Angry Ginge reveals cause of tragic house fire at mum's house after investigation

Angry Ginge has said he now knows what caused the fire that burned down his mum's house on the day he appeared in Soccer Aid.

Morgan Burtwistle, otherwise known as Angry Ginge, explained last month that his mum's house had caught fire while he was competing in the charity football game.

He'd shared footage of himself in his mum's charred living room, with the walls stained with soot and the internet personality wearing a respirator mask and saying that his mum would be living with him for the time being.

Ginge later said in a video that his mum's pets, two cats and a rabbit named Simba, Herbert and Sparky, had died in the fire.

He added that he feared if his mum hadn't travelled down to London to watch him play in Soccer Aid she'd have been in the house and wouldn't have made it out.

His mum's house caught fire while she was in London watching him play at Soccer Aid (Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images)

"If my mum was in the house, she wouldn't have made it out," a tearful Ginge said.

"I suppose that's the fortunate thing. She wasn't there, 'cause she was obviously in London for Soccer Aid. That's how bad it was.

"That was the thing, the hardest to think about and deal with."

Now he's talked about what caused the fire, revealing that arson investigators believe that one of his mum's pets had accidentally started the fire on the kitchen hob and the blaze got out of control from there.

He said: "It’s actually like something out of f**king Tom and Jerry.

"So what actually caused it, I believe, well the investigation found is when my mum was out, she was down in the hotel for Soccer Aid, one of the cats jumped on the hob, turned the hob on.

"Knocked something on the hob, that’s then been set alight. It could have gone alight like that but it could have also took an hour and then set the whole kitchen alight.

"Whole kitchen went on fire, then it went to the living room, whole carpets and stairs.

"It’s crazy. They figured it out because the hob that had four things, one side was more burnt than the others, which means that would have had to start it.

"So, that’s how it started, it’s mental. It is genuinely something you’d see in, like, Tom and Jerry."

Soccer Aid took place on 31 May this year, and Ginge explained he'd been putting his mum up since then while they worked out what to do with her house.