No, I'm not obsessed with celebrities...

... it's their houses I love (and, ahem, their kids).

Yep, I've got yet another new celebrity obsession and, no, I'm not proud of it, but just check this out. Real celebrity homes! I love celebrities! I love property programmes! What am I supposed to do? Not read it?

And the thing is that celebrities tend to live in either LA or New York (except for Nicholas Cage, who apparently owns half of Somerset) and LA houses and New York apartments are two of the most flat-out fabulously covetable* things in the world. I still think about whatshername, that It Girl, she had a daughter called Tallulah ... not TPT ... oh, you know the one. She used to wear a lot of leopard skin. Anyway, her Hollywood house was in Hello and it was just gorgeous and not just because it used to belong to Barry Manilow. Tamara Beckwith! That's it!

So many of the houses are from the twenties or the forties and they're just so glamorous and decadent. Did you see Kate Walsh's house in O At Home (whaddaya mean you don't buy O At Home?). It almost made me weep. Actually her new house did make me fill up a little bit. Look at the bathroom!

Of course, some of them are just fabulously awful. Rod Stewart's hurts my eyes! 

*this is a word, isn't it? My spell check want to spell it "cove table" or "covet able".

Comments

[Lisa]

like this isn't my new favourite site ever?!!!

I just subscribed to 'O at home' last week as it was on offer when I renewed O - am I gonna love it?!!

Gotta go, I have celebs to stalk!

L x

[maz]

And of course you'd need a team of cleaners and caretakers! (Live in, or not? I can't decide. Maybe just the one live-in, and she'd have to be like Mrs Manvers in Rebecca.)
Oh and plus when I was in San Francisco on one of those tour buses, Nicolas Cage's house was pointed out to us, so has he sold that now? And has he stopped trying to be Elvis now - in every film of his I saw, he always had that drawl, which never was as good as El. But having said that, I do love Nic! He tries to be different - marrying a waitress, owning Somerset, that sort of thing.

[Stella]

The thing about Rod Stewart's house and most of the celeb homes you see featured here and there is that they never seem to look like they're lived in or lived in-able. It's like they're missing a personal touch or something.

Or, I could be talking rubbish.

[Camilla]

Tamara Backwith's daughter is called Anouschka - why do I know this? I really don't know.
I love celebby houses but I wish the presenters would find their clutter cupboards and have a good route through.

[Camilla]

I can't spell root.

[Moe]

You're the reason they invented stockarazzi. :)

[Suzi]

You should watch that new MTV show - something about Rich Real Estate. Lots of celebs homes or just great big LA houses. So far I've seen episodes with Pauly Shore, Frankie Muniz and a woman who was on Frasier!