Gavin and Stacey: Barry house home to Doris goes up for sale
Beloved Doris, played by the actress Margaret John, was a friend and next door neighbour of the Shipman family.Following John's death in 2011, the show featured a storyline that Doris had left the house to Gavin and Stacey in her will.Doris was known for her frankness, as well as for refusing to make the salad for Neil the Baby's christening.Viewers may recognise the rooms inside the property from the 2019 Christmas special, when Gavin and Stacey hosted both families from Essex and Barry and extended the dining table into the living room. The kitchen in particular saw some chaos, too, as Uncle Bryn had a meltdown over cooking Christmas dinner, and took to using walkie talkies to organise his timings and communicate with Gwen.
'Where's the salad?'
A video tour of the property, posted online by Chris Davies Estate Agents, has so far racked up nearly 40k likes, with one fan commenting: "That's not Doris' house, there is no talc in the bathroom."While several others asked the all important question: "Where's the salad?"Andrew Walton, managing director of the agency, said the interest had been "excellent as a result of the history in the property". But he added: "When you whittle it down to genuine enquiries and those that are financially qualified there is a much smaller number."
Uncle Bryn's house also went "viral" online when it went up for sale in 2023, with many fans getting excited at the thought of owning the ultimate memorabilia. Yet some fans expressed their sadness at the latest sale, as they said it "really is the end" of the comedy show after its iconic Christmas finale in 2024. But we all know, by rights, Doris' house belongs to Nessa.
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Daily Mail
3 hours ago
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The Salt Path author could face legal action from publisher if she misled readers over best-selling memoir, reveals Richard Osman
The publisher of The Salt Path may sue its author if she and her husband deliberately lied about the life story that has made them millions of pounds, it was claimed today. Raynor Winn has been accused of fabricating, or misleading readers, about some parts of her best-selling book including her husband Moth's battle with a degenerative illness. The Salt Path prompted two sequels and the film adaptation, which was released in May, where they were played by A-listers Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. A source at the publisher has told MailOnline that 'all options are on the table' - although the couple insist the book is 'the true story of our journey'. Author and broadcaster Richard Osman believes that Penguin Random House, his own publisher, will look to 'claw back some of the money' from the couple if they have deliberately lied about their life story. 'It is a publishing phenomenon. Raynor has got a very, very nice career. You know, she's made millions.. they've got a nice house down in Cornwall', he said. But he warned: 'They would have signed a contract and therefore everything is on them. If something is a deliberate lie, then, Penguin Random House I guess would have some sort of recourse'. In the book, Winn said she and her husband Moth lost a fortune - and their home in Wales - due to a bad investment in a friend's business. But Raynor has now been accused of embezzling £64,000 from a former employer and was allegedly arrested. A loan was then allegedly taken out to avoid prosecution and when this was not paid their home was sold, it has been claimed. Moth Winn has been living with an illness for 18 years with no apparent visible symptoms that medical experts claim would require round-the-clock care within 12 years. It has also emerged that the couple's real names are Sally and Tim Walker and they apparently owned a property near Bordeaux in France all along. A spokeswoman for the Winns said allegations made by The Observer newspaper were 'highly misleading'. But Richard Osman has said the couple could face financial repercussions if they have lied. He said 'a bomb would have gone off' at the publisher after the Observer's investigation claimed that husband's illness and events that led to the couple losing their home were untrue or exaggerated. Penguin Random House is the publisher of Mr Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, which is being made into a movie series by director Steven Spielberg. Speaking on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast with co-host Marina Hyde, he said the publisher could take legal action because Raynor and Moth Winn will have signed contracts confirming their memoirs were truthful. He said: 'People are going to be very, very hurt. I suggest there'll be some legal issues if these things do turn out to be not true. 