George and Amal Clooney’s sprawling £20 million Berkshire mansion has been blighted by flooding once again after bouts of heavy rain.
Aerial photos show the manicured gardens at the Sonning estate starting to succumb to flood waters.
The Ocean’s Eleven Hollywood star, 62, and his lawyer wife, 45, first moved into the picturesque postcard country estate in 2016.
But the 17th century property has been beset with flooding problems due to it being close to the banks of the Thames.
It came just under a year after heavy rainfall caused muddy waters to flood gardens – and is at least the sixth time the house has been beset by burst banks since the pair snapped up the stately pile in 2014.
NOVEMBER 20: Heavy rainfall has caused flooding on the luscious lawn of the Clooneys’ £20 million Berkshire mansion yesterday
NOVEMBER 20: The 17th century Grade II-listed property has been blighted by flooding yesterday due to it being close to the banks of the Thames
2021: Two years ago, a bad bout of flooding saw the whole of the Clooney’s garden underwater
2018: The Clooney’s home was hit by flooding five years ago – submerging the lawn
The Clooneys were hit by flooding in January when the tennis court, veranda and most of the previously luscious lawn was submerged by filthy flood water from the nearby river.
Storm Christoph, in January 2021, saw flood water seep onto the lawn – but the deluge stopped short of the house itself.
But February 2020’s Storm Dennis left the Hollywood star’s tennis courts, the veranda of his summer house and most of his lawn completely underwater.
In 2018, the lawn was swamped by water after three inches of rain fell over the April bank holiday weekend.
And 2016 saw weeks of heavy rain saw the Thames burst its banks and spill into the garden, threatening to encroach on the house shortly after its multi-million pound renovation.
The UK has been battered by a raft of storms in recent months, with Babet, Cairan, and Debi leaving behind a path of devastation.
The couple snapped up their Grade II-listed mansion on a five-acre island near Sonning, Berkshire, for a reported £10 million in September 2014, days before their wedding at Venice’s Aman Canal Grande hotel.
After an extensive 18-month refurbishment costing several million pounds, the nine-bedroom, ivy-covered manor house, which is protected from prying eyes by a row of willow trees, today boasts a large swimming pool and pool house, a grand terrace, a boat house, an astroturf tennis court and a 12-seater cinema.
George and Amal moved to Sonning after finishing their renovations around a year before the birth of their twins, Ella and Alexander, in June 2017.
However, locals told in September the couple had not been seen in the village for almost two years.
George Clooney, 62, and his lawyer wife Amal, 45, are rumoured to be living elsewhere having not been seen in the village for the last two years
JANUARY 17: The Clooneys’ home pictured at the beginning of the year when the Thames burst its banks after huge amounts of rain
JANUARY 17: The property was hit by flooding earlier this year
A nearby neighbour, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: ‘They used to be around much more, but they’ve not been seen for over two years or so as far as I know.
‘It’s fairly common knowledge that this isn’t where they live any more, at least not permanently. They’re never here.’
A source close to the family said the couple are now splitting their time between Italy and the US.
They are thought to be most often at Villa Oleandra, an 18th Century pile on the shore of Lake Como.