Former S Club 7 star Hannah Spearritt has just recently delighted her Instagram followers with posts from her picturesque brand-new tropical home in Costa Rica, where she and her partner Adam Thomas are determined to 'live off the land'.
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Hannah, 44, altered her bio to: 'Prepper, survivalist and creator now living the uninhibited jungle life.'
But as these special photos reveal, even an eco-warrior requires the periodic see to the supermarket in their gas-guzzling 4x4.
Recently, Adam, 45, filled up the couple's 3.0 litre diesel Hi Lux pick-up with the weekly shop at the substantial BM supermarket in Dominical, about half an hour down the mountain from where the couple and their 2 young children have based themselves.
Hannah and Adam's hillside estate with its own waterfalls and sensational views of lush green valleys is a far cry from their life in Britain, which they waved goodbye to in January.
Hannah announced to her 348k Instagram fans that the couple now plan to 'learn permaculture' so they can 'live off the land' growing vegetables and fruit.
But residents and other expats in the hills above Dominical on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, informed MailOnline that the difficulties of self-sufficiency can be 'enormous'.
'Obviously it depends upon a number of elements such as just how much dough you have, just how much land and above all, just how much experience,' said an American member of the local ex-pat Facebook group, Domi Crew.
Hannah Spearritt (left) of S Club 7 fame and her partner Adam Thomas (ideal) stopped the UK in January for a brand-new and exotic life Costa Rica where they are obviously living off the land
Despite Hannah changing her Instagram bio to: 'Prepper, survivalist and creator now living the uninhibited jungle life', Adam was seen this week equipping up on the weekly store at B&M
Adam was seen bring a McDonald's soda cup as he got out of the family's gas-guzzling 4x4 truck. B&M grocery store offers a of items consisting of soft drinks, confectionery, and alcohol, in addition to toiletries and cleansing products and garden furnishings
Hannah has actually been publishing about her picturesque life in Costa Rica - and included this image of herself on the balcony of their apartment ignoring tropical jungle
Hannah has actually given a glimpse at her new life in Costa Rica living as a 'prepper and survivalist'
'It can be done, naturally, however there are a lot of people who've attempted and underestimated how tough it is, then been required to try to find some other kind of paid work instead to get by.'
If that should occur to Hannah and Adam, there would be a lot of opportunities in the prospering traveler and surfing resort of Dominical, should the couple choose to work.
The town is less than half an hour's drive down the mountain in their substantial gas-guzzling 3.0 litre diesel Toyota Hi Lux pick-up which Hannah flaunted on Instagram just recently.
There is a wide variety of high-end hotels, yoga retreats, craft breweries, high-end restaurants, healthy food stores, junk food dining establishments and a huge BM supermarket, where the couple have both been seen.
Though some Instagram followers have presumed the couple's wood house with glorious views of the dawn from the terrace would be 'off grid', it probably is not.
More than 99 percent of the lots of vacation homes and farms dotted in the forest are on mains electriicty and most boast cooling and high-speed web too, provided either by fiber optic cable television or satellite.
Judging by images published by Adam on Facebook in their airy kitchen with a high vaulted ceiling, the family won't do not have any mod cons in the home.
At the grocery store this week, MailOnline found Adam packing a trolley high with products consisting of loo paper and bread to take home. Before heading back to their home, he cleared the truck of some rubbish consisting of a soda cup from McDonald's.
One property agent in Dominical told MailOnline: 'There is a really healthy residential or commercial property market around here and it's driven by immigrants. A number of them are digital wanderers running their company from here because it's beautiful, with the jungle, the beaches and the lifestyle.
'But in fact earning a living from the land is a hard task, unless you have significant resources and know-how, or have adequate residential or commercial property to lease it out to paying visitors.'
Hannah posted this video of a campfire and a Volkswagen camper van as part of the family's clean slates after quitting the UK for the warmer climes of central America
However, the truth is that Hannah and Adam are using this ecologically unfriendly 3.0 litre diesel Hi Lux pick-up truck to do the day-to-day chores like popping to the grocery store
Hannah transferred to Costa Rica after a series of well-publicised setbacks consisting of the death of her ex-boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole and the row over her giving up S Club 7
It's not understood how much capital Hannah and Adam have between them, but their strategies to open a holistic food store in Twickenham had actually to be shelved in 2015, supposedly due to the fact that of spiralling costs.
The business residential or commercial property in the heart of Twickenham village, bought in Hannah's name in November 2018 for ₤ 520,000 with a mortgage, was offered in March, having actually been on the marketplace for ₤ 900,000.
Adam revealed the couple's transfer to Central America back in January with a foul-mouthed attack on Britain, stating 'F *** the UK and f *** the f *** ing great deal of them. We GOOONE!!!'.
His intemperate Facebook post was accompanied by a sweet photo of his two children, Taya, five and four-year-old Tora, in a hammock at their sensational tropical rain forest house.
But the bitter tone of his invective against politicians of all hues, and 'nosey jobsworth c *** s in every government department and the NHS' raised another question.
