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Where's Grant Bovey Got His Money From????

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  • lisyloo
    lisyloo Posts: 30,094 Forumite
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    Did you actually read it?
    His spokesman said the couple had sold their £5 million mansion in Godalming

    Can you work out where the £5 milllion has come from now???


  • lisyloo
    lisyloo Posts: 30,094 Forumite
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    ‘It seems very unfair he is buying this house,’ said the woman, who did not want to be named.

    He's not buying the house.
    Anthea is.
    This is just very sloppy journalism.

    You can go bankrupt and live off your wife.
    That's what marriage is meant to be about - you know supporting each other through the bad times.


  • roddydogs
    roddydogs Posts: 7,479 Forumite
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    OMG hes bought that Mock Tudor house, does he know itll be demolished?
  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
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    “We have had to re-evaulate our lives, I don’t think a £5million mansion makes you happy,”
    Anthea Turner, 2009

    :think:



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  • clivejohnson
    clivejohnson Posts: 244 Forumite
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    breadlinebetty wrote: »
    Look at this huge lovely house. How's Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner managed to buy THAT?!:(

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1375347/The-new-5m-Bovey-Towers-Anthea-paid-says-newly-discharged-bankrupt-Grant-owes-3m.html

    Quite frankly, who cares?? It's none of our business, its their money,they can do as they please! I think if I had five million quid burning a hole in my bank balance, I would do just the same!!:-)
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    Looks like a 'buy signal' to me if the lovely Anthea is snapping up a house at the bottom of the market.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    indirectly, their creditors have paid for the place. Wonderful system ain't it.
  • Spartacus_Mills
    Spartacus_Mills Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    edited 10 April 2011 at 2:09PM
    clivejohnson wrote: »
    Quite frankly, who cares?? It's none of our business, its their money,they can do as they please! I think if I had five million quid burning a hole in my bank balance, I would do just the same!!:-)

    Who cares ? probably their creditors such as the cleaner and RBS.
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  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    lisyloo wrote: »
    You can go bankrupt and live off your wife.
    That's what marriage is meant to be about - you know supporting each other through the bad times.


    Is that what marriage is supposed to be about ? Using your spouse to "hide" money so that you don't have to pay off creditors ?

    Didn't Anthea take rather large salaries or bonuses from Imagine homes, right up until it went bust ?

    Anyone with any sense will not work for Bovey/Turner again. I'd rather starve than cut their lawns or clean their house. I suppose I might work for them if they paid me up front.
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    clivejohnson wrote: »
    Quite frankly, who cares?? It's none of our business, its their money,they can do as they please!
    But it's not really is it... not in the eyes of the Moral Police.

    He had a property company where loads of people lost their life savings. She did the "interior design" (picked some sofas) and was paid fortunes for that (money was safe in her account). He then went bankrupt, so nobody he owed money to was paid.

    They wait it out.

    No problem.

    Sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors - and the money was protected.

    Slimey bugg4h.
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