How Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash are Essex’s answer to ‘Posh and Becks’: All the similarities between the two power couples who both embrace rural life and juggle business empires

David and Victoria Beckham’s picture perfect lives are the envy of many – with the power couple seemingly having it all.

Living in a stunning, sprawling estate in the Cotswolds surrounded by fields of allotments, beehives and chickens the pair enjoy a wholesome daily life away from their regular glitzy work events.

And while this enviable lifestyle is unobtainable for most, another power couple – Joe Swash and his wife Stacey Solomon – offer their fans an arguably more obtainable version of the Beckhams’ lives.

The similarities between the two families are endless, albeit on fairly different budgets, from their countryside abodes, love of animals, beekeeping and cooking.

So here MailOnline takes a look at how Joe and Stacey are quickly becoming Essex’s answer to Posh and Becks:

David and Victoria Beckham’s picture perfect lives are the envy of many – with the power couple seemingly having it all

And while this enviable lifestyle is unobtainable for most, another power couple – Joe Swash and his wife Stacey Solomon – offer their fans an arguably more obtainable version of the Beckhams’ lives

While the Beckhams mostly reside in their Cotswolds estate, Stacey and Joe are chasing a similar dream at their £1.2million Pickle Cottage in Essex.

The TV couple bought the home in March 2021 and Stacey has already bought fucklings for the sprawling grounds and plans to become a beekeeper with Joe.

Pickle Cottage honey could be on the cards one day as well as selling eggs from their home.

Stacey also wants to plant more wildflowers for the bees to collect nectar from as she transforms the space for her family.

Stacey has five children and shares three of them with her husband Joe. The Sort Your Life Out host is mum to Zachary, 16, Leighton, 12, Rex, five, Rose, three and two-year-old Belle.

She welcomed her first son, Zachary, when she was 17 with her childhood sweetheart Dean Cox. Four years later, Stacey welcomed Leighton with her ex-fiancé Aaron Barnham.

Pictures uploaded by the star give a further glimpse inside the property, which has plenty of room for the couple and their boys to roam around.

At the heart of the home is a cosy country kitchen with dark wooden beams, wooden cabinets and a green Aga oven.

Over on to the outside, there is ample space in the garden for their boys to play around in, which 2.5 acres of land.

Plus there’s an added bonus of a swimming pool, of which Stacey noted that she wanted to make child-friendly.

Meanwhile the Beckhams have also found their own slice of countryside heaven in the Cotswolds.

Viewers got an glimpse into the Soho Farmhouse-inspired home as part of their 2023 Netflix docuseries Beckham – where the couple showed off their very expensive taste and eye for classic designers, hardwood flooring and exposed brick walls.

The couple, who share children kids Brooklyn, 26, Romeo, 22, Cruz, 20, and Harper, 13, snapped up their country retreat for a reported £6.15 million in December 2016.

After the Beckhams’ improvements, the property boasts a sauna, plunge pool, football pitch, gym, swimming pool and £50,000 safari tent in the grounds for entertaining. It is now thought to be worth about £12 million.