‘Critical’ hearth 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 hearth.

Six hearth engines and round 40 firefighters tackled the blaze in Grove Park Gardens, which was reported to London Fire Brigade at 9.46am.

Crews used a 32m (105ft) ladder whereas combating the fireplace within the seven-bedroom residence.

The 4,435sq ft property belongs to the star’s ex-wife, Lisa Armstrong, who rents it out.

McPartlin‘s TV companion, Declan Donnelly, lives only a few doorways down in the identical street, along with his spouse Ali Astall and their two kids Isla and Jack.

The home is estimated to have greater than doubled in worth since McPartlin and Ms Armstrong purchased it for £2.3m in 2006, the yr they married.

As firefighters tackled the blaze, a neighborhood resident informed 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 hearth was introduced below management simply earlier than lunchtime, with crews remaining on the scene into the afternoon.

London Fire Brigade confirmed to Sky News that no accidents had been reported, and that the reason for the fireplace was presently being investigated.

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 habit to painkillers on account 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.