Gogglebox's Mary devastated after arsonists broke into home and set it on fire
16.02.2024 - 21:34
/ ok.co.uk
A Gogglebox star has shared a shocking story about her family home being targeted by vandals. Mary Killen, who appears on the Channel 4 show alongside her husband Giles Wood, The TV star, revealed that her home was once broken into and set on fire.
Mary and Giles are currently dealing with issues at their old Wiltshire house, but these problems seem small compared to what Mary experienced in her childhood home. She revealed that vandals deliberately started a fire after gaining entry to the property.
In her book, Country Life, Mary looked back on her childhood in Northern Ireland – she grew up in a house called Aranmore, in Larne, a town on the east coast of County Antrim. Her childhood home was next to a church and was where her GP father used to work.
But she shockingly explained that the house was broken into by criminals who tried to set it on fire. Mary said: "Vandals broke in and tried to set fire to it on more than one occasion.
They broke a stained-glass window on the landing just out of malice, not because they needed to come through that window..." Sadly, she added: "The church said they had no option but to bulldoze the lovely property," "It was a dismal ending for a house that had been of such service to both medical and social life the centre of so many parties given by my parents." Mary, who revealed she quit alcohol after getting food poisoning, left her home when she was only 18 years old and moved to London.
Now, she is happily settled in the English countryside with Giles and they make regular appearances on Gogglebox from the comfort of their living room. However, it seems likehttps://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/gogglebox-stars-giles-mary-tease-29826662 after missing out on "at least 600 London parties,
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