Davina: Moving out, moving on?
The TV host seems ready to leave her painful divorce behind her...
TV presenter Davina McCall has had a difficult time since the sad breakdown of her 17-year marriage to husband Matthew Robertson last year.
But it looks like the mother-of-three could be moving on with her life – as she’s put her luxurious sixbedroom Sussex country mansion up for sale. It’s a clear sign that the TV star is looking to start a fresh chapter in her life as a single woman with a brand-new place to call home.
The Grade II-listed property in question, a former medieval nunnery, situated in the village of Wadhurst, East Sussex, has six bedrooms, a swimming pool, a tennis court and 38 acres of rolling countryside, complete with water features and topiary.
The 18th-century stone mansion, which also boasts a gate house, coach house, cottage and barn, includes a plush lavender-themed dining room with purple velvet chairs, and even has private access to the nearby train station.
For anyone that follows Davina’s Instagram religiously, of course, the interiors will be instantly recognisable – especially her expansive, country-style kitchen, which has been the backdrop to so many of her posts.
Just a couple that spring to mind include one in which her cute dog is glimpsed, and another which sees Davina hard at work rustling up something tasty, dressed in nothing but her bikini!
Davina’s country pile is on the market for £6.25 million (almost double what she paid for it nine years ago). This means that the 50-year-old and her ex-husband stand to make more than £3 million from the sale.
Yet despite the hefty financial gains, home, as they say, is where the heart is – and a part of Davina’s is bound to be breaking as she walks away from a place that once represented happier times with Matthew, 49, and children Holly, 15, Tilly, 13, and Chester, 10, all living contentedly under one roof.
Leaving was never the plan. Davina said in a previous interview that she and Matthew ‘ buy homes that need a bit of work, do them up, sell on and buy something else… ’ before adding of their latest home, ‘ We are not going to move again.’
But Davina, who has battled drugs and booze in the past, says the break-up has made her better equipped for the painful curve-balls life can throw at you, ‘Throw anything at me – I’ll be OK.’ Somehow, we’re quite sure she will be.
Davina’s heart is bound to be breaking as she walks away from her home