Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg face sinkhole scare outside £3.5 mansion
The couple - who were paired together on Strictly in 2018 - live near Brighton
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Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg found a nasty surprise when a sinkhole reportedly opened up outside their £3.5 million mansion.
The Strictly Come Dancing professional and her boyfriend live near Brighton, in a house that was previously owned by Brighton & Hove Albion footballer Lewis Dunk.
The couple have been together since 2018, after the YouTuber and the dancer were paired together on the dancing series.
A source told The Sun: âA sinkhole has opened up outside Dianne Buswell's house near Brighton.
âAll the local residents are absolutely horrified and worry it'll keep expanding and swallow up their homes.â
Dianne Buswell with Joe Sugg (Aaron Chown/PA)
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The London Standard has contacted Buswellâs representatives for comment.
Sugg and Buswell arenât the only celebs to have been affected by sinkholes - former Love Island star Liam Reardon was been forced to move into an Airbnb last year when a sinkhole appeared outside where he was living with his family in Wales.
Speaking to girlfriend Millie Court on their podcast Liam and Millie, he said: âWe could hear the thumping of the ground just disappearing.
âWe were in the house and our front gates went and more ground was disappearing, and everyone on the street, was going get out of the house, get out, and we were like f***, we feel like weâre in a movie.â
Reardon said his mother had been on a day out in London with her friends when the incident happened, and added he was âluckyâ that he drove over the area where the â60ft holeâ appeared just hours before, and the Tarmac did not break.
A sinkhole is a depression in the groundâs surface caused by erosion of the underlying rock, according to the British Geological Survey.
In recent years, several have appeared across the UK, causing damage to infrastructure and forcing costly repair works.
They often appear saucer-shaped but can look like cones, cylindrical potholes or deeper shafts upon formation.
Sinkholes vary dramatically in size and depth â some span less than a metre, while others stretch hundreds of metres.
While sinkholes can open up for several reasons, their formation is usually because of a placeâs geology.