Why I WILL leave £16m fortune to my two lucky boys, by Kirstie Allsopp
She is worth an estimated £16million after forging a top TV career offering tips on property.
Now Kirstie Allsopp has revealed she plans to leave the lot to her sons Bay Atlas, 12, and Oscar hercules, nine, so they can ‘do what they like’.
Baron’s daughter Kirstie, 46, whose partner is property tycoon Ben Anderson, said: ‘Ben and I have been fortunate to make a considerable amount of money and I want my children not to have to do that.
‘If they want to be a teacher, midwife or research scientist, I want them to be able to do that. The privilege of the money we’ve earned is that the kids can do what they like.’ But the Location, Location, Location presenter insisted she would give her sons nothing if they did not work.
She said: ‘I’d be horrified if they didn’t work and wouldn’t give them a penny.
‘I’d be thrilled if they lived nearby, teaching at a local school while I looked after their children – that’s my dream scenario. I hope the fact that they’re OK [financially] gives them freedom to do good things,’ Kirstie told Prima magazine. Ben is the father of Kirstie’s sons. She is also stepmother to his sons from a previous relationship, Orion, 16, and hal, 19.
Kirstie, whose father is a former chairman of Christie’s auction house, attended top private schools before buying her first flat in Battersea, South London aged just 21. The star now owns two houses in Devon and one in Notting hill, West London.
her decision to give all her fortune to her children goes against those made by other wealthy celebrity parents, including Sir elton John, Sting and Simon Cowell. Sir elton, 71, said that while he wants his sons, Zachary, seven, and elijah, five, to be in a ‘sound financial state’ he thinks too much money would ‘ruin their life’.
Sting, 66, has said his six children will not inherit much of his £180million earnings. And music mogul Cowell, 58, insists he will not give his £325million estate to his son, eric, now four. he has said he will probably leave it to charities instead, adding: ‘I don’t believe in passing on from one generation to another.’