{"id":712166,"date":"2026-07-26T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712166\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:25:12","slug":"broadcaster-chris-evans-buys-14-million-marlow-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712166\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcaster Chris Evans buys \u00a314 million Marlow mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Virgin Radio presenter, 60, is understood to have purchased the property through his company, Zimple, in November 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Evans, who is married to Natasha Shishmanian, is said to have moved into the six-bedroom property with their four children.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to property website Zoopla, the detached house features six bedrooms, six bathrooms and five reception rooms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The purchase was made through Evans&#8217; company, with a mortgage reportedly taken out through private bank Coutts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The broadcaster has long-standing links to the Marlow area through friends including celebrity chef Tom Kerridge and Dragon&#8217;s Den star Peter Jones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Free Press previously reported on Evans&#8217; purchase of another Marlow property in 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Born in Warrington, Evans rose to prominence on Channel 4&#8217;s The Big Breakfast before going on to front hit shows including TFI Friday and the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He now hosts the weekday breakfast programme on Virgin Radio and is the founder of CarFest, the motoring and music festival which raises millions of pounds for charity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Evans also founded Ginger Media Group, which is understood to have sold for \u00a3225 million in 2000. He is reported to have received around \u00a375 million from the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Virgin Radio presenter, 60, is understood to have purchased the property through his company, Zimple, in November&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}