Patrick and Cat snap up new London home beside stars
NEW Late Late Show presenter Patrick Kielty and his wife Cat Deeley are creating a Beverly Hills-style home after snapping up an abandoned property for €5.8 million in fashionable north London.
The celebrity couple are bringing a touch of Hollywood glamour to leafy Hampstead where they count Harry Styles and other stars among their new neighbours.
Kielty, 52, and TV presenter Deeley, 46, paid the huge sum for the rundown 1950s home which lay derelict after being unoccupied for a number of years.
They’ve been given the go-ahead to ‘renovate, extend and upgrade’ the five bedroom property and transform it into a haven of ‘modern day family living’.
Despite the star presenting the Late Late Show every week, he continues to live in London with his wife and family, after returning there from
LA recently.
The couple quit living in the US with sons Milo, six, and James, four, when Patrick and his eldest son narrowly avoided a public shooting at the Century City Mall in downtown LA.
Bedrooms in their new home were described as being in a ‘very poor’ state while many of the finishes were described as being broken or torn out by previous owners.
The Grand Designs-style makeover will see their new ‘disjointed’ and ‘awkward’ dwelling turned into an ultra-modern dream home.
The house was built on a steep slope in ‘an inverted arrangement’ with living rooms on the upper floor and bedrooms at garden level.
The couple want to create a grand new entrance hall, demolish a living room mezzanine floor to create one big living area and extend the bedrooms and terrace by a 1.2 metres
They also applied for permission to build an external staircase, rooflights and a new car port, front garden and gate.
Once it’s finished there will also be a ‘nanny suite’, guest room, his and hers dressing rooms, a bar, snug and children’s play area.
In a design statement, their architect said: ‘The proposed external appearance builds on the inherent character of the existing house but updates it into a contemporary dwelling both in use and character.’