Millie Mackintosh has jumped on the 2016 viral trend as she shared throwback bikini snaps, ignoring that it was the year she divorced Professor Green after their ‘toxic marriage’.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, and the rapper, 42, – whose real name is Stephen Manderson – recently confirmed they were back on speaking terms after nine years of silence following their two year marriage.
Despite this, Millie has decided not to include Green in her 2016 photo round up and instead featured a picture of now husband Hugo Taylor, who she had been on and off with since 2011.
Millie and Green finalised their divorce in May 2016, the same week that Millie chose to go public with Hugo.
The reality star went on to marry her MIC co-star Hugo in 2018, two years after her divorce and the couple are now proud parents of two young daughters.
Millie said ‘a lot can change in 10 years’ as she also shared holiday snaps, Glastonbury throwbacks and magazine covers.
Millie Mackintoshhas jumped on the 2016 viral trend as she shared throwback bikini snaps, ignoring that it was the year she divorced Professor Green after their ‘toxic marriage’
The Made In Chelsea star, 35, and the rapper, 42, recently confirming they were back on speaking terms after nine years of silence following their two year marriage
Running through each photo, she penned: ‘Everyone’s telling me 2026 is the new 2016! Wow. A lot can change in 10 years.
‘Slide one: I loved this shoot for @womenshealthuk – I miss these abs. Slide two: Beautiful Mauritius. Slide three: I loved this shoot for @instylemagazine.
‘Slide four: My favourite year at Glastonbury – Coldplay were amazing. Slide five: With my bestie @florindacarey in south of France. Slide six: Partying in Dubai with @cbyclarissa.
‘Slide seven: The Victoria Secret show in Paris. Slide eight: Thinking I should go back to this hair? @cosmopolitanuk. Slide nine: Busy creating my clothing line.
‘Slide ten: Making friends on the beach in Cape Town. Slide eleven: Back when I could do unassisted chin ups @womenshealthuk @jongorriganphotography.
‘Slide twelve: Being interviewed by the lovely @joshsmithhosts. Slide thirteen: So fun being a guest on Britains Next Top Model. Slide fourteen: Trying to do blue steel at the Zoolander 2 premier’.
In October last year it was reported that Millie and Green are ‘on their best terms in a decade’ after drawing a line under their toxic separation and subsequent divorce.
Friends claimed the British rapper and his ex-wife have brushed any lingering resentments to one side for the sake of their friendship.
Despite this, Millie has decided not to include Green in her 2016 photo round up and instead featured a picture of now husband Hugo Taylor, who she had been on and off with since 2011
Millie and Green finalised their divorce in May 2016, the same week that Millie chose to go public with Hugo
Millie said ‘a lot can change in 10 years’ as she also shared holiday snaps, Glastonbury throwbacks and magazine covers
Millie showed off her butterfly tattoo on her lower back as she stroked puppies on the beach
Millie showed off her millitary style blazer and shorts as she posed at Glastonbury festival
Running through each photo, she penned: ‘Everyone’s telling me 2026 is the new 2016! Wow. A lot can change in 10 years’
A source told The Sun: ‘Stephen and Millie were head over heels when they were together, but will both admit it just wasn’t the right time.
‘They have both moved on, Millie is living a picture-perfect life with her two daughters, but Stephen’s relationship is a bit rockier.
‘There is one big change though – they have started speaking again, and they are on better terms than they have been in a decade.
‘Both being parents has played a huge part, and they have both grown up a lot. They have also both given up booze, which was a huge issue when they were together.’
Millie is now a parent to daughters Siena, five, and Aurelia, three, with Hugo, while Green raises son Slimane, four, with his actress partner Karima Adebibe.
The rapper revealed he was back in touch with his ex-wife during a candid podcast interview with her close friend and former Made In Chelsea co-star Jamie Laing for his Great Company podcast.
Green explained that he and Millie both ‘trauma bonded’ together over their previously undiagnosed ADHD.
He said: ‘There was undiagnosed neurodivergence between both of us. We had a conversation about this recently, and it makes sense.
‘I don’t feel uncomfortable about these things anymore, but I felt uncomfortable for a huge part of my life.’
He added: ‘If there wasn’t that pressure, we may have never got married. It very nearly didn’t happen.
In October last year it was reported that Millie and Green are ‘on their best terms in a decade’ after drawing a line under their toxic separation and subsequent divorce; pictured 2014
‘I remember having a conversation with my two best mates, Lewis and Phoenix. “Am I getting cold feet? What’s going on here?” And one of them said yes. One of them said, No. I won’t put him in it, because it’s not their responsibility.
‘I made my own decision. We made our decision, and we didn’t get married for the wrong reasons. We loved each other.
‘It was probably an element of trauma bonding. And it takes a lot to get to a place of going, “I had a significant part in that, 50% at least, because there were two of us in the situation, and it didn’t work out.”
‘But hopefully we can both go forward and find happiness and belonging.’
He also called his ex-wife ‘beautiful’ as he added: ‘There’s no resentment in me. She is gorgeous.
‘We were not good for each other at that time.’
Following Green’s admissions, Millie shared a pointed remark on her Instagram platform.
On Wednesday, she re-posted a quote that read: ‘There’s only one thing more precious than our time…
‘And it’s who we spend it on.’
The former couple finalised their divorce in May 2016, the same week that Millie chose to go public with Hugo.
The reality star went on to marry her MIC co-star Hugo in 2018, two years after her divorce and the couple are now proud parents of two young daughters
Following their separation, Green appeared to take a swipe at his ex-wife in the lyrics to 2016 single, Eye On The Door.
Lamenting an apparent lack of action between the sheets in the opening verse, the rapper suggests he and Mackintosh spent most of their time watching box sets.
Green also suggests she regularly kicked him out of the marital home in south-east London and would only allow him back in if he returned with a gift of material significance.
He raps: ‘Me an the Mrs we are getting along/Till I do something wrong – then it’s another domestic/People wanna know what my life’s like.
‘Behind closed doors what’s my wife like/It gets crazy in bed – We watch a couple episodes/Of a box set and and then it’s night night/When she hears this s**t it’s lights out/I’ll probably get kicked out of my house/Till I come back with a brand new Chanel bag.’
A second verse finds Pro Green’s protagonist wrestling with his conscience; on the one hand fretting about divorce, while on the other putting his wife’s feelings to one side while he parties with pals.
Referring to his use of drugs, he raps: ‘One minute it was one, the next it was six/S**t I’m dead – I don’t know where the time went.
‘Where’s my phone? S**t sixty-one missed calls/A divorce is on the cards if I don’t split/And get my a**e in gear – I’m asking for it.
‘A b****rd ain’t I – auf wiedersehen/Better get my a**e in gear and get a car quick though, if I’m already gonna get my a**e kicked?
‘Then pass it/What’s one more half, what’s one more spliff/What’s one more glass/What’s one more line, what’s one more toke/I’m already a dead man when I get home.’
Millie and Hugo got engaged on the Greek island of Mykonos the following year and married in Sussex in June 2018.
The couple welcomed daughter Sienna in 2020 and daughter Aurelia in 2021.
Speaking on Brogan Garrit-Smith’s podcast Getting There last year, Millie said she went through ‘a really hard time’ when she divorced.
‘I think we [Professor Green] both were in our own struggles, and I think we maybe both thought we could fix each other,’ she reflected of her marriage. ‘But we couldn’t.’
‘And ultimately, we both had our own struggles, and it just magnified it. And it was actually quite toxic.’
