months, everything seems settled. Like, we’re just getting into the swing of things more like with, like dinner times were all over the place.
“But I think you just actually just can’t even worry about that sort of stuff. But at a time I was but now I look back and I think, why should I even care?”
Billie recently joined forces with Disney to work on their recent campaign The Wonder of Play – and its mission is to get families to play together more.
While Margot is still a little young to be playing games that Nellie and Arthur play, the older siblings love baking cakes and their own game “party time”.
Billie explained: “They love baking, they love arts and crafts, they love playing hide and seek.
“They love playing something called party time, which is actually more of Greg’s thing.
“It just involves Greg chasing them around the house and shouting party time then tickling them. See, it’s like silly things that kids love to do.
“Also, in the garden, they love to do like an obstacle course, jump over their chair, touch your toes, spin around, bounce on the trampoline. Just silly things like that.”
- Billie Shepherd headlines Disney’s The Wonder of Play campaign – a global initiative drawing on Disney’s 100-year legacy of timeless stories and characters – to inspire families to play together more. As part of the campaign Disney has joined forces with the Institute of Imagination to create a Manifesto for Imaginative Play, following research revealing parents believe that play has a huge impact on children’s development.
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