'I think that probably you try and claw back some of the money that you've passed over. I don't know this particular contract. The contract would normally be that they have guaranteed that everything, in this piece is truthful'. Marina Hyde said that Penguin Random House could end up giving the money to build a 'new neurology wing' and both predicted that the creditors could be called in again for the Winns. Richard Osman suggested that the couple may have got around £30,000 up front for The Salt Path before any profits from sales of more than two million copies worldwide. But the film released this year starring A-listers Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs would have been worth three to four million pound, he said. Richard added: 'One assumes, by the way, that the cheques got sent to Tim and Sally Walker, but that's another thing'. MailOnline has asked Penguin Random House to comment. It came as a healthcare charity dropped the author of The Salt Path after claims were made about her husband's illness and an allegation that she stole £64,000 from a former employer. PSPA said it was 'shocked and disappointed' about the allegations that were reported against Raynor and Moth Winn, which had 'taken everyone by surprise'. It was also announced yesterday that Raynor had pulled out of the upcoming Saltlines tour that would have seen her perform readings alongside the Gigspanner Big Band. Following an investigation into their backgrounds, The Observer said that The Salt Path's protagonists, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, previously went by their less flamboyant legal names, Sally and Tim Walker. And rather than being forced out of their home in rural Wales when an investment in a childhood friend's business went awry, as the book suggested, it is alleged that the property was repossessed after Winn stole tens of thousands of pounds from a former employer and was arrested. When the couple failed to repay a loan taken out with a relative to repay the stolen money - agreed on terms that the police would not be further involved - they lost their home, it is claimed. A spokeswoman for the Winns on Sunday night told the Mail that the allegations made in the Sunday newspaper were 'highly misleading'. Their statement added: 'The Salt Path lays bare the physical and spiritual journey Moth and I shared, an experience that transformed us completely and altered the course of our lives. This is the true story of our journey.' When asked to specify which allegations were misleading or factually inaccurate, the spokesman declined to comment further but said that the couple were taking legal advice. Questions have also been raised about Moth's debilitating illness, corticobasal degeneration [CBD], a rare neurological condition in the same family as Parkinson's disease, which is central to the book. The life expectancy for sufferers after diagnosis is around six to eight years, according to the NHS - however Moth has been living with the condition for 18 years with no apparent visible symptoms. As part of The Observer's investigation, a number of neurologists specialising in CBD were contacted, with one telling the newspaper that his history with the illness 'does not pass the sniff test'. It is suggested that anyone suffering from CBD for longer than 12 years would need round-the-clock care. Released in 2018, The Salt Path details the Winns' decision to embark on the South West Coast Path when they lose their home after investing a 'substantial sum' into a friend's business which ultimately failed. In the book, Winn writes: 'We lost. Lost the case. Lost the house.' The memoir then describes their subsequent 630-mile walk to salvation, wild camping en route and living on around £40 per week, and is described as a 'life-affirming true story of coming to terms with grief and the healing power of the natural world.' It prompted two sequels and the film adaptation, which was released in May, starring The X Files' Anderson and Isaacs, who recently starred in HBO's The White Lotus. The Winns posed for photographs alongside the actors on the red carpet in London at the film's premiere. However following interviews with eight people with knowledge of the situation, it is now claimed that the Winns actually lost their 17th century farmhouse in rural North Wales when Winn stole around £64,000 from the late Martin Hemmings, her former boss at his family-run estate agency, where she worked as a bookkeeper in the early 2000s. Martin has since died but his wife Ros told The Observer: 'Her claims that it was all just a business deal that went wrong really upset me. 'When really she had embezzled the money from my husband. It made me feel sick.' After initially suspecting she had stolen around £9,000, investigations revealed she had allegedly stolen much more and the police were reportedly called in and Winn was arrested. The Winns are then said to have visited a distant relative of 'Moth' in London who agreed he would lend them the money to repay the stolen funds - as long as the Hemmings agreed not to pursue a criminal case. 'I just hoped I would never hear from her again,' Mrs Hemmings said. 'Until somebody waved that book at me [The Salt Path] and said: 'Guess who?'' The loaned money is then said to have accrued substantial interest until it eventually exceeded £150,000, it is said. When the relative's business then failed, there was a court case and the Winns' home was repossessed to repay the relative's business associates. A further allegation likely to harm the couple's account of 'homelessness' are based on documents which show that, at the time they lost their property in Wales, Sally and Tim Walker owned a house in the south-west of France, which they had purchased in 2007. Mrs Hemmings told The Observer she was glad her husband didn't live long enough to see the publication of the book and release of the film. 'It would have made him so angry,' she said.
