Revealed: AngryGinge buys £420k mock-Tudor residence after raking in £1.4m streaming from his bed room

I’m A Celebrity winner AngryGinge rewarded himself for his hugely successful media career by spending £420,000 on his first home, we can reveal.

The content creator turned TV personality had amassed career earnings of £1.4million before even reaching his 25th birthday – and the Daily Mail has learned that he spent a good chunk of it on a luxury newbuild three bedroom property.

The streamer, whose real name is Morgan Burtwistle, completed the deal on the high spec property in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, in June last year.

The mock Tudor newbuild in the historic market town boasts a bright, airy kitchen-diner, two modern high-spec bathrooms, large front and back gardens, a hot tub, covered patio, and a sweeping driveway.

But rather than deplete his financial reserves, Burtwistle’s phenomenally successful 2025 has left him even richer – his media career has earned him £1.2million in the last year alone, including £100,000 from his appearance on I’m A Celeb.

The Salford-born star, who grew up in very modest council homes, has amassed more than five million followers across all social media platforms making him in huge demand for commercial brands including Puma and JD Sport.

His Manchester-based estate agent Jamie Burke posted on Instagram to mark Burtwistle’s purchase, sharing a picture of them shaking hands and handing over the keys in the influencer’s brand new kitchen.

He wrote in the caption: ‘New home day for @angryginge13. Thanks for buying through me and being patient & understanding throughout. It’s always a pleasure handing over the keys to a new homeowner, and even more so when it’s AngryGinge.’

The purchase is a mark of how dramatically Burtwistle’s circumstances have changed since finding fame online.

Burtwistle has spoken candidly about his upbringing on a council estate in Eccles, Greater Manchester, where he and his sister Tasha, 27, were raised by their single mother Michelle, 50.

He told fellow I’m A Celeb campmate Alex Scott, who was also raised on a council estate: ‘We’ve got no problems getting our hands stuck in, because that’s what we’ve had to do from being little to where we are now.

The streamer told the football pundit, 41, he grew up seeing his mother work endlessly throughout the day to make sure he was looked after.

He explained she would finish her first job, then ‘she’d go and finish that and then go to her second job then go to her third job and then get home’.

Burtwistle said: ‘If she can do it then I can do this in the jungle, so that’s what keeps me going really.’

And it was this down-to-earth, honest appeal which won the hearts of ITV viewers – many of which may not have even heard of him before – and catapulted him to mainstream stardom.

His mother Michelle worked multiple jobs, including in a school kitchen, as a cleaner and in a care home, to bring in £12,500 to support her family.

But, struggling to pay the mortgage on their house in Eccles, Burtwistle offered to leave home at 18 to live with his grandmother, in a bid to relieve the financial burden on her.

He went on to rent a ‘s***hole’ apartment with no shower, peeling wallpaper, mould and a door without a handle for £350 a month in order to save up for a deposit on his own place.

The star referred to his old flat as a ‘pub’ because his followers would often question if he really lived there – and its carpet was suitably grotty.

His mother previously told the Daily Mail: ‘He saw me struggling as a single parent growing up and now he thinks it’s his time to make it up to me.

‘He always says to me, “If there’s anything you need or anything you want, just ask me”.

‘He doesn’t do it because he has to, it’s because he wants to and appreciates all I have done for him.’

Burtwistle only started his online content five years ago when he signed up for a platform called Twitch, where posters typically live stream themselves while gaming or watching others do so.

Creators are able to monetise this via subscriptions, donations, sponsorship deals, adverts and Bits, a virtual currency viewers can buy and use to show support for streamers.

Burtwistle primarily creates sports content on this niche corner of the internet, streaming himself either watching football matches or playing sport-related video games.

And it was watching frustrating gameplay live on air which earned the red-headed influencer and staunch Manchester United supporter his AngryGinge username.

He filmed his first broadcast, of him playing football video game FIFA, in October 2020, after being inspired by fellow creator Castro1021.

His success was not overnight, with Burtwistle recalling he managed a peak of just 40 viewers with his first stream, which netted him £12.44.

In fact, after a few months, he almost gave up on Twitch, having become ‘demotivated’ by only getting an average of six and seven viewers on his early content.

But following the death of his grandfather from Covid in 2021, he returned to streaming full time, uploading content Monday to Friday, for up to ten hours a day, to make a name for himself.

