ABBEY Clancy has given fans a rare behind-the-scenes look at her kitchen.
The mum-of-four, 38, enlisted the help of professional organisers to restore order at her £3 million Surrey mansion.
The model shares her beautiful home with husband and ex-England ace Peter Crouch, 43, and their four children: Sophia, 13, Liberty, nine, Johnny, seven, and Jack, five.
Fans of the couple’s podcast, The Therapy Crouch, will know just how house proud Abbey is.
She is often discussing new architectural and cosmetic work she wants done, as well as her dreams for a tidy garage.
After feeling overwhelmed by disorder in her kitchen, Abbey called in professional home organiser Lucy Manseyn and her team.
Trading as Organised By Lucy, the experts detoxed and reorganised the entire Clancy-Crouch abode.
Their work included decanting foods and spices into jars for picture-perfect kitchen cupboards.
And it turns out, we can do the same ourselves at home for surprisingly cheap.
Lucy and her team use storage exclusively from APlaceForEverything, where the exact spice jars used in Abbey’s kitchen cost a cool £4.
For dry foods, they used the £14 Glass Storage Jar with Acacia Lid containers.
The team included some pricier items from the brand in their overhaul.
That includes the £19.50 The Home Edit with iDesign Cereal Containers and £16 Rotating Kitchen Cupboard Organisers for sauces and jars.
Organiser Lucy took to Instagram to share a video of the transformation.
It included clips of Abbey’s entire kitchen island being covered with clutter, as well as her enviable floor-to-ceiling wine glass cupboard.
The caption read: “An Organised By Lucy kitchen organise for the gorgeous Abbey Clancy.
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“It may sound a little ruthless but a one in, one out rule in your home and wardrobe can be effective to avoid over accumulating items in your home,” they said.
“It can also make you more mindful about the purchases you are making.”
“In any space, however big or small – from a utility room to your make-up box – organising items by category is the perfect way to keeping super organised,” they said.
“This allows you to know exactly where everything is and what you’ve got.
“Plus, it will make it super easy for the rest of the household to put away and keep tidy.”
“Storage is key, especially if space is an issue in the home or if the room is used for items like storing toys for children,” they said.
“Consider decorative storage baskets, side boards with plenty of storage or even a media wall or bookshelves with doors.”
“We used our favourite APlaceForEverything products to give everything its own dedicated home.
“If you’ve listened to The Therapy Crouch, you’ll know how wild Abbey goes for a tidy cupboard – and now the inside of her cupboards and drawers match the beautiful outside.”
Abbey spoke about the transformation on the most recent episode of the podcast.
She described the overhaul as feeling like she’s lost “three stone of baggage from her brain” and said she could finally “sleep at night”.
AS one of Britain’s most feared criminal kingpins, Jamie Stevenson earned the nickname The Iceman – but a series of hasty moves led to his downfall.
Glaswegian Stevenson, who was behind a £100 million cocaine smuggling operation, was brought to justice after leaving an encrypted phone behind as he fled the cops, by meeting a banana salesman in a Spanish hotel and when a traceable credit card was used in a brothel.
The 59-year-old gangster, who was suspected of ordering a hit on his former best man, has been likened to fictional mob boss Tony Soprano due to his ruthlessness.
As the head of a criminal enterprise which stretched not only the length of the United Kingdom, but as far abroad as Spain, Abu Dhabi and Ecuador, The Iceman oversaw a complex operation.
For that to work, he needed many lieutenants and to make deals with other criminals.
But like so many thieves, they fell out over money and power, bringing them down.
Stevenson thought he could evade the detectives who had been hot on his heels for decades but they pounced on his slip-ups.
Stevenson was jailed for 20 years on Wednesday, with the other members of his gang receiving a total of 29 years behind bars.
Graeme Pearson, a former director of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, said: “Jamie Stevenson has, for many decades now, been a very senior figure in organised crime and would be counted amongst that very small group of people as being at the top of the pyramid and he ran his business much the way The Sopranos were shown to run their business on television.”
Stevenson grew up in the Red Road flats in the Barmulloch area of Glasgow, gaining a reputation as a petty criminal who was willing to use a knife.
Just before the turn of the century he started doing deals with Barry and James Gillespie, two of Scotland’s most wanted criminals.
He also became pally with Tony McGovern, part of a notorious crime family in the Scottish city.
They were so close that Tony and Jamie were best men at each other’s weddings.
But when the friends fell out over lucrative drug deals and in September 2000, Stevenson was lured to a quiet spot in Lanarkshire where shots were fired at his head from close range.
He managed to escape alive.
Three months later, Tony was shot dead by masked gunmen.
The police charged Stevenson with the hit but the allegations were dropped due to a lack of evidence.
It was enough to turn The Iceman, who posed as a car valeter, into a feared mobster.
The authorities first caught up with him in 2007, when Stevenson was jailed for nearly 13 years for laundering £1 million worth of drugs cash.
The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency had bugged the suspects homes and heard details of their plan to launder criminal proceeds using a bogus taxi firm.
As a result Stevenson, whose stepson Gerard Carbin was convicted of his part in the illegal operation, was ordered to pay £750,000 to the treasury.
He ran his business much the way The Sopranos were shown to run their business on television
Graeme Pearson
Police seized 48 watches, including 13 Rolexes and five Cartier ones, plus £13,445 of jewellery.
Stevenson was also forced to sell his four bedroom home in East Kilbride, which had giraffe prints on the floor and a jacuzzi bath.
A lengthy spell of incarceration did not deter the career criminal.
