Absolute constructed bullshit. Firstly, I can believe there would be a few deadspots in the Scottish highlands, but Millie was contacting them throughout the journey as they crossed into Scotland and they were on major A roads/motorways. Why would the messages have suddenly arrived in the morning…and not when they were parked in the same spot the night before. Eve if every single Radford mobile was on the same network and so suffered the same coverage/connection issue, do they really expect us to believe the film crew also weren’t contactable, they would have been in a local hotel overnight.
Also, what is the nonsense about if Ophelia needed to go to hospital….Millie won’t take her unless Sue/Noel are there to give her a lift? If a child’s ill, then they are ill, you can’t decide that while waiting for someone to drive from Scotland. Also they had 2 campervans, so why cut the holiday short for the entire family, one parent could have stayed so at least some of their kids got a full holiday.
The most ridiculous of all is that Millie had 3 drivers, Jack, Daniel and Luke living with her, why can’t she ask them for a lift, or ask a friend, or pay out for a taxi. I just looked it up…the royal Lancaster a&e is a 12 min drive from their house, so not an excessive taxi fare. It’s likely it’s also quite easy to get there by bus.
I can understand rushing home if worried, but Millie herself wasn’t worried enough to inconvenience herself into travelling a 12min run to a hospital, so it couldn’t have actually been that serious.
It’s obvious they were coming home that day anyway and they’ve made it into a fake storyline, it wouldn’t surprise me if Ophelia’s temperature wasn’t as high as Millie stated and they were just hamming up the fact she has a bit of a cough for the cameras.