Footballers, frankly, aren’t known for their good taste. But as these pictures show, Phil and Julie Neville’s Lancashire pile takes tacky interior design to a whole new level.
The Nevilles bought the house nine years ago for £600,000 and swiftly transformed the beautiful 18th century house near Burnley into their very own footballer’s Xanadu, with gaudy gold-panelled ceilings, “stately” monogrammed gates featuring his ‘n’ hers initials, and soccer paraphernalia aplenty.
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Dinner zone: The dining room has been decked out almost entirely in Versace – complete with golden ceiling
Moving on: The Everton star and his wife Julie paid £600,000 for the home nine years ago

Fancy a drink? The bar contains Neville’s man of the match bottles of champagne
It’s now for sale, for £4 million, but, unsurprisingly, has been languishing on the market for three months.

Lindsey Thomas, of Knight Frank, said: “It has been on the market a little longer than usual but this is a very specific character property.
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The couple were given clearance from English Heritage to replace the windows in the Grade II listed building

The lounge which is also fitted with a bar, the home’s nine-acre grounds also include a tennis court
“The buyer will be able to see through the personal touches.”

Looking at these pictures, they’ll certainly have their work cut out.
Neville and his wife bought Sunnyside House when it was a 27-bedroom conference centre.

Now it has six bedrooms, four of which are suites, and even its own bar in the sitting room – housing Neville’s Man of the Match bottles of champagne alongside the spirit optics.

The dining room is decked out almost entirely in WAGs’ favourite Versace – complete with golden ceiling.

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Personal touch: The initials P and J are woven into the couple’s front gate and some of the carpets

Children’s wonderland: A room for the couple’s two kids Isabella and Harvey

For Sale: Phil Neville and wife Julie have placed their home on the market for £4 million

The master bedroom is also an homage to the Italian designer.

There is also a fitness room, cinema room and a four-bedroomed separate staff house in the nine-acre grounds, which include a tennis court.

The couple were given clearance from the English Heritage to replace the windows in the Grade II listed building.

But their hopes to build a separate swimming pool were dashed by local planners after the Rossendale Civic Trust objected.

“Getting the windows done was a nightmare,” said Neville.

“We tried to get them repaired, but they were so fragile no one would touch them, so in the end we found a firm in London able to create some exact replicas and they were approved by English Heritage and they do look wonderful.

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Neville’s framed football shirts hang proudly on the passage walls
Versace-style: The master bedroom is a homage to the Italian designer
“It will always be a very special to us, our first home together.”
What was once a snooker room is now a kids’ toy zone and what was once the garage has been given over to be a huge climbing/soft play area for son Harvey, seven and four-year-old Isabella – who even have their own mini quad bikes to use inside.

“It felt more like a church inside, all hard floors and lots of panelling and absolutely freezing but it still had all the original features and we just loved it,” added Neville, who hopes to sell the property as soon as possible through Harrogate estate agents Knight Frank.

Neville, who was playing for Manchester United when he bought Sunnyside House, is now living in Beetham Tower, the tallest residential building in Europe, in Manchester city centre.
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Mahogony Pathway: Phil and Julie have opened the doors to their 18th century mansion

Light cooking: The Nevilles’ kitchen

He paid more than £1million for three apartments in the complex and transformed them into a triplex because of the difficulty he had in travelling from Crawshawbooth to training in Liverpool.
“We found we were spending so long in the cars with me commuting to work at Everton and Julie taking the children to school that we had little home life,” he continued.

“We converted three apartments into one space at Beetham and it works really really well.”
Family home: The couple and their two children have now moved to Manchester

The Neville’s look set to make a profit of more than £3million on the property in Crawshawbooth, Lancashire
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Chloe Marshall has caused a storm by becoming the first size 16 beauty queen to reach the finals of the Miss England contest.
Feted and fawned over for her courage in daring to break the mould, Chloe boasts she wants to be an “ambassador for curves”.

Who on earth does she think she’s kidding? What she’s demonstrating isn’t bravery but a shocking lack of self-control.

Instead of flaunting her figure, Chloe ought to own up to the truth. She is fat and she got that way by over-eating.

I don’t take any pleasure in attacking Chloe – after all she’s only 17. But I think she has been very badly advised in her bid to champion the cause of bigger girls.

