Stacey heads to Bedfordshire to the private site where 23-year-old Chantelle lives with her husband, Swaley. Chantelle prides herself in keeping with the ‘old’ Gypsy values her granny Rita taught her and sharing them on social media, where she has blown up with nearly 400,000 followers on TikTok and 15 million likes on her page. Her chalet is where she films all her ‘Gypsy Cleaning’ videos for her loyal fanbase. Chantelle shares her cleaning hacks with Stacey.\n\nOver two months, Stacey gets to know Chantelle and Swaley, hearing what courting looked like for this young couple, the reaction Chantelle has had to her viral videos and the vital role of family in their lives.\n\nEighteen-year-old Serena and her family live in Lincolnshire and welcome Stacey into their bustling family life. Serena explains to Stacey that they have decided to invite her into their home to show people that they are normal. Serena is in the middle of planning her wedding to her fiance, Marco. He is from a Gypsy and Traveller community too, and Serena wouldn’t have it any other way.\n\nSpending time with Serena’s sister Ivana and mum Teresa as they help Serena get organised for the biggest step in a Gypsy girl’s life, Stacey learns that this community often chooses to marry within their own, as it enables them to protect the values and traditions they hold dear. Serena has been searching high and low for all the things she is going to need to create her new married home.\n\nSerena gets Stacey mucking out the horses in her stable, where she has taken her childhood passion for horse riding to launch her own business buying, breeding and selling horses. The Traveller community has long been associated with horses, but the business is usually left to the men, and Serena is breaking the mould at just 18 years old. Stacey is surprised to hear that Serena often feels it is best to keep her ethnicity hidden when she is meeting potential clients, as she fears they may not want to do business with her.\n\nIn Nottinghamshire, Stacey meets a young woman taking a new job in a busy, thriving salon in the ‘gorger’ (non-Traveller) world. At an age when many Gypsy and Traveller women may be hoping to get married, 22-year-old Ebony is pushing ahead with her career in beauty. Stacey joins her for her first day at the new salon, and Ebony confides in Stacey about the compromises you sometimes have to make to fit into the ‘gorger’ world. But, proud of her Gypsy heritage, Ebony has found a salon where she isn’t afraid to own who she is.
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Growing Up Gypsy
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BBC 3
Series 2 - Kids In The Crossfire
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BBC 3
Meet The Shoplifters
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25-03-2025
BBC 3
Rape On Trial: Episode 2
As Stacey continues to follow the emotional journey of the young women who have reported rape and are now trying to navigate the justice system, we learn the statistics are star ...
19-03-2025
BBC 3
Rape On Trial: Episode 1
The perception of how rape happens is changing, with 90 per cent of victims saying they know their attacker. Stacey Dooley meets four women who have reported being raped by some ...
18-03-2025
BBC 3
Series 1: 3. Border Wars
The pathway to the American dream is a dangerous one for some - it's a five-day trek in ferocious heat. Stacey Dooley follows young South Americans risking their lives to cross ...
10-09-2024
BBC 3
Inside The Convent
Stacey Dooley is spending ten days living alongside the nuns of St Hilda’s Priory in Whitby. \n\nStacey’s life is a whirlwind. She always throws herself into work an ...
07-09-2024
BBC 3
Series 1 - Girls Behind Bars
Stacey Dooley meets the girls at 'Shock' - the only US prison boot camp for women - and also spends time in a medium-security prison to see what they will be facing if they fail.
06-09-2024
BBC 3
Stacey Dooley: Ready For War?
Stacey Dooley follows a squad of Ukrainian civilians from the moment they land on British soil for five weeks of gruelling training, designed to give them the skills they will n ...
25-08-2024
BBC 3
Stalkers: Episode 2
Stacey explores stranger stalking, how stalking can be stopped in the long term and if prison time or therapy is a more effective solution. \n \nAbby, a 22-year-old dancer, is b ...
14-02-2022
BBC 3
Growing Up Gypsy
Stacey heads to Bedfordshire to the private site where 23-year-old Chantelle lives with her husband, Swaley. Chantelle prides herself in keeping with the ‘old’ Gypsy ...
27-03-2025
BBC 3
Series 2 - Homeless In Detroit
Stacey Dooley travels to Detroit to find out how homeless people are surviving in a bankrupt city that has 70,000 abandoned buildings and is struggling to support its population.
15-01-2019
BBC 3
Series 2 - Kids In The Crossfire
Stacey Dooley travels to the murder capital of the US and meets a family struggling to come to terms with the murder of their daughter, killed in the crossfire of a gang shooting.
27-03-2025
BBC 3
Stacey On The Frontline: Girls, Guns And Isis
September 2016: Stacey Dooley embeds herself on the frontline with the extraordinary all-female Yazidi battalion, who are fuelled to take revenge against the so-called Islamic S ...
26-02-2019
BBC 3
The Young And Homeless
Last year in the UK 103,000 young people presented themselves as homeless, but the real number is much higher as thousands of teenagers go under the radar by sofa surfing or sta ...
13-11-2018
BBC 3
Inside The Convent
Stacey Dooley is spending ten days living alongside the nuns of St Hilda’s Priory in Whitby. \n\nStacey’s life is a whirlwind. She always throws herself into work an ...
07-09-2024
BBC 3
Stalkers: Episode 1
Stacey meets victims and perpetrators of the most common type of stalking: a young mum’s ex in court, a pilot claiming heartbreak and a stalker just out of prison.
07-02-2022
BBC 3
Back On The Psych Ward
Mental health across society has worsened since the pandemic began. Stacey Dooley returns to Springfield Hospital, and over six months, including the second nationwide lockdown, ...
14-04-2021
BBC 3
Series 1: 3. Border Wars
The pathway to the American dream is a dangerous one for some - it's a five-day trek in ferocious heat. Stacey Dooley follows young South Americans risking their lives to cross ...
10-09-2024
BBC 3
Series 1 - Girls Behind Bars
Stacey Dooley meets the girls at 'Shock' - the only US prison boot camp for women - and also spends time in a medium-security prison to see what they will be facing if they fail.
06-09-2024
BBC 3