Eddie Redmayne’s luxurious £2million household vacation house is devastated in French Riviera wildfire as his father, 83, reveals the land ‘appears like a scene from WWI’
- The idyllic £2 million hillside home overlooks a winery, is surrounded by forest
- Now ravaged by France’s largest wildfire of yr, which began on Monday
- Higher ground of property, which folks owned for practically 35 years now destroyed
Movie star Eddie Redmayne’s luxurious £2 million household vacation residence has been devastated in a wildfire across the French Riviera.
The blaze destroyed the higher ground of the property, which his dad and mom have owned for practically 35 years. Oscar-winner Redmayne, 39, spent childhood holidays and weekends on the six-bedroom villa.
The idyllic hillside home overlooks a winery, is surrounded by forests, has its personal swimming pool, tennis courtroom and a boules pitch – and is rented out in excessive summer season for £7,800 per week.
Oscar-winner Redmayne, 39, spent childhood holidays and weekends on the six-bedroom villa
The idyllic hillside home overlooks a winery, is surrounded by forests, has its personal swimming pool, tennis courtroom and a boules pitch
However it has been ravaged by France’s largest wildfire of the yr, which began on Monday.
It tore throughout 20,000 acres of the area of Var close to Saint-Tropez, a well-liked vacation spot for well-heeled Britons, destroying dozens of homes earlier than it was introduced below management.
Redmayne’s dad and mom Richard and Patricia, who dwell in Chelsea, South-West London, have been as a consequence of fly out to France this weekend to examine the harm to their villa.
Funding banker Richard Redmayne, 83, stated the home was occupied on the time of the blaze by pals who have been compelled to flee.
He advised The Mail on Sunday: ‘The entire higher ground and the roof – was burned up. The warmth was clearly intense. The hill in the back of the home now appears like a scene from the First World Conflict.
‘We’ve had fires earlier than there. We had one 15 or 16 years in the past. However my gardener stated to me that this final hearth moved so quick that it coated the identical distance in an hour that it took the sooner one to journey in three days.’
Eton-educated Redmayne gained a Bafta, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his function as physicist Stephen Hawking within the 2014 movie The Idea Of All the pieces.