Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer returns to work with Kirstie Allsopp three weeks after each his dad and mom had been killed in deadly automobile crash

Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer has returned to work three weeks after shedding each his dad and mom in a automobile accident. 

The presenter, 53, introduced final month that his dad and mom had died in a crash on their household farm in Littlebourne, close to Canterbury, Kent, as they had been making their option to the pub for some lunch. 

He was seen for the primary time since their passing in a video shared by his co-host Kirstie Allsopp on Tuesday, as she revealed the pair had been again on set of their journey present. 

Kirstie started the video by explaining: ‘So we’re again at work filming on Location, Location, Location and I did not fairly know what my subsequent submit on Instagram must be. 

‘My final submit was about Phil’s mum and pop and also you all despatched such beautiful beautiful messages and Phil was so grateful…’ prompting Phil to interrupt and ensure: ‘Very grateful, and I have never put something on Instagram both, however I do recognize peoples’ beautiful feedback.’

Again at it: Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer has returned to work with Kirstie Allsopp three weeks after shedding each his dad and mom in a automobile accident

Heartbreaking: Phil’s dad and mom, David, 89, and Anne, 82, each died final month after their automobile careened over a bridge and landed the wrong way up in a river

Kirsty added: ‘You see, he is English and he is a person, he is simply achieved actually very well so spherical of applause to Phil for doing that and thanks, you have all been so form.’

She captioned the clip: ‘He’s again at work, and was very, very touched by all of your messages, I even managed to get him to say it on insta. Bless him.’ 

Final week, Kirstie revealed that regardless of the latest heartbreak that came about at Garrington Farm, Phil’s household are nonetheless going about their lives as finest they may. 

She advised BBC‘s Newscast podcast: ‘[Phil’s] received a stunning, beautiful household and so they’re very, very shut and so they’re all collectively.

‘In actual fact, his sister was married yesterday, which they went forward with and at the moment they’re all going to the pub for lunch. The identical pub that his dad and mom had been on the best way to after they died. 

‘He is very stoical and pragmatic, and he feels very strongly that it was the proper factor that his dad and mom went collectively.’ 

Flowers have been left on the distant spot Phil’s dad and mom, David, 89, and Anne, 82, who each died after their automobile careened over a bridge and landed the wrong way up in a river. 

Regardless of the most effective efforts of paramedics and Phil’s brother Robert, who fought to save his parents’ lives by cutting their seatbelts utilizing a penknife and pulling them from the river, the aged couple had been unable to be revived. 

Anne, who was given clearance to drive after being identified with Parkinson’s illness, is known to have been behind the wheel on the time.

Courageous face: Phil was seen for the primary time since their passing in a video shared by his co-host Kirstie Allsopp on Tuesday, as she revealed the pair had been again on set of their journey present

Dream crew: Phil and Kirstie have labored collectively on Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location since Could 2000 and are agency buddies in addition to co-hosts 

Her husband was within the entrance passenger seat and a live-in carer – an company nurse – was within the again seat and managed to scramble out of the automobile through a window and summon assist. 

Regardless of the devastating information, Phil mentioned within the Instagram submit asserting his dad and mom’ loss of life that he and his complete household are glad they had been with one another on the finish.

He wrote: ‘Very sadly each of my superb dad and mom died on Friday.

‘As a household we’re all attempting to carry onto the actual fact Mum and Dad went collectively and that neither will ever need to mourn the lack of the opposite one. Which is a blessing in itself.

‘Though they had been each on extraordinarily good type within the days earlier than (therefore the sudden thought to exit to lunch), Mum’s Parkinson’s and Dad’s Dementia had been worsening and the long run future was set to be a problem.

‘A lot in order that Mum mentioned to me solely every week in the past that she had resigned to considering ‘now it seems like we’ll in all probability go collectively’. And they also did.

‘That was what God had deliberate for them – and it was a very good plan.’

David and Anne met at a New 12 months’s Eve celebration within the early Sixties, across the time he ended a brief profession in finance and as a substitute purchased Decrease Garrington Farm.

The couple’s daughter, Helen, described it as a ‘step into the unknown’ as she advised how David confirmed Anne the farmhouse earlier than asking her to marry him.

The completely satisfied couple then married at Canterbury Cathedral on November 4, 1964, earlier than elevating their youngsters alongside working the brand new household enterprise.

Robert advised KentOnline: ‘It was a combined farm again then with a little bit of the whole lot happening, so Dad had little or no downtime and was grateful for all the assistance he received from fellow farmers when he was beginning out.’

He defined how David’s ardour was rising hops, and was unhappy to provide it up within the Nineties when it was not financially viable.

The daddy-of-four had studied engineering at Loughborough College, which got here in useful for repairing equipment and buildings across the farm.

Stunning: Flowers have been left on the distant spot Phil’s dad and mom, David, 89, and Anne, 82, who each died after their automobile careened over a bridge and landed the wrong way up in a river 

Robert added: ‘They gave us an idyllic life as children rising up on the farm. They’d have by no means left the farmhouse, which is able to all the time be the hub of the household.’

Anne was a lover of horseriding and for a few years was a member of the East Kent Hunt and a volunteer for the Cobbes Meadow Using for the Disabled Group at Chartham.

A trustee for the charity advised how Anne was a ‘massively common teacher’ amongst the kids they helped, and she or he was ‘all the time cheerful and smiling’.

David’s finest pal, Stephen Twyman, had recognized the 89-year-old since childhood and mentioned he was a ‘beautiful man, quiet and thoughtful.’