Charlotte Crosby defends joke photo of baby daughter on plane after backlash from fans
Charlotte Crosby laughed off online backlash after a playful, edited Instagram photo meant as a joke during a delayed flight was taken the wrong way by some of her followers.
Charlotte Crosby has hit back at trolls who took a joking, edited Instagram photo of her baby daughter appearing to hang from a plane’s fire exit sign seriously.
The 35-year-old TV personality was travelling from Dubai to the Maldives with her fiance Jake Ankers, daughter Alba, three, and Pixi, 11 months, and as they were bored due to their flight being delayed, the couple kept Pixi entertained by playing with her inside the aircraft.
Jake lifted the tot next to the fire exit sign - which she grabbed onto - and as it appeared Pixi was hanging from the sign, Charlotte edited her partner out of the image she took to make it look like Pixi got up there herself.
Writing over the photo - which was shared to her Instagram Stories on Monday (29.12.25) - Charlotte said: "We couldn't find Pixi anywhere on the flight. We could just hear her laughing ... then we looked up and she was HANGING from the exit sign. What's she like these second children are wild!!
"Gunna have to watch her closely in Maldives or she might be off on the jet skis before Yano it. (sic)"
As she, Jake, Alba and Pixi were on their way to the Maldives, Charlotte received an onslaught from the "mam police" who were "losing their s***" in her Instagram inbox after wrongly thinking Pixi was dangling from the fire exit sign herself.
And when they arrived at their holiday home, the Geordie Shore alum was forced to remind her followers that the image on her Instagram Stories was edited and a joke.
Writing over a photo of Charlotte looking exhausted, as well as the original snap of Jake lifting Pixi next to the fire exit sign, she typed: "Right we have landed in the Maldives wait until I tell you all the adventure it took to get here ... BUT FIRST why have I been getting sooooo many messages of people kicking off at Pixi doing pull ups on the fire exit sign!
"Let the girl live for gods sake!!!!!!! LMAO come on yous! You didn't actually think that was real did you? I just photoshopped Jake out we were delayed for ages on the run way and bored! And couldn't stop laughing at how Pixi looked like she was dangling herself!
"When I tell you the mam police have been losing their s*** in my inbox! (sic)"
In another Instagram Story, Charlotte shared a screenshotted Direct Message (DM) from a woman who took Charlotte's joke seriously.
The individual wrote: "Not guna lie that's just scruffy. 'Can't find my child' are you joking, on a flight. Your confined to your seats for god sake.
"Your surely not that busy that your child/baby just mooches off round the plane get a grip!! For god sake!! (sic)"
Writing over the screenshotted DM, Charlotte could not believe the woman fell for the joke.
The Celebrity Big Brother 2013 winner said: "This message in particular really made me lol ... At how serious they thought I was being."
