‘We’re opposites. I can be too laid back, whereas Shelly needs a plan. We work well because we find a middle ground’
After a month away in Australia, where she was crowned queen of the jungle on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, then five days in Qatar, where she reported on the England men’s team quarter-final World Cup match against France, it’s not surprising retired football heroine Jill Scott is relishing the prospect of a chilled Christmas under her own roof.
“It will be just the five of us here on Christmas Day,” says the 35-year-old former Lioness, by which she means herself, fiancée Shelly Unitt, 37, Shelly’s daughters Evie, 19, and Hattie, 15, and the family’s gorgeous bulldog Winnie.
“It’s how we usually spend Christmas Day anyway,” adds Shelly, as the couple exclusively invite HELLO! into their Manchester home. “Although my eldest mentioned something about going to her boyfriend’s for Christmas lunch. She’s all grown up now so I said: ‘Sure, if you want to,’ but inside I was going: ‘Noooo!’
“I’ve always loved Christmas and since I
