Gareth Southgate markets his £3.25 million Grade I listed Yorkshire home
Footballers are not generally noted for living in tasteful homes so it is somewhat surprising to find that the former England player turned Middlesborough manager Gareth Southgate’s current home is a Grade I listed “Elizabethan style” hall on the banks of Swinsty Reservoir, nine miles west of Harrogate. He and his wife Alison have owned it since 2006 but have been trying to sell it since June 2013. (more…)
Broadcaster turned author Judy Finnigan tries to excuse the conduct of a convicted rapist (more…)
Shameless Sam Barton is the male equivalent of Josie Cunningham. Born in 1992, Barton has been given a free £5,000 nose job on the NHS and demanded Botox for life and to have his ears pinned back at the taxpayers’ expense in August 2014. Sutton Coldfield based, this ridiculous leech complains that people stare at him and it “makes [him] sweat a lot through anxiety”. An alternative? Why doesn’t he get sponsored by a deodorant manufacturer? The grandson of Aston Villa’s European Cup winning boss, who has amassed £25,000 of credit card debts in his quest to become “the perfect man”, commented: “I think I am well within my rights to get what I can. If they say no to me I will simply book an appointment the next day to see another doctor. I will get what I can”.
A £6.9 million home in “Britain’s Monte Carlo”
Whilst London has “Billionaires Row” in the form of Kensington Palace Gardens, the coastal county of Dorset has an equivalent in the form of the Sandbanks Peninsula – known locally as “Millionaires Row”. Property prices here are said to be the fourth highest on the planet (more…)
The Rib Room dedicates a cocktail to Luis Suárez
Luis Suárez will go down in history for biting Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup and in his honour Knightsbridge’s The Rib Room Bar & Restaurant have created a cocktail with a bite. (more…)
Former home of Take That’s Mark Owen for sale
In 1996, at the age of just 24, Mark Owen paid £300,000 for Leck Hill House, near Kirkby Lonsdale on the borders of Lancashire and Cumbria. At the time, The Mirror described how he’d “fallen in love” with the house and we can see why. (more…)
They may have got lucky on the EuroMillions when they won £101 million, but didn’t have much luck after. Mrs Dawes sadly got cancer, the couple fell victim to a hoax email scam and though they moved from a scruffy £70 per week rented flat in Wisbech to a flat in Chelsea Harbour to be close to Mr Dawes’ beloved Chelsea Football Club, their marriage ended in tears and an ex-husband came out of the woodwork to reveal a tale of debts and a disowned son. Mr Dawes rather appropriately has “HATE” tattooed on his knuckles. What a pair.
20 questions with photographer Cyrus Mahboubian
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Artistic pursuits take up most of my time.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
I think the ethic of reciprocity “do unto others as you would have them do to you” is a good way to live.
This red-headed South Africa born design dragon is most famous for her use of taupe. Hoppen views white to be an “essential neutral” and loved visiting show flats as a child. She’s dated footballer Sol Campbell and hairdresser Nicky Clarke and claims Victoria Beckham as her “BFF”. She is “proud of being British today” and once attempted to text her fellow Dragons’ Den dragon Duncan Bannatyne and “got him confused with Duncan from Blue”.
The Fleet Street Fox spoke sense in November 2013 when she said of Beckham: “Take a bow, Savvy Spice. We got you wrong”. This former Spice Girl turned business maven deserves to be admired for her work ethic and success. She won the Designer of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards in 2011 and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour named her one of the 100 most powerful women in the country in 2013. The wife of the most famous footballer on the planet and a mother of four, Beckham has 7 million followers on Twitter and once commented: “I never try to follow a trend or fashion”. This multi-millionairess most definitely has had the last laugh.