SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, 30, has a very merry Christmas after his company’s net worth reaches £80m
- Gilmore Jacobs earned £4.2million in profit in 2019, Companies House reveals
- Now the company, who his parents are directors for, is worth £80million
- He will soon be starring as anti-apartheid activist in Escape From Pretoria
He has held viewers spellbound since starring, aged 12, in Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, earning himself a fortune in the process.
And Daniel Radcliffe has evidently lost none of his wizardry — in either artistic or financial spheres.
For not only will the 30-year-old shortly grace the big screen once more as anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin in Escape From Pretoria but he has also just posted another bewitching set of figures, adding more than £4 million to his personal fortune.
Accounts filed at Companies House on Christmas Eve reveal that his company, Gilmore Jacobs, is now worth just over £80 million, up from £76 million in 2018, after making a £4.2 million profit in the past financial year.
Accounts filed at Companies House on Christmas Eve reveal that Daniel Radcliffe’s company, Gilmore Jacobs, is now worth just over £80 million, up from £76 million in 2018, after making a £4.2 million profit in the past financial year (pictured: in his Potter days, left, and on a recent red carpet outing, right)
Neither Radcliffe nor any of his representatives was available to comment but the actor, whose pay from the company is not disclosed, would be the first to acknowledge his debt to his parents, Alan, 60, a literary agent who forsook his own career to nurture his son’s, and Marcia, 62, a casting agent.
The couple established Gilmore Jacobs back in 2000, before Harry Potter first cast his worldwide spell.
His parents are the only directors, but have always made it plain the money it generates — from investments and Daniel’s stellar career — is for him alone.
Radcliffe now spends much of his time in New York with girlfriend Erin Darke, 35, whom he met when they starred together in the 2013 drama Kill Your Darlings.
But he betrays no sign of succumbing to delusions of film star grandeur, emphasising instead that his fortune gives him what other actors can only dream of — artistic freedom.
‘I would like to start directing in my 30s,’ he said last year, ‘and try to get at least one film made before I turn 40.’ With a fortune estimated at nearly £100 million, perhaps he’ll produce it, too.
Remy’s a big hit for Missy
Let the bells ring out. The week before Christmas, the Duke of Northumberland’s daughter Lady Melissa Percy, 32, quietly married her American fiance Remy Trafelet, whose baby she is expecting.
Lady Melissa Percy (left) quietly married her American fiance Remy Trafelet (centre right)
Missy endured a public divorce from Princess Charlotte’s godfather Thomas van Straubenzee three years after a lavish wedding at her ancestral home Alnwick Castle and ran off to the U.S..
She now shares a townhouse in New York with the billionaire financier, who is 17 years her senior. This time there was a simple ceremony in Georgia.
‘Remy knows I’m in a happy place when he comes back from work and finds me cooking,’ Melissa declares.
Cry another day, Mr Bond
Wisecracking James Bond was never one to be lost for words. However, Daniel Craig, who is to hang up his tuxedo as 007 after next year’s Bond film No Time To Die, says he was overcome when he shot the last scene. ‘It was potentially a bit of an anti-climax,’ he says. ‘But actually, it was very emotional.
Daniel Craig attends the Omega Bond Watch Unveiling on December 04, 2019 in New York City
‘The whole crew came round and gathered outside. Everybody was hugging each other. I tried to make a speech, and couldn’t get it out.’ That’s no way to keep the British end up.
Jemima Goldsmith Petersham Nurseries Covent Garden launch, London, last year
Room at Xmas ‘Inn’ for Jemima
It wasn’t the festive lunch heiress Jemima Goldsmith, 45, had arranged but happily room was found at a London ‘inn’ for her family on Christmas Day.
Pictured in the fashionable Wolseley restaurant with Sulaiman, 23, and Kasim, 20, her sons from her marriage to Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan, film producer Jemima shrugs as if to say: ‘Where else could we go?’ She said on Instagram: ‘Not exactly what we had planned for Christmas Day but a big thank you to the Wolseley for fitting us in at the very last minute and making it jolly.’
The restaurant offered a roast turkey dinner for £28.50 and Christmas pud for £8.75.
Disharmony behind the mic at Radio 3
His word portraits about great composers have seen him garlanded with awards and secured him undying devotion from innumerable fans.
But Donald Macleod, who has presented Composer Of The Week on Radio 3 for the past 20 years, is seemingly taken for granted by his employers at the BBC.
‘They have no regard for people like me,’ fulminates Macleod on social media. ‘Other colleagues treated much worse, but no response from management to queries over contract raised in June.’
The BBC declines to comment. Which will no doubt irk Macleod all the more.
‘They are a disgrace,’ he says.
Former Doctor Who Colin Baker could do with a Tardis in real life to travel back in time. He wishes he could retrieve some of his possessions which were disposed of by his mother when he moved out of the family home.
‘That included my teddy bear she thought she ‘might have given to a jumble sale’,’ he says. ‘I still dream of seeing my teddy in a shop window somewhere. I’d know his bald patches and droopy eye instantly.’
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