EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Matt Hancock’s lover Gina Coladangelo sells family home to Gordon Ramsay for £7.5million
Should she ever tire of turning her boyfriend, Matt Hancock, into a TV star, Gina Coladangelo has a lucrative alternative career as a property tycoon.
I can disclose that she and her estranged husband, Oliver Tress, managed to sell their marital home to fiery TV chef Gordon Ramsay and his wife, Tana, for a staggering £7.5 million.
It’s an astonishing price for the area of South London. Not only is it almost double the £3.8million that Gina and Tress paid in 2015, but it’s £2.5 million more than the top price paid previously for any property in their street.
Zoopla had estimated its value as between £3.8 million and £4.6 million.
A similar house in the same road, with a 90ft garden, was recently put on the market for £4 million. ‘It is a beautiful house,’ one of the couple’s friends tells me.
The sale, which Land Registry documents confirm went through in January, is all the more impressive as it comes when British property prices are predicted to plunge by ten per cent.
Should she ever tire of turning her boyfriend, Matt Hancock, into a TV star, Gina Coladangelo has a lucrative alternative career as a property tycoon
The staggering £7.5 million is almost double the £3.8million that Gina and Tress paid in 2015. Zoopla had estimated its value as between £3.8 million and £4.6 million
The five-bedroom Edwardian house is in one of London’s most desirable areas. Ramsay, 56, and his wife, 48, bought it in their joint names from Gina and Tress, the founder of upmarket homeware and clothing chain Oliver Bonas.
Gina, 45, left Tress, 55, with whom she has three children, for former health secretary Hancock, 44, who competed in I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!.
Ramsay, who has an estimated fortune of £175 million, already owns a huge house, said to be worth £7 million, less than a mile away.
His spokesman has declined to comment, but he may have bought the house because of extensive works currently being undertaken at his other London pad.
Last year, he, Tana and their five children were reported to have temporarily moved out after work began on a super-basement.
The couple also own holiday homes in California and Cornwall, where, at one point, they had three properties.
Lottie posse turn out for the ‘new Boujis’ nightspot
Lottie Moss attends the B Club Launch Party, the relaunch of what used to be Boujis
The former owners of Boujis, the South Kensington club where the young Kate Middleton boogied and Prince Harry downed ‘Crack Baby’ shots, hoped to lure back its former clientele to the ‘VIP launch’ of its new nightspot nearby, B London, on Thursday.
While the Prince and Princess of Wales have grown out of that sort of thing, and Harry is far too busy meditating in California, the club did manage to attract one minor royal, Lord Freddie Windsor, 43, Prince Michael of Kent’s son. Freddie’s wife, the actress Sophie Winkleman, elected to stay at home.
For glamour, the owners, who include Jake Parkinson-Smith, grandson of celebrated photographer Norman Parkinson, might have hoped for Kate Moss. Instead, they were treated to the supermodel’s half-sister, Lottie, pictured.
Returned from her new life in LA, she wore lace stockings and a mini dress as she showed off the face tattoo that’s said to have alarmed her family.
Lottie, 25, was joined by revellers including Astrid Harbord, 42, who with sibling Davina became known as the ‘Hardcore Sisters’ on account of their enthusiasm for partying.
Harry page boy reprises role for rugby star Alicia
Scrummy soprano Alicia Lowes has twice sung in front of a packed Twickenham stadium, while her fiance, Alex Simpson, is in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest person to row across oceans three times
Scrummy soprano Alicia Lowes has twice sung in front of a packed Twickenham stadium, while her fiance, Alex Simpson, is in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest person to row across oceans three times.
But their experience of the spotlight is negligible compared with that of one of Alicia’s youngest cousins — Jasper Dyer, who, aged six, was seen by a global audience of nearly two billion when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married at Windsor.
Now, Jasper is going on parade again — this time in front of 250 guests when Alex and Alicia marry next month in Monmouthshire.
‘He is going to be my page boy,’ says Alicia, who sings the National Anthem at next weekend’s first Women’s Six Nations match. A particular joy, she adds, is that her uncle, Jasper’s father, Mark Dyer, will also be at the wedding, after battling stomach cancer.
A mentor to the Duke of Sussex, the former Welsh Guards officer features heavily in Harry’s memoir, Spare.
