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Depp 'not moving to Broomfield'

8:21am Thursday 29th March 2007

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THERE was bad news for Johnny Depp fans this week with firm denials that he had bought a house on the Quantocks.

Rumours have been circulating that the Hollywood heartthrob of Pirates of the Caribbean had spent £2.5million on Timbercombe House, in Broomfield.

It was claimed that he and his partner, French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, were moving in with their two children, who had apparently been booked into an independent school in Taunton.

But Depp's agent, the man who sold the house and the estate agents all deny the star had snapped up the 150-year-old former hunting lodge.

For further details, see the Somerset County Gazette today (Thursday).

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Rural Cowboy, says...
12:10pm Thu 29 Mar 07

I am so shocked and disappointed by this news. Having followed this story in your organ, I had bought a pirate costume especially. That just goes to show - never trust an organ. Great is the truth and it will prevail, except in this case, obviously.

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nautical nobby, says...
1:19pm Thu 29 Mar 07

Well said Rural.
I too have made a substantial capital outlay on the strength of the original article.
I am now the proud owner of an Amazon Blue parrot. Apart from the high dry cleaning costs I now face - it is impossible to remove the bird poo from my shoulder pads - I have spent the last couple of weeks perfecting my wooden leg technique.
Perhaps the County Gazette reporters should check their facts first before so carelessly trifling with fans' emotions.
By the way, Phil Hill, I understand that Brad Pitt has made an offer on a pokey little semi in Laburnum Road, Wellington. I shall be reading next week's County Gazette for the "full story"

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Zac Masterman, Wellsprings Road says...
11:30pm Thu 29 Mar 07

Of course it"s been denied, would anyone want to admit it?. A wily geezer like the man in question could go anywhere, cunningly disguised, and be unrecognised. If Nobby had parrot-poo problems, with the bird, why didn"t he get a stiff one instead, eg, a stuffed one, it must drive him even more nutty anyway with a live parrot squawking in his lughole all the time.

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Long John Silver, high seas says...
11:35pm Thu 29 Mar 07

This daft story?. Enough has been said already.

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Elke, says...
7:45am Fri 30 Mar 07

That's the spirit.
I've been laughing my head off about these rumours.
Every sunny afternoon the guy shows up somewehere with his wife and kiddies, rumours about buying houses start to buzz.
In France, near Paris and in Bath - exactly the same.

Very realistic of course.
I mean, when we visit a nice town with spouse and kiddies, we are always buying a house too, don't we?

Nobby: this parrot, wasn't that a Norwegian Blue ("it's not dead it's sleeping")?

Elke,
The Netherlands

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pipsqueak, Wellington says...
5:26pm Sun 1 Apr 07

I also have gone to great expense and time in loggin onto the internet and reading the County Gazette (at an exhorbitant 65p a copy) in following this story. I agree with Nautical Nobby and Rural: what story will Phil Hill and his Gazette lackies con us into reading next?

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