A dad-of-six claimed 30,000 cigarettes were for 'personal use' after ignoring the duty free signs at Manchester Airport.
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Stuart Armfield and Francis Haugen have amassed 1.2 million followers on TikTok, and have recently won an award in the Best Parenting at the Influencer Awards.
They use their TikTok page Stuart and Francis to share snippets of their lives as a happily married gay couple who are parents to newborn baby daughter Rebel and son Rio, two, via their surrogates Sam and Carly. On the social media platform, they have also talked candidly about their journey to becoming fathers of two over the last three years, with all its highs and lows.
Although experiencing having their own family is all their dreams come true, it's not been easy as, in the UK, until a parental order is granted to them by the courts, their surrogates remain the legal parents of their children. In an exclusive interview with OK! they have opened up about the difficulties during the parental order process with Rio and their concerns about going through it again with Rebel....
"When we went through the parental order process with Rio, we felt like we were being totally judged and that we had done something wrong because one of us had to do a DNA test to show that he was biologically connected to one of us. It was crazy and sad because even though we had all the doctor's notes about the embryo and egg donor it still wasn't enough so we really didn't enjoy that part of the process at all.
It took eight months for the parental order to be granted and it was a really tough time - it hasn't been difficult for other gay families we have been in touch with but for us it was a real struggle. We aren't the best at admin but we took advice from other gay dads and filled out our application like they did.
A dad-of-six claimed 30,000 cigarettes were for 'personal use' after ignoring the duty free signs at Manchester Airport.
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