Liberty is secure in Hampshire
Not content with a London loft and a New York flat, model Liberty Ross and her director boyfriend Rupert Saunders now have a third home in their collection: a two-bedroom 1950s bungalow near Alton, Hampshire. The rundown bolthole cost £180,000, thanks largely to being secluded. "It's in the middle of a wood but needs a lot of work doing to it," says her mother, Bunty Ross. "It will be somewhere for her to relax when she's not working."
Friend and Falcke have just sold a two-bedroom home belonging to the late Dame Ninette de Valois in Barnes for £260,000. The Victorian mansion flat has good views of the Thames but was considered a modest home for the legendary founder of the Royal Ballet. Dame Ninette, who died in March aged 102, was first to place the then unknown Rudolph Nureyev with prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn in 1962.
The Wimbledon home which starred in the Rik Mayall and Jane Horrocks comedy Bring Me The Head of Mavis Davis is being sold through Hamptons. Before its break into the movies, the six-bedroom house was the local Tory party headquarters under the premierships of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. It boasts a swimming pool and tennis courts and is on the market for £2.85 million.
Hollywood actress Linda Gray, the latest star to shed her clothes in the West End for The Graduate, is staying in an £800-a-week flat during her 18-week run at the Gielgud Theatre. "We've rented in the West End near the theatre," says the production company. Gray, still best-known for playing Sue Ellen in TV soap Dallas, normally lives in Los Angeles.
If he fancies tiptoeing down memory lane, mega wealthy lyricist Sir Tim Rice could always buy the old family home. He will find Popefield Farmhouse, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, a 17th century five-bedroom house with office, barn and granary outbuildings, is for sale through Strutt and Parker for £750,000.
Lennox Lewis can still bag a trophy without breaking sweat. The 17-stone heavyweight boxer is house-hunting in Hertfordshire with £3 million to throw into the ring. Lewis wants a modern home with all the sportsman's extras: gym, security gates and acres of garage space for a fleet of flash motors. He fancies living at Hadley Wood, near his old stamping ground on the borders of north London.
