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RICHARD EDEN: Sir Philip Williams puts his Bridehead estate - which featured in ITV crime drama Broadchurch - on the market for £30million
RICHARD EDEN: On the face of it, there would seem to be few disadvantages to inheriting a baronetcy and a 2,000-acre estate set in the most glorious part of Dorset.
After his house and grounds appeared in ITV series Broadchurch – as the backdrop for a rape, investigated by David Tennant and Olivia Colman – he lamented that fans were turning up whenever they felt like it, to the extent that he and his wife, Catherine, found people loitering on the lawn. Instead, he replenished his coffers by starring in a fly-on-the-wall documentary, The F***ing Fulfords, in which he praised an ancestor who commanded a fleet of ships, killing 5,000 French – 'a satisfactory result all round' – and spoke proudly of his children because 'they aren't a bunch of poofs'. Ivy married Engel, the son of former Coronation Street star Cheryl Prime, in 2021, one year after her father, John Gilbert Getty, died of a fentanyl overdose and heart problems aged 52.
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