Ollie Locke is the British TV star finest recognized for his role on the truth present, Made in Chelsea . He has appeared on the present since its inception in 2011, however afterward, Ollie expanded his skillset and wrote a e book known as ‘Laid in Chelsea’ which was quantity three on The Sunday Times Best Seller listing.
The 34-year-previous additionally had a memorable stint on the 13th sequence of Celebrity Big Brother in 2014, ending in third place behind Dappy and Jim Davidson. In 2016, he and two others based the homosexual courting app Chappy. Outside of labor commitments, Ollie has been touchingly trustworthy about his IVF struggles with husband, Gareth Locke.
In 2018, he landed a role in a Hollywood film, directed by Micheal Winterbottom. Greed follows the life of a billionaire retail magnate, starring Steve Coogan. In the film, Ollie acts as Fabian – the boyfriend of Sir Richard McCreadie’s daughter Lily, performed by Sophie Cookson.
At the time, Ollie introduced that the role marked his transfer into performing and that he could be leaving the TV world. He instructed Jeremy Vine: “I’m quitting reality TV and I’m not going to be doing it anymore. I’ve done nearly a decade of it and I’ve loved every minute of it but I’ve kind of grown into someone else and I have realised I trained to be an actor a long time ago and I wanted to be an actor.”
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He added: “I’ve just finished a wonderful film with Isla Fisher and Steve Coogan and I’ve got another project in the pipeline so I’ve changed everything up and I want to be actor like I wanted to be when I went to drama school all those years ago.”
Of course, we now know that Ollie made the transfer again to Made in Chelsea and he and his husband have used the present’s platform to focus on the struggles of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). On January 28, Ollie instructed Lorraine Kelly that the pair had sadly misplaced 5 embryos over the past yr.
Ollie and Gareth Locke obtained married at The Natural History Museum in 2020
The information got here weeks after Ollie and Gareth’s surrogate miscarried in December. At the time, they shared the unhappy replace by way of Instagram, thanks followers for his or her help. Ollie stated: “This is the very last thing I need to be writing, however that is sadly part of our journey.
“After a troublesome yr, just a little bean rising inside the perfect particular person you can ever think about was probably the most great early Christmas current we may ever have imagined. Through the course of nature, at six weeks and two days it stopped rising and had gone.”
In one emotional second on Made in Chelsea in July final yr, Ollie and Gareth obtained the information on digicam that the primary spherical of IVF had not been profitable.
Ollie spoke to The Mirror in regards to the resolution to air the unhappy scenes. He stated: “We’re speaking a few cameraman on Made in Chelsea , who come up to me afterwards and say, ‘By the way in which, me and my spouse are going by that proper now’ and also you sit there and assume ‘I do know a lot about you however I don’t find out about this case’.”
He added: “It’s very a lot a call we wished to do – to discuss the truth that that is regular. It’s opening up, whether or not it’s about protected intercourse, sexual satisfaction or miscarriage or failed IVF makes an attempt – this can be a topic that occurs and my DMs are completely full to the brim of people who find themselves struggling as properly.”
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Ollie continued: “It’s a lovely position to be in to be able to talk to people and be able to show we’re not the only people to go through that journey and actually, stuff like this should be talked about.”
Speaking on the Behind Closed Doors podcast, Gareth spoke in regards to the second they obtained the dangerous information. He stated: “I stated, as quickly as I hear her voice, I am gonna know precisely what it’s. She was like ‘hey…’ and my face dropped. Ollie checked out me and he was like, ‘it’s a no…’ and he or she stated, ‘I’m so sorry, it did not work’. She was devastated.”
Ollie added: “No one is aware of this however, we have been so assured it was going to be an ‘all good, we’re pregnant’ that we determined to enable the cameras in that day to get the actually optimistic information.”
The pair are showing on Celebrity Hunted on Channel four.
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