Vanessa’s ‘nightmare neighbours’
A riled-up Vanessa Feltz called out nightmare neighbours on live TV…
From the dotty to the downright diabolical, there are anti-social neighbours up and down Britain, causing their neighbours grief on a daily basis.
Indeed, broadcaster Vanessa Feltz, 59, clearly had a bone to pick with some of hers, during a recent phone-in on ITV’s This Morning.
In her role as the show’s resident agony aunt, speaking to Holly Willoughby and Phil Schofield from home via video-link, Vanessa was giving advice to people dealing with troublesome neighbours (hey, we’ve all been there!).
As she did, the star opened up about her own experiences – and was not backward in coming forward, claiming it felt like ‘ being trapped in hell’!
When one viewer called in about next door’s renovations ‘keeping her babies awake’, Vanessa, who is also a columnist for best, admitted she couldn’t have understood her predicament more.
‘You have my sympathy because I’m in exactly the same one,’ said Vanessa. ‘ When lockdown started this time last year there were massive renovations going on in a nearby house…
‘ We’re still here and it’s still happening. In fact, you can probably hear it as I’m broadcasting from the back bedroom!’
She continued, ‘There doesn’t seem to me – and I really have tried, believe me – anything you can do about it because between the hours of – depending where you live in the country – it’s about eight o’clock in the morning until about 6pm.
‘The only way I’m able to cope with it is to think, well the more they do, the sooner at some point they’ll eventually be finished.
‘But I don’t think, unfortunately, you can do anything with the local council or anything at all if they’re not good-natured people.’
And the situation has evidently taken its toll. Vanessa confessed, ‘I know how it feels, it feels like being trapped in hell. It’s dreadful.’
She concluded: ‘ When the sun shines and you’d like to sit in your garden or open your windows and all you can hear is chronic drilling and hammering, it really is awful. As I say, mine’s been going on for well over a year and I know just how she feels.’
Oh dear. It does sound like a lot, especially when lockdown has meant little chance to escape our houses.
We hope the headache ends soon, Vanessa…!
‘I don’t think... you can do anything at all’