Former Made in Chelsea stars Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo have always been candid when it comes to their marriage, with no subject off the table. From frank confessions about their bedroom antics or blazing rows that see them threaten to walk out of their marriage, fans have heard it all.
BBC Radio 1 presenter Jamie, 36, is currently taking part in a relentless 150 mile-run for Comic Relief from London to Salford and has been heavily supported by his wife of almost two years, Sophie, 30. But it wasn’t love at first sight for the couple. Before they became an item, they were simply best friends. However, it wasn’t long before their blossoming romance came to light with heartwarming scenes playing out on Made in Chelsea in 2019.
They got engaged in December 2021 and officially tied the knot on 14 April, 2023, during an intimate ceremony at Chelsea Town Hall in south west London. This followed a second and more luxurious wedding ceremony in Spain, Marbella, on 19 May, with around 200 guests in attendance. As the presenter and Candy Kittens founder continues his mammoth run, we’ve taken a closer look inside their marriage – the good, the bad and all the hilarious anecdotes along the way…
It hasn’t always been bliss, as just a day before their wedding, the pair released a trailer for their podcast, NewlyWeds, which saw Jamie warning that he could walk away from their marriage after a year. Sophie said: “Once he said, when we had a fight, he said ‘ugh I’ve got to be married to you for at least a year’.” Jamie added: “Yeah, it’s true. If it was before a year, everyone would be like ‘well that was short’. A year, then you’re like ‘that’s alright.'”
That wasn’t the first time the couple encountered threats of a walkout in their marriage. During an episode of their podcast, Sophie told listeners: “When Jamie’s really, really angry with me, when we have had the worst fight ever, what he does is he’ll come in and he’ll go, ‘Sophie – I’m leaving you’.
“And he does it, maybe, I’d say twice a year. And he’ll be like ‘I don’t want you to react. But there’s no point in talking to me. I am leaving you. And I, I’ve got my backpack and I’m going’ and I go, ‘all right’.”
While they’ve been together for over five years, Jamie has been open about his fears of commitment and the prospect of welcoming children with his wife. Opening up on his own podcast, Great Company, about having a baby, he shared: “I would really like to have one, but it has been a real long road because I was really scared of babies and I was really scared of commitment.
“The idea of not being able to escape something, with work or even divorce, there’s always a way out. But with a baby there’s no way out. There is no way out because you are committed to that little human forever and that for me is really quite scary.” He added: “[It’s] still really scary, it is a real fear. To the point where at the start of last year, Sophie thought she was pregnant and I had to leave the restaurant because I was so stressed.”
When it comes to the bedroom, Jamie has made no secret of what it’s really like and confessed to being “lazy”. He told The Sun: “Sophie did say I was bog standard at sex and that is probably a fair description. You get worse as you get married. You become lazy.”
He added: “I used to start doing joined-up handwriting then I thought, ‘I can’t be bothered with that as it’s quicker for me to not do it joined up’, I’m a bit like that in the bedroom. I don’t give up half way but I do remember that once I rolled on top of Sophie and she said, ‘Oh, get on with it’.”
In previous chats, Jamie said they see a marriage therapist twice a month after he made the suggestion. He explained: “I said to Sophie, ‘Look, 40 or 50 per cent of marriages end in divorce, I think it’ll be really good to do,’ so we still go every other week and I think therapy brings self-awareness.
“It opens you up and makes you more empathetic. It makes you basically not become a sociopath and it allows you to have another opinion.”
However, they know exactly what to do in order to keep their marriage fresh and exciting. “We love finding fun new ways to spend time together,” said Sophie. “And always making sure that we’re present in each other’s company.” Jamie added: “For me, it’s lots of laughter, trying new things and making your partner feel special every day. You don’t need an excuse to bring home flowers or a token of your affection.”
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