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Caption : * CHRIS EVANS, THE MEL GIBSON OF BELSIZE PARK
A mysterious figure in ginger is busily snapping up property in the leafy north London suburb of Belsize Park.
Chris Evans, TV presenter-turned-Radio 2 DJ, is trying his hand at property developing in his favourite corner of the capital - and has fast become to Belsize park what Mel Gibson is to Malibu, a reference of the controversial star's boasts he owns half the California resort.
Evans' latest acquisition is a luxury apartment valued at over £750,000. Bought as an investment, it's a mere stone's throw from the mansion Evans has owned in Belsize Park since his Big Breakfast days, and within spitting distance of celebrity neighbours including the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin and Kate Moss.
It's all a far cry from Evans' working class upbringing in Warrington, Cheshire - but he has come a long way and outgrown a number of homes since then, most famously the Surrey country house he shared with ex-wife Billie Piper until their split last year and a mansion on Hollywood's Sunset Strip the ex-couple sold for £4.6 million in 2003, just a year after they moved in. (IG/WN/GES)


Chris Evans enjoying the afternoon sunshine in Primrose Hill
London, England- 11.07.06
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