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Louise Randell

Elliott Wright's torched Marbella bar reduced to rubble as bulldozers move in after fire

Elliott Wright has brought in the bulldozers to demolish the charred remains of his bar and restaurant in Spain after it burned to the ground.

Mark Wright's cousin was left devastated after Olivia's La Cala, close to the Spanish city of Marbella on the Costa del Sol, caught fire and he's since become convinced it was torched deliberately.

The former Towie star has now started work clearing the rubble, bringing in a bulldozer to help remove the wreckage.

He even joined the construction crew himself to help tear down a wall that wasn't worth saving.

Elliott shared an emotional video thanking all his fans for their kind wishes after the disaster, saying: "Every day is a challenge. Thank you to everyone who has offered help."

He went on to add a clip of the bulldozer moving in to clear the wreckage, saying: "The old bar getting smashed down. The new one is coming."

Bulldozers have moved in to clear the remains of Elliott Wright's restaurant (elliottwright/Instagram)

He was joined by his uncle Dave who stood alongside him at the ruined bar, before Elliott took a swing at the old wall himself.

Elliott later joked: "Yeh demolishing ain't my thing LOL."

He previously opened up about the fire in a candid post on Instagram, blaming "spiteful nasty people" for taking his "dream away".

Elliott tried helping with the demolition himself (elliottwright/Instagram)
Olivia's was burned to the ground (elliottwright/Instagram)

In the lengthy post, he wrote: "So yes my dream has been cruelly taken away from me by some spiteful nasty people, for what ever reason I will probably never know, all that matters really is that I will rebuild and WILL be back....

" @olivias_la_cala 2021 may be delayed more then we wanted... but we have all waited long enough, a little longer and we will be back with a bang.

"I want to thank everyone who has came with offers of help or a simply kind message.

"I've genuinely been touched, including my Spanish community as well as the mayor Josele Gonzalez, you have all been amazing, you realise in time of trouble the people that are there for you..."

Former Towie star Elliott was left devastated by the blaze (Instagram)
He vowed to rebuild his empire (Instagram)

Police have launched an investigation into the blaze, but there's currently no word on the cause or whether it was started deliberately.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard, the force which covers La Cala de Mijas where Olivia's opened in August 2015, said: "Our officers attended the scene of the blaze and the question of what caused it will now be the focus of a police investigation.

"We can ask for the report from the fire crews that attended if necessary but we also have our own fire investigation specialists who are trained to look at these sort of things.

"Their findings will be sent to a local court."

A well-placed source added:"There’s no evidence at this stage pointing to anything untoward.

"At the moment the incident is very fresh and extrapolating any sort of conclusion is going to take time."

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