Sue & Noel Radford slam ‘jealous’ people for criticising their non-stop holidays – ‘should we be happy with Benidorm?’
PARENTS-OF-22, Sue and Noel Radford, have hit back at social media trolls who reckon they ''should just be happy going to Benidorm'' instead of Florida.
From a lovely trip to Disneyland to the Maldives, New York and Lapland, it seems that Britain's biggest family, the Radfords, have been just about everywhere, with a whopping 17 holidays in 20 months.
But although the bumper brood famously doesn't rely on benefits to fund their picturesque trips, Sue, 48, and Noel, 53, recently revealed their jet-setting lifestyle has been criticised by people online.
The duo, who first fell pregnant when Sue was 13, shared their experience with social media trolling in their page-turner, The Radfords: Making Life Count.
According to the couple - who've been married for over three decades - cruel trolls always joke about the family, saying they ''go to Florida more times than I go to the shops''.
Slamming the haters, Sue said: ''I think it just boils down to jealousy.
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''I have the mindset now - particularly since I lost my dad - that if you can afford to go on a holiday, then go.
''Life is definitely too short to say, 'Oh, maybe I should squirrel my money away in the bank' or whatever.
''Life is too short, so just do it.''
She went on: ''If we can afford to take our kids to Florida, then we'll take our kids to Florida.
''I'm not going to bother myself about what other people say.''
Hubby Noel, who runs a successful pie business, also chimed in, hitting back at the meanies.
In his eyes, the dad said, it's like the family are ''not allowed to do things'' unless they ''have permission from the internet trolls'' - which is down to one reason.
''And it's as if people think we deserve to be kept in our place - that because we weren't born into wealth, and because we are ordinary people from an ordinary town in the North West of England, we should just be happy going to Benidorm.''
However, it's not just their fabulous holidays abroad the parents get hate for - even their wholesome getaways here, in the UK, have been slammed for the £40k ''top-of-the-range motorhome''.
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Here's the lowdown on where the family have holidayed since December 2021...
- December 2021 - Lapland
- April 2022 - Disney World
- May 2022 - First motorhome holiday, South Lakes
- June 2022 - Legoland weekend
- July 2022 - Alton Towers weekend
- August 2022 - Disney World, Florida
- October 2022 - Motorhome weekend, The Lakes
- October 2022 - Alton Towers weekend
- October 2022 - Maldives
- November 2022 - Motorhome weekend, The Lakes
- December 2022 - Disneyland Paris
- December 2022 - New York
- February 2023 - Adventure holiday, France
- March 2023 - Wild camping, Scotland
- April 2023 - Disneyworld, Florida
- May 2023 - Motorhome weekend away, Lake District
- May 2023 - Cornwall week away
Noel joked, revealing he was totally baffled as to where the bumper brood could go instead.
''So, we're not allowed to go to Florida and we're not allowed to spend a weekend in the Lake District, either!''
Earlier this year, The Sun reported that Sue went on holiday a staggering 24 times last year, spending Christmas in Disneyland.
Even with having multiple kids to care for, the 48-year-old shared adorable photos of her tots enjoying the attractions and meeting famous Disney characters like Mr and Mrs Incredible.
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Their return back home journey wasn’t quite so magical, as the family’s travel plans were scuppered by Storm Henk as it battered France and the UK.
Posting a snap of inside their caravan, Sue wrote: “Home time just waiting to get on the tunnel we’ve had the best week in Disneyland but looking forward to getting home.”