Madge gets second chance

But now John Wilcox is selling a five-bedroom Victorian house just yards up the road for £2.8 million.

The romantic gardens it shares were the location for Hugh Grant's courtship of Julia Roberts in the award-winning Hollywood movie Notting Hill.

Busted star heads for Chalk Farm
Bourne, guitarist and songwriter with mega-successful boy band Busted, is ready to spend.

He is house-hunting in north London, where he recently viewed a modern three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Chalk Farm, available at £599,950 through Goldenberg.

The chart-topping Southend-born star is set, along with his group, to walk away with an armful of gongs from the forthcoming Brit Awards.

Cameron sells up in Belsize Park
Rhona Cameron is selling her two-bedroom, top-floor flat in Belsize Park for £365,000 through Parkheath.

'But I'm staying in the area,' says the gay stand-up comic. 'It's hugely overpriced, but it's in the nicest part of London.'

Her career has accelerated since her days hosting BBC2's Gaytime TV, thanks to her appearance last year in ITV's reality show, I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.

Scots-born Rhona has her eye on a nearby basement flat with a garden.

Thompson Twins sell house in Wandsworth
Pop stars Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey are selling their four-bedroom, second-floor flat overlooking Wandsworth Common for £775,000 through John D Wood.

The former Thompson Twins are now mainly based in Karaka, New Zealand, where they are bringing up their daughter, Indigo, and recording under the name Babble.

Their loft-style flat, designed by interior designer Eva Jiricna, is in the Royal Patriotic Building and includes its own turret.

This Victorian Gothic landmark, built in 1858 as a girls' orphanage, was used during the Second World War to interrogate Nazi prisoners, including Rudolf Hess.

Red carpet treatment for new box owner
Harrods Estates has achieved a record sum for a five-seater box at the Royal Albert Hall.

Marketed at £250,000, it has just sold for 'in excess of £300,000' on an 863-year lease - the price of a two-bedroom Fulham flat.

Ownership enables the buyer and their guests to watch performances ranging from the current Cirque du Soleil show to the Proms, wrestling matches and pop concerts by Eric Clapton and Sting.

The red-carpeted box includes a rear area for cocktails and entertaining. About 1,200 of the hall's 5,500 seats are privately owned on a tenure similar to the debenture systems at Wimbledon and Twickenham.