Amy Childs returned from a family holiday to find her £1.7million Essex mansion broken into and left completely trashed. A representative said no one was hurt, but the homecoming still left the TOWIE star shaken.
May 2024 and the break-in
Childs moved into the five-bedroom property in May 2024, and the burglary struck while she was abroad with her family. The house is said to include a cinema room, a wine cellar and a sprawling garden, which makes the damage more than cosmetic: once a home like that has been turned over room by room, the clean-up is usually as important as the break-in itself.
A source said thieves had broken into her home and completely trashed the place. Another source said Childs was grateful that she and the kids were away when it happened, and the practical point for any family in that position is immediate preservation of evidence: do not move items, do not tidy up, and let the scene stay as found until the investigation is complete.
Police and forensics
A representative for Childs said, "No one was hurt which is the main thing. The police are all over it." Police and forensics were at the property after the burglary, which turns the case from a simple damage report into an active crime-scene examination.
Childs had posted during the holiday, writing, "Having the most Beautiful time with the Family… making memories that will last forever. Polly and Milly are totally inseparable, seeing this makes me so I wished I had a sister growing up got Wills instead (only joking) the bond is unbreakable." That post now reads very differently, because the break-in happened while the family was away and the house was empty.
36 and the missing detail
Childs' TV profile stretches back to the first two series of TOWIE, her 2011 appearance in Celebrity Big Brother, and her return to TOWIE in 2020. For a public figure with a home of this size, the immediate issue is not the profile itself but the unanswered part of the crime: what exactly was taken, and how much of the loss was theft rather than destruction.
She is left with the part that matters most now — a family home that was supposed to be waiting for them, and a burglary scene that had already been disturbed once by robbers and then again by the consequences.
