Irish Sunday Mirror

George statue stalled

Council says plans not thorough enough & locals object

- BY JIM HARDY

Statue is based on his Patience pose With Lindsay Couple grab a coffee to go

LIKE any bloke dragged round a shoe shop by his girlfriend, Ben Affleck looks a little Dazed and Confused. The Good Will Hunting star, 45, is snapped holding an €1,000 spiked leopard print trainer as producer Lindsay Shookus, 37, checks out skyscraper heels in a Christian Louboutin store in LA. Till at last she said: Ready for a coffee, Ben? Yep, about time we were Gone, Girl. cover of 2004 album Patience. A group got a quote and concept drawings from artist Andrew Sinclair, whose sculpture of David Bowie will be installed in Aylesbury, Bucks.

Led by Terry Daniels, from Milton Keynes, they said it will be a “stunning work of art that captures the essence of George”. But Cllr Catherine Hall said: “There’s a budget but no informatio­n on funding or whether they approached the family for support, so essentiall­y there’s nothing for us to consider.” Mrs Daniels said she had not consulted George’s family but has approached his record label, Sony, to request funding. There has been a similar controvers­y over pans for a statue in Highgate, North London, where George also had a home. He was 53 when he was found dead on Christmas Day 2016. George scoops@trinitymir­ror.com

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