‘Severe’ fireplace at Ant McPartlin and Lisa Armstrong’s former Chiswick mansion
A £5m mansion in Chiswick, west London – which used to belong to TV presenter Ant McPartlin – has been broken by fireplace.
Six fireplace engines and round 40 firefighters tackled the blaze in Grove Park Gardens, which was reported to London Fire Brigade at 9.46am.
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Crews used a 32m (105ft) ladder whereas combating the hearth within the seven-bedroom dwelling.
The 4,435sq ft property belongs to the star’s ex-wife, Lisa Armstrong, who rents it out.
McPartlin‘s TV accomplice, Declan Donnelly, lives just some doorways down in the identical street, together with his spouse Ali Astall and their two youngsters Isla and Jack.
The home is estimated to have greater than doubled in value since McPartlin and Ms Armstrong purchased it for £2.3m in 2006, the yr they married.
As firefighters tackled the blaze, an area resident instructed The Independent: “The fire looks pretty serious and definitely not under control. An ambulance passed me as I drove down the road with blue lights and siren on.”
The fireplace was introduced beneath management simply earlier than lunchtime, with crews remaining on the scene into the afternoon.
The reason for the hearth is being investigated.
(L-R): Lisa Armstrong, Ant McPartlin, Declan Donnelly and his spouse Ali Astall in 2015
McPartlin and Ms Armstrong have been collectively for greater than 20 years and married for 11 years earlier than submitting for divorce in January 2018.
The break-up got here after McPartlin entered rehab in 2017, following struggles with a two-year dependancy to painkillers because of a knee operation.
He later pleaded responsible to drink-driving after crashing whereas greater than twice over the authorized restrict in southwest London in March 2018.
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McPartlin first met Ms Armstrong, a make-up artist, at a roadshow in Newcastle within the mid-Nineties, when she was an aspiring pop star within the band Deuce.
McPartlin has since married his former private assistant, Anne-Marie Corbett, in 2019.