EASTENDERS star Charlie Brooks is splashing out on a Grand Designs-style makeover of her £1.5million Surrey home - to make it easier for her ex to pop over.
The soap icon, who played Janine Butcher, lives downstairs while Ibiza nightclub owner Tony Truman stays in the flat above to help raise daughter Kiki, in a highly-unusual living arrangement.
Now she wants to extend her five-bedroom home and build a new external stairway so Tony, who she split from in 2007, can pop down to see her and share the garden.
Tony, 55, has applied to the local council for planning permission for a two-storey rear extension to create two new master bedrooms, complete with his and hers walk-in wardrobes.
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