Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker is selling her £1.4million Kent cottage after the pandemic left her 'broke' and struggling to pay her taxes, forcing her to flog car and clothes

Pop star Cheryl Baker is selling her £1.4 million country home as she finally faces the music after the Covid lockdown left her 'broke' and struggling to pay her taxes.

The singer - who won the Eurovision Song Contest with Bucks Fizz and went on to have a string of chart-topping hits with the group - has put the six bedroom cottage on the market in a last-ditch attempt to sort out her finances.

It comes after Cheryl, 69, revealed she had been left penniless by the pandemic when all her work dried up overnight and she ended up selling her possessions on eBay.

Cheryl told how she sold clothes, including her glamorous outfits, her car and started growing vegetables from a plot at the bottom of her garden to save on grocery bills.

Describing how she hit hard times Cheryl said: 'I owe lots of tax... I physically haven't got the money to pay anybody because I'm broke.'

(Pop star Cheryl Baker (pictured in 2019)

(Cheryl is selling the home she bought for £750,000 in November 2011 with bass player husband Steve Stroud. The detached family house (pictured) near Tonbridge, Kent)

(A grand entrance hall, large modern kitchen, sitting room and dining room on the ground floor there are also four downstairs bedrooms and two bathrooms)

Now she's hoping to get back on track by selling the home she bought for £750,000 in November 2011 with bass player husband Steve Stroud, who has played in Sir Cliff Richard's band.

The detached family house near Tonbridge, Kent, sits on the edge of a 'sought-after picturesque village' which features in ITV's The Larkins, an adaptation of The Darling Buds of May.

The 'charming' 2,800 square foot property comes with a detached barn which has been fully renovated to create two holiday lets - and helped bring in some extra cash for the couple.

( The kitchen is pictured above)

(Pictured: One of the home's bedrooms)

(Pictured is a bedroom in the home)

The property, which is surrounded by farmland, is set in nearly an acre of grounds which comprises a lawn, paddock, well-established flowerbeds, borders and a terrace.

There is also the vegetable garden cultivated by Cheryl along with an orchard with fruiting apples and pears.

Cheryl, who was born Rita Crudgington, grew up as one of five children in a council flat in Bethnal Green, East London, where money was always tight.

She has told how everything the family had including clothes, furniture and toys were secondhand and said she was teased at school 'for being the poor kid'.

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