- Russian pundits have jumped on story of Brit model who moved into tent setup
Russian propagandists are gloating that Britain is so poor its pensioners and porn stars are being left to freeze to death this winter.
A presenter for Russia-1 said a ‘budget deficit’ in Britain and the withdrawal of winter fuel allowance would leave people ‘freezing’ through the colder months this year.
‘Even porn stars are suffering,’ political commentator Yevgeny Popov declared, wrongly linking to former Playboy model, Louise Glover, who recently revealed she is living in a tent in Reading after struggling to find work as a personal trainer.
‘Because of the crisis, British adult film star Louise Glover can no longer afford her rent,’ he said. ‘She sleeps outside in a tent for £115…’
‘Because of the prices for communal services, Glover… now sleeps in a tent, where she has a small stove and two hot water bottles for heating.’
Yevgeny Popov (pictured) reported that Britons like Louise were poised to freeze to death
Louise Glover, former Playboy Model of the Year, is pictured with Hugh Hefner
Louise, 41, revealed in her interview with The Sun that she had moved out of her £750-a-month shared property near Windsor to a £130-a-month camping set up when work dried up.
She revealed that she had refused to do OnlyFans or anything pornographic as she would ‘rather get my life together and live here, in this field.
‘I don’t need to lower myself to that,’ she said. ‘I have morals and self-respect.’
Louise once worked as a Playboy Bunny, having impressed at an audition aged 20 and became the first Briton to be crowned the magazine’s Model of the Year.
She spent her youth travelling the world while living out of Hugh Hefner’s famous mansion rent-free.
‘The mansion was incredible, there was even a zoo there. Everything was pink and had the Playboy Bunny logo on it,’ she told The Sun.
She moved away from modelling and the party lifestyle after contracting septicemia and going into cardiac arrest following breast augmentation surgery.
While personal training does not come with all the perks of the Playboy Mansion, she draws a line at doing anything pornographic – and prefers to live out of a tent with a stove and two hot water bottles.
The story has been reported across Russian media in recent days, with varying degrees of accuracy.
Pro-Russian pundits have exploited Britain’s cost-of-living crisis for political gain throughout the war in Ukraine.
Last year, presenter Olga Skabeyeva reported on 60 Minutes that some British restaurants were now serving squirrel due to food shortages.
She framed the report against the backdrop of Britain ‘not backing down from the decision to help [Ukrainian President, Volodymyr] Zelensky, to supply weapons’.
‘They will eat squirrels, but still supply howitzers,’ she said.
Louise Glover (pictured in 2009) revealed she was living in a tent in rural Reading
Russian propagandist couple Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva
It was not clear what prompted the claims. Around the same time, conservation group Three Atop said it would ‘not be controversial’ to eat grey squirrels by means of population contro.
Presenter Tigran Keosayan said as the first winter of the war approached that Britons should be buying real Christmas trees to burn for energy, with gas prices creeping up.
‘Soon the British will consider flour, cooking oil, and forgive me, toilet paper to be Christmas treats,’ he joked.
As early as March 2022, the Centre for Economics and Business Research estimated the initial brunt of the war would cost the average British household £2,500 each.
