Truth about Made in Chelsea’s Ollie Locke’s cash woes: As he faces humiliating £25k hire invoice, associates inform ‘shameless’ information behind flash way of life, ‘grifting’… and appalling manner he tried to cease us working this story says all of it

Languishing within the Caribbean sunshine, sipping champagne on the deck of a top-of-the-range cruise ship, life is relatively great for Made In Chelsea stars Ollie and Gareth Locke.

In a 90-second clip shared to Ollie’s 550,000 Instagram followers, which was boastful to say the least, the fact TV golden couple who married six years in the past confirmed themselves dwelling the excessive life, with their two-year-old twins, Cosima and Apollo, who have been born by way of surrogate.

Ollie, 38, gushed in regards to the journey – courtesy of P&O Cruises – describing it as ‘wonderful’ and ‘amazing’ with ‘world-class food, drinks and experiences’ in a sequence of Instagram posts all rigorously pointing to the corporate’s social media pages and discretely labelled #advert to adjust to promoting legal guidelines.

But it was removed from their first costly freebie. It wasn’t even their solely latest cruise.

Ollie and Gareth’s extravagant way of life epitomises the champagne-soaked world of the Chelsea set – flying off on unique holidays, flaunting designer wardrobes, and elevating their twins in a palatial west London townhouse.

Only this week it emerged that regardless of dwelling in opulence, life isn’t fairly so grand away from the glitz and glamour portrayed on Instagram.

In truth, it could be honest to say the couple are on their uppers and face being evicted from their residence after racking up greater than £25,000 in unpaid hire.

Sources have even stated they’re near chapter.

Languishing within the Caribbean sunshine, sipping champagne on the deck of a top-of-the vary cruise ship, life is relatively great for Made In Chelsea stars Ollie and Gareth Locke 

News of their monetary troubles was revealed this week after the pair missed a crucial deadline on January 30 to settle their hire arrears – which incorporates three months of missed funds and charges.

They now face a go to from the bailiffs as early as March 2. The Lockes are stated to be ‘desperately trying to repay what’s owed’.

An insider defined: ‘Ollie and Gareth have struggled to meet their monthly rent for almost a year. They live in a very affluent area, but the money just isn’t there any extra. It’s a far cry from the lavish life they mission on-line.’

The public embarrassment was prompted when their live-in housemate – certainly one of 5 godmothers to their kids – claimed she’d dutifully paid her portion of the hire to the couple every month, solely to later uncover it had not been paid on to the owner.

While their followers and followers may need been shocked on the revelation, these near them are removed from shocked.

One commented: ‘They’ve lived past their means for a few years, they like to dwell it up and have change into excellent at studying how to not should pay for it. It’s all fairly embarrassing.

‘To the outside world, things are as idyllic as ever. It all looks flash, but they very rarely pay for anything themselves. They’re masters at nabbing a freebie and are all the time glad to just accept a lunch invitation – however when the invoice comes they’ve mysteriously vanished.

‘They’ve made a lot of cash alongside the way in which, however spent much more. And they’re glad to let different individuals decide up the tab wherever they go – it’s fairly shameless.’

The married couple have rented the four-bedroom, four-bathroom property (pictured) close to the prosperous King’s Road since 2023, typically frequenting Notting Hill’s Portobello Road

Earlier this week, Ollie shared glamorous images from a pal’s birthday celebration held at a fort, the place he and Gareth each wore tuxedos and drank champagne, wine and espresso martinis

In fact, regardless of his plummy accent, his £30,000-a-year training on the Hampshire Collegiate School – within the former household residence of Florence Nightingale – and star-studded connections, the reality is, Ollie was by no means in the identical monetary league as his fellow forged members on the Channel 4 present.

Eton educated Spencer Matthews, whose household personal the distinguished Eden Rock resort in St Barths, and Millie Mackintosh, great-granddaughter of the household behind Quality Street sweets boast huge inherited wealth. Ollie didn’t.

His mother and father divorced when he was eight, and little or no is thought about his father, John. His mom Sarah, in the meantime, was a DJ for Radio Solent.

He was a part of the unique Made in Chelsea line-up in 2011, utilizing it as a launch pad for the glamorous way of life he all the time needed, and has dipped out and in of the sequence ever since.

He and Gareth, 37 – who coincidentally share the identical surname – met as fashions shortly earlier than Ollie joined MIC.

In early reveals, Ollie dated quite a lot of his feminine co-stars earlier than popping out as bisexual on the present.

