Roxy Jacenko’s mum Doreen Davis buys $5m knock down and rebuild Vaucluse home
Roxy Jacenko’s mum has bought a $5 million house near the PR queen’s home, with plans to knock down and rebuild on the site.
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Vaucluse PR queen Roxy Jacenko’s mother Doreen has always endeavoured to be a supportive hands-on mum and grandmother.
And now the former rag trader and commercial property landlord has treated herself to a $5 million-plus home in Vaucluse.
It is right behind, but across the road, from Roxy’s own luxury home base, where the high-profile publicist moved from her former North Bondi rental.
Her mum occupied another in the celebrity-ridden Coast complex.
In-keeping with her daughter’s style, Doreen, who these days goes by her maiden name Davis, has called on Roxy’s favoured designer Blainey North to create a new luxury home.
The neighbourhood whisper is that Davis is seeking a full knockdown-rebuild, bulldozing the 1950s cottage which was snapped up after just two weeks on the market, the first time it traded in six decades. It’s a 666 sqm block.
The talk is Davis will oversee the sale of some of her commercial properties during 2021.
They were bought over the past three decades with her ex-husband, and Roxy’s father, Nick, with the title showing a 2013 caveat that protects Doreen’s interest in the industrial properties based around the inner city.
The likely biggest asset is the Alexandria home of Coco Republic Retail precinct, Design School and Cafe on O’Riordan St. That cost $1.75 million in 1993, with next door added for $1.6 million in 2002.
There’s an office building in Beaconsfield, bought for $2 million in 1996, and a recently refurbished Ultimo office block.
Davis is dating ex-music executive and Popstars judge Chris Moss.
She began building the property portfolio after her arrival in Sydney from the UK in the 1970s.
Ex-husband Nick was previously based on the Loch Maree dress circle in Vaucluse, but sold for $15.8 million — and now spends as much time as he can at his Blueys Beach beach house with his fashion designer partner Lisa Ho.
PARTING OF THE WAYS
Country singer Catherine Britt has quietly parted ways with husband of seven years James Beverley.
Confidential understands the award-winning singer separated from Beverley in August last year and is living with their two sons in Newcastle.
Britt, who on Saturday night hosted the annual Golden Guitar Awards in Tamworth, would not comment when contacted.
The split is understood to be amicable as the couple focus on co-parenting sons Hank, three, and Morrison, one.
They first met at a local gym in Newcastle, where Britt grew up, and they married just under five months later after eloping to Las Vegas.
The former couple kept their marriage a secret for two years and announced the news
as they renewed their vows in 2015 in what friends and family thought was their first wedding.
Britt is one of our top female artists, who has enjoyed a career spanning more than two decades. She won many awards and even caught the attention of Sir Elton John on one Australian trip.
TUNED IN TO LOVE
The radio executive ex-partner of Home And Away star Emily Symons has married a younger employee.
Nova Entertainment chief programming and marketing officer Paul Jackson, who has a child with Symons, wed radio producer Katie Lloyd earlier this month.
The couple held a scaled-back ceremony with close family in the Southern Highlands on January 12.
The pair met at Nova’s Pyrmont HQ when Loyd worked as a producer on Bogart Torelli’s Smooth FM breakfast show.
Jackson oversees all programming and marketing content nationally for Nova Entertainment, including Sydney stations Nova 96.9 and Smooth 95.3, although Lloyd is understood to have reported to one of his management team.
Jackson and Symons split in 2016 after four years together.
He moved out of the Sydney home he shared with Symons and his three children from a previous relationship.
Lloyd, 41, is understood to have resigned from her position at Nova in mid-2020.
CLARK JR FOR BIG BOY BLUES
Muso Gary Clark Jr has been added to the cast of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic.
The American, who is married and has three kids with Australian model Nicole Trunfio, will play Mississippi-born blues artist Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup in the film that is currently shooting on the Gold Coast.
Tom Hanks is the big star of the flick, playing Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker.
Playing Elvis is The Carrie Diaries star Austin Butler, while Olivia DeJonge will play Priscilla Presley.
Other actors involved include Dacre Montgomery, Luke Bracey, David Wenham, Richard Roxburgh, Kate Mulvany, Xavier Samuel and Josh McConville.
SCOTT BACK ONLINE, SANS RING
Kristen Scott, the partner of Newcastle Knights player Mitchell Pearce, has made a return to Instagram — without her engagement ring.
Scott put her social media account on private after Pearce was engulfed in a sexting scandal just days out from their December wedding.
However she’s opened her account back up and has posted photos which feature his without her engagement ring.
On one of the posts of her out with a friend she wrote: “One of the best things I found in Newcastle.”
Meanwhile, Pearce has deleted his own Instagram account. He said earlier this month he and Scott were “sorting things out” after their Byron Bay nuptials were called off when alleged inappropriate text messages from Pearce to a young female club employee emerged.
Scott, a dancer from Wollongong, also owns and runs a barre studio in Newcastle with Pearce.
ARAB INSTAGRAMERS TOE THE LINE
Some weird stuff gets sent in to Confidential but this most definitely takes the cake — or perhaps the pedicure.
A more than slightly odd, yet amusing, Instagram page dedicated to Sydney women’s feet has piqued our curiosity.
Sydney’s White Toes has amassed nearly 3500 followers since launching just a few weeks ago. We reached out to the founders and, of course, gave them a follow.
Their profile bio reads: “2 Arab (men) on the hunt for the sexiest white toes in Sydney. Hit us up with (pictures).”
By white toes, the founders are referring to nail polish colour, encouraging women to send in images of their painted talons. It seems foot fetishism is the thing of 2021, after I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Ash Williams revealed he had sold images of his feet on the WikiFeet website.
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