Tahyna Tozzi and Tristan MacManus buy Shire home with ‘Hamptons beach house feel’
SYDNEY model Tahyna Tozzi and her professional dancer husband have bought a family home in her beloved Sutherland Shire.
SYDNEY model Tahyna Tozzi and her professional dancer husband have bought a family home in her beloved Sutherland Shire.
The 30-year-old and Tristan MacManus, a former dancer on the popular BBC program Strictly Come Dancing, spent $1.5 million on a quaint, renovated three bedroom house in Caringbah South.
An original Shire girl, along with her younger sister Cheyenne and Lara Bingle, Tozzi’s new property purchase features a swimming pool and cabana