Poor old Ricky Gervais. The twinkly eyed star of The Office and Extras has been complaining that reports of how much his snazzy new house in upmarket Hampstead, north London, cost have been wide of the mark: some newspapers put the price as low as a paltry £2m pounds. Onstage during his new sell-out tour recently, Gervais said: “It was £3.5m — how am I going to sell it now?”
Fair point, so in the interests of accuracy, I can confirm that Gervais’s new pad cost him and his other half, Jane Fallon, £3.425m, according to official records. He has also applied for permission to install a swimming pool and golf simulator. And he’s got a mortgage from Coutts. That’s the Queen’s bankers. Fact, as they say.
Across the Atlantic, the glittering property empire of Coldplay singer Chris Martin and his willowy actress wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, is expanding. Local property experts say that in the past couple of years, the pair have splashed out on a swanky £4.4m apartment in New York’s hip TriBeCa district, plus a £3m holiday home in the Hamptons. Now, it’s reported they’ve spent another £2.5m on a three-bed TriBeCa penthouse. The pair’s publicists declined to comment.
Former Wimbledon champ Pat Cash has got out his chequebook. According to locals in Fulham, west London, the Aussie ball-thwacker and keen guitarist has just bought a new flat in a Victorian red-brick block in the area, at a cost said to be about half a million. Eighteen months ago, he put his family home on the market for £925,000 after he split from his wife, Emily. Cash, 41, described that home as his “best investment” ever.
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