Paul Hollywood and his wife Melissa have spent £80,000 of their own money trying to save her family’s pub The Chequers Inn in Smarden, near Ashford

Celebrity baker Paul Hollywood and his wife Melissa have pumped more than £80,000 of their own money into trying to save her family’s Kent pub. Mrs Hollywood told of the business’s struggles as she was supported by her TV star husband at an Ashford Borough Council (ABC) planning committee meeting this week. The long-serving landlady of The Chequers Inn in Smarden, near Ashford, says her parents have spent even bigger sums trying to keep it afloat. The Grade II-listed village pub has long been in the hands of Mrs Hollywood’s family – who now want to turn it into a house. Her dad Glenn Spalding …