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Created Jun 22, 2025 by Angus Bage@angusbage7681Maintainer

The Truth behind Hannah Spearritt's 'off-grid' Life In Costa Rica

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Former S Club 7 star Hannah Spearritt has recently delighted her Instagram fans with posts from her idyllic new tropical home in Costa Rica, where she and her partner Adam Thomas are identified to 'live off the land'.
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Hannah, 44, altered her bio to: 'Prepper, survivalist and creator now living the uninhibited jungle life.'

But as these special images reveal, even an eco-warrior requires the periodic see to the supermarket in their gas-guzzling 4x4.

Last week, Adam, 45, loaded up the couple's 3.0 litre diesel Hi Lux pick-up with the weekly store at the huge BM supermarket in Dominical, about half an hour down the mountain from where the couple and their two young daughters have actually based themselves.

Hannah and Adam's hillside estate with its own waterfalls and sensational views of rich green valleys is a far cry from their life in Britain, which they waved bye-bye to in January.

Hannah revealed to her 348k Instagram fans that the couple now plan to 'find out permaculture' so they can 'live off the land' growing vegetables and fruit.

But residents and other expats in the hills above Dominical on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, informed MailOnline that the difficulties of self-sufficiency can be 'enormous'.

'Obviously it depends on several elements such as how much dough you have, just how much land and above all, just how much experience,' stated an American member of the regional ex-pat Facebook group, Domi Crew.

Hannah (left) of S Club 7 fame and her partner Adam Thomas (best) stopped the UK in January for a brand-new and exotic life Costa Rica where they are apparently living off the land

Despite Hannah altering her Instagram bio to: 'Prepper, survivalist and creator now living the uninhibited jungle life', Adam was seen today stocking up on the weekly shop at B&M

Adam was seen bring a McDonald's soft drink cup as he left the household's gas-guzzling 4x4 truck. B&M grocery store sells a variety of products including soft beverages, confectionery, and alcohol, in addition to toiletries and cleansing items and garden furniture

Hannah has been publishing about her picturesque life in Costa Rica - and included this image of herself on the terrace of their apartment or condo neglecting tropical jungle

Hannah has actually given a peek at her brand-new life in Costa Rica living as a 'prepper and survivalist'

'It can be done, naturally, however there are a lot of individuals who have actually attempted and underestimated how challenging it is, then been required to search for some other type of paid work rather to get by.'

If that must occur to Hannah and Adam, there would be a lot of chances in the thriving traveler and browsing resort of Dominical, ought to the couple choose to work.

The town is less than half an hour's drive down the mountain in their huge gas-guzzling 3.0 litre diesel Toyota Hi Lux pick-up which Hannah displayed on Instagram recently.

There is a vast array of high-end hotels, yoga retreats, craft breweries, high-end dining establishments, natural food shops, fast food restaurants and a huge BM supermarket, where the couple have actually both been seen.

Though some Instagram followers have actually presumed the couple's wood home with glorious views of the sunrise from the terrace would be 'off grid', it probably is not.

More than 99 per cent of the lots of villas and farms dotted in the forest are on mains electriicty and most boast a/c and high-speed internet also, delivered either by fiber optic cable television or satellite.

Judging by photos posted by Adam on Facebook in their airy kitchen area with a high vaulted ceiling, the household will not do not have any mod cons in the home.

At the grocery store this week, MailOnline identified Adam packing a trolley high with items consisting of bathroom paper and bread to take home. Before heading back to their apartment or condo, he cleared the truck of some rubbish including a soft beverage cup from McDonald's.

One realty representative in Dominical told MailOnline: 'There is a really healthy residential or commercial property market around here and it's driven by foreigners. A lot of them are digital wanderers running their business from here due to the fact that it's stunning, with the jungle, the beaches and the quality of life.

'But really making a living from the land is a hard job, unless you have significant resources and know-how, or have enough residential or commercial property to lease it out to paying visitors.'

Hannah published this video of a campfire and a Volkswagen camper van as part of the household's clean slates after stopping the UK for the warmer climes of central America

However, the reality is that Hannah and Adam are utilizing this ecologically unfriendly 3.0 litre diesel Hi Lux pick-up truck to do the daily tasks like popping to the supermarket

Hannah moved to Costa Rica after a series of well-publicised setbacks consisting of the death of her ex-boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole and the row over her quitting S Club 7

It's not understood how much capital Hannah and Adam have in between them, however their plans to open a holistic grocery store in Twickenham needed to be shelved last year, reportedly since of spiralling expenses.

The industrial residential or commercial property in the heart of Twickenham village, purchased in Hannah's name in November 2018 for ₤ 520,000 with a mortgage, was offered in March, having actually been on the market for ₤ 900,000.

Adam revealed the couple's move to Central America back in January with a foul-mouthed attack on Britain, stating 'F *** the UK and f *** the f *** ing great deal of them. We GOOONE!!!'.

His intemperate Facebook post was accompanied by a sweet photo of his 2 daughters, Taya, 5 and four-year-old Tora, in a hammock at their sensational rain forest house.

