Ant Middleton has been forced to sell his family home after facing debts worth £1,200,000.
The former SAS: Who Dares Wins star and UK special forces soldier, 44, moved to Dubai a few years ago, with his wife and five children.
At the time, he claimed it’s because he didn’t ‘agree’ with UK culture, and said he was being ‘unfortunately silenced’ so left to be ‘heard elsewhere’.
He’s now selling his Essex home after debts worth more than £1.2million.
According to The Sun, Ant purchased the five-bedroom property in 2019 for £1.16million, and has shared images of the sprawling garden and luxury interiors on Instagram.
The publication claims it’s now on the market for £1.5million, and the sale of his home has been reported in a liquidation update for his company Sway and Starting, which both he and his wife Emilie are directors of.
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, consisting of more than £340,000 in VAT, £907,000 in corporation tax and £6,000 in employee taxes.
Ant left Channel 4 reality programme SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2021, after hosting since 2015.
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.’
At the time of his firing, Channel 4 said in a statement: ‘Ant Middleton will not be taking part in future series of SAS: Who Dares Wins.
‘Following a number of discussions Channel 4 and Minnow Films have had with him in relation to his personal conduct it has become clear that our views and values are not aligned and we will not be working with him again.’
Since then, several people also complained about his ‘inappropriate comments’ towards female staff members on set, which he dismissed as ‘indirect and just military banter’.
He said: ‘There’s a new protocol that came in… that if they feel offended, or they want to complain, they can complain anonymously.
‘So it’s obviously something that they’ve seen… a bit of military banter, they’ve seen a bit of military humour… and they really felt offended.’
Ant has also hit out at Channel 4 since his firing, labelling the company ‘hypocritical and shameful’ for cashing in after his exit.
He also claimed it was his decision to quit the programme because it was ‘all smoke and mirrors’ and ‘became a half-scripted reality show’.
Metro has approached Ant’s reps for comment.
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