GORDON Ramsay has splashed out on a £9.65million home in Cornwall.
The celebrity chef, 59, has purchased the most expensive property in the coastal village of Rock, where he previously clashed with neighbours.
In fact, Gordon’s new four-bedroom home is on the same road, and just a few doors down, from the house he built in March 2021.
At the time, more than 20 neighbours objected to his plans and branded it a “monstrosity”.
This prompted Gordon to respond in an interview not long after, saying: “‘I absolutely love Cornwall. It’s just the Cornish I can’t stand.”
The Mail has now reported that Gordon and wife Tana Ramsay purchased the 19th century house via Rocky Bay Estates and that Land Registry documents show that bought it with a mortgage from bank Coutts.
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His neighbours may not be best pleased as Gordon is also said to have bought the two-acre plot next to the house.
This could cause problems if the telly chef plans on doing any major renovation work on the property.
The Sun has reached out to Gordon’s rep.
It is not known yet if Gordon plans to keep both properties in Rock.
The first was bought for £4.4million in 2015.
In 2022, the Michelin star chef sold another property in Daymer Bay for a record £7.5million.
At the time, that was the most expensive house ever sold in Cornwall.
Gordon was blasted by locals for spending time at the pad during the very first lockdown.
The superstar telly chef had previously been at the centre of a storm with his neighbours in Rock – after a series of huge renovation works.
He was accused of bringing “Legoland to Cornwall” after he called in builders to create a mega-home with incredible views of the sea.
Gordon’s plans included knocking down a 1920’s property to build a new, modern pad – complete with a second smaller property which was known as “The Garden House”.
One of his neighbours moaned at the time: “I urge you to insist that this house is not bulldozed and its façade be maintained or at least some of its character be retained rather than the short-sighted house which is currently proposed.
“The council will come to regret having allowed such traditional houses to be destroyed with impunity.”
Gordon, who has five children with his wife Tana, previously hit back at his Cornish critics and made light of their dislike of him.
Speaking about their claims he was endangering Cornish people after going there at the start of the pandemic, Gordon said: “God knows why we took so much s**t from the Cornish.
“We lived down there; we just hadn’t been down there for a long time. We didn’t sneak down there at all.
“We got there at an appropriate time and had an absolutely amazing time. And a time like that – we’ll never get back again.”
And earlier that year he told Vernon Kay on BBC Radio 2 that he could not abide the locals who live around him in Cornwall.
Laughing, Gordon said: “Trust me I absolutely love Cornwall, it’s just the Cornish I can’t stand.”