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Bad role model: Chloe’s latest photo shoot shows us that it’s now not only acceptable but even fashionable to be overweight

But as a dietician I am so worried about the damage her well-oiled publicity machine is doing that I think it’s vital to speak out.

In my view, Chloe is a terrible role model.

I hope she doesn’t win the Miss England title.

It would send an appalling – and very dangerous – message to other young women that it’s OK to be fat.

Chloe is a stark reminder that obesity is now virtually normal in our society – and we should all be hanging our heads in shame.

She is an ambassador not for the beautiful larger lady as she’d have us believe but a poster girl for diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, cancers and all the other devastating and potentially fatal health problems that are caused or exacerbated by obesity.

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Sitting pretty: Chloe claims to do a lot exercise but her BMI of 26.03 instead of the optimum of 20 marks her out as being undeniably overweight
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Does my sash look big in this? We meet the size 16 Miss England contender
Size 16 Miss England hopeful Chloe unveils a curvy look in first official bikini shoot
First ever size 16 girl reaches Miss England final

As a judge on last year’s Miss England contest, I was hugely impressed, not just by the beauty but by the skills dedication and determination of the contestants.

For example, most had raised huge sums of money for their favourite charities. They shone out as young women to be admired.

But can the same really be said of Chloe?

At 5ft 10in, Chloe should have a body mass index, or BMI, (indicating her levels of fat) of 20. Hers is 26.03.

BMI is an assessment generally used by GPs and health experts to determine if a person is underweight, overweight or within a healthy weight range.

Chloe’s BMI puts her as undeniably overweight.

Our doctors’ surgeries are full of people whose problems are caused by their weight.

Devastating conditions – from Type 2 diabetes to heart problems and many cancers – are caused or exacerbated by obesity.

And if Chloe is so overweight at barely 17, one shudders to imagine just how fat she will be a few years down the line.

The Government can do all it wants to urge us to eat more healthily but – as Chloe demonstrates – it’s now not simply acceptable but fashionable to be bigger.

She talks about the “skinny minnies” she’ll be competing against. “All I wanted to do by entering this pageant was to send a message out to young girls that it is fine NOT to be a size zero.”

Well, she’s talking total rubbish.

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Big issue: Chloe criticised her ’skinny’ Miss England rivals in Femail last week

When I was a Miss England judge I was struck by how elegant, charming and yes, fit, the girls were. None of them was underweight.

It’s a total fallacy that young girls are being pressured into near-starving themselves into being too thin.

Take a look around you and you will see that the total reverse is true.

Teenage girls aren’t in danger of falling victim to an epidemic of anorexia – but of obesity.

The much-vaunted size zero of catwalk models is actually a UK size four. How many girls do you know that size?

The number of women in this country who are seriously underweight is minute around one in 70.

Levels of bulimia are actually falling. Instead our high streets are packed with young girls – just like Chloe – with “muffin tops” of fat spilling over their jeans.

Larger women may take comfort from the fact that a young girl who is quite self-evidently fat has won a place in Miss England, and Chloe argued last week that she has a healthy diet and exercises regularly.

“I refuse to starve myself to turn my body into something it was never meant to be,” she said.

I don’t doubt she is telling truth. But yet again she is exposing another myth – that you need to starve yourself to be a healthy weight, and that only junk food makes you fat.

Getting fat by eating good food is perfectly possible – if you eat too much of it.

Chloe claims she “crept up” to a size 16 after dieting to a size 12 on top and 14 on bottom. She’s kidding herself.

Her weight didn’t “creep on” magically – she ate too much food.

Every excess 1lb of weight she’s carrying – and I reckon she is at least a stone overweight – equates to five meals she didn’t need.

If Chloe chooses to be curvy, that’s fine. It is, after all, her personal choice.

But it’s time she stopped telling the rest of us that being fat is great and that the only way to be a healthy weight is by starving yourself.

It’s dangerous nonsense.

She looks fab and is a great role model to show that not everyone who is beautiful is a size 6!

- Laura, Downpatrick, Co Down

These comments are shocking in that we’re so used to hearing people defending ‘plus size’ women and berating skinny girls these days. I agree wholeheartedly with the writer of this article. I am 5′8″ and a size 10 but I am not lucky enough to be able to be that way and eat anything I want. I run 5k everyday and eat a healthy balanced diet – and deny myself too many treats like chips, crisps, fast food, etc.
So it makes me mad when people like Chloe are allowed to glamorise obesity, and even worse, make it look like a mentally and physically healthier alternative to watching your weight!
Let’s hope more of this type of article helps to nudge the popular consciousness towards healthy living.

