Cotswold Celebrities

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, an interior designer known for his flamboyant clothing and long hair, became a household name when he appeared on BBC’s Changing Rooms. Laurence lives with his family in a beautiful manor in Siddington, near Cirencester.

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson, a motoring journalist and former Top Gear TV presenter who loves the fast lane lives in Chipping-Norton. In 2016, Jeremy Clarkson was given permission to tear down his house to build a new home. Clarkson, in typical Clarkson fashion, didn’t even call for the bulldozers, but instead blew up his home! For your own Cotswolds Guided Tours, contact cotswoldtour.co.uk/cotswolds-private-tours/

Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond lives in Gloucestershire, near Ledbury with his wife Mindy, and their daughters Izzy and Willow. He is most well-known for his role as one third of the BBC’s Top Gear presenting team.

Zara Phillips & Mike Tindall

The Gatcombe Estate is where this Royal lives with her daughter Mia Grace and ex-England rugby star Mike Tindall. They moved to Mallory House in Cheltenham, a beautiful regency villa with a Jacuzzi and gym, before getting married in 2010.

Princess Anne

Zara’s mother, The Princess Royal, lives in Gatcombe Estate with her second spouse Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence. Princess Anne, like her daughter, was an event rider of great skill. She was European champion in 1971 and a member of the 1976 Olympic Team in Montreal.

Jamie Dornan

Jamie Dornan, who played the complex heartthrob Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey series, has enjoyed a successful acting career, which includes the BBC psychological thriller The Fall, and ABC’s Once Upon a Time.

Dornan moved with his family to their five-bedroom mansion in the charming village Chalford near Stroud in 2015.