Kirstie Allsopp outraged as her Land Rover Defender is stolen while she recovers from surgery on her broken leg

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Published: 08:04 EDT, 21 September 2026 | Updated: 08:43 EDT, 21 September 2026 TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp revealed today that her Land Rover Defender has been stolen in London – just weeks after she broke her leg in a fall.The Location, Location, Location host joked that the blue vehicle with registration number BK75 HXS was 'probably in a container en route to Timbuktu by now'.Allsopp, 55, added that the theft added 'insult to injury' – referencing how she was recently airlifted to hospital after falling during a family holiday to Devon.She tweeted this afternoon: 'To add insult to injury, quite literally, the car's been nicked!!!! This is the number plate and colour of our Landrover Defender. It's probably in a container on route to Timbuktu by now but just in case please RT. [sic]'Allsopp also shared a photo of the hybrid car marked 'Norland', a neighbourhood in the north-west of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.In response to one follower asking 'your car?', she added: 'Our car, mostly driven by Ben, but now the only one I can comfortably travel in, I was going to the wheelchair shop this afternoon!'Another follower asked: 'Did you have an AirTag in it at all? We got ours back that way rather than the JLR tracker.' Allsopp replied: 'Yes, still in their box, Ben bought some car trackers last week but hadn't got round to putting them on!'Allsopp married property tycoon husband Ben Anderson in Mayfair in January 2025 after more than 20 years together. They have two sons - Bay, 20, and Oscar, 18. Kirstie Allsopp was rushed to hospital to undergo leg surgery after suffering a fall on holiday Allsopp underwent surgery on her leg following a fall on a 'muddy patch on a steep path' Kirstie Allsopp with her property tycoon husband husband Ben Anderson, pictured in 2013Earlier this month Allsopp revealed she had surgery after breaking her leg in a slip on a 'muddy patch on a steep path' at a beach in Devon.Allsopp shared images from her hospital bed including X-rays, and said it took 'a whole host of people' to find her so an air ambulance could take her to the hospital.She said her family were celebrating her birthday at her holiday home Meadowgate and had enjoyed a picnic on the beach at Welcombe Mouth before the incident.Land Rover thefts were becoming a major issue for the Coventry-based company in the years immediately after the pandemic, with a peak of 7,136 stolen in 2023.But the total has fallen since then – to 5,455 in 2024 and 3,939 in 2025. Bosses have put the decline down to security improvements such as software updates, better key protection and more collaboration with police.