A new offer has been made for the infamous “saddest ever” Grand Designs home. Chesil Cliff House in Devon made headlines after it brought owner Edward Short nothing but misery and misfortune for 12 years. Building the property left him £7million in debt and cost him his marriage.
When it featured on the Channel 4 show in October 2019, the episode was branded the “saddest ever” by forlorn viewers. Short said the ordeal had been particularly hard on his now-ex-wife, Hazel. “The whole project has been a horrendous strain for Hazel, I have sunk our family purse into this and I really feel for her. I never meant to put her through any of this,” he previously said.
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And it appears that his nightmare could be over… finally, thanks to Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard. Marital arts millionaire Matt Fiddes previously tried to buy the lighthouse-inspired home but saw his £7.5m bid rejected.
But Matt, worth £120m, now says he wants the “get the deal done’” and buy the pad for his wife Moniqe for a Black Friday Christmas present. Taking to Instagram, he wrote: “’I offered £7.5 million to the owner to turn the property into luxury apartments!! He was mad pushing for £10 million!
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”It’s now in receivership and is for sale for just over £5 million! ‘The vendor should have took my offer! It needs at least £2 million spent on it to make it liveable and safe! ‘Popped past the property today to see how it was looking! What beautiful views and caught it at its full beauty in the sunset! ‘I put in a few calls to the new estate agents a while back. Although I had a feeling this house would crash in value and waited.
”Now’s the time! It’s worth nowhere near £5 million and I have been a property investor since I was 18 yrs old! ‘I think as #blackfriday is approaching I’m going to try yet again to get this property over the line directly with the banks receivers! ‘Can’t think of anything else to buy my wife for #xmas! @moniqefiddes had a new #Ferrari last Xmas(that got crushed in our gates)! That’s hard to top! Although this may do it!”
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Despite this, earlier this year tarot reader and celebrity psychic Inbaal Honigman told the Daily Star what she believes that it won’t be sold for a while. When performing a reading, she pulled out the seven of Swords – a card named “futility”.
“Houses carry the energy of people and events that existed within them, and the Grand Designs’ saddest house’s history of separation and subsequent loneliness is represented in this Tarot card. The sadness is ingrained into every wall and window. The 10 of Wands card says that, as the house is right now, it’s unlikely to sell anytime in the next 10 years. It is a card named ‘oppression’ which speaks of carrying a heavy load that can’t be shifted.
“The 10 of Wands card is a Tarot card of heaviness and exhaustion, where every move is blocked. The circumstances have to change, in order for the outcome to change.” Can money make a fool of the Tarot cards? We’ll find out soon enough.
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