Celeste Barber makes a motza as she sells five-bedroom, two-storey Central Coast home
Comedian Celeste Barber is now $1.1 million richer, celebrating a major windfall.
International comedian Celeste Barber and her husband Api Robin have sold their former Central Coast home.
The couple, now based at Tweed Heads, previously called Long Jetty home for five years before making the move north in 2019.
They paid $565,000 for the five-bedroom home in 2014, when Barber and Robin, a tree surgeon, had two young children.
The two-level home was built in the 1980s on just over 500sq m.
It has its main living, with an adjoining sun room, on the second level.
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Set within walking distance of Shelly Beach and Shelly Beach Golf Club, Raine & Horne agent Matt Rogers had a guide of $1.099m.
He found the buyers, Ebony Graney and Alexander Conroy, at $1.045m.
PropTrack put the Long Jetty median house price at $1,304,000, up 8.7 per cent in the past 12 months based on 82 sales. The median time on market is 33 days.
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The home became a $650 a week rental in 2019 when Barber and Robin moved north just before the Covid pandemic, buying a $1.175m penthouse atop a 1980s block overlooking Rainbow Bay.
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The apartment has 155sq m of internal space and features a rooftop entertaining terrace with a covered kitchenette.
A year later Barber spent $477,000 on a three-bedroom apartment in a 1970s walkup just over 1km away.
It was a return to the district for Barber, who grew up in Terranora, a nearby coastal town on the far north coast of NSW.
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Barber, who has 9.6 million followers on Instagram, had owned a studio apartment in Stanmore, in Sydney’s inner west, before moving to Long Jetty.
She bought the Harrow Rd, Stanmore, apartment for $259,000 in 2009 and sold for $320,000 in 2014.
Barber, 42, rose to prominence as paramedic Bree Matthews on hit Aussie TV show All Saints between 2005 and 2009 and then as a one-off stint as a journalist in Home and Away.
She then moved out of acting to forge a comedy career as a sketch writer and performer on NRL magazine show The Matty Johns Show on Foxtel.
“I’ve always been told I’ve been funny but I always thought funny was stupid. I thought if you were a bit of an idiot then that was funny,” she said.
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“But I’ve since learnt, no, not the case, and being funny is the best and I love it… My late friend Mark Priestley, who worked on All Saints with me, was like, ‘This is your niche’, and he helped me focus on it”.
In 2015, Barber began to make a name for herself as a comedian when she began posting pics of herself on Instagram copying poses from celebrities, pointing out how overproduced and ‘fake’ they were.
Her take on Kim Kardashian went viral, given her international recognition.
During the 2019-2020 bushfire season, a fundraiser Barber put together raised over $50m.
More recently, she had the lead role in the Netflix Comedy Wellmania.
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Originally published as Celeste Barber makes a motza as she sells five-bedroom, two-storey Central Coast home
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