He created his memorable character Loadsamoney to satirize consumerism under Margaret Thatcher’s government in the 1980s, but Harry Enfield has now enjoyed a windfall to which the shamelessly greedy plasterer, who boasted “look at my wad”, only I could aspire.
I can reveal the comedian, 63, sold his marital home for £10.79million.
He and his ex-wife, Lucy, bought the five-storey house in Notting Hill, west London, for £6 million in 2008, making a profit of almost £5 million.
In line with demographic changes in the former corner of the capital, it has been sold to a partner in an asset management group.
Proceeds from the sale of the house will likely be used to settle Enfield’s divorce. I revealed in 2020 that he had separated from Lucy, a children’s clothing designer, after 23 years of marriage.
Harry Enfield (seen with ex-wife Lucy) sold his marital home in Notting Hill for £11 million
Earning a hefty £5 million on the London platform, Enfield, who became famous for playing his character Loadsamoney (with whom he is seen in 2022), now has a fortune his fictional alter ego could only aspire to. .
“It’s very sad, but Harry lives somewhere else,” a friend of the couple told me then. A friend is comforting him. Lucy is heartbroken.
Lucy, 61, who once praised her “enormous sex appeal”, has three children with the comedian, who created and performed grotesques such as Kevin the Teenager and The Slobs.
She and Enfield are close friends of Lord (David) Cameron and his wife, Samantha. In their last appearance in Downing Street, the Cameron daughters wore dresses made by the brand she co-founded, Wild & Gorgeous.
Before Enfield met the privately educated Lucy at a dinner party, he had a three-year relationship with film and television producer Alison Allen, ex-wife of actor and comedian Keith Allen.
During that time, he and Alison shared a flat in Primrose Hill, north London, and he was involved in raising Allen’s three children, Sarah, Game Of Thrones star Alfie, and Lily, the now famous pop singer. . He called them his ‘de facto stepchildren’.
Enfield, who played Prince Charles in the hilarious Channel 4 comedy The Windsor, was at the peak of his fame when he met Lucy – but she didn’t realize it.
“I didn’t have much of an idea who he was,” she later said. “When we were introduced it was, ‘Oh, this is Harry; he’s a comedian.'”
They gathered together to take decent walks around Hampstead Heath. “I liked him from the beginning and little by little I realized how incredibly good and kind he was,” she said.
‘Harry and I have a lovely relationship. He is very generous with his words; very demonstrably affectionate. He tells me I’m beautiful. I never believe him, of course, and he quickly says he loves me.