As his reputation soared, his community of enterprise and social connections opened the door to a conveyor belt of free items, journeys and experiences – the place all the pieces from their designer outfits to a taxi residence can be paid for by a sponsor or benefactor.

They have additionally been company of a pink high newspaper at their £20,000 VIP desk on the BRIT awards up to now.

Ollie Locke and husband Gareth attending the Brit Awards afterparty in February 2023

‘It’s nearly a full-time job in itself, grifting round city from celebration to celebration, selecting up a goody bag and ensuring somebody is all the time paying for the champagne and arranging your transport,’ says a supply who know the boys. ‘But whatever it looks like from the outside it doesn’t pay the payments.

‘That’s why they’ve obtained themselves into such a state financially. You can’t pay your payments with free items, as they’ve now seen.’

Just days earlier than their Caribbean cruise, Ollie, 38, and his household loved Christmas dinner at an upmarket Chelsea restaurant – full with designer items – all documented for the cameras and thoroughly labelled as #gifted on-line.

Every week earlier the couple and their kids posed in costly matching pyjama units from Selfridges – hashtagging within the designer label and vowing to put on them till New Year.

In mid-December the fact stars instructed how they have been ‘treated by The Four Seasons’ lodge to a different costly jaunt, having fun with champagne and afternoon tea whereas posing for the cameras – simply days after they have been ‘lucky enough to be invited’ to a different ‘wonderful new venue’ off Chelsea’s posh King’s Road for a top-of-the-range meal.

Again, the social media posts have been quietly labelled #gifted.

Other freebies inside the previous few months embody cell phones, an all bills paid vacation to Cornwall with meals at celeb chef Rick Stein’s restaurant.

In January, the couple attended a cruise to Barbados, which they have been paid to advertise on their Instagram profiles (pictured with Towie’s Lydia Bright)

Then there was an opulent celebration for his or her twins’ second birthday full with items and an expert chef, one other five-star P&O cruise, this time to the Norwegian fjords, designer Harley Street dermatology remedies, costly skincare merchandise and plenty of extra.

Their whole relationship seems to have been sponsored in a technique one other. They married at an unique ceremony in 2020, held at London’s Natural History Museum, surrounded by 1000’s of flickering candles and flowers.

Covid restrictions on the time meant there have been simply 13 company, together with Made In Chelsea co-stars, however the couple have been certain to ask Hello! journal alongside to doc the occasion in a profitable journal deal which may have comfortably coated a lot of their prices.

The same take care of the identical shiny magazine adopted in 2023 when Apollo and Cosima, have been born – with the household posing for pictures on the similar Chelsea residence they now face dropping.

Despite releasing an autobiography, many paid-for endorsements and numerous podcast appearances, Ollie has sometimes admitted the steep price that IVF remedies and surrogacy has taken after a number of failed makes an attempt to change into mother and father – together with promoting his earlier residence to fund their efforts.

After quitting MIC in 2023, they went on to launch a YouTube present documenting their life as new dads, known as, Our Daddy Diaries, which was launched with a lot fanfare.

They now seem to have given up on the mission, and there have been no updates for 2 years.

There have been some enterprise successes nonetheless: Ollie co-founded a homosexual relationship app, Chappy, which was offered to Bumble in a deal value a reported £1million in 2019.

However, varied follow-up enterprise ventures by no means did as nicely:

Ollie’s title seems on a sequence of now dissolved enterprise data, together with Chelsea Harbour Wine which folded in 2024, whereas his longest working enterprise Laughing London Ltd is going through efforts to have it struck off the official register at Companies House.

The couple pictured with their now two-year-old twins, Cosima and Apollo, on Lorraine in 2023

Another, Chelsea Pub Company Ltd, can also be going through functions to have the corporate dissolved, whereas a fourth report. Bear and Otto Ltd, is lengthy wound up having by no means appeared to have traded.

Gareth’s enterprise historical past tells an identical story – together with his personal agency Huzzah Beauty additionally going through an software to have it struck off, having by no means filed buying and selling figures.

While their funds are giving the Lockes a ‘massive headache’ they’re additionally, say associates, ‘terrified’ of what the unedifying information will do to their status.

Indeed, when approached by the Daily Mail about their monetary place, they supplied up different different tales about their kids to be revealed as an alternative.

They didn’t reply to our request to remark.

‘The money troubles are bad, but for them the embarrassment is probably even worse,’ says an affiliate of the pair.

‘Most people would be more worried about their bills than their brand – but for these two image is everything, and how that will affect their next freebie.’