‘Last year was hell for Mark, but he’s turned the corner and is cancer-free,’ Alicia tells me.
Mossie’s lifestyle empire goes West to take on Gwynnie
Kate Moss (file photo). Moss has applied to trademark her ‘wellness’ brand in the U.S. It sells everything from £95 face creams to camomile tea and aromatherapy candles
Look out, Gwyneth Paltrow! First, Kate Moss launched her own lifestyle brand, Cosmoss, to rival that of the Hollywood star’s Goop.
Now, Moss plans to take Gwynnie on in her own back yard.
I can reveal that Moss has applied to trademark her ‘wellness’ brand in the U.S. It sells everything from £95 face creams to camomile tea and aromatherapy candles.
The supermodel, 49, formerly known for her hedonistic lifestyle, may also have to compete against the Duchess of Sussex, as Meghan is rumoured to be relaunching her own lifestyle blog, The Tig.
Last year, I disclosed that Moss had applied to Britain’s Intellectual Property Office to trademark Cosmoss for a variety of applications, but faced a bitter legal battle with a Danish pharmaceutical company, Pharmacosmos, which formally objected to her application.
Apsley cuts clan ties with baby’s name
Delighted by the birth of his first child, Lord Apsley has, however, decided to make sure his son and heir is not too closely associated with previous generations of his family at Cirencester Park in Gloucestershire, where Princes William and Harry have played polo.
Ben Bathurst, as Apsley is known, and his wife Sara have named their son Theodore, or ‘Teddy’.
He tells me: ‘Hereditary family names haven’t served us very well in the last few generations, so my wife and I decided on Teddy together.’
Ben’s father, Allen, Earl Bathurst, was involved in a bitter dispute with his American-born stepmother, Gloria, who cut him out of her will and gave the inheritance to two interior designers instead. Gloria was the second wife of Allen’s father, Henry, known as ‘Barmy’ to his friends.
‘We lost my great-grandfather, Allen, in World War II, and my grandfather, Henry, almost split the estate by leaving a large portion of it to Gloria,’ Ben, 33, explains. ‘Since I came back to help run the estate in 2020, Sara and I have been very focused on carrying the torch for the future. Being given someone else’s name only evokes the past, and we are very much about what comes next.’
Thigh-split Helena puts City in a spin
Helena Morrisey from a recent post on her Instagram. The 57-year-old financier, who has nine children, has shunned the sensible workplace outfits she usually wears in favour of a daring Pucci dress which is rather reminiscent of the Versace safety-pin gown that made Elizabeth Hurley’s name
City ‘superwoman’ Helena Morrissey says she’s been ’emboldened’ by Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh’s ‘wonderful’ acceptance speech in which she declared, ‘Ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime’.
So the 57-year-old financier, who has nine children, has shunned the sensible workplace outfits she usually wears in favour of a daring Pucci dress which is rather reminiscent of the Versace safety-pin gown that made Elizabeth Hurley’s name.
England World Cup rugby hero Jonny Wilkinson is kicking his loss-making fashion label into touch after 13 years.
The former rugby star went into business with his brother, Mark, setting up clothing brand Fineside in 2010.
However, documents for the label, filed at Companies House, reveal that the pair have moved to make the company dormant. The Newcastle-based label, which sold shirts, polo shirts, sweaters and T-shirts, has paid off all creditors and has zero assets according to the latest available accounts.
The company had struggled to pull out of the red before Wilkinson took the decision.
He is best known for winning England the 2003 Rugby World Cup with a last-minute drop goal and he was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for his crucial role in the triumph.
It seems the England Six Nations team are not the only loss-making interest in Wilkinson’s life.
His royal peerage has just been advanced from an earldom to a dukedom, but that’s not the limit of Prince Edward’s progress. I can disclose that the former Earl of Wessex — now the Duke of Edinburgh — has also taken charge of one of his late father’s charities. The Edinburgh Trust No. 2 Account, which supports ‘general charitable purposes’, sounds rather humdrum, but its treasure chest contains no less than £4.2 million. That compares with the £110,000 that was held by the Earl and Countess of Wessex Charitable Trust before it was merged with Prince Philip’s more substantial fund.
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