Former TOWIE star Billie Faiers was left mortified when her son Arthur decided to shout out "pigs b*lls" at the top of his voice during their flight to Dubai on a family holiday earlier this month.
And, as parents often find, the more Billie, 32, told her son to behave himself, the more he shouted out - and the louder he got.
Recalling the exhausting journey on her podcast The Sam & Billie Show, which she co-hosts with younger sister Sam Faiers, 31, Billie joked that with husband Greg Shepherd sat on his own across the aisle with his headphones in, she was left managing their two children, Nelly, aged eight, and four-year-old Arthur, by herself.
"Greg done his usual and just watched movies the whole way, I was sat in the middle of Nellie and Arthur," she told her sister and podcast listeners.
Adding: "It was like he [Arthur] was on a mission to wind me up on the whole journey - having these mad outbursts."
She went on to explain that Arthur decided the best use of his time on their "jam-packed flight" was to shout "pig's b*lls" out loud.
"Everyone was looking," Billie added. "Greg was none the wiser with his headphones on. I was just embarrassed - but because I was telling him off, he was doing it more. But other than that the journey was fine."
The family-of-four jetted off to Dubai, UAE earlier this month for a family holiday and are understood to have stayed in a hotel in the glamorous Jumeirah Zabeel Saray district.
They enjoyed trips to local pools and beaches, a boat trip, lots of dinners at local restaurants, a day trip to Atlantis Aquaventure Waterpark, as well as time relaxing together as a family and catching up with friends who live in the area.
Billie shared a series of snaps from her trip to her Instagram page, with one post captioned "Fun in the sun" and showing her two youngsters exploring a huge local pool complex pulling more than 38,000 likes, whilst another post of a video and a few snaps from the family's trips to the waterpark in The Palm receiving more than 45,000 likes from her thousands of Instagram followers.
Billie - who legally changed her name to Billie Shepherd when she married husband Greg in 2019 - is perhaps most well-known for joining the cast of The Only Way Is Essex in its first series all the way back in 2010.
She joined the main cast in series two and continued to be a crucial part of the popular ITV2 and then ITVBe series until her departure in 2016.
She then filmed a series about the trials and tribulations of parenthood with her sister Sam Faiers before joining the cast of Dancing On Ice in 2021. Unfortunately, she suffered a head injury during training and had to pull out of the ice-dancing competition series.
More recently, she has been busy doing up her plush million-pound home in Essex and offering fans and followers an insight into her glamorous life through her new ITVBe series The Family Diaries.
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