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Daily Record
an hour ago
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- Daily Record
Calvin Harris privacy fears for £3.6m Cotswold mansion as local bus passengers can see inside
Scots DJ Calvin Harris has been forced to install privacy glass throughout his luxury Cotswold mansion because a busy bus route thunders by. Scots DJ Calvin Harris is going to huge lengths to make sure his new multimillion Cotswold mansion is free from prying eyes. The Dumfries-born musician has installed one-way, reflective glass on windows throughout the three-storey luxury home after realising it sat on a busy bus route. The star, 41, bought the five-bedroom property in a quiet Gloucestershire village near the Oxfordshire border for £3.6m million pounds in 2019. After demolishing the original structure, he spent five years having the house - which sits on 10 acres of land - rebuilt, using designs by an architect favoured by the Royal Family. But his dream vision for the pad doesn't appear to have come to fruition, as he's since discovered that a busy bus route sits right outside, and anyone on board can see right inside. Local coach firm Pulhams Travel regularly sends buses thundering by the Feels So Close hitmaker's home on an hour-long circular route with eight stops, according to Mail Online. Calvin - real name Adam Wiles - is reportedly set to move into the property with pregnant wife Vick Hope, 35, later this summer. In order to preserve their privacy when they get there, he's had the special glass fitted throughout the property, which was visible to see for the first time this week as scaffolding was removed. The pad is a far cry from Calvin's beginnings in Dumfries, where he honed his skills in the bedroom of his parents' home while funding his efforts working in a fish factory and stacking shelves in the local M&S and Safeway. He went to become a global chart-topper, with 11 UK No1s and collaborations with the world's biggest stars including Rihanna and Ellie Goulding. Calvin is now thought to be worth a cool £240 million and is one of the highest paid DJs in the world after a multimillion pound Las Vegas residency and selling his song catalogue for a reported £76million. He is reported to be heavily investing his fortune in property and already owns a £12million mansion in LA, a £7.5million London townhouse, and his 138-acre Ibiza farm in Ibiza, where he lived before his romance with Countryfile and Radio 1 host Vick went public. He's also reported to have snapped up two other homes nearby and is considering a fourth, bringing his spending in the area to an estimated £15million. Calvin and wife Vick, who were married in 2023 and announced they were expecting their first child back in May, are in good company with their new base, with celebrity neighbours including Kate Moss and Jeremy Clarkson. One local previously told the Sun: "Building work there finally finished, for now, last week and we're expecting Calvin and Vick to move in at the end of the summer after his season playing at clubs in Ibiza has finished. "From the road, the house looks amazing. No expense seems to have been spared. I am sure they will love living here as a family." Calvin's Cotswolds property empire has seen him likened to fellow musician Ed Sheeran, who bought up a raft of homes in Suffolk, with locals there dubbing his estate as 'Sheeranville'. One neighbour previously told The Sun: "Just like Ed Sheeran, he seems to want to buy up the properties that surround his incredible new house. "We have had to put up with lots of building work going on, for what seems like years but what has annoyed locals most is that a lovely vineyard has gone." Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!
