TV star Phil Spencer inherits €21m fortune from parents killed in crash on way to pub lunch

Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer has been left £18million (€21.6m) by his parents.

Anne Spencer, 82, and her 89-year-old husband Richard died in August 2023 when their car careered into a Kent river while they were on their way to a pub lunch.

His siblings were also named in probate documents and the late parents’ fortune will be split between Phil, his elder brother Robert and younger sisters Caryn and Helen. Anne and Richard’s wills were made public this week, with the latter leaving £15.3million (€18.3m) and Anne leaving £2.9million (€3.4m).

Richard is notably known by his middle name David and drew up his will back in 2007. Each of his eight grandchildren have been passed on £10,000 (€12,000) while a £20,000 (€24,000) has also been made to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

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According to The Sun, David’s remaining fortune was placed in a trust for his two sons’ benefit. Meanwhile, Anne signed her will in 2021 and noted that a niece and nephew living in Canada should receive £500 (€600) gifts, as should her godson.

Anne also outline plans for an estate donation to go to her local church and specified she wanted her jewellery to be taken by her daughters and shared with her granddaughters and daughters-in-law.

Last year, Phil, 54, released a statement about his parents’ death shortly after the news broke, saying that his family was “holding onto the fact mum and dad went together" and it was some comfort to know "neither will ever have to mourn the loss of the other one” but the presenter has now spoken in depth about the heartbreaking incident and thanked people for their support.

“I feel a lot of gratitude to people for the thousands of kind, supportive messages I got. The whole thing was overwhelming, but that blew me away. People were very loving and thoughtful,” he poignantly noted.

Addressing the statement he released back in August 2023, Phil said he thought publishing it on social media would “avoid the trauma of explaining it all”.

At the time, Phil wrote: “As a family we are all trying to hold onto the fact Mum and Dad went together and that neither will ever have to mourn the loss of the other one. Which is a blessing in itself. Although they were both on extremely good form in the days before (hence the sudden idea to go out to lunch) Mums Parkinson's and Dads Dementia had been worsening and the long term future was set to be a challenge.

‌"So much so that Mum said to me only a week ago that she had resigned to thinking ‘now it looks like we will probably go together’. And so they did. That was what God had planned for them - and it was a good plan. The car, going very slowly, toppled over a bridge on the farm drive, upside down into the river. There were no physical injuries and I very much doubt they would have even fought it - they would have held hands under the water and quietly slipped away.

‌"Their carer was in the car and managed to climb out of a back window so the alarm was raised quite quickly. As many farmers do - my brother had a penknife and so was able to cut the seat belts - he pulled them out of the river but they never regained consciousness. Although desperately sad and shocked beyond all belief - all family are clear that if there can ever be such a thing as having a ‘good end’ - this was it."

Phil added: "It feels horrendous right now, but after almost 60 years of marriage - to die together on the farm they so loved will, I know, be a comfort in the future. Mum and Dad are together which is precisely where they would have wanted to be."

The Mirror has reached out to Phil's reps for comment.

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