ALISON BOSHOFF: Gordon Ramsay buys second home in same road for £9.6million... sending Cornish neighbours on red alert

Gordon Ramsay has what you might call a turbulent relationship with Cornwall – he loves the county, where he has a second home, but has repeatedly said he doesn’t care for the locals. And the feeling appears to be mutual.

However, I can reveal that’s not stopped him from buying a new house there. It’s the most expensive EVER in the county – costing £9.65million.

And extraordinarily, it’s in the same road as – and about a dozen doors down from – the modern house he built recently in the coastal village of Rock, in the teeth of massive protests from his neighbours.

That glass and wood construction – likened to ‘a stack of containers’ by detractors – was only finished in March 2021. 

More than 20 neighbours objected to his plans, with one labelling the structure a ‘monstrosity’.

Soon afterwards, the famously hot-tempered chef said in a radio interview: ‘I absolutely love Cornwall. It’s just the Cornish I can’t stand.’

In his Netflix documentary, which started streaming last week, Ramsay was filmed arriving at his home in Rock by helicopter, and talking about how much he loved the outdoor lifestyle.

So when this property came on the market last year, it was clearly too tempting a peach not to pluck; and Ramsay and his wife Tana have now purchased it through their new company Rocky Bay Estates.

Documents lodged with the Land Registry indicate that Ramsay bought it with a mortgage from posh bank Coutts.

In bad news for the neighbours, the four-bedroom 19th-century property looks ripe for being knocked down and redeveloped.

It is thought the Ramsays have also bought the two-acre plot next to the house, meaning they will be able to give their mega-mansion tastes free rein. 

The result could potentially be far larger than his existing house up the road.

It’s also bad news for fans of mobile cafe Bean And Crust. Last summer it sold snacks and coffee from a shepherd’s hut on the land adjoining Ramsay’s new house – it seems unlikely it will be back again.

It’s not clear if Ramsay will hang on to both places in Rock. The first was bought for £4.4million in 2015 and may have had a similar amount spent on it.

In 2022, he sold another property in the village, Daymer Bay House, for £7.5m. At the time, that was the most expensive house ever sold in Cornwall. There was also another property in Fowey, since sold.

Gordon and Tana have six children: Megan, 27, twins Holly and Jack, 26, Tilly, 24, Oscar, six, and Jesse, two.

Strange case of star who won't discuss new movie 

She played a private detective investigating a series of suspicious deaths in Honey Don’t! But now there’s another mystery surrounding Margaret Qualley.

The actress daughter of Andie MacDowell is the cover girl of March’s Vanity Fair magazine and is profiled at exhaustive length inside.

Yet she manages to say very little to her interviewer – and absolutely nothing about her new movie, How To Make A Killing.

That’s a hint all’s not well with the film, which opened in US cinemas a week after the issue hit newsstands.

But with no promo from either Qualley or leading man Glen Powell (both pictured), the project was pretty much dead on arrival.

A remake of beloved Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets, it took just $3.5million on the opening weekend... on a budget of around $30million.

Alesha cuts husband out of her life (and her business) 

Alesha Dixon has finally split from her husband – and she is cutting him out of her business empire, too.

Last spring Dixon was reportedly giving her union with choreographer Azuka Ononye ‘one last chance’ after a split in 2024.

But she has been hiding her (ringless) hand in Britain’s Got Talent publicity shots. And she has now filed paperwork to terminate his appointment as the director of her company, Preciousstone Touring. (That happened quietly at the end of January and has just shown up on records kept at Companies House.)

Alesha, 47, has two daughters with Ononye: Azura, 11 and Anaya, five. The couple (right) carried on living together after their separation; and in April last year a source said that, having weathered a ‘really rocky patch’, they were giving the marriage another try.

The pair met in 2006; after Alesha’s one-year marriage to So Solid Crew rapper MC Harvey ended following his affair with fellow singer Javine Hylton.

Azuka had been a back-up dancer for Mis-Teeq – Alesha’s girl group –before being hired as her creative director. 