Scottish Sun
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Calvin Harris forced to take extreme measures at £3.6m Cotswolds mansion after bus passengers could see into bedrooms
Plus, what we know about the huge mansion and it's renovation FEEL SO CLOSE Calvin Harris forced to take extreme measures at £3.6m Cotswolds mansion after bus passengers could see into bedrooms Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) CALVIN Harris has been forced to take extreme measures at his Cotswolds mansion as he and pregnant wife Vick Hope prepare to move in later this year. The Scottish music sensation, 41, bought his stunning home for £3.6million in 2019, but has now be forced to make some adjustments to it after bus passengers could see into his bedrooms. 4 Calvin Harris' home has had to have some alterations made to it amid a privacy issue Credit: Getty 4 Calvin is married to Vick Hope Credit: Getty 4 The couple are expecting their first child together Credit: Getty Calvin has knocked down the Cotswolds mansion and has rebuilt it over five years, with it now nearing total completion. But he recently discovered that a bus route goes past his home, which allows people onboard the bus to see in. Because of this, the iconic DJ has had to take a drastic measure. Calvin has had to install one way glass to preserve his privacy and keep his family life out of the public eye. The reflective glass allows him to see out, but no-one to see in. The Daily Mail reports that the new glass was visible this week as scaffolding was removed from the newly-built abode. He has also reportedly bought two neighbouring homes, as per reports. Calvin and Radio 1 presenter Vick Hope are due to move into the newly-built and adapted home later this summer. Architect Ben Pentreath, a favourite of the royals, designed the property which will be completed this year. A source previously told the paper: "There's no expense spared and it's going to be amazing." Pregnant Vick Hope parties at BBC Radio One's Big Weekend after going on maternity leave The happy couple, who tied the knot on their Ibiza farm in 2023, will become parents later this year, it was recently revealed. And the couple's new home, which Calvin purchased in 2019, looks to be the ideal family home. At the end of May, Vick shared the news of her pregnancy live on Radio 1. On air, she told Jamie Laing: "I should probably also say this is my final week before I go on maternity leave." Former Made In Chelsea star Jamie then told her: "You're an amazing friend, an amazing person, and you're just going to be an amazing mum,." She replied: "Oh, thank you." Vick appeared to celebrate her baby shower a couple of weeks ago as she shared a picture playing a baby shower game - during a meal with friends. Calvin and Vick made their first official outing together at The Chelsea Flower Show in May 2022. After just five months together, a huge sparkler was spotted on Vick's finger. They then got married in September 2023 at Hulne Priory, Alnwick, Northumberland.
The Irish Sun
12 hours ago
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- The Irish Sun
Calvin Harris forced to take extreme measures at £3.6m Cotswolds mansion after bus passengers could see into bedrooms
CALVIN Harris has been forced to take extreme measures at his Cotswolds mansion as he and pregnant wife Vick Hope prepare to move in later this year. 4 Calvin Harris' home has had to have some alterations made to it amid a privacy issue Credit: Getty 4 Calvin is married to Vick Hope Credit: Getty 4 The couple are expecting their first child together Credit: Getty Calvin has knocked down the But he recently discovered that a bus route goes past his home, which allows people onboard the bus to see in. Because of this, the iconic DJ has had to take a drastic measure. Calvin has had to install one way glass to preserve his privacy and keep his family life out of the public eye. Read More about Calvin The reflective glass allows him to see out, but no-one to see in. He has also reportedly bought two neighbouring homes, as per reports. Calvin and Radio 1 presenter Vick Hope are due to move into the newly-built and adapted home later this summer. Most read in Celebrity Architect Ben Pentreath, a favourite of the royals, designed the property which will be completed this year. A source previously told the paper: "There's no expense spared and it's going to be amazing." Pregnant Vick Hope parties at BBC Radio One's Big Weekend after going on maternity leave The happy couple, who tied the knot on their Ibiza farm in 2023, will become parents later this year, it was recently revealed. And the couple's new home, which Calvin purchased in 2019, looks to be the ideal family home. At the end of May, Vick shared the news of her pregnancy live on Radio 1. On air, she told Jamie Laing: "I should probably also say this is my final week before I go on maternity leave." Former Made In Chelsea star Jamie then told her: "You're an amazing friend, an amazing person, and you're just going to be an amazing mum,." She replied: "Oh, thank you." Vick appeared to celebrate her baby shower a couple of weeks ago as she shared a picture playing a baby shower game - during a meal with friends. Calvin and Vick at The Flower Show in May 2022. After just five months together, a huge sparkler was spotted on Vick's finger. They then got married in September 2023 at Hulne Priory, Alnwick, Northumberland. 4 Vick Hope has been showing off her blossoming baby bump recently Credit: Instagram
Toronto Sun
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
REVIEW: Pixar's ‘Elio' is a fast and fizzy trip to a boy's alien nation