His persistence paid off, and after expanding to other social media sites, including a highly successful YouTube channel, he soon started to make thousands, all from the comfort of his bedroom.

Two years ago, for Christmas, Burtwistle was able to pay off all his mother’s debts using prize money he won playing a football game with other content creators, which was streamed by thousands.

It will be much to the chagrin of his ‘dead-beat dad’, who walked out on him when he was a youngster – plunging his family into poverty and leaving his mother juggling three jobs.

Truck driver Lee Smith, 57, became estranged from the influencer and his sister Tasha after he abandoned the family, leaving single mother Michelle struggling to make ends meet.

But silver-haired Smith may be regretting his fecklessness now after Burtwistle made television history by becoming the first social media star to be crowned King of the Jungle.

While heaping praise on his mother for the sacrifices she made, helping launch him on the road to fame and fortune, the influencer has often taken public swipes at his father on social media.

Burtwistle has highlighted in videos and podcast interviews the ‘horrible things’ his ‘drunken’ and ‘racist’ father did to him and his family when he was younger.

It has meant the star has previously insisted if he saw his father on the streets today, he would ‘walk past him’.

Burtwistle revealed the family were forced to endure ‘constant’ court battles that went on for ‘months or even years’ after his father abandoned the family.

And with his father soon starting a relationship with another woman, the star now has a half-sister he has never met.

Despite walking out, Ginge told how his father would show up at their council house in Salford in the middle of the night to cause chaos.

He said in one online interview: ‘What I also remember as a kid, I cannot count on two hands how many times there would be the back fences kicked in because they were wooden.

‘There would just be cans of Stella and smashed glass outside.

‘Once he got drunk in the middle of the night because he absolutely loved the Stella.

‘He just came to the house and he just picked a brick up and he threw it through the window.

‘The next day he came round to try and see me. He’s turned up and gone, “Oh right, What’s happened here then?”, knowing full well he’s done it.

‘I don’t know if he felt guilty or anything but he offered to pay half. Why would you offer to pay half?’

Of his first memory of his father he said: ‘I was just walking up and down because my mum was doing the garden. My mum said, “Morgan you’re best off going inside now”. Then to my knowledge, a random man was tickling me on the wall.

‘She gets me off the wall and gets me inside. I just remember I looked at my mum and said, “Is that my dad?” And she went, “Yeah”.

‘I was born, loads happened between him and my mum. He’s not a nice guy.’

Speaking of the ‘constant court battles’, Burtwistle told how his mother had to contact authorities to force Smith to pay maintenance to support his children.

But Burtwistle said: ‘What my dad actually kept doing – which is why I repeatedly say he’s not a good man and this is the tip of the iceberg – he used to keep moving jobs so this company couldn’t keep tracking him down so he wouldn’t actually pay my mum anything a month.’

At one point in his childhood, his father, who he would visit ‘on Sundays or every other Sunday’, would pay for ‘clothes and trainers’ with his ‘truck driving money’.

But he said of one occasion: ‘I’ve actually been in a police van. My mum opened the door to the police and saw me getting out of the back of a police van because my dad had just been arrested.’

And speaking of a ‘near death experience’ he said: ‘My dad was drink-driving in the car – probably not the safest.’

In contrast, he told how he was fortunate to have an ‘amazing’ mother who ‘guided him the right way’.

The pair shared an emotional reunion after he beat established stars, including EastEnders’s Shona McGarty, Spandau Ballet singer Martin Kemp and actress Lisa Riley, to land the coveted title.

After his win, Burtwistle told how he had taken on the TV challenge to fulfil a lifelong dream.

He gave up his lucrative work for a five-week stint in Australia as it was a country his mother had always wanted to visit and he had pledged to take her there if he had the opportunity.

He said of his mother: ‘I remember her saying years ago one of her main aims was that she wanted to go to Australia and I managed to get her a free holiday there.

‘I didn’t do it for publicity. I just did it because I’ve got an opportunity here to live an eight-year-old Morgan’s dream and to make my mum proud.’

Opening up about what the win meant for him personally, he said: ‘I wanted my mum to know how well she did raising us and how much I do appreciate everything that she did…

‘From being a single parent, since I was probably one year old and then on and off and then throughout my whole life basically working all of the jobs that she had just to know that.

‘Anything I can do would make her proud. It’s just the best.’