How social media could be to blame for rise in celebrity burglaries – after Michelle Keegan, Jamie Laing, and Danielle Fogarty all fell victim

The rise of the influencer has seen people increasingly sharing the intimate parts of their lives online.

But whether it’s through vlogging or simply updating huge numbers of followers as to when you might be on holiday, it could be having disastrous consequences. 

In the last few years, celebrity burglaries have been on the rise – with Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo, Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright and Danielle Fogarty all recently falling victim. 

Carl Fogarty’s daughter Danielle revealed on Sunday that she had been burgled for a second time as she shared her smashed windows, while Made In Chelsea’s Jamie stopped balaclava-wearing intruders from breaking into his London home just last week.

A home security expert has now shed light on why celebrities are being targeted, as she shared the dangers of making your life – and specifically the inside of your home – so public.

‘We live in a time when sharing our joys and achievements on social media has become the norm,’ Lynsay Lancaster, office manager at alarms system company Versiure, told MailOnline.

‘While this can be wonderful, it isn’t always the safest choice. It’s natural to want to share home renovations you’ve worked hard on or paid for, but it’s important to remember that potential thieves may be watching. 

‘In the past, thieves might have cast a street or a home for weeks to understand your movements or assess entry points. 

‘Now, they can use home renovation accounts and understand your routine, value of belongings and whereabouts in seconds.’ 

Danielle, the daughter of I’m A Celeb’s Carl and sister of Love Island star Claudia Fogarty, was the latest star to suffer a burglary as she said she is once again ‘living in a nightmare’ after her home was burgled for a second time in less than a year on Sunday.

The influencer, 32 took to her Instagram Stories to share the news alongside a snap of a broken window, where presumably the criminals entered the property. 

A heartbroken Claudia penned: ‘Home to just a living nightmare, thank you to every single one of you for all your messages and to you out there who came and took everything that isn’t yours to hope Karma treats you real f*****g nice’. 

And just last week Made In Chelsea stars Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo were woken up at 6am to loud bangs as balaclava-wearing intruders tried to break into their home.

Following the terrifying ordeal, Jamie was subjected to another attempted robbery as someone broke into his car outside his home. 

Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright also recently suffered a home raid by a masked gang at their £3.5million Essex mansion.

It is reported four suspects entered their sprawling property for around a minute but hurried away when Mark started yelling. 

Experts have claimed the actress, 37, and her TV star husband, 38, could have been preyed on due to their home Instagram page, which details how they created their ‘dream home.’

The Instagram account, Wrightyhome, documents the renovation the property went under as well as a look inside the lavish house as it looks now and boasts more than 663,000 followers and has been viewed millions of times.

Other famous faces who have been affected include Molly Mae Hague, Charlotte Crosby, Danielle Lloyd and Jack Grealish.

Molly Mae and Charlotte both spoke out after their ordeals to admit they thought they had possibly shared too much of their home and lives with fans online.

Love Island stars Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury were victims of an £800,000 burglary at their Manchester apartment in 2021.

At around 10pm on Thursday October 21 that year, while the influencer and boxer were in London at her Beauty Works Christmas launch, an ‘experienced gang’ targeted their flat in Hale, Manchester and stole the vast quantity of goods 

Addressing the break in in a YouTube video soon after the ordeal in 2021, Molly-Mae admitted she may have ‘lost the balance’ of what she shared with her followers.

‘But I think seeing a lot of the things on social media and seeing a lot of people’s opinions about why we got robbed I started to think ‘god was this my fault? Did I share too much? Did I do the wrong thing?’

‘That’s another thing I want to talk about in this video: how things are going to have to change now. 

‘At the end of the day, with a job like mine, my job is to literally share my life, that’s how I make a living. 

‘I share every aspect of my life with you, things I buy, where I live, what I do with my boyfriend, where I’m going, it’s really hard to find that balance of sharing – so that you guys want to keep up with my life and see what I’m doing – but then also keeping my life private so that I stay safe.’

She noted: ‘I think I potentially lost that balance. Karma will come for the people that did it. It’s evil.’ 

Meanwhile after her terrifying armed burglary last year, Geordie Shore star Charlotte was asked by MailOnline about if she felt nervous about opening her home up for the world to see on the telly.

And she admitted that it did make her ‘rethink’ her decision. 

Charlotte moved into the house in 2021 with her fiance Jake Ankers and the pair renovated the sprawling property – which was said to be worth in excess of £1million 

Charlotte – who was heavily pregnant at the time – admitted: ‘I’ve been in that house for a decade, and it’s been on TV all the way through them 10 years.

‘I think, after it happened, it definitely made us rethink like how much of the house I should really be showing. 

‘Now I’ve got children. And so it definitely made us rethink a lot of things, having a lot of conversations and just like, thinking about a lot. 

‘Yeah, I definitely think, not necessarily nervous… But definitely rethinking like, maybe the future.’