Published Jun 19, 2025 • 3 minute read When Elio (voice of Yonas Kibreab), a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession, is beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, including a chirpy, shipper liquid supercomputer called Ooooo (voice of Shirley Henderson). Photo by Pixar / PIXAR Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. If a movie is a bowl of breakfast cereal, 'Elio' is Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, and the audience is Calvin. The title hero is a Calvin, too: a hyper-imaginative orphaned boy who lives with an aunt and is desperate for the universe to send aliens to take him away from it all. This being Pixar, the universe obliges. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 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Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account And this being Pixar, the journey is a visual rapture with a tale of loneliness and reconnection tucked inside it, told at the speed of light. 'Elio' isn't up there with the animation house's finest work – the glory days have been over for some time now – but it's a fine, fizzy piece of family entertainment, overfamiliar in spots (if a story about multiple species of extraterrestrials can be called familiar) but just as overeager to please. Aunt Olga (voiced by Zoe Saldaña) is a major in the Air Force with a job protecting satellites by monitoring nearby space debris; she wanted to be an astronaut, but the death of Elio's parents in an unspecified misadventure has put the dream on hold. She's loving toward the boy but overwhelmed and exhausted, and the script by Julia Cho, Mark Hammer and Mike Jones makes clear why: Voiced by Yonas Kibreab, the kid's a handful, impressed by the story of the 1977 Voyager space mission – the one with the little gold record of Earth's languages and Chuck Berry songs that will hopefully convince aliens we're intelligent – and obsessed with being rescued from his misery by getting abducted by ETs. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. When Elio (voice of Yonas Kibreab), a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession, is beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, including Glordon (voice of Remy Edgerly), a tenderhearted princeling. Photo by Pixar / PIXAR He's a weirdo, a misfit and a brainiac, but he's also a revved-up little boy, and the movie's troika of directors (Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi) pitch his story at us with the energy of a toddler bouncing off the walls before a nap. Through a series of plot contortions that would beggar belief if they didn't come at us so fast, Elio is whisked up into the belly of a mother ship for a meeting with not one alien race but representatives of many races – a 'Communiverse' of the extraterrestrial best and brightest. They offer the boy a place among them, believing him to be the leader of Earth. Given the grown children currently running the planet, we could do worse. The concept of all those different kinds of aliens frees the Pixar elves to be as creative as we know they can be, and Elio's greeting committee on the spaceship – itself a lovely conch-shaped creation – is a flamboyance of visual design: Here a frilly, mind-reading celery stalk; there a pugnacious blob; there a concatenation of rocks. A little floating blue orb named Ooooo, voiced by the invaluable Shirley Henderson, is a water-based supercomputer; an airborne infinity-symbol of pages is a sentient encyclopedia. And because every movie needs a villain, here's Lord Grigon (Brad Garrett), a clanking super-soldier from the Crab Nebula who vows to destroy any Communiverse he can't join. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Elio' ramps up its busy plot until the movie's spinning like a top, but the most affecting scenes involve the hero's friendship with Lord Grigon's son Glordon (Remy Edgerly), a sort of toothy, outsize water bear with a far gentler disposition than his dad. Both he and Elio are alienated, for lack of a better word, and their connection is sweet and funny and resonant amid all the clamor. Despite a few scary bits, 'Elio' is suitable for all ages including parents, but the Pixar faithful (of which this critic is one) may notice a sameness creeping into the studio's fanciful otherworlds. The Communiverse in all its spacious splendor is visually similar to the brain-scape of 'Inside Out,' the bardo of 'Soul,' the water world of 'Luca' and other Pixar creations, an outlier being the Day-Glo Day of the Dead afterlife of 2017's 'Coco.' (It's worth noting that the movie itself is the product of a Pixar communiverse, with all three directors and two of the three writers having had a hand in previous Pixar hits, including 'Coco,' 'Soul' and 'Turning Red.') Business as usual is still frisky business for these creative super-geniuses, but you feel the strain of limber minds trying too hard. The sugar highs of this rambunctious thrill ride are fun, in other words, but in the end 'Elio' is most memorable when it eases up to celebrate the invisible ties of love and friendship that bind all of us aliens to each other. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go lie down for a while. — Ty Burr is the author of the movie recommendation newsletter Ty Burr's Watch List at — Rated PG. At theatres. Contains some action/peril and thematic elements. 99 minutes. MMA NHL World Toronto & GTA Editorial Cartoons
Washington Post
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Pixar's ‘Elio' is a fast and fizzy trip to a boy's alien nation
If a movie is a bowl of breakfast cereal, 'Elio' is Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, and the audience is Calvin. The title hero is a Calvin, too: a hyper-imaginative orphaned boy who lives with an aunt and is desperate for the universe to send aliens to take him away from it all. This being Pixar, the universe obliges.
