“Ben and I bought this house that was way too big for us because the bank was phoning up saying, ‘Can we lend you more money’ and, stupidly, we borrowed too much – £500,000.
“Who in their right mind does that?”
Mel said the couple faced a “difficult time” as they navigated their declining financial difficulty, but “got through it in the end”.
She added: “We had a ridiculous mortgage on a house we couldn’t afford, so we filled it with lodgers, had the babies – and when you’ve had a baby in showbiz people think you’ve died – then I got the letter: Kingsmill no longer require your services.”
