Josie Gibson shares message to fellow single mum as she tells how she's really feeling about upcoming milestone

Josie Gibson has shared how she's just like many other parents up and down the country as she prepares for her son's next stage. The This Morning star is a doting mum to her son, Reggie, who will be starting school in September.

Reggie, who Josie shares with her ex-boyfriend Terry, arrived into the world in September 2018, almost a year after the TV star suffered a tragic miscarriage at 11 weeks pregnant in November of the previous year. Josie and Terry split months after welcoming their son.

Josie has since been single and dotes on her little boy who also gets to reap in his mum's success. In December last year, the mum-of-one fought tears as she looked back at her 'dream' trip with her rarely seen son for This Morning. As part of her duties on the show, Josie and Reggie, four, had been whisked off to Lapland.

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Their whole adventure was filmed for This Morning and in one scene, Josie asked her son what he wanted from Santa, and he requested a "silly sausage" and a "pig". The pair also explored their beautiful surrounding while pulled along by two reindeer, one of which Reggie had called Rudolph.

And getting to take the magical trip with her boy is something Josie will never forget. And it appears Reggie won't either. "We had our memories filmed and he thought it was just the most magical place on the planet," she told the Manchester Evening News in an exclusive interview.

"He wakes up in [the] morning and goes, 'Can we go to Lapland now please?'" she laughed. "He just loved it and we went with our crew. We're all very close, we're like a family, and obviously, we had filming to do and it was a tight schedule, and a busy