Transcript 2: Where are they now? Find out what happened to the baby borrowers from series one.

Scene: Introduction, establishing shots

Narration: In the summer of 2006 5 teenage couples took part in a revolutionary social experiment. They got a crash course in the toughest job of all...parenting.

Fisnik: I never thought it was going to be that hard.

Kallai: It taught me a lot of things that I probably wouldn’t have learnt if I’d stayed at home.

Alex: It was 40 years of life with a safety net.

Narration: We’ve caught up with some of the couples to find out what they are doing now. And see how being one of the baby borrowers has influenced their lives.

Scene: Alex and Sam

Narration: When the experiment started Posh rockers Alex and Sam were very much in love.

Just before the experiment we kinda just decided, oh yeah we’ll have kids we’ll get married, this that and the other. We’re really looking really far into the future.

(In the house): Alex I made you fing dinner and fing lunch so you can’t say I’m not busting my gut for you.

Narration: But that love bubble was soon to burst.

(In the house): I want to the pub.

(In the house): So F off and get out.

Narration: The relationship ended not long after and Sam has been back at college, focusing on becoming a hairdresser.

Sam: Now I’m in my second year which is gone it on colouring and cutting on clients and things and I’m doing really well and I’m really enjoying it.

Narration: But that’s not the only thing to that’s kept Sam busy.

Sam: I have a nephew basically. I’m just about to take your nappy off Riley. It’s my own nephew this time so I’m much more used to changing his nappy than when I was with Harrison.

(In the house): Sam do you want to check it?

(In the house): No you check it.

Sam: Alex usually had the role of that.

(In the house): Is there poo in it, is there, I don’t want to see it.

Sam: Being on the baby borrowers I’ve learnt that I can’t live on my own yet, I need to grow up a little bit more and that I wasn’t ready to start a family or anything. Basically I need to find the right person before I think about doing that and get my career out of the way and things.

Scene: Alex

OK sir that’s £3.60 change thanks very much.

Narration: Meanwhile Alex’s has been working at a coffee shop but doesn’t underestimate what he learnt from his time on Archer Close.

Alex: Probably some of the most rewarding points I got from the whole programme was looking after the children. My paternal instincts really did kick in, and I didn’t think I had them. As energy draining as it was, I think that was one of the most rewarding skills I ever got from that.

Narration: And he now wants to continue working with children.

Alex: I’m joining the UKSA, the United Kingdom Sailing Academy. And I’m to become a watersports instructor which will take me all around the world teaching scuba diving, windsurfing, kitesurfing, it’s kind of the opportunity and dream of any teenager really.

Scene: Fisnik and Ava

Narration: Kosovan born Fisnik and Persian princess Ava had been in a relationship for 4 years before they became Baby Borrowers.

(In the house): Clean out this room now for a change now, stop stop stop.

(In the house): But I haven’t got any space.

Fisnik: After watching the Baby Borrowers I wasn’t happy with myself.

(In the house): Clean the house tidy whilst they are here.

(In the house): Fisnik don’t tell me what to do.

Fisnik: The way I was with Ava.

(In the house): She has to clean the house first to get into that.

Fisnik: I never never in my life thought I was like that.

Narration: Having dropped out of college, Fisnik’s in the security business as a bouncer.

Fisnik: Me and Ava are still together, I mean the relationship is never perfect it’s always up and downs ups and downs.

Narration: But Ava had other ideas. She purchased a one way ticket to Iran and is training to be a tattoo artist.

Scene: Raiesa and Kallai

Narration: The loved up Londoners Kallai and Raiesa’s relationship also broke down during their Baby Borrowers experience.

(In the house): I wanna come home, everything’s just pissing me off I swear.

There was a communications failure.

(In the house): I’m one those people who talk and I’m not clingy and mushy mushy.

(In the house): It proper hurts I swear.

We both agreed that it was just best if we weren’t together.

Narration: Kallai is now in a new relationship and studying sports science at college.

Kallai: Since finishing the Baby Borrowers a couple of my main focusing other than college and that is been music really, just dancing and DJing. I think the Baby Borrowers taught me how to like open up like I was bit a but closed like I didn’t used to communicate as much.

Scene: Raiesa

Narration: Seventeen year old Raiesa also has a new partner but that’s not all.

Raiesa: Since the programme finished, I’ve had a baby. Look what mummy’s got, look what mummy’s got. I think everyone will be surprised to hear that I’ve got a baby.

(In the house): Oh no no I’m not having it , I am not having it.

Raiesa: Obviously in the last series I wasn’t the most patient person.

(In the house): What is really good, what is really good?

Raiesa: The Baby Borrowers taught me to be more patient and think more about things before you get irritated about things.

Narration: For now Raiesa and baby Deijah will be living with her mum. But she hopes her plans for the future will support them both.

Raiesa: I’ve got my daughter and I’m happy about that. I’m not too sure how I’m going to manage financially but where there’s a will there’s a way. I will do it, I have to do it.

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