I'm A Celebrity star Christine Hamilton's kitchen submerged after Storm Bert floods home – Wales Online

Christine Hamilton (left) and her husband Neil spent hours bailing water from their home on Sunday evening
Media personality Christine Hamilton has described Storm Bert's impact as unleashing the worst flooding she's witnessed in two decades, as her property succumbed to a deluge. Mrs Hamilton, recognised for her stint on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! back in 2002, took to social media to display scenes of her spouse, ex-Tory MP Neil Hamilton, urgently removing water from their home in Hullavington, Wiltshire, last Sunday evening.
"We were literally bailing out water constantly for three hours, just to try and keep the level down to what it was," she told the PA news agency. "We had two inches of water in the back kitchen, and then if we stopped bailing for two seconds, the water would climb even further."
She disclosed that while friends endeavoured to present them with a pump, reaching the house was an insurmountable task due to the extensive floods. Join our WhatsApp news community here for the latest breaking news. You will receive updates from us daily.
Flooding inside the Hamiltons' home
Christine Hamilton(Image: PA Archive/PA Images)
Pictures shared on X, the platform known formerly as Twitter, showed a torrent breaching their property as Mr Hamilton, who steered Ukip from 2020 until 2024, deployed a simple dustpan in his efforts to stem the flow. The recording captured Mrs Hamilton narrating the crisis: "Here it is gushing through the back door… I’ve stopped for a moment we’re now losing the battle… but we can’t do this all night," followed by a resigned, "Oh dear – onwards."
Despite the adversity, Mrs Hamilton expressed awareness of their comparably better fortune, cognisant of neighbours besieged by more severe predicaments.
"We’ve been one of the lucky ones, well, unlucky in a way," she added. "The problem with us was we’ve been here 20 years, and we’ve never had ever, ever had flooding before. We’ve had so much rain over the last weeks and months that the ground is waterlogged, and when Bert arrived, it just couldn’t cope."
"The water just came sort of rushing in from from the ground. We’re going to have to move some furniture and to stop it rotting but thankfully everything is drying out."
Storm Bert has left hundreds of homes submerged and roads transformed into rivers, with gales surpassing 80mph hitting parts of the UK over the weekend. Numerous train services were cancelled on Monday, while a huge number of flood warnings are still in effect.
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