But the bitter tone of his invective versus political leaders of all hues, and 'nosey jobsworth c *** s in every government department and the NHS' raised another concern.

Could an unsightly incident which saw the couple clash with authorities and social employees 3 years earlier over an injury to their infant daughter have been a factor in their choice to quit Britain?

The transfer to Costa Rica brought to an end a well-publicised problem couple of years for Hannah, which consisted of the death of her ex-boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole in 2023, her awkward departure from S Club 7, a devastating breast implant surgery resulting in years of ill health and a spell in rehab to wean her off effective pain medication.

But less popular is among the darkest chapters in her 2023 autobiography, Facing the Music, billed as a 'searingly honest memoir', concerning a clash between the couple and social services.

In December 2022, while house-sitting for good friends in Virginia Water, Surrey, press reports branded the couple 'homeless' while they were between rental flats.

When then toddler Tora suffered an injury, believed to be triggered by a pet dog leaping up and scratching her eyelid, Hannah wrote: 'We found ourselves on the radar of social services, a definitely outrageous circumstance to be in, absolutely unjustified.'

She remembered the horrific event when she ran towards the sound of Tora's screams: 'The scene that I came across in the living-room will stay with me forever. Tora was basing on the couch, eyelids horrifically lacerated and the worst facial injury I have actually ever seen.'

At the hospital, she wrote: 'One of the nurses came in, and asked Adam if she could have a word with him outside. What I didn't understand was that as quickly as he left the space, the cops were waiting on him and apprehended him, taking him off in handcuffs.

'What was already an awful scenario had actually increase to something indescribable'.

When the family landed in Costa Rica Hannah's partner Adam published this picture on his public Facebook page of their 2 daughters and included an expletive-laden tirade at the UK

Adam - visualized in the couple's roomy Costa Rica home - ranted about Keir Starmer, the Tories, Reform and the NHS as he bid farewell to Britain

But after the bitterness of quitting the UK, the household's dreams of a new live have come to life as they enjoy early morning waterfall strolls and an outside play area as part of their daily lives

Hannah claimed that media reports about their momentary homelessness had somehow persuaded the authorities that it was likely that one or other of them had actually caused their daughter's injuries.

She stated: 'It's truly frightening to think that someone with definitely zero proof can paint a photo like that which influences someone being arrested and secured while their daughter depends on a health center bed, awaiting major surgery.'

She included: 'It seemed like persecution, among those cops states that individuals discuss.

'Honestly, I don't think I can ever forgive individuals responsible, although we've striven to forget it, and them, as rapidly as possible.'

Nevertheless, while the social services conducted their investigation, she said, the family had to live in accommodation where other accountable adults existed.

She added: 'This was including insult to severe injury and bearing in mind my progressive decrease in health normally, I was really beginning to anguish.'

It wasn't the very first time Adam Thomas had actually been examined for supposed violence. In 2016, he was charged with attacking Hannah in a domestic argument, and daunting a witness.

But when the case came to trial, it collapsed, and he was found not guilty of typical assault and witness intimidation throughout a hearing at Kingston Crown Court. The court heard that 3 prosecution witnesses were not offered and that the case could not proceed.

Adam Thomas was discovered not guilty and released.

Hannah and Adam are believed to have selected Costa Rica to settle after delighting in a trip to the stunning location in 2018.

Hannah has actually consistently required to Instagram to wax lyrical about how well the relocation has actually ended up for them and admired the beauty of Costa Rica

The go to initially influenced them to set up the café, Fire and Earth, in Twickenham in 2022. However, it was never ever ready to open totally and they sold up previously this year.

A source said: 'It's the newest in a series of obstacles. The new plan is selling up and relocating to Costa Rica to live off the land.'

Meanwhile Hannah, who has actually experienced an autoimmune condition because 2013, had been set to join her previous band on their return tour in 2023 however pulled out following a feud over contracts.

Following the row, the other members - Rachel Stevens, Jo O'Meara, Jon Lee, Bradley McIntosh and Tina Barrett - announced that they would continue as a five-piece.

Along with living off the land, there is a large of luxury hotels, yoga retreats, craft breweries, high-end dining establishments, health food shops, quick food restaurants readily available to Hannah and Adam

All the mod cons are readily available to the household with 99 percent of the lots of rental properties and farms dotted in the forest are on mains electrical power and most boast a/c and high-speed web

Hannah was stated to have actually been blindsided by the S Club statement, with her being left on bad terms with the band in which she rose to popularity in the early 2000s.

She then reportedly prepared in lawyers and made the strong relocate to launch her autobiography on the same day the band would have required to the stage.

Before Paul's death, all 7 members of the chart-topping band at first validated they were reuniting for a landmark 25th anniversary trip.

Hannah initially refused to sign up with the line-up, pointing out an absence of childcare and only concurred to sign up with when music manager Simon Fuller provided to spend for baby-sitters to come along.

Two months later, band member Paul died, and Hannah then accepted a five-figure sum to tell her story, which left a bitter taste in the staying band member's mouths.

The Dancing On Ice star apologised to S Club's fans for choosing to leave however said she had to do what was finest for herself and her household.

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