'I can't ever see my life without cameras

Reality TV star Ferne McCann is calling time on her fly-on-the-wall series after seven years. Here, we find out what's next for the busy mum

- LAURA ARMSTRONG

Having her own fly-on-the-wall TV series is something Ferne McCann is immensely proud of. The mum of two first launched her ITVBe show First Time Mum in 2017 and the cameras have been there every step on her motherhood journey. The good times and bad times; tears, tantrums, heartbreak, romance, births, proposal - it's all been documented.

But all good things must come to an end and Ferne, 34, has decided to call time on the show (now called My Family & Me). The current series (its 13th) will be her last for the sake of her children.

After thinking about giving her family more privacy for a while, the final straw came for Ferne when her six-year-old daughter Sunday asked her, "Mummy, am I famous?" "The show has been going on for so long that we joked we'd still be filming when Sunday had children and be calling it Second Time Nan," she says.

"But I knew the time would eventually come to either have a break or stop altogether, and for the last year I've been thinking about it. The point when everything changed was when Sunday actually asked, 'Am I famous?' A few of her friends had seen her on an advert. And I was like, 'Oh, I don't know...' It made me feel uncomfortable, because I don't want her to feel she is different."

Ferne, who shares one-year-old daughter Finty with fiancé Lorri Haines (step-dad to Sunday), has always been very careful to give her children as normal a childhood as possible, so didn't think Sunday was aware that she was in the public eye.