SAM THOMPSON: Our Biggest MIC Fallout & Why Jamie Finally Said Sorry

Great Company with Jamie Laing

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Sam Thompson and I grew up together on Made in Chelsea. What started as a friendship on the show became something much deeper - he became like a brother to me. We spoke every day and he was there for me through some of the hardest moments in my life.

Then everything changed. We had our biggest fallout and it all played out on TV.

Since then, we’ve rebuilt our friendship. I’ve watched Sam turn one of the toughest years of his life into one of his best. This conversation looks back at what broke us and what brought us back together.

We cover:

- Growing up on Made In Chelsea

- Our biggest fallout and the phone call that brought us back together

- Sam’s first heartbreak and what it’s taught him

- Wanting to be a dad and Sam’s fear that time is running out

- Why 2025 ended up being Sam’s best year yet

This conversation is about how our hardest years can end up teaching us the most - and how it’s never too late to say sorry.

Sam Thompson is Great Company.

Sam's podcast with co-host Pete Wicks, Staying Relevant is available wherever you get your podcasts. Sam’s new ITV show ‘Celebrity Sabotage’ comes to your screens in February 2026. Sam is a proud ambassador for ADHD UK - please see here for more information, www.adhduk.co.uk.

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Executive Producer: Ewan Newbigging-Lister

Producer: Helen Burke

Assistant Producer: Issy Weeks-Hankins

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0:00.0	coming up in this episode of Great Company.
0:02.7	Because you said 2025's worst year of your life.
0:04.7	It's been a wild year.
0:05.7	I thought I was Superman.
0:06.7	I was like, you can't take me down.
0:09.0	Everyone can get taken down.
0:10.2	And last year, I got really, really bad burnout.
0:13.2	Do you feel depressed?
0:14.0	Yeah, I felt really, really, really down.
0:15.8	One minute you're Tigger, and the next minute you're literally on the floor.
0:19.2	Because we had our fallout on MIC. We had a few, mate.
0:21.6	Get out of my office.
0:22.6	Fuck you.
0:23.6	Fair fucking minimum.
0:24.6	You dated Sophie, my now wife.
0:26.6	You guys broke up and I started dating her behind your back.
0:29.6	You had a bit of a history for going after people's exes.
0:32.6	I remember saying to you after, just please don't do this one.
0:35.6	You and I did not talk. Like half a year. Here we go. Hello, I'm Sam Thompson and I'm in great company. It's style of the nation's heart. King of the jungle. Sam Thompson. Louise basically had a very tricky pregnancy and nearly died on giving birth. Nearly died three times. That was one of the hardest times in my life by an absolute fucking mile, because I remember the doctor came in twice and when we can't stop the bleeding. And I was like, oh my fucking God, like what? This is a nightmare. I don't even think I'd properly process it now, if I'm honest with you. You did a 260 mile endurance challenge, from London to Manchester carrying the Socray bull. I was 2K away from the end of the first marathon.
1:13.1	I felt like a gunshot had taken my fucking calf out.
1:17.0	The physio goes to me, he goes, mate, you've torn your calf.
1:19.5	And I went, what do you mean? He went, you're not running on that.
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