Hollywood star roughs it in the country after wild city life…
The star of multi-season cable hit The Mentalist and director-headliner of retro-surf movie Breath, Simon Baker, has shucked his seventeen-mill mansion in Sydney for a cement block and timber beach shack a few hundred metres from Lennox Point.
Baker, who is fifty-two, bought the two-bedder at 23 Dress Circle Drive, Lennox Head, for almost three-mill last year following the breakup of his marriage and the subsequent sale of couple’s Bronte house for seventeen-mill; a place they bought in 2015 for six-and-a-half mill.
His Lennox joint, a sleepy eyed derelict, is one of the last remaining original houses in Dress Circle Drive, the modest holiday homes having long given way to the bulldozer’s blade and man’s urgent need for compounds and monoliths.
Surprisingly deft on a surfboard, Baker grew up in Lennox before treading the boards in Sydney, Los Angeles etc.
“You can’t deny the power of this landscape,” Baker told 60 Minutes while standing with reporter at Lennox Point. “It’s got this intensity and whether you like it or not it will have an impact on you.”
Be pretty cool, I think, if the actor keeps the joint as is, undies on the clothesline in the backyard, boards on the deck, various women hissing hotly as star and groupie both gallop for the finishing line while watching tranny porn on the ground floor chaise lounge.
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View of powerlines. Dumbass is 25 feet from success….AKA the other side of the street.
In between the concrete sheets, often, yes. But don’t disturb and fibres won’t hurt you!
yeah problem is every time you want to change a light switch you need to call in the experts (expensive). I just wet a t shirt and wrap it around my mouth.
Thanks you sir
The actual house is very similar to my own modest abode, though I don’t even have a basement.
But I would’ve hoped someone had the sense to buy up a few of them, and knock the neighbours down to have decent sized yard and garden, an actual ‘compound’.
Fuck living in an expensive house so close to ya neighbours that ya can hear them flush the toilet…
Jeez, Australian real estate is as bad as Hawaii’s
Thank you for the correction.
Black mold on the front deck. That place will be bulldozed in no time.
Not before scraping it off and reselling as ‘artisan / single estate Stachybotrys chartarum‘
That shack will be gone before Easter.
Compounds is correct.
will be a giant wank pad for Baker and Hemsworth to fcuk around in.
Anyone who bought “surf” is now loaded.
Ahh Lennox. Used to be the poor (smart) man’s Byron. Did he used to be Baker-Denny? Or that go in the divorce too.
Aside from the price, looks like a somewhat cool pad, unpretenticene and simple.
I’m sure they will fuck it up and make some kind of McMansion
Location location location.
The neighbours have gone full Putin and have no garden left. What’s the point living there without some nature?
The neighbours are pretenshious
Possibly sucked a lot of producers dicks, hence Derek’s interest…
They can watch tranny porn together
God, you’re so…binary.
I went there every year between 1985 and 1990, and each year you’d notice it getting built up but was still a nice little town.
Now it just looks like another shitty wannabe California suburb.
What a bummer.
P.S.
And it’s obviously full of fuckwits, the type with more dollars than sense, who’d wanna live in such a hemmed-in crappy dump in the first place.
Even more of a bummer…
If I knew how to insert a song it would be Talking Heads – The Big Country
I’ve heard divorce can take The Weight off your shoulders.
Crack shack….
That’s more than sad. The point was so country.
Another place bites the dust
What the hell is going on in the background?
Orange County
Would def let him choke me in that garage. Just a bit.
Simons actually a pretty good bloke. See him regularly at the Bangalow pub sinking schooners with the old locals in the front bar.
Yeah, surfs good, too.
the hotel pub?