The Sun
7 hours ago
- The Sun
Embezzlement arrest, couple's real names & a house in France… How bestseller The Salt Path may be more fiction than fact
THE question everyone asks about a movie 'based on a true story' is how much is fact and how much is fiction? It is what I wanted to know when I interviewed The Salt Path author Raynor Winn in April about her best-selling memoir, which had been turned into a film starring Gillian Anderson. 5 5 Sipping tea from a fine porcelain cup, the softly spoken mother-of-two told me: 'The book's my interpretation of that time.' Well, that is one way of putting it. This week it was alleged that crucial parts of Raynor's prize-winning book were more fiction than fact. In her account, Raynor, 62, and her husband Moth were made homeless in 2013 after an investment went horribly wrong. During the same week, Moth, 64, was diagnosed with rare and fatal neurological condition, corticobasal degeneration (CBD), which affects movement, speech and memory. With nowhere else to go, the couple trek for 630 miles along Britain's South West Coast Path. Life expectancy But according to a lengthy investigation by The Observer newspaper, the reason Raynor lost her house in the Welsh countryside was that she embezzled £64,000 from an employer. The report also found evidence that the Winns, whose real names are Sally and Tim Walker, owned a house in France at the time they were supposedly homeless. Perhaps, just as disturbing, was the suggestion from nine neurologists and researchers that they were sceptical someone could have survived for so many years with CBD, which has a life expectancy of around six to eight years. It was certainly the most niggling doubt I had about the Winns' story when I sat down with Raynor, who likes to be called Ray, at a historic hotel in London three months ago. When Moth was diagnosed in 2013 it was suspected he'd already had CBD for six years. Today, he is not only still alive, he lacks acute symptoms and is going on walks. Raynor told me: 'There are many, many theories that swirl around, and there's very little fact, because these illnesses that come under the umbrella of CBD. 'They don't receive much funding because they're so rare, and so we understand very little about them.' It was a convincing answer and there is no proof that Moth does not have this fatal condition. Patients do defy predictions, with doctors unsure how the late Stephen Hawking was able to live with motor neurone disease for 55 years. There is strong evidence, though, that when Raynor was Sally Walker she got into trouble with the law. Two decades ago she worked part-time as a bookkeeper for an estate agency in Pwllheli, North Wales. Raynor's claims it was all just a business deal that went wrong really upset me. When really she had embezzled the money from my husband. It made me feel sick Ros Hemmings A local police officer told how Sally was arrested and questioned after the company's owner Martin Hemmings reported that £64,000 had gone missing from the accounts. One of Sally's unnamed relatives offered to pay off the sum in return for Martin not to pursue a criminal case against her. This was agreed to, and the bookkeeper went free. But Sally had put up the family home in Wales as security for the loan from the relative and this debt was then passed on to other people. They wanted the money back and when the Walkers could not pay up, a judge ruled they had to give up the property. In the book, Raynor blames it on Moth's childhood friend 'Cooper'. Martin Hemmings died in 2012, but his widow Ros said: 'Her claims that it was all just a business deal that went wrong really upset me. 'When really she had embezzled the money from my husband. It made me feel sick.' There is also evidence that the couple put their home up as a prize even though the judge had said it should be repossessed if they could not sell it. It was offered 'free of mortgage or any other legal or registered charge' in a draw available to anyone who bought a book called How Not to Dal dy Dir [Stand Firm], written by the author Izzy Wyn-Thomas. In the end the house was taken from the Walkers and it is unclear if anyone entered the prize draw. The couple were never charged with any offences, so details of these events lay hidden until now. 5 Raynor has not spoken publicly about the claims, but in a statement said: 'The Observer article is highly misleading. 'We are taking legal advice and won't be making any further comment at this time. 'The Salt Path lays bare the physical and spiritual journey Moth and I shared, an experience that transformed us completely and altered the course of our lives. This is the true story of our journey.' They gave no clarification as to exactly what was 'misleading'. After losing their home, the couple remerged as Raynor and Moth Winn in 2018 when The Salt Path was published. Her vivid account of their trials and tribulations in Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset is full of convincing details. If there is anything that I hope people take from this film, I would really love it if people walked out of the cinema and saw someone in a doorway they would see them slightly differently, maybe just as an individual, not a difficult statistic Raynor And when I spoke to the polite