Ferr richer, Ferr poorer
Pop singer Amy sold her £200,000 supercar to pay for Vegas wedding
Toby McDonald Amy Macdonald has admitted she sold one of her prized collection of supercars to pay for her l av i s h wed d ing to footballer Richard Foster.
The This Is The Life singer got rid of the £ 200,000 Ferrari before the pair were joined by dozens of fami ly and friends when they got married in Las Vegas last year.
They honeymooned with a road trip acrosss the US, taking inn Yosemite National Park.k.
The 31- yea r - o ldd petrolhead said she hasas bought 30 cars sincece passing her test at 17 but has given many of them away.
One of the hardest to part with was her Ferrarirari 488 GTB, which has a top speed of 205mph.
The singer, who sti ll owns a yellow Ferrari 458 Speciale, told the Open Goal podcast: “This is a bit of a collectors’ item now.
“Usually I chop and change my cars a bit but I have had this for four yea years because it is the last Ferrari they made wit without turbo. “I had a Ferrari 488 as wel l but I sold th that to pay for my we wedding.” Since passpassing her test, Amy has owned a Mini Cooper, Nissan GT- R, Audi Q7, Audi R8, Range Rover Vogue, Bentley Continental, Ferrari 458 Italia and a Bentley V8 Bentayga – the fastest diesel SUV in the world – among others. Amy’s love of fast cars has proven to be a shrewd investment – the 458 cost £170,000 and she could sell it for the same amount.
Amy, from Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, added: “Cars have always been my thing. It’s terrible.
“My mum used to be an accountant before she retired and she used to just crack up and say, ‘ Why are you buying all these bloody cars?’
“But I can’t stop. I think I’ve bought something like 30 cars since my first Mini.
“I bought my dad a Range Rover Sport and my sister a Range Rover Evoke. I bought my friends cars too. It’s an amazing feeling – the best ever.”
And she can afford it with a fortune of more than £7million, having sold more than 12million records.
Amy is now settled in a luxury £1million Milngavie mansion with Ross County star Richard.
She said: “I call him the Foz. We met at Lee Miller’s wedding. I think it was 2009 but both of us were with different people. Nothing happened.”
Af ter both were single, that changed. Amy added: “I was having a New Year’s party and said, ‘Oh, do you want to come round?’
“He obviously enjoyed himself enough to stick around.”