Strictly star ‘stranded’ in Greece without nappies for kids amid travel chaos
Strictly Come Dancing's Ore Oduba and his wife, Portia, say they've been left "stranded" in Greece following the ongoing air traffic control chaos.
The family is one of thousands who have been affected by the network-wide outage on bank holiday Monday, which caused more than 1,200 flights to be cancelled following a technical fault with the UK’s air traffic control system.
Taking to Instagram, mum-of-two Portia, explained her family was due to travel back to London, Gatwick yesterday, however sharing a picture of her son and daughter, Roman and Genie, looking out at the grounded easyJet planes from the airport, she revealed they were stuck in Greece with no nappies for the couple's young children.
She shared: "So currently ‘stranded’ in Greece with no flight home. No nappies and no clean knickers. @easyjet have cancelled all flights leaving till Sunday. But it’s ok. They’ve offered us a voucher for the next time we fly. Maybe we can fly home on that, magic carpet style.” She then added: “I better sharpen up on my Greek as at this rate we are going to become citizens.”
Strictly Come Dancing's Ore Oduba and his wife, Portia, say they've been left 'stranded' in Greece without nappies for their children (Mike Marsland/WireImage)
Portia shared a snap of her kids looking out at the grounded planes (Instagram/@portiajett)It comes after the influencer shared a video on her Instagram story on Tuesday morning, telling fans the family were down to their “last three nappies” as they attempted to find a different flight home. “The next available flight from where we’re staying back to London Gatwick isn’t until Sunday I believe so we’re trying to find an alternative flight, potentially trying to get to another island and fly with a different airline who’s flights are all still leaving,” Portia said.
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After hearing their flights had been cancelled, the under pressure parent shared a photo of her children, writing: “These two as you can imagine were not playing ball earlier whilst we tried to arrange another room.. etc at our hotel. How do kids just know when to kick up?! It’s all been quite stressful as you can imagine – as it will be for many, many people this week. We do however have an amazing travel rep who is trying her very best to get us home! Also. The kids have no clean clothes left and I don’t have any clean knicks… so that’s great. Sink washes all round.”
Portia concluded her post saying the family currently has “no way of getting home” as a whole host of famous faces, including Gabby Logan and Dawn O'Porter said they were also affected by the travel chaos. Gabby told her followers she was stuck on the tarmac in Budapest while Dawn slammed the outage as a "s**t show", admitting she was going back to the "island" in Mallorca to "find wine".
Following the fiasco, which is predicted to affect passengers well into the week, Transport Secretary Mark Harper announced that an “independent review” will be carried out after the technical glitch meant flight plans had to be input manually by controllers.
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