Following his release Stevenson set about reestablishing his drugs network.
He was a known associate of convicted drug dealer Stephen Jamieson.
The police had their first breakthrough in 2019, when they learned that fruit trader David Bilsland, 67, from Glasgow, had suddenly started taking large consignments of bananas from Ecuador.
The South American nation has strong ties to cocaine trafficking due to its close proximity to Colombia, where the deadly substance is grown.
The pieces of the puzzle fell into place when Bilsland met Stevenson in Alicante, Spain on in February 2020.
Suspicious that Bilsland was making the round trip in one day, they asked Spanish police to track him.
They then kept an eye on the importations, the first 17 of which had no drugs in them.
Around the same time detectives also caught wind of a factory in Kent capable of churning out 250,000 street valium pills every hour.
That was raided in June 2020 and police set about arresting Stevenson for running the operation.
When plain clothes officers surrounded the Sherbrooke Castle Hotel in Glasgow on June 12, Stevenson believed they were gangsters about to assassinate him.
He fled the scene, jumping over a fence, before falling down an embankment where he was caught by the officers.
It was reminiscent of a scene in The Sopranos where Tony Soprano also stumbled down an embankment.
Remarkably, Stevenson was given bail in Carlisle, allowing him to flee to Holland.
His big mistake was to leave behind an encrypted mobile phone in his hasty flit.
That allowed detectives to uncover details of messages between Stevenson and many of his criminal associates, largely thanks to data shared by French officers.
Stevenson had been using the name “bigtasty” in secretly recorded phone calls.
For two years the drug boss was able to direct drug operations in the UK from a hideout in Holland.
1999 – Stevenson starts working with criminal brothers Barry and James Gillespie
2001 – Stevenson is accused of the murder of his best man Tony McGovern, but the case is dropped.
2007 – Stevenson is jailed for 12 years for laundering £1 million worth of drugs money.
2014 – The prisoner is released from jail.
February 2020 – Stevenson meets banana importer David Bilsland in a hotel in Spain.
June 2020 – Stevenson is arrested in connection with a street valium factory in Kent.
June 2020 – While on bail, the drug dealer flees to Holland.
September 2020 – £100 million worth of cocaine found in banana boxes in the port of Dover, Kent.
February 2022 – Stevenson is arrested while jogging in Bergen op Zoom, Holland.
October 2022 – The drugs lord is jailed for 20 years, for smuggling cocaine and running the street valium factory.
In September 2020 he sent a consignment of cocaine worth an estimated £100 million to Dover hidden in boxes of bananas.
The National Crime Agency knew it was coming, but it took them three days to find all 119 packages of the white powder.
Stevenson’s exact whereabouts were unknown until one of his friends used an emergency credit card while drinking heavily at a brothel in Amsterdam.
The authorities had a trace on that card and using CCTV footage where able to work out where Stevenson had been staying.
He was arrested while jogging in a park in the south of Holland in February 2022.
Gerry McLean, the NCA’s Regional Head of Investigation for Scotland, said: “It does not matter where fugitives go, we will work with partners like the Dutch National Police who’ve provided superb help, to trace and arrest them.”
Once Stevenson was in custody in the UK, he admitted orchestrating the drug operation.
His associates Gerry Carbin, 45, Ryan McPhee, 34, Paul Bowes, 53, David Bilsland, 67, and Lloyd Cross, 32, were also jailed.
LUKE LITTLER hilariously forgot he was playing in the World Grand Prix next week during an online stream.
The 17-year-old sensation will compete for the £600,000 prize pot in Leicester when it gets underway on Monday.
And he will have to be on form from the first round when he faces former world champion Rob Cross.
But Littler has clearly been switching off from darts in recent days as it completely slipped his mind he was even playing in the Grand Prix.
Streamer Angry Ginge asked Littler: “Luke, you know on Monday your tourny [tournament]…”
There was then a long pause before Littler remembered and replied: “Oh, the Grand Prix”.
This sent Ginge into hysterics as he responded: “He didn’t even know he had it. He didn’t even know he was playing”.
Citing the Players Championship 25, Littler added: “I didn’t even know I was playing this week in Wigan”.
Littler heads into the World Grand Prix off the back of a quarter-final exit to Chris Dobey in the Players Championship this week.
Elsewhere in the draw, world No2 Michael Smith will take on Gary Anderson in another box office clash.
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And six-time World Grand Prix champion Michael van Gerwen faces Daryl Gurney.
Gerwyn Price opens up against Danny Noppert, while reigning European Champion Peter Wright meets James Wade.
Jonny Clayton hosts debutant Ritchie Edhouse and Dave Chisnall comes up against another newcomer in Cameron Menzies.
LUKE LITTLER has taken the darts world by storm since exploding onto the scene at the PDC World Championship at the beginning of the year.
The Nuke reached the final on his Ally Pally debut at just 16 years of age – smashing records along the way.
He has then gone on to win a host of PDC events and the Premier League title – which he claimed at the O2 Arena by beating world champion Luke Humphries in May.
He also finished his first season in the World Series as the No1 ranked player.
He has joined Jude Bellingham on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
And the teenage titan even had to snub an invite from the WWE.
The Sun exclusively revealed that Littler is plotting to create a fitness empire.
He is also cashing in away from the Oche thanks to an Instagram side hustle.
And he’s even the face of a brand new cereal.
But he is newly single after splitting from girlfriend Eloise Milburn following a 10-month relationship.
Check out all of our latest Luke Littler stories.
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