Credit crunch forces Anthea and Grant to cancel their summer ball

mystic_trev

amcluesent wrote: »

The 48-year-old former GMTV presenter – who shattered her kneecap last week after being kicked by a bucking horse

I don't think those were the words she used, although I believe they were pretty close! :rolleyes:

napoleon

The scourge of the Blue Peter presenter strikes yet again. :T

Sir_Humphrey

amcluesent wrote: »

Former GMTV star Anthea on crutches after bucking horse shatters her kneecap

Oh yeah? Maybe an investor sent Lunk and Knuckles around with the baseball bats.

*Legal disclaimer* This did not happen.

ffacoffipawb

Another one may bite the dust ....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/04/cngrant104.xml

Grant Bovey talks with HBOS on Imagine Homes restructure

By Jonathan Russell and Helen Power

Last Updated: 12:55am BST 04/07/2008

HBOS has started a strategic review of Grant Bovey's struggling buy-to-let business Imagine Homes.

According to a report in Property Week published today, Mr Bovey, who is as famous for his marriage to TV presenter Anthea Turner as for his business career, is in talks with HBOS - which owns 20pc of Imagine and is also its lender - about a restructuring that could see the company split up.

Imagine has been hit by the downturn in the residential property market and has millions of pounds of unsold property on its books. It has also had to make 30 of its 150 staff redundant this year.

amcluesent

>has millions of pounds of unsold property on its books<

In Boveyspeak that is called 'a huge profit'

turbobob

Profit yet to materialise :rolleyes:

napoleon

with a bit of luck grant bovey and anthea will end up in a cardboard box with krusty and Phil

MORPH3US

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

Grant Bovey's struggling buy-to-let business Imagine Homes.

Oh dear, they are going to get sued big time for daring to say his business is struggling... :rolleyes:

poppy10_2

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/mortgages/buy-to-let/article.html?in_article_id=455217&in_page_id=56
Already posted, I think, but it really belongs in this thread. If only those huge profits that had yet to materialise had actually turned up.

pickledpink

jamescredmond wrote: »

I gurgled with schadenfreude delight when I read this.

so, the lovely anthea decided to cancel this yr's ball because she didn't want to 'embarrass' her usual guests in these straitened times?

but, of course.

entirely unconnected to bovey's demands that she turn the central heating down and put on another sweater/get closer to the candle.

this pathetically weak excuse to cancel is up there with martine mccutcheon's explanation as to why she quit hollywood: the sun was too bright for her!

eh?

OH, YOU MEAN YOUR CAREER BOMBED!!

but we must sympathise with grant. it can't be easy watching your little empire start to collapse. you remember,grant: the one you built with other people's money.

and what of poor anthea, bless?

it must be dreadful. first, your career and now this.

still, peter powell might be allright for a few quid.

send me a PM and I'll put a good word in.

"you remember,grant: the one you built with other people's money.":rotfl:



OF COURSE empires are built with other people's money!! :rotfl:

You DONUT!