- Suzy, Glasgow

It’s nothing to do with age, look at Sophie Dahl, Coleen Nolan, Fern Britton; they are all smaller, fitter and healthier than they were when they were younger so it’s hardly correct to say if she is this size now she is bound to be twice as big at 30.

I agree this isn’t the most attractive picture but she is wearing a very unflattering bikini and you’ve got to be a size 8 to look good in a photo wearing a bikini.

I think it’s more likely Chloe is a size 18 though; I weigh 10 stone and occasionally need size 16 trousers.
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The hole in her highly covetable Betsey Johnson weekender was apparently caused by the airport’s baggage system.

Fearne, who was wearing a jaunty black hat and a leopard-print scarf which matched her battered bag, costing around £75, has just returned from a trip to Los Angeles.

Over the last few years she has become as famous for her quirky, unconventional clothes as her seemingly unstoppable career.
As well as presenting her own show on Radio 1, she has also fronted TV programmes like Love Island and The Xtra Factor.
And she won Royal approval last summer after being chosen to interview Princes William and Harry ahead of the Concert For Diana.

Prince William was said to have been smitten by her charms – along with other former interviewee Robbie Williams who proposed live on camera.
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It’s a decade since they first prowled the streets of New York in their Manolo Blahniks, but the stars of Sex and the City have proved they’re still as glamorous as ever.

With Sarah Jessica Parker, 43, back at the helm of her all girl pack, the stars have posed for a new promotional shoot ahead of the release of their big screen debut in May.
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They’re back! Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker return with a new shoot for Sex and the City: The Movie

Orignal: the actresses in a 1998 promotional image for the series
In flirty red confections – and with the help of just a touch of airbrushing – Sarah and her costars Kim Catrall, 51, Cynthia Nixon, who turns 42 this month, and Kristin Davis, 43, appear almost as youthful as their black-clad 1998 promotional campaign.

Sarah recently revealed that as well as good genes, her secret to staying in shape is Pilates and, she adds, “running around New York City and having a five-year-old [son James Wilkie Broderick].”
But the svelte star insists she doesn’t follow a strict diet regime.
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Girl about town: Sarah Jessica Parker is reprising television’s most famous singleton Carrie Bradshaw

She said recently: “I eat everything. I’m just an eater. If it’s free, I honestly eat everything.”

“Last night I had steak and some lamb shank. And I had some roasted chicken and some cassoulet and some profiteroles and some ice cream and some cheesecake.”
Sarah recently admitted she was extremely hurt by a Maxim poll that named her “unsexiest woman alive.”
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On the prowl again: Kim Cattrall is slipping back into Samantha Jones shoes
She defended her surgery-free appearance, saying: “Do I have big fake boobs, Botox and big lips? No.

“Do I fit some ideals and standards of some men writing in a men’s magazine? Maybe not.

“Am I really the unsexiest women in the world? Wow! It’s kind of shocking when men… It’s so brutal in a way, so filled with rage and anger.”

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Cosmo, anyone? Kristin Davis plays sweet and naive Charlotte York

Still, she couldn’t be more happy about the upcoming film, saying: “I’m very excited. We’ve still got a lot of work to do, and very little time to do it but I’m hoping that it’s worth the wait.”
Several endings have been shot in a bid to keep fans guessing whether perennial singleton Carrie Bradshaw will finally tie the knot with Mr Big.
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Frock star: Cynthia Nixon, who will ring in her 42nd birthday next week, is back as Miranda Hobbes
The film, which picks up from the series four years on, was delayed for some time amid reports of rows between Sarah and Kim, who plays man eater Samantha Jones.

Cattrall famously negotiated hard over payment for the film, and reportedly had a bust up over Sarah’s $US3 million salary – twice that of her co-stars.
Meanwhile, Sarah has talked down rumours that there is another Sex and the City television series in the works.

She said: “As a mother I just can’t be away from my son that kind of time.”

City girls: the stars shooting scenes for the upcoming big screen release on the streets of New York last year
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