Harry Styles' Love On Tour is coming back to the UK next year and it was rumoured that the former One Direction singer could be in the market for a new holiday home while he is performing in his homeland. Harry was said to have put an offer on the 'saddest property' ever renovated on Channel 4's Grand Designs, the Chesil Cliff House in Croyde - but local estate agents have now disappointed Styles fans saying the house is still on the market.
The popstar, who last week announced a summer 2023 date in Cardiff, was said to have splashed £8m on the lighthouse-inspired property which is said to have ended the current homeowner's marriage and causing him near financial ruin. But Daily Mail reports that the home is still on the market. Estate agents Knight Frank told the site: "There is no truth in the rumours that Harry Styles has purchased Chesil Cliff House. The house is still on the market."
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Previously the Daily Star had reported that Harry had been rumoured to be splashing out on the North Devon property with a source telling the publication: "It's the talk of the village. Harry Styles has apparently bought the house for £8 million." And earlier this year our sister title, Cornwall Live reported that he was hunting for a seaside home after a winter staycation in the area.
The singer, whose new album is called Harry's House, is in the middle of a huge world tour and will shortly been seen on the big screen in Don't Worry Darling, directed by his partner, Olivia Wilde.
The homeowner of the 'lighthouse', Edward Short, 54, put the house up for sale in July this year for £10m, despite it not having a kitchen, bathroom, flooring or light fixtures, after spending a decade on the ambitious project which saw him transform his family's 1950s home into an art-deco white lighthouse. It featured on Grand Designs in October 2019, and was described as the 'saddest episode ever' by many viewers after the music industry executive revealed that the arrival of the recession, building issues and the end of his marriage to wife Hazel had left his dream in tatters.
Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, visiting in 2019, described it as a "desolate carcass" — on which one irritated local graffitied ‘please finish’. It originally appeared on the show back in 2010.
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