During a 2014 appearance on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, Dixon gushed that she could ‘authentically be herself’ when she was with him. 

‘I don’t have to be anything other than who I am, and it’s a great feeling,’ she said. ‘It’s like being with my best friend every day.’

A spokesman for Alesha did not respond to a request for comment.

Return of the Prophets... 

Big news for Small Prophets fans: Mackenzie Crook is planning two more series of his quirky BBC2 hit starring Pearce Quigley (right) – and he already knows how it will end. 

Crook, who in addition to writing the show also plays Gordon, the officious tool store manager, says he’s been mapping out the plot for three series – with an ending already in mind. 

And he’s ready to start writing the second series, as soon as he gets the nod.

But sadly there will be no more Detectorists, in which he starred alongside Toby Jones: ‘I think I need to leave it there on Detectorists. It’s so lovely that people want more – and it still amazes me. 

'People are still finding it, ten years after it originally went out – but I don’t want to spoil it. I don’t want to come up with a new series that isn’t quite as good.’

Can Shallene find love in a post-apocalyptic world?

Has Shailene Woodley found a ticket to Paradise? The American actress was heartbroken after a romance with Emily In Paris hunk Lucas Bravo didn’t work out last year, but she has real chemistry with Thomas Doherty.

He’s her Scottish co-star in the post-apocalyptic series Paradise, with series two about to start on Disney+.

I hear that Woodley and Doherty have been spotted holding hands when on media duties to promote the show, which they have both joined this season; and they certainly looked to be very good friends on the red carpet this week (right).

Doherty, who is from Edinburgh, was previously in the Gossip Girl reboot; and Woodley is probably best known for her role in the blockbuster TV adaptation of Big Little Lies.

Doherty said: ‘I think the beautiful thing about this show is that people are in that very primal state of survival, but you can still make a choice to connect to love, to do something good.’

He added that making the programme had been ‘a really beautiful experience in my life’.  Woodley said she liked the way Paradise focused on community. 

‘I think there’s this idea of the world being on fire, and if you have to walk into the woods, who are you gonna walk into the woods with?’

Professor Fry taking no chances with modern technology

Having filmed a series which examines the impact of artificial intelligence, Professor Hannah Fry is taking no chances when it comes to protecting her children from modern technology.

‘They won’t be given smartphones. I worry enough about my own smartphone addiction and my time on social media without needing to be concerned about them,’ said Hannah, who has daughters aged six and nine from her marriage to sports writer Phil Lythell, and is hosting Monday night BBC2 series AI Confidential.

‘I’m going to get a landline in the house, rather than let my daughters have mobile phones; and buy a Nintendo 64 games console from the 1990s, so at least they have something to play on.’

DiCaprio's early night after the BAFTAs

No carousing on a school night for Leonardo DiCaprio.

The actor, one of Hollywood’s legendary party animals (whose Oscars night bash a few years ago carried on outside my hotel window until almost 7am), was tucked up by 11pm after ,the BAFTAs on Sunday.

After losing out in the Leading Actor category to Robert Aramayo, he attended the Warner Bros party in Kettner’s, Soho... with his mum Irmelin.

That good behaviour looks like a wise move – as he’s now in Prague, where he has been reunited with his hero director Martin Scorsese, who has started production on a new film: What Happens At Night. 

DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play an American couple who have travelled to a small, snowy town in Europe to adopt a baby.

I understand Scorsese wants the movie to have the paranoid, dream-like feel of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

After that’s finished, DiCaprio will make Heat 2 for Michael Mann, opposite Christian Bale. I’m told that the start of filming really means the end of his Oscars campaigning – even though another six days of voting remain, ahead of the ceremony on March 15.

He and Timothee Chalamet are the front-runners for Best Actor, for their roles in One Battle After Another and Marty Supreme, respectively.

Nadiya's Bake Off fortune 

Nadiya Hussain grizzled this week: ‘I get paid less than the white version of me.’

However, it can be revealed that she is by far the most financially successful winner of The Great British Bake Off, with £1.9million in net assets in her company, following a number of successful books and TV series.