Chloe Goodman guidelines out actuality present with husband Grant Hall

Chloe Goodman has revealed she wouldn’t film an at home reality show because her family ‘isn’t up for grabs.’ 

The model, 31, has a reality TV past, with stints on Ex On The Beach and Celebrity Big Brother, yet it isn’t a path she expects her footballer husband Grant Hall and their children Isla, four, and Hudson, two, to follow. 

In contrast, Chloe’s sister Lauryn – with whom she had a very public fall out after it emerged Lauryn had an affair with married Kyle Walker – is said to be filming an explosive new reality TV show about ‘wannabe WAGs’. 

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline at her home in East Sussex, Chloe laughed: ‘My family on a reality TV show? Have you been reading the news recently?! 

‘I’m not sure if I want all those skeletons out of the closet, there’s a lot. There’s a lot that goes on.’

Chloe continued: ‘You’ve got so many different members of the family you’ve got me, and then you’ve got my little sister Amelia. And then you’ve got Lauryn’s family. 

‘So there’s just so many different dynamics. There’d be a lot of editing!

‘It would be fun, but Grant’s a really private guy, he’s really chilled. He doesn’t like drama.’

Explaining that Grant – who plays for Swindon Town – prefers to keep out of the spotlight, she continued: ‘I did my stuff in the public eye because I did it before I met him. I dipped in and out of it.

‘Grant’s job is in the public eye, but he doesn’t like his private life to be. So I think that’s where we’re different to some other celebrity couples.

‘We’re both in the public eye because of our jobs, but we aren’t grand.

I think it’s very easy to latch onto that sort of “bag status”, and that becomes what you’re famous for, rather than actually having your career.

‘I’m not known because I was with Grant. I was known because I did reality TV and I was a model before I met Grant. It just so happens that Grant’s job was a footballer so people knew who he was.

‘We’re now a family but that’s not up for grabs. People ask if we’d do a reality TV show but Grant would need the most convincing. We keep our family to ourselves.

‘I’m very lucky. He protects what he loves.’

Chloe was just 19 when she burst onto the showbiz scene with Ex On The Beach and admitted that now she has a very different outlook on life. 

She explained: ‘I thought I knew the world and thought I knew myself but I probably didn’t have a clue.

‘When you’re 18/19, you’re not thinking that you’re still gonna be in this industry at 31. I was a child making childish decisions, but it was on TV – so it was a bit different!

‘When you’re that age, you’re a bit selfish. You only think about you and your world and what’s going on around you. You don’t think about the ripple effect that it would have on your life in years to come.

‘I’m content now and happy with my mum / work life.’

Chloe also opened up about how the aftercare and focus on mental health has changed for reality TV stars. 

‘That sort of aspect of TV wasn’t a thing when I did it,’ she explained. ‘It it just wasn’t looked at. It was “put up and shut up, this is what it is, if you don’t like it, don’t do it simple.”

‘So we just had to crack on. Just had to deal with it in your own way. I’m a tough cookie. I was quite good with dealing with with stuff, but it it’s definitely changed for the better 100 percent. 

‘Reality TV is so much bigger now and now there’s the social media aspect too. When I did it, I think Instagram had just I’m not even sure if it had even started or it might have been in it’s infancy.’

It’s hardly surprising that there are differences now, as Chloe last appeared on reality TV in MTV’s Ex On The Beach All Stars in 2016, years before TV bosses were truly pulled up on contestant duty of care.

Tragically, it was the deaths of reality stars that prompted this change in protocol.

TV productions came under increased scrutiny following the deaths of former Love Island contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis, and the suspected suicide of guest Steve Dymond, who died following a drug overdose after appearing on the Jeremy Kyle Show in 2019.

Concerns about reality show conduct were raised again after Love Island host Caroline Flack killed herself in 2020 while awaiting trial on assault charges.

TV watchdog Ofcom then demanded that TV shows provide duty of care to participants following a ‘steady rise in complaints’ over the shows.

Yet the reality TV world is no longer of any concern for Chloe, who has chosen a different career path. 

Now, she’s enrolled on a three-year course for adult nursing and is hoping to use qualify as an advanced nurse practitioner to offer more services at her aesthetic clinic, Opiah. 

Yet this comes with its own set of challenges, and she confessed: ‘I was a little bit embarrassed about going back to school. Everyone’s 20-odd, fresh out of college. 

‘But then I thought the only embarrassing thing is not doing what you want to do in life and letting other people hold you back.

‘So I might be the oldest one at uni, might be the oldest one in my class, but that’s fine. 

‘I had no time to go to university before because I came out of college and I was a full time model, then I went into reality TV, I had children… Now I want go back and study.

‘I don’t live my life on the terms of other people. I do what suits me and my family.’