Cilla Black's Spanish villa engulfed by fire at 3am

Cilla Black’s Spanish villa has been damaged by a fire. The TV host , 71, was in the UK when the house, in Estepona, Costa del Sol, was engulfed earlier this month. She said: “All the hedges have gone at the front of the house. A Good Samaritan - a neighbour opposite - saw these flames at three o’clock in the morning. “I have management over there and a gardener, but I could’ve been in the house when it happened. “It frightens me.” She said she usually flies to the luxury property in August but is having to go earlier to oversee repairs. Cilla, whose husband Bobby died in 1999, admitted she was nervous about staying there on her own. But she added: “I’ve got to go to Spain, it’s got to be done, to get over being frightened, the longer I leave it , the worse it’s going to be. “What frightens me most is being on my own - I don’t stay there on my own. "I usually don’t go there until August but I’m going early this time.” The star also has homes in London, Buckinghamshire and Barbados.