Micky’s moving out out
Flanagan quits London for country pile
THE Cockney comic famous for defining the difference between “going out” and “going out out” is going way out… to Hampshire.
Micky Flanagan is moving to a £1.5million mansion with his wife Cathy and their 16-year-old son Max.
The lifelong Londoner told fans he will be relocating to the country after raking in more than £25million over the last decade.
A source said: “This is massive for Micky. London is all he’s ever known. He’s got his dream home at last and he’s earned every penny of it.”
The 59-year-old has amassed the fortune from gigs and DVDS since his breakthrough Out Out tour in 2011. The phrase “out out” comes from one of Micky’s hilarious routine where he defines it as a massive bender as opposed to merely “going out” or “popping out”.
Micky grew up in Bethnal Green, East
London, left school at the age of 15 and worked as a furniture maker, a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market and a teacher before turning to stand-up in 1997.
The star of TV’S Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo played to 600,000 people during his 2017 UK tour An’ Another Fing – including a record 12 sold-out nights at London’s O2.
Micky was presented with a key to The O2 after reaching the milestone of 21 performances, joining the likes of Prince and Michael Mcintyre.
He has shrugged off his fame, saying: “I’m just an East End bloke who happens to have stumbled on something he’s quite good at and gets quite well paid for.”
He currently lives in East Dulwich, South London, and jokes about becoming middle-class, quipping: “I’ve gone from punk anarchist to someone who listens to Radio 4 and says, ‘That’s a good deal’, when tuning into Money Box. It happens to us all.”