‘Mortified’ Stephen Mulhern apologises to furious tenants living in ‘squalor’ at his rental home

A ‘mortified’ Stephen Mulhern has issued an apology to tenants surviving successful 1 of his rental homes, successful a ‘clearly unacceptable’ situation.

The Catchphrase presenter, 47, has an awesome spot portfolio, said to beryllium worthy £4million.

However, 1 of his tenants has present spoken retired aft surviving done a hopeless concern that has near them ‘bitter and alienated’, they told The Big Issue.

The anonymous tenant, who was a cardinal idiosyncratic during the Covid pandemic, says their intelligence and carnal health has suffered aft surviving with damp and mould for 2 years.

‘I’ve go much irritable, and my absorption has slipped, starring to frustrating mistakes astatine work,’ they said, providing images of mould crossed the ceilings and walls of the property.

According to documents connected Companies House, Mulhern is manager of JFDI Productions limited, with assets worthy astir £4.2million successful 2023.

The work claims that JFDI Productions purchased the bungalow successful Leicester successful April 2020 successful £165,000, and has since refurbished it and rented it retired to their tenant and a flatmate, who works for the NHS.

They wage £775 a period to rent the property, but archetypal noticed a occupation with damp and mould during an yearly inspection with their absorption cause a mates of years ago.

They claimed to person complained to the absorption cause respective times, but the contented was not solved.

‘The cause simply recommended that we ventilate decently and support the location lukewarm during the winter. We did, but the damp gradually worsened. We remained patient, sending polite emails astatine first. In aboriginal conversations, my remarks became a spot sharper,’ the tenant said.

The absorption bureau did instal a affirmative input ventilation strategy aft the tenants bought a humidity metre which showed the moisture levels successful the spot were betwixt 70% and 80% (Philips states bully humidity levels scope from 30% to 60%).

However, they assertion the occupation was lone alleviated briefly.

The tenant added: ‘My location is Hungary, and I americium present readying to instrumentality there. The spot we are renting volition hopefully go someone’s location 1 day. It would beryllium selfish to deliberation lone of myself and the authorities of this property. This isn’t conscionable a idiosyncratic issue; it’s a nationalist one.

‘Sorting retired the damp successful the spot is the bare minimum. I besides privation compensation for the misery and anxiousness it has caused maine personally, on with stricter authorities astatine the nationalist level to forestall others from suffering the aforesaid fate.’

Mulhern’s spokesperson told Metro: ‘Stephen was perfectly mortified to larn astir this concern and the atrocious acquisition the tenant has faced which is intelligibly unacceptable.

‘Stephen had not been made alert of immoderate of these issues arsenic helium relies wholly connected an autarkic institution who negociate the spot connected his behalf. 

‘Having not been alert of the issues until now, Stephen has taken this substance into his ain hands instantly and has personally requested for a squad of damp specialists to sojourn the spot to marque definite that the problems with the ventilation and mould are resolved arsenic a substance of urgency.

‘We person contacted the tenant to explicit sincere apologies for the distress and vexation the absorption of this substance has caused.

‘This falls mode beneath the standards Stephen expects and helium is doing everything imaginable to remedy this ASAP, and this process is already underway.’

Metro.co.uk has reached retired to the absorption cause for comment.

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