Nation home costs have boomed in the course of the pandemic, however pop star Robbie Williams has agreed to promote his rural idyll for an enormous low cost after discovering that it was haunted.
I hear the previous Take That singer, whose solo hits embrace Angels, has accepted a proposal on Compton Bassett Home in Wiltshire, after slashing the asking worth by £1.35 million — that’s greater than 5 occasions the typical British home worth.
He and his spouse, former X Issue decide Ayda Area, 42, purchased the seven-bedroom property for £8.1 million in 2008.
They market it final September with a information worth of £6.75 million. An property agent at Knight Frank confirms that it has now been offered ‘topic to contract’.
I hear the previous Take That singer, whose solo hits embrace Angels, has accepted a proposal on Compton Bassett Home in Wiltshire, after slashing the asking worth by £1.35 million — that’s greater than 5 occasions the typical British home worth
The worth reduce is one thing of a shock as a result of rural home costs within the South-West are mentioned to have elevated by greater than 10 per cent previously yr as city-dwellers transfer to the nation.
The 18th-century property sits on a 71-acre property, and has its personal soccer pitch, tennis courtroom, 73 ft-long swimming pool, helicopter hangar and gymnasium, in addition to further lodging for workers and visitors.
Williams, 47, revealed in 2020 that the home had left him and his 4 youngsters, Theodora (‘Teddy’) 9, Charlton, seven, Colette, three, and Beau, 23 months, feeling that it was haunted.
‘There may be one room that I’m suspicious of,’ he mentioned. ‘It provides me the creeps.
‘Teddy, our daughter, was sleeping in there. She doesn’t any extra.
He and his spouse, former X Issue decide Ayda Area, 42, purchased the seven-bedroom property for £8.1 million in 2008
‘Teddy instructed me, “That room scares me. I don’t like that home.” I mentioned, “It scares me, too. You don’t need to sleep there any extra.” ’
He added: ‘If there may be nice grief or nice ache or tragedy, I believe it could soak into the partitions and go away an essence there that is still for a really, very very long time.’
Potential consumers are additionally mentioned to have been turned off by a close-by landfill web site, which locals say causes a ‘horrible odor’.
In 2013, neighbours complained of an ‘obnoxious’ pong from the dump.
Matt Hancock, who give up as Well being Secretary after being caught in a steamy clinch together with his married aide, Gina Coladangelo, continues to be deemed worthy of freebies. The MP has disclosed that he obtained 4 tickets value a complete of £400 to Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball at London’s O2 enviornment, the place pop stars together with Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran carried out.
Little question Hancock, who wore a black turtleneck jumper with denims, was in his component singing alongside to Sheeran’s music Dangerous Habits.
Minnie is pushed away by ageist LA
Tinseltown isn’t any place for girls as they become old, says Minnie Driver, who has slammed short-sighted film moguls after returning to her native London.
‘In Hollywood, it’s at all times concerning the youngest, the freshest and the latest,’ says the 51-year-old actress, who was nominated for an Oscar for her efficiency in Good Will Looking. ‘It turns into so myopic.’
Driver, who additionally starred in hit tv drama The Riches, says that she needed to flee Los Angeles.
‘It’s essential actually emancipate your self until you’re going to sequester your self for the remainder of your life if you’re not tremendous younger any extra — which is what Hollywood requires quite a lot of girls to do.’
There’s nothin’ unsuitable with Scouse, says Jodie
Jodie Comer, who made her title along with her Russian accent in Killing Eve earlier than changing into a Hollywood star, says that she confronted prejudice due to her Liverpudlian brogue.
‘I did a theatre play once I was round 18 and the character had an RP [Received Pronunciation] accent, and I obtained the function,’ says the 28-year-old actress.
‘The director was very sincere with me and mentioned, “Earlier than you got here in, [when] I noticed the place you had been from, I used to be like: Why have we introduced her in?” I wasn’t offended; I simply discovered it very attention-grabbing. I used to be truly actually completely satisfied that she was sincere.’
Comer says this was removed from an remoted incident. ‘Typically folks say, “Oh, can you modify your accent?” since you don’t see quite a lot of Scousers on the tv. [They] query your potential.’
Jodie Comer, who made her title along with her Russian accent in Killing Eve earlier than changing into a Hollywood star, says that she confronted prejudice due to her Liverpudlian brogue
Comic Ricky Gervais, who hosted the Golden Globe Awards 5 occasions, couldn’t care much less that Hollywood boycotted this yr’s ceremony over a scarcity of variety within the voting panel, amongst different moral points.
‘I don’t watch award exhibits until I’m at them,’ The Workplace star, 60, admits. ‘They’re boring; they’re all terrible. Who desires to look at three hours of wealthy, stunning folks slapping one another on the again?’
It jogs my memory of Noel Coward’s remark: ‘Tv is for showing on — not for .’
Testing occasions for Poppy in Thai Covid isolation
Tennis champion Novak Djokovic would possibly suppose he’s had a tough time Down Below, however spare a thought for socialite Poppy Delevingne.
The actress and mannequin has revealed she spent greater than every week in ‘whole isolation’ in hospital in Thailand after testing optimistic for Covid when she landed.
‘The final ten days have been the hardest,’ says the property developer’s daughter, 35. ‘I’m not in the appropriate headspace to dwell on it an excessive amount of.
‘Whereas the scenario was terribly lonely, it was additionally highly effective and I’ll take a lot away with me from the expertise.
‘I couldn’t have completed it with out my family and friends, who stored my spirits up with infinite FaceTimes and WhatsApps.’
Fred is very nifty at fifty
Ooh la la! First Dates maitre d’ Fred Sirieix is eager to point out off his physique as he approaches his fiftieth birthday later this month.
The Frenchman, who greets the hopefuls in search of love on his hit Channel 4 present, has shared this topless selfie, displaying his muscular torso and biceps.
A eager beginner boxer, he’s set his sights on spending extra time within the ring. ‘As a lot as I gained’t most likely be the world champion any extra, I’m not able to throw within the towel simply but.’
Not like the visitors on his programme, Sirieix has no want to hunt romance himself: he’s engaged to a Jamaican whom he affectionately calls ‘Fruitcake’. He’s at all times refused to reveal her title. He has a 17-year-old daughter, Andrea, and a son, Lucien, 11, from a earlier relationship.
Ooh la la! First Dates maitre d’ Fred Sirieix is eager to point out off his physique as he approaches his fiftieth birthday later this month