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Casey Cooper-Fiske

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash celebrate Arsenal title win at bus parade

Solomon described the situation in Islington as ‘manic’ (Ian West/PA) - (PA Archive)

TV couple Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash were among the crowds gathered in north London as Arsenal celebrated winning the Premier League title with a bus parade.

The pair were joined by their children and Solomon’s father at the trophy parade on Sunday, with pictures posted to Instagram showing the group wearing Arsenal’s red-and-white home shirt, with the children waving as a bus full of players passed by.

In the posts on her story, Solomon said: “Happy Sunday from north London.

Arsenal were celebrating their Premier League title win (Steven Paston/PA) (PA Wire)
Arsenal were celebrating their Premier League title win (Steven Paston/PA) (PA Wire)

“Dad took me, my sister and brother to the last Arsenal parade, today we got to take our babies and be with dad.”

She went on to describe the situation in Islington as “manic”, with red smoke enveloping the buses as they passed through the streets, but Solomon said she pitched up close to a shop where she knew the staff, as she “would have been nervous being anywhere else”.

Solomon said: “Joe was so happy that we’d won the league, I convinced him to buy me a candle, my favourite candle, so I didn’t go home empty-handed did I?

“Arsenal got a cup, and I got a candle.”

Sophie Ellis-Bextor perfromed a DJ set at the event (Ian West/PA) (PA Wire)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor perfromed a DJ set at the event (Ian West/PA) (PA Wire)

Elsewhere at the event, Murder On The Dancefloor singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed a DJ set, and posted a video of herself dancing with the team’s mascot Gunnersaurus.

The parade came after the team, nicknamed the Gunners, lost the Champions League final to French side Paris Saint-Germain on Saturday, drawing 1-1 before losing on penalities.

Arsenal won the 2025/26 Premier League title after Manchester City drew 1-1 with Bournemouth on May 19, meaning they could not surpass the London side’s points total.

The team achieved 85 points during the season, leaving them seven points clear of Manchester City.

Arsenal won the 2025/26 Premier League title earlier this month (Gareth Fuller/PA) (PA Wire)
Arsenal won the 2025/26 Premier League title earlier this month (Gareth Fuller/PA) (PA Wire)

Swash and Solomon married in 2022 and are parents to Rex, who was born in 2019, Rose, born in 2021, and Belle, born in 2023.

There is also Zach (Solomon’s son with Dean Cox), Leighton (Solomon’s son with ex-fiance Aaron Barnham), and Harry (Swash’s son with ex-fiance Emma Sophocleous).

The couple have appeared together in the fly-on-the-wall BBC reality TV series Stacey And Joe, which follows the lives of the couple and their children, as well as their four ducks, four ducklings and two dogs, at their Pickle Cottage home in Essex.

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