author, her recollection of events were replayed with authority. It was impossible not to feel sympathy when Raynor told me how a woman called her a tramp when she scrabbled around for change in the gutter. No one has suggested that the pair did not live in a tent or go on the 630-mile walk. But it did seem remarkable that this middle-class couple, hailing from the West Midlands, did not have friends who could put them up for a few weeks while they got back on their feet after their home was repossessed. Down and out The Observer found documents that appear to show the Winns bought an old house in the south-west of France in 2007, and still owned it during the years they were 'homeless'. That flies in the face of the passionate feelings Raynor expressed to me about being a rough sleeper. She said: 'If there is anything that I hope people take from this film, I would really love it if people walked out of the cinema and saw someone in a doorway they would see them slightly differently, maybe just as an individual, not a difficult statistic.' Raynor, who has written about homelessness for The Big Issue magazine, gave a performance that Gillian Anderson would have been proud of. When she said it, I felt no doubt that this was a woman who had truly been down and out. But I was certainly not the only person who seems to have been taken in by her warm words. Prior to this week's revelations, the X Files and Sex Education actress Gillian, who met Raynor before filming started, said: 'When I read the book, I could not get it out of my system for weeks. It changed my perspective on homeless individuals, on people living rough, on the fact that any one of us at any time can become homeless and destitute.' The film's producers put out a statement on Monday denying knowledge of Raynor's past. 5 A spokeswoman for Number 9 Films and Shadowplay Features said they 'undertook all necessary due diligence before acquiring the book'. Why would they not believe a story that had won the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland prize in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award? The critically acclaimed film, with Jason Isaacs playing Moth, made more than £7.5million at the box office when it was released in the UK in May. But plans to show it in the US and other countries have now been thrown into doubt. Raynor is due to release her fourth book, titled On Winter Hill, later this year. Fans may not be so keen to read this account of her walk from coast to coast in the north of England with all the doubts about her reliability. Despite the controversy, the website of her publisher, Penguin, still describes The Salt Path as 'unflinchingly honest'. Half of that phrase still carries weight. The Raynor Winn I met was certainly unflinching.
Daily Mail
12 hours ago
- Daily Mail
The sell-out Oasis x Adidas tracksuit just came back in stock in time for the reunion tour - here's where to get yours quick
Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission - learn more Noel and Liam Gallagher have joined forces with Adidas for an 'Original Forever' campaign. The brothers sent fans across the world wild as they reunited onstage for the first time in 15 years In Cardiff on July 4 for their Live '25 world tour. The siblings famously feuded for years, with Oasis splitting in 2009 following a backstage row at the Rock en Seine festival, when Noel left the band. Now, inspired by styles that Oasis wore in the Nineties, they've come together once again for an exclusive Adidas collection which features everything from the iconic three-stripe T-shirts to matching tracksuits and jackets. Upon release the collection sold out almost immediately. Luckily, we've spotted a few of the in-demand tracksuits are finally back in stock. But they won't last long. We've listed the items still available below. And if you want to lean into the Britpop revival but don't want to risk missing out, here's where to find high street versions too - all in time for the reunion tour. Adidas x Oasis collection Adidas' track tops were iconic in the Nineties and this Oasis collaboration is inspired by the archive. Retailing at £85 and available on the official Adidas website, it comes in pale blue, burgundy, black and navy colourways. The zip-up style features three stripes down the arms, a high neck, elasticated cuffs and the Adidas and Oasis logos. To complete the full tracksuit, you'll need the joggers which retail for £75. The straight let cut trousers feature three stripes down the leg, zip pockets and an elasticated waistband. The Adidas logo and Oasis logo make them a great piece of memorabilia for their 2025 tour. TOUR 3-STRIPES T-Shirt £45 Shop TOUR BUCKET HAT £40 Shop The best high street alternatives But if you want a similar look for a much cheaper price, don't worry, we've got you sorted. Cernucci is selling a velvet inspired jacket for £29.99. Lindex is selling a jacket of the same colour for just £14.99. Funnel Neck Taping Zip Through Velour Track Jacket - Burgundy £29.99 Shop Sporty jacket £14.99 Shop Why not have a look at Boohoo's side stripe joggers which retail for just £12. RESERVED are also selling joggers with a similar style at £12.99. Plus Tricot Side Stripe Jogger £12 Shop Sweatpants with side stripes £12.99 Shop
