Australia and celebrity news
01-12-2009
Life Relocation’s Gossip Column: Celebrity Life down under!
For all of us following the celebrity gossip columns, you will be interested to know who is moving here, who would like to move here and who is visiting over the next few months.
Writer and comedian BEN ELTON is swapping Britain for a sunnier climate when he and his family emigrate to Australia next month.
Elton and his wife, Australian saxophonist Sophie Gare, and their three children, ten-year-old twins Bert and Lottie, and their son Fred, eight are moving to Fremantle in Western Australia permanently after years of splitting their time between the two countries.
Elton has dual British / Australian citizenship and owns a two-storey heritage-listed house in Fremantle.
“Being an international citizen of the world with a carbon footprint the size of goodness knows what, I will still be travelling back and forth to Britain and America. But we are going to be based in Australia,” Elton told the media.
Prince William will escape the cold English winter and visit Australia during summer early next year, Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced.
The Prince of Wales will travel to Sydney and Melbourne from January 19-21, after asking the Australian Federal Government if he could visit Australia "so as to begin to get to know Australia and its people'', Mr Rudd said.
"The Prince will also use the visit to learn more about local Indigenous issues and visit the bushfire-ravaged countryside in Victoria,'' Mr Rudd said.
The Prince of Wales will visit Australia after first travelling to New Zealand to officially open the new Supreme Court in Wellington.
It will be the Prince's first visit to Australia as an adult, having only previously visited with the Prince and Princess of Wales a year after his birth in 1983.
ROBBIE Williams wants to move to the Australian Outback.
The singer and his girlfriend Ayda Field have been looking at properties in the country’s most remote areas, and are reportedly searching for a home where they can settle down and start a family.
“I'm thinking of settling down here,” he told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
“I have been looking for places out in the Outback, maybe a farm.”
Williams and Field arrived in the country a few weeks ago and have spent most of their time relaxing in their luxury hotel overlooking Sydney Harbour.
Last month, the couple decided to sell their home in Wiltshire, England, for £1 million less than they paid for it because they couldn’t face a British winter.
Williams and Field - who bought the 18th century mansion for £8.5 million in February - have slashed the estate's price so they relocate to somewhere sunnier.
The 35-year-old star has previously admitted the property - which has its own helicopter hangar, temples and fountains - was an "impulse buy" when he returned to England after five years in the US.
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