Saffron Barker has issued a stark warning to her fans travelling along Route 66 after her terrifying robbery ordeal on the US road trip.

The influencer and former Strictly Come Dancing star, 24, hired a car rental to travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas along the iconic strip with her model boyfriend Josh Miln last week.

But when they stopped off at Route 66’s famous diner Peggy Sue’s, they returned to a completely smashed up car, with all their belongings gone. 

She admitted she was ‘grateful to be alive’ following the horrifying robbery ordeal and urged fans to think twice before stopping off on the route.

Speaking about her ‘nightmare’ holiday in her recent YouTube video, she said: ‘We keep saying how lucky we are, we could have been held at gun point. 

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Saffron Barker, 24, has issued a stark warning to her fans travelling along Route 66 after her terrifying robbery ordeal on the US road trip

The Youtuber, 24, was left stranded in the US and was unable to leave after armed men stole all her belongings and smashed up her rental car

‘These people could have been following us. I think honestly it happens quite often at Peggy Sue’s.

‘I know for a fact that if Josh had walked out and seen it you would have gone over there and they have guns and stuff here.  

‘So we are also very, very grateful that nothing like that happened to us and neither of us are hurt.’

Her boyfriend Miln, added: ‘There were tourists everywhere, and apparently this happens almost every day. It’s crazy that there are no warning signs.’

The couple, who are now back in the UK, had to drive the rest of the journey in the broken-in car and finish their trip in Las Vegas while waiting for emergency pᴀssports.

Saffron explained they were left with nothing other than their phones after thieves stole their pᴀssports, money and entire luggage.

she said: ‘We walked outside and the car was completely smashed in, the car that we rented. And inside was every little thing that I feel like I own.

‘I mean like our pᴀssports, cards, the list can just go on. I genuinely have nothing. 

‘The only thing we bought into the restaurant with us was our phones.

The former Strictly Come Dancing star hired a car rental to travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas along the iconic strip with her model boyfriend Josh Miln (pictued) last week

But when they stopped off at Route 66’s famous diner Peggy Sue’s (pictured), they returned to a completely smashed up car, with all their belongings gone 

She admitted she was ‘grateful to be alive’ following the horrifying robbery ordeal and urged fans to think twice before stopping off on the route (Her smashed up car rental pictured)

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‘Its just little things like I don’t have contacts, I can’t even see right now. We were saying it’s not even the materialistic things.

‘Although it’s really sad that we’ve lost all that money and all the things we have worked really hard for and all the things that we loved.

‘But its also the inconvenience of 1. we cant even get home.

‘2. we don’t have cards to pay for anything.

‘3. we don’t even have ID so they didn’t even want to let us into the H๏τel because they don’t have a physically ID even tho I have a picture.’