Ben Fogle’s wife reveals horror at being reported to social services after Kirstie Allsop backlash

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ben Fogle’s wife Marina has revealed that she was once falsely reported to social services for child abuse in the wake of the Kirstie Allsopp backlash. open image in gallery Ben Fogle and his wife Marina with their son Luda and daughter Iona and family dog Storm at their home in west London Allsopp subsequently received a message from social services and was questioned about what “safeguards” had been put in place for the trip, the Mail on Sunday reported. Recalling her similar experience in The Times, Mrs Fogle wrote that she returned from holiday in 2013 to a letter “from social services saying that there had been a report of verbal abuse at our address.” Her first thought was that the letter had been sent “in error”, but before she had a chance to contact authorities, they came to her home to “have a chat about my children.” “ had reported us for supposedly shouting at our children, they said, the kind of sustained verbal abuse that was simply unacceptable,” she explained. While Mrs Fogle said she understood, she wrote that while many tip-offs to social services are genuine, others are “wrong” and can result in children being unnecessarily taken away from their caregivers.