Britain’s biggest family returns in new series

Britain’s biggest family will be returning for a new series of 22 Kids And Counting, Channel 5 has announced.

Filming has started on the documentary which will follow the busy lives of Noel, 50, and Sue Radford, 46, plus their 22 children, six grandchildren and four dogs, production company Lion Television said.

The family’s first television programme aired in 2012 and was titled 15 Kids And Counting, and subsequent seasons have watched the family expand each year.

The returning 10-partseries will showcase life in their 10-bedroom home in Morecambe, Lancashire, with their second eldest daughter, Chloe, flying the nest to live with her boyfriend and Millie’s baby Ophelia, who is the youngest grandchild at nine months old, growing up.

A series highlight will be a family road trip through the Scottish Highlands in two camper vans.

The show will also explore the expansion of Mr Radford’s family pie business as it takes on new staff and plans to move to new premises.

Noel and Sue Radford said: “We’re really pleased to be letting the cameras back into our everyday family lives and are looking forward to sharing more fun and mayhem with everyone over the coming months.”

Mrs Radford gave birth to their first child, Chris, in May 1989 when she was aged 14.

They have had 11 boys and 11 girls in total, although son Alfie was stillborn in 2014.

In the last series in February, the family told how their food bill increased by £100 a week to £400 during lockdown as the majority of them were stuck at home.