TV personality Christine Hamilton’s kitchen submerged by Storm Bert floods

Media property Christine Hamilton said Storm Bert has brought the worst flooding successful 2 decades aft her room was submerged successful 2 inches of water.

Mrs Hamilton, who came 3rd successful the archetypal bid of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! successful 2002, shared footage connected societal media of her husband, erstwhile Conservative MP Neil Hamilton, bailing h2o retired of their location successful Hullavington, Wiltshire, connected Sunday evening.

“We were virtually bailing retired h2o perpetually for 3 hours, conscionable to effort and support the level down to what it was,” Mrs Hamilton told the PA quality agency.

“We had 2 inches of h2o successful the backmost kitchen, and past if we stopped bailing for 2 seconds, the h2o would ascent adjacent further.”

Mrs Hamilton said immoderate friends attempted to bring the mates a pump to assistance them region the water, but it was “impossible” to scope the location owed to the flooding.

The video posted connected X, formerly Twitter, shows h2o gushing into the couple’s location arsenic Mr Hamilton, who was the person of Ukip from 2020 to 2024, bailing h2o with a dustpan.

“Here it is gushing done the backmost door… I’ve stopped for a infinitesimal we’re present losing the battle… but we can’t bash this each night,” Mrs Hamilton is heard saying successful the footage.

Despite her situation, Mrs Hamilton said she and her hubby are the “lucky ones” arsenic she knows neighbours “facing horrendous problems”.

“We’ve been 1 of the fortunate ones, well, unlucky successful a way,” she said.

“The occupation with america was we’ve been present 20 years, and we’ve ne'er had ever, ever had flooding before.

“We’ve had truthful overmuch rainfall implicit the past weeks and months that the crushed is waterlogged, and erstwhile Bert arrived, it conscionable couldn’t cope.

“The h2o conscionable came benignant of rushing successful from from the ground.

“We’re going to person to determination immoderate furnishings and to halt it rotting but thankfully everything is drying out.”

Storm Bert resulted successful hundreds of homes submerged successful h2o and roads turned into rivers, with winds of much than 80mph recorded crossed parts of the UK implicit the weekend.

Several obstruction operators cancelled services connected Monday portion much than 160 flood warnings stay successful place.

More than 150 flood warnings and 197 flood alerts person been issued by the Environment Agency successful England, with a further 10 flood warnings and 21 flood alerts successful spot successful Wales.