Carrie Johnson stocks up on £3.99 Aldi candles in far cry from 'gold wallpaper'
Carrie Johnson has been out shopping at Aldi for cheap candles - a far cry from the lavish lifestyle we are used to seeing from Boris Johnson ’s wife.
Posting on her Instagram, Carrie shared a picture of a basket full of candles from the budget supermarket, including ‘fresh croissant’, ‘pain au chocolat’ and ‘cinnamon twist’ scents. “Totally influenced by @annaelerihart and had to go to Aldi for these. They smell amazing,” she posted in the caption. Each candle retails at £3.99.
The haul may come as a surprise to many who are used to seeing the former Prime Minister’s wife enjoying a lavish lifestyle - notably with the notorious "Wallpapergate" scandal which saw Carrie and Boris rack up over £200,000 worth of renovations, the vast majority of which was paid for by the Conservative Party and Lord Brownlow.
Carrie shared her trip to Aldi on her Instagram (Instagram)
The Aldi croissant candles cost just £3.99 (Aldi)At the time, Boris said the costs were spiralling “out of control” as his fiancee - then Carrie Symonds - was out “buying gold wallpaper”. It wasn’t long before the £840-a-roll wallpaper began peeling off and was painted over by failed Prime Minister Liz Truss. In the end, the pair were ordered to pay the money - any surplus to the £30,000 which is covered by government funds - out of their own pocket.
Blowing over £170,000 on renovations - when they only had around a year left in Number 10 - perhaps contributed to Carrie’s recent Aldi visit. But in January this year, the pair were shopping around for a multi-million pound mansion, viewing one property in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, with a price tag of £4.5million.
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Carrie was seen shopping at Harrods around that time - a short stroll from the £20 million mansion they had been occupying since last September owned by the wife of Tory donor Lord Bamford. Proven liar Johnson said he estimated the rental value at around £10,000 - which seemed an unusually large difference from the £30,000 it costs to rent a very similar property nearby.
Johnson, who in July pocketed £2.5 million from a booking agency for speeches he hadn’t yet given - viewed another £4 million detached manor house with Carrie in the Cotswolds. Meanwhile, it is believed they are still renting out a £1.2 million townhouse for up to £4,000 a month.
Carrie may be trying to tighten the budget after some huge purchases in the last two years (Getty Images)Carrie, who wore a £3,000 dress in her wedding to Johnson in 2021, nearly landed influential jobs on the disgraced former Prime Minister’s recommendation - until his closest aides vetoed the suggestions. One included a role with the Royal Family through Prince William and Kate Middleton ’s Earthshot Prize.
Eventually the pair - who were both fined following the partygate scandal which forced them out of Number 10 - settled on a £3.8million property for his grand nine-bed manor house in Oxfordshire, the Mirror exclusively revealed. Such a whopping price appears an impressive feat from Johnson - who once allegedly complained he couldn’t get by on his £164,080 combined salary as PM and MP. Most recently, it was revealed Carrie and Boris have won planning permission to build a swimming pool in the rural property.
Perhaps the spending has caught up with them - and Carrie is being forced to look elsewhere to tighten up the family budget.
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