‘How do these people do it?’: MIC ‘liggers’ Ollie and Gareth Locke mysteriously land ANOTHER £4m home after being evicted from the last. But as OLIVIA KEMP reveals, their new well-heeled neighbours are less than impressed…

Their name is synonymous with Chelsea; They sip champagne in bougie wine bars, party in exclusive nightclubs, and rub shoulders with the aristocracy in designer clothes.

But strangely for Ollie and Gareth Locke, this is no longer the place they call home.

A Made In Chelsea couple who were forced out of their £4 million townhouse because of a escalating rent scandal that left a £45,000 bill still outstanding have resurfaced 4.5 miles away in one of south-west London’s leafiest residential areas.

Situated on a tree-lined road minutes from Barnes Green, which boasts a village pond, church and a Gail’s, the property is far from downgraded and is thought to be worth around the same amount as the former Chelsea estates.

The property is owned by Dutch businesswoman Tanya De Jager, who bought the new property in 1989. It is unclear whether there is any connection between her and the Lockes family.

But it seems like the couple, far from being crushed by the whole incident, have actually stood on their own.

As an old friend of the duo put it: ‘How do these people do this? ‘They’re literally lazy, they haven’t been paying their rent and now they’ve found a nice new house to live in.’

While the house is beautiful, it’s a long way from the high-octane whirlpool of Chelsea.

Ollie (left) and Gareth pictured leaving their new home with a bottle of wine and an e-cigarette in hand

It is a beautiful five-bedroom, three-bathroom red brick property with decorative stonework and lion-crested columns, located on a quietly affluent residential road.

The only unusual detail that distinguishes it from other mansions on the street is that the people living at this address care about some privacy. All the curtains are tightly closed, an electric gate closes them off to the street, and numerous security cameras are pointed at the road outside.

Rumors about the couple’s future have already begun to spread among families.

‘Yes, I’ve heard of the unpaid rent situation,’ a mother in Barnes Green told me. ‘We heard they were around. But most days I’m here with my little one and I haven’t seen them. People tend to know each other here… so I guess they should keep to themselves.’

Often described as a ‘village within a city’, Barnes is prized for its riverside walks, 19th-century houses and close-knit community feel.

Ollie’s long-time friend and Made In Chelsea alum Binky Felstead lives a short distance away.

He, too, recently found himself under scrutiny after small businesses revealed their demands for free gifts in exchange for positive posts on their social media accounts.

Mum-of-three Binky, 35, also found herself under fire after it was revealed she was selling her stained, used clothes online for shocking prices.

Ollie walks out of the house wearing a rugby polo and jeans, holding a bottle of white wine

Gareth and Ollie were evicted from their last home in Chelsea after failing to pay three months’ rent of £25,000.

Ollie and Binky Felstead, who live a short distance from the Lockes’ new Barnes home

But Ollie and Gareth perhaps have more reason to blush than Binky. As the Daily Mail revealed earlier this year, Ollie and Gareth were unable to pay three months’ rent on their former four-bedroom house just off King’s Road, Chelsea; this debt amounted to £25,000.

When the sum remained unpaid, late fees and legal fees were added the total rose to £45,000, resulting in the couple being forced to vacate under threat of eviction.

To make matters worse, the couple were living with a tenant whose rent was paid directly to them for the duration of their stay at the property.

He believed the money had been transferred to the homeowner, but claimed he later realized this was not the case and the money had instead been diverted to “fund the couple’s lavish lifestyle”.

Gareth said there was actually a fourth tenant on the property who agreed to pay their share but ended up letting them down; They denied this claim.

As a result, he is now held jointly liable for unpaid rent and bills and is being pursued by debt collectors for the unpaid amount.

Gareth, who joined original cast member Ollie on Made In Chelsea in 2018, told the Daily Mail they intend to pay back the money they are owed and stressed they are a ‘normal family’ who can budget for their two-year-old twins Apollo and Cosima like everyone else.

He said: ‘Everyone has financial problems, like paying their credit card bill late or paying their rent late.’

Most people in the couple’s position would be forced to downsize, but that’s not the case for Ollie and Gareth.

“The rent for the next house is about the same,” Gareth said.

Considering the couple’s history of lavish spending, this should come as no surprise.

The duo built their public personas around their love of champagne, jet-setting around the world and staying in grand mansions on the show.

Ollie had once boasted that Apollo and Cosima had participated in dozens of flights; most of these were business class or private jets.

‘We did private jets, we did business class, we did economy once and it was a nightmare,’ he said. ‘Let’s just say we don’t do this again.’

Time will tell if they can continue to enjoy this level of luxury. Ollie has quietly closed four businesses since 2017, including Chelsea Pub Company Limited and Chelsea Harbor Wine Limited, while continuing to run his remaining company, Laughing London Limited.

While he once had healthy reserves of around £122,000, his fortune has since taken a sharp turn. He now has just £109 left in the business and has borrowed £144,000 from the company.

The latest accounts are overdue by two years.

Ollie’s company owes £126,119 to creditors, on top of a £40,000 bank loan.

But that didn’t slow him down. Earlier this month, I revealed that Ollie was boasting at parties that he was preparing to open a new nightclub in one of West London’s most exclusive postcodes with nightclub impresario Marc Jacques Burton.

But Burton insisted he knew nothing about it.

The mother I spoke to earlier in Green makes a final observation.

‘It’s a very nice place to live,’ he says. ‘But people do notice things.’

And for Ollie, once the poster boy for Chelsea’s champagne-soaked excess, the move from center stage to sideline looks set to be harder to conceal than he hoped.