Could an ugly event which saw the couple clash with authorities and social employees three years earlier over an injury to their infant daughter have been a consider their choice to stop Britain?
The relocate to Costa Rica gave an end a well-publicised nightmare couple of years for Hannah, that included the death of her ex-boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole in 2023, her uncomfortable departure from S Club 7, a dreadful breast implant surgery resulting in years of ill health and a spell in rehab to wean her off powerful pain reliever.
But less popular is among the darkest chapters in her 2023 autobiography, Facing the Music, billed as a 'searingly honest narrative', worrying a clash in between the couple and social services.
In December 2022, while house-sitting for good friends in Virginia Water, Surrey, press reports branded the couple 'homeless' while they were in between rental flats.
When then toddler Tora suffered an injury, believed to be brought on by a dog leaping up and scratching her eyelid, Hannah composed: 'We found ourselves on the radar of social services, a definitely outrageous scenario to be in, completely unjustified.'
She remembered the horrific event when she ran towards the noise of Tora's screams: 'The scene that I came across in the living-room will stick with me permanently. Tora was standing on the couch, eyelids horrifically lacerated and the worst facial injury I have actually ever seen.'
At the medical facility, she wrote: 'One of the nurses was available in, and asked Adam if she could have a word with him outside. What I didn't know was that as quickly as he left the room, the cops were waiting for him and jailed him, taking him off in handcuffs.
'What was currently an awful scenario had actually ramped up to something inexpressible'.
When the household landed in Costa Rica Hannah's partner Adam published this picture on his public Facebook page of their two children and included an expletive-laden rant at the UK
Adam - envisioned in the couple's roomy Costa Rica house - ranted about Keir Starmer, the Tories, Reform and the NHS as he bid farewell to Britain
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But after the bitterness of giving up the UK, the family's imagine a brand-new live have come to life as they enjoy morning waterfall strolls and an outside playground as part of their every day lives
Hannah claimed that media reports about their short-term homelessness had actually in some way convinced the authorities that it was likely that a person or other of them had actually caused their child's injuries.
She said: 'It's truly frightening to think that someone with definitely no evidence can paint a photo like that which influences someone being arrested and secured while their daughter depends on a health center bed, waiting for significant surgery.'
She added: 'It felt like persecution, one of those police mentions that individuals talk about.
'Honestly, I don't think I can ever forgive individuals accountable, although we've made every effort to forget about it, and them, as quickly as possible.'
Nevertheless, while the social services performed their examination, she said, the household needed to live in lodging where other accountable grownups were present.
She included: 'This was including insult to severe injury and bearing in mind my gradual decrease in health usually, I was really starting to anguish.'
It wasn't the first time Adam Thomas had actually been investigated for alleged violence. In 2016, he was charged with assaulting Hannah in a domestic argument, and frightening a witness.
But when the case came to trial, it collapsed, and he was discovered not guilty of common assault and witness intimidation during a hearing at Kingston Crown Court. The court heard that three prosecution witnesses were not available and that the case might not continue.
Adam Thomas was found not guilty and discharged.
Hannah and Adam are believed to have actually picked Costa Rica to settle after taking pleasure in a journey to the stunning place in 2018.
Hannah has actually repeatedly required to Instagram to wax lyrical about how well the relocation has actually turned out for them and admired the beauty of Costa Rica
The go to originally motivated them to establish the coffee shop, Fire and Earth, in Twickenham in 2022. However, it was never ever prepared to open fully and they sold up previously this year.
A source said: 'It's the most recent in a series of problems. The brand-new strategy is selling up and moving to Costa Rica to live off the land.'
Meanwhile Hannah, who has actually experienced an autoimmune condition considering that 2013, had actually been set to join her previous band on their comeback tour in 2023 but pulled out following a feud over contracts.
Following the row, the other members - Rachel Stevens, Jo O'Meara, Jon Lee, Bradley McIntosh and Tina Barrett - announced that they would continue as a five-piece.
In addition to living off the land, there is a large of luxury hotels, yoga retreats, craft breweries, high-end restaurants, healthy food stores, quick food restaurants readily available to Hannah and Adam
All the mod cons are available to the family with 99 per cent of the many rental properties and farms dotted in the forest are on mains electricity and most boast cooling and high-speed internet
Hannah was stated to have actually been blindsided by the S Club statement, with her being left on bad terms with the band in which she increased to popularity in the early 2000s.
She then supposedly drafted in lawyers and made the bold move to release her autobiography on the exact same day the band would have taken to the stage.
Before Paul's death, all seven members of the chart-topping band initially verified they were reuniting for a landmark 25th anniversary trip.
Hannah initially declined to join the line-up, mentioning an absence of child care and only accepted join when music manager Simon Fuller offered to spend for nannies to come along.
Two months later, band member Paul died, and Hannah then accepted a five-figure sum to inform her story, which left a bitter taste in the remaining band member's mouths.
The Dancing On Ice star apologised to S Club's fans for deciding to leave but said she had to do what was best for herself and her family.
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