EMILY PRESCOTT: Council estate lad Joe Wicks joins the Chipping Norton set after spending £2.9m on a Cotswolds home
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Growing up on a council estate, fitness guru Joe Wicks has now joined Chipping Norton’s elite after buying a charming £2.9 million house in the Cotswolds.
The four-bedroom home is the latest addition to the burgeoning real estate empire Joe has built since he rose to fame with his online fitness workouts during the lockdown.
The 37-year-old also owns a beach house in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and a £4 million family home in a star-studded area of Virginia Water in Surrey.
His new property – set in two acres of orchards and flower meadows, with the River Swere winding through the grounds – is in a similar celebrity enclave. Soho Farmhouse is just a short drive away and its neighbors now include the Beckhams, Jeremy Clarkson, Amanda Holden and Claudia Winkleman.
Appropriately enough, the house has a fully equipped, air-conditioned gym – complete with wooden gymnastic rings dangling from the rafters – as well as a home office, spa room, boot room and snug, plus a kitchen complete with the obligatory Aga. There is even a two bedroom guest house on the property.
Joe Wicks and his wife Rosie, pictured, have spent £2.9 million on a new Cotswolds home in the famed Chipping Norton area
Naturally, the property has its own gym which is necessary for the celebrity fitness guru
The couple also have planning permission for a double-height extension at the rear, including a new open kitchen and glass doors to the garden
Wicks and his wife Rosie, 32, also have planning permission for a double height extension with an open plan kitchen, with glass doors leading directly to the garden. And there are plans for a gravel courtyard with parking.
The house is done up in the fashionable, muted Soho House style, with neutral tones and elegant, modern fixtures.
The father of three was raised by his father Gary, a roofer, and mother Raquela, a social worker. He first found fame posting 15-second recipe videos online before becoming a social media superstar with his record-breaking PE With Joe videos on YouTube.
In 2020 he became an MBE.
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