PROPERTY • STAR HOMES
SCORES ON THE DORS
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he antics of today’s celebrities occasionally shock the nation, but for many decades actress Diana Dors took it to a whole different level. Her fame came from two sources – her reputation as the English Marylyn Monroe and an outrageous personal life. It included two spells working in Hollywood, an appearance alongside Joan Collins and work on TV. She also liked her houses to be luxurious and, as well as a country manor house, her former home on Burnsall Street in London’s Chelsea is no exception. The terraced property, which has recently had a blue plaque added in memory of her career, is now for sale. It’s a double-fronted, four-bedroom house recently extended at the rear, just off the King’s Road. For sale at £2.85m with agent John D Wood (020 7352 1484).
"Diana Dors liked her houses to be luxurious and her home on Burnsall Street in Chelsea is no exception"
HOME GAMES
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ctress Tara Fitzgerald has enjoyed an illustrious stage, film and TV career, but despite multiple plaudits for her work, she is best known to people as Selyse Baratheon, Lady of Dragonstone in Game of Thrones. But despite her global fame after joining Game of Thrones, the 50-year-old has for some time lived in a modest house in the suburbs of West London. Or at least she used to. Tara has sold the property for £1.75 million, £145,000 less than she had hoped to get for it. It has four bedrooms and two reception rooms and a long and wide rear garden, at the end of which is a substantial outbuilding. “There is a real serenity to this place,” says Tara. “The flow of the house means it is somewhere that people feel comfortable from the moment they cross the threshold, and it has the charm of a country dwelling in the midst of the city.” A B S O L U T E LY. L O N D O N
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