Harry’s split will cost loadsamoney too
ONE of his best-loved creations was a plasterer known as Loadsamoney – and comedian Harry Enfield may be facing an expensive divorce after it emerged that his marriage of 23 years has hit the rocks.
Enfield, 59, is said to have moved out of the elegant family home in Notting Hill, West London, that he shared with wife Lucy.
‘It’s very sad, but Harry is living elsewhere,’ a friend of the couple reportedly said.
‘He’s being comforted by a female friend. Lucy’s heartbroken.’ Enfield, who has three children with clothes designer Lucy, 57, rose to fame in the mid-1980s when he starred in Channel 4’s sketch show Saturday Live, playing various characters, including Loadsamoney.
In 1990, he created the popular BBC sketch show Harry Enfield and Chums, which starred Kathy Burke and Paul Whitehouse. Twelve years ago, he reportedly sold a seven-bedroom property in Notting Hill for £12million, turning a profit of £10 million.
He and his family are believed to have moved to a smaller property nearby and also had a home in Buckinghamshire.
Enfield was at the height of his fame when he met Lucy at a dinner party – but she was initially oblivious of his success.
‘I didn’t have much of a take on who he was,’ she said.
‘When we were introduced it was, “Oh, this is Harry; he’s a comedian.”’ She added: ‘I fancied him from the outset and gradually I realised what a fantastically good and kind man he was.’
The couple have shunned the showbiz lifestyle and Enfield has previously spoken about how little interest his wife and their children had in his fame or comedy.
Speaking on BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions, Enfield said: ‘She had no interest in my comedy and she’s passed that on to our children!’