Jamie Laing reveals he’s had ‘about 403 arguments’ with girlfriend Sophie Habboo and his mum

Jamie Laing has spoken about life in isolation after fleeing his one-bedroom London flat to go to his Cotswolds family home at the start of lockdown. 

The Made In Chelsea star, 31, made a guest appearance in Laura Whitmore’s Castaway podcast this week, and joked he had already had ‘403 arguments’ with his mum and girlfriend Sophie Habboo.  

Jamie talked about how lockdown was the ultimate relationship test for himself and Habbs, 25, the benefits of slowing down during the coronavirus pandemic and his struggles starring on the E4 show. 

The reality star told Laura: ‘I’m currently in the countryside in the Cotswolds, so I decided when everything was kicking off and becoming a bit hectic I decided “right, I’ve got to get out of London because the thought of being in my one bedroom apartment in London” I was just like “I can’t do this”.

‘So my mum lives in the countryside so I went down to hers, living with her we’ve had about 400 arguments which is good.

‘I’m with my girlfriend as well. We’ve had about three arguments which isn’t that bad.

‘I’ve got my sister here, we’ve had one argument but, if all of my family go missing I promise you it’s not me.’

Laura replied: ‘I do think, I joked on the show Love Island they have a thing called Casa Amor and that’s kind of the ultimate test, I feel self isolation with somebody is the ultimate test on any relationship.

Jamie told the host: ‘It is the ultimate test.

‘Every single thing is tested and I feel like if you can through isolation with your girlfriend, your partner, your parents or your family, whoever it is, you can get through most things.’

The television personality also discussed how he decided to take a step back during the pandemic. 

Laura told Jamie: ‘I know from me living in London that we’re always in a rush, always on the go with something to do.

‘My mum even said to me last night “this is the most I’ve ever talked to you because you’re always too busy”, and I feel now that we’re slowing down and it’s not necessarily a bad thing.’

Jamie said: ‘You know what, it’s an amazing thing and I think that what’s happened is we’ve become such a generation that if we’re not up at 6am in the morning going to the gym and doing this and that we’re considered lazy.

‘But in fact that’s not what success is at all, success is about having strong relationships, good friends, good empathy, loyalty and I think what we were doing is running ourselves in to the ground, we work all the time and my biggest fear actually is that I was going to suddenly stop and I’d be like well what do I do now?’

During the podcast Jamie talked about what he struggles with on Made In Chelsea.  

‘I became frustrated because with Made In Chelsea and things like that, it’s 24 hours put down into an hour show, they have to squeeze everything down,’ Jamie said. 

‘Throughout my entire life, I’ve always wanted everyone to love me, it’s like please just love me and I was such a people person. 

‘And then going into a reality show like Made In Chelsea where suddenly you’re seen in a different light and things go wrong and suddenly people comment on you, that was quite tricky at the beginning because it’s not very nice not to be liked and you think well you haven’t seen the whole story, you haven’t seen everything that becomes hard.’

Laura Whitmore’s Castaway podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and all major podcast platforms.