A Place In The Sun presenter Jasmine Harman has shared her devastation over one of the show’s guests being presumed dead in the Spanish wildfires.
Annette Kilgore, who appeared on the Channel 4 property show with husband Malcolm Timbrell in 2023, is feared dead in the blaze, which broke out last Thursday in a semi-arid area near the Sierra de Los Filabres mountains.
Timbrell explained that he thinks his wife was killed after he became separated from her as the flames surged towards the home they found on TV in the village of Bédar in the Almeria province.
Harman shared her “deepest condolences” with Timbrell in a post on Instagram, saying she “couldn’t imagine” what he was going through.
“Some awful news. You may have seen on the news that Spain has been experiencing some terrible wildfires, and I was so sad to hear of the tragic deaths of several people in Bédar,” she penned alongside a photo of a beach at sunset.
“Sending deepest condolences to those have lost loved ones. Especially to Malcolm who previously appeared with his wife Annette on A Place in the Sun.”
Harman - who joined A Place In The Sun in 2004 - went on: “I don't really have the words to say how very sorry I am for your loss Malcolm. I know we have never met, I can't imagine what you are going through right now.
“Sending thoughts and prayers.”
Timbrell and Kilgore had decided to flee the fires by car, but Timbrell went back to get their two cats and when he tried to catch up with the rest of the group, saw they had left their cars and were trying to escape on foot.
He told the BBC: “My wife and our other seven friends and neighbours – against me screaming at them not to – decided the only safe way was to walk out in front of the firewall.
“I’ve subsequently heard that that firewall was moving at 20 kilometres per hour, plus. They had no chance.”
Mr Timbrell said he and one of the cats managed to avoid the flames by moving into each abandoned car in turn before it was caught up in the fire.
A 93-year-old British woman has been confirmed to be among at least 13 people who have died as devastating wildfires swept through southern Spain.
At least another seven of the dead are thought to be British.
Spain has suffered frequent and severe heatwaves in recent years, with temperatures often exceeding 40C.
Timbrell and Kilgore found their home in Spain three years ago with the help of A Place In The Sun presenter Leah Charles-King.
Kilgore told the host at the start of their episode that she wanted to enjoy the Spanish way of life after retiring from a career in mental health.
After buying their stone cottage for £200,000, Kilgore said: “We've just bought that beautiful Spanish stone cottage up on the top of a mountain.
“And that isn't what we came for? It's what we've bought, because it's what we fell in love with.”
