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Calvin Harris privacy fears for £3.6m Cotswold mansion as local bus passengers can see inside
Scots DJ Calvin Harris has been forced to install privacy glass throughout his luxury Cotswold mansion because a busy bus route thunders by.
Scots DJ Calvin Harris is going to huge lengths to make sure his new multimillion Cotswold mansion is free from prying eyes. The Dumfries-born musician has installed one-way, reflective glass on windows throughout the three-storey luxury home after realising it sat on a busy bus route.
The star, 41, bought the five-bedroom property in a quiet Gloucestershire village near the Oxfordshire border for £3.6m million pounds in 2019. After demolishing the original structure, he spent five years having the house - which sits on 10 acres of land - rebuilt, using designs by an architect favoured by the Royal Family.
But his dream vision for the pad doesn't appear to have come to fruition, as he's since discovered that a busy bus route sits right outside, and anyone on board can see right inside.
Local coach firm Pulhams Travel regularly sends buses thundering by the Feels So Close hitmaker's home on an hour-long circular route with eight stops, according to Mail Online.
Calvin - real name Adam Wiles - is reportedly set to move into the property with pregnant wife Vick Hope, 35, later this summer. In order to preserve their privacy when they get there, he's had the special glass fitted throughout the property, which was visible to see for the first time this week as scaffolding was removed.
The pad is a far cry from Calvin's beginnings in Dumfries, where he honed his skills in the bedroom of his parents' home while funding his efforts working in a fish factory and stacking shelves in the local M&S and Safeway.
He went to become a global chart-topper, with 11 UK No1s and collaborations with the world's biggest stars including Rihanna and Ellie Goulding.
Calvin is now thought to be worth a cool £240 million and is one of the highest paid DJs in the world after a multimillion pound Las Vegas residency and selling his song catalogue for a reported £76million.
He is reported to be heavily investing his fortune in property and already owns a £12million mansion in LA, a £7.5million London townhouse, and his 138-acre Ibiza farm in Ibiza, where he lived before his romance with Countryfile and Radio 1 host Vick went public.
He's also reported to have snapped up two other homes nearby and is considering a fourth, bringing his spending in the area to an estimated £15million.
Calvin and wife Vick, who were married in 2023 and announced they were expecting their first child back in May, are in good company with their new base, with celebrity neighbours including Kate Moss and Jeremy Clarkson.
One local previously told the Sun: "Building work there finally finished, for now, last week and we're expecting Calvin and Vick to move in at the end of the summer after his season playing at clubs in Ibiza has finished.
"From the road, the house looks amazing. No expense seems to have been spared. I am sure they will love living here as a family."
Calvin's Cotswolds property empire has seen him likened to fellow musician Ed Sheeran, who bought up a raft of homes in Suffolk, with locals there dubbing his estate as 'Sheeranville'. One neighbour previously told The Sun: "Just like Ed Sheeran, he seems to want to buy up the properties that surround his incredible new house.
"We have had to put up with lots of building work going on, for what seems like years but what has annoyed locals most is that a lovely vineyard has gone."
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