Meet The Famous Sextuplet Sisters as they clock 30

The rest is history. The Walton sextuplets – Hannah, Ruth, Luci, Kate, Jennie and Sarah – were born in Liverpool on 18 November, 1983. Arriving 31 and a half weeks into their mother’s pregnancy, they made front-page news, capturing the hearts of the nation, not just their parents.
Today, the Waltons – who are still the world’s only surviving all-girl sextuplets in the world – have just celebrated their 30th birthday, which no one outside the family can quite believe.
‘Everyone who remembers watching them on the TV when they were born says it makes them feel old,’ comments Janet, 61. ‘I say, “Can you imagine how I feel, then?”‘
Next week, all six sisters and their parents appear in an ITV documentary that follows them as they celebrate their milestone event.

Their father’s in no hurry for any of them to get married – for financial reasons. Ever since they’ve been old enough to have boyfriends, Graham has been telling the world that he’s quite happy with them all living in sin, ‘if it would save me a few bob’.
What’s remarkable about the Waltons is how close they all seem. Geographically, none of the girls has strayed too far from their parents’ home in Wallasey on the Wirral. Hannah still lives with them, and four of the others live within a few miles. Even Jennie, the farthest-flung, is only in Leeds, where she’s settled with her boyfriend.
They’re also close emotionally. ‘They’re friends as well as sisters, which I always think is lovely,’ says Janet. ‘You can’t predict that.’
Growing up in the spotlight can’t have been easy, though. Janet and Graham first allowed the cameras into their lives for financial reasons.