Cliff Notes – TV star sells family home for seven figures after bankruptcy
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Ant Middleton has sold his Essex family home for £1.35 million following debts of £1.2 million and the liquidation of his company, Sway and Starting.
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The former SAS: Who Dares Wins star moved to Dubai with his family, citing disagreements with UK culture and feeling silenced.
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Middleton faced backlash for controversial comments regarding the Black Lives Matter movement, leading to his departure from Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2021.
TV star sells family home for seven figures after bankruptcy
TV star Ant Middleton has sold his family home for a staggering £1.35million after facing bankruptcy.
The former SAS: Who Dares Wins star and UK special forces soldier was forced to put his house on the market after facing debts worth £1.2million.
The decision came after the 44-year-old decided to move to Dubai a few years ago with his wife and children.
At the time he claimed it was because he did not ‘agree’ with the UK’s culture and was being ‘unfortunately silenced’.
Now, after selling his Essex home – which he bought for £1.16million in 2019 – the TV star could stand to make a fortune after he agreed a sale price with a buyer, the Sun revealed.
When advertising his five-bedroom home, prospective buyers could see his £50,000 orangery, designer kitchen and standalone gym.
The former SAS: Who Dares Wins star is pictured alongside his wife who are both happy in Dubia.
The sale of his house comes after the liquidation of his company
The forced sale of his family home came after the liquidation of Ant’s company Sway and Starting.
It’s claimed that he failed to stick to a payment plan and only returned one instalment of money he owed from his overdrawn Directors Loan Account.
According to The Sun, Ant was served a statutory demand with a view to petitioning for his bankruptcy, and the TV star agreed to sell his house and provide the remaining amount owed.
Sway and Starting went into liquidation in December 2022 and a statement of affairs from January 2023 revealed tax debts of £1.2million.
Ant left Channel 4 reality programme SAS: Who Dares Wins back in 2021 after he had hosted the show since 2015.
Ant moved to Dubai a few years ago with his wife and children
At the time, it was said he was axed over his ‘personal conduct’, which came after he made controversial comments in relation to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and Covid-19.
After far-right protestors clashed with BLM demonstrators in London, Ant called both groups ‘scum’ in a since-deleted post on X, which read: ‘The extreme left against the extreme right. When did two wrongs make a right.
‘It was only a matter of time. BLM and EDL are not welcome on our streets, absolute scum. What a great example you are to your future generation. Bravo.’
He later apologised in a video, insisting he is not a racist after facing severe backlash, saying: ‘Within that tweet I mentioned the BLM and EDL and the word “scum”. At no point was I calling the BLM scum and comparing the two organisations. I want to make that really, really clear.
‘The word scum was used to describe the people in the video that were violent, that were causing terror on the streets of London and setting a bad example for our future generations.’