Vogue Williams has spoken about how strangers overran her late father Freddie’s Dublin home after she posted on Facebook inviting people to take his belongings following his death in 2010
Matt Jackson Trendswatch Content Editor
14:39, 26 Nov 2025
Vogue Williams’ awkward blunder left her home ‘overrun with strangers'(Image: Vogue Williams/Instagram)
Vogue Williams’ family home was “overrun by strangers” after the celebrity made a “grim” social media mistake. Vogue, 40, hails from Portmarnock, born to parents Sandra and Freddie.
However, the couple parted ways when Vogue was merely seven years old. Sandra later remarried Neil Wilson, with Vogue and her two older siblings – sister Amber and brother Frederick – residing with the newlyweds.
Vogue’s father Freddie, who she fondly remembers as “great fun”, tragically passed away in 2010 following surgery that resulted in him suffering a stroke. The I’m A Celeb star, who was only 25 years old at the time, admits she “felt guilty” after persuading him to undergo surgery to try and remove an aneurysm in his stomach.
Speaking on the Mad, Bad, and Sad podcast, Vogue reminisced: “When you lose someone close to you, it’s really frightening. You don’t really expect them to die but with my dad, I kind of did expect him to die because he was great fun but he smoked, he drank a lot, he used to put butter on his chips, he never exercised, he never paid taxes.
“He was just like wild. He was really good fun. I’d say he died of fun.”
Vogue and Amber recalled their father Freddie’s death(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Following Freddie’s death, Vogue and her family endeavoured to clear out his home. This led the television personality to post on Facebook, inviting people to come and collect any hidden treasures among his possessions.
However, Amber remembered a time when a similar initiative backfired on the family. This came up as Vogue proposed inviting listeners of their ‘Vogue and Amber’ podcast to her home to help sort through her belongings as she prepares to move house with her family.
Vogue proposed: “When we move house fully and we’re in our new house, I’m going to Marie Kondo my own a** and it’s all nice stuff, I just don’t need it all. I’m going to lay it all out, and I think I’ll invite the [podcast] listeners first, and people can just go and take stuff.”
Amber, laughing, reminisced: “Jesus Vogue, that reminds me of when we were trying to clear dad’s house. Vogue put a tweet out and we had the house overrun with strangers just picking things up, that was grim.”
Vogue was living with Freddie when he died(Image: Getty)
Vogue elaborated that the family found it difficult to dispose of Freddie’s possessions, which led her to post on a local Facebook group and let people “help themselves” to items from the property. She explained: “Basically we had to clear his house out when he died and he’d been living there for years and years, and don’t forget I’d been living there for a short time, so it was overrun with stuff because of me.
“And we had to get rid of everything, furniture, everything because we were selling this house. And it was really hard, we asked everyone if they wanted anything and everyone from our family took what they wanted, so I put it in a Facebook group, ‘Anyone want to come and you can just help yourself’.
“Well, did they help themselves? At one point people were pulling light fixtures off the wall. She [Amber] left, I was the younger sibling and was on my own in a house of strangers, I was a baby girl, the youngest of the family, 25 or not.
“I was like, ‘If things are fixed to the wall, that’s not what we’re doing here. Furniture please’. It all went.”
Even now, 15 years after Freddie passed away at Dublin’s Mater Hospital, Vogue can still “smell him”. She added: “I remember him so well. If I order a vodka Diet Coke because sometimes I drink it, and they put in a slice of lemon in, which I despise, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, dad, get that out of there, how dare you, that’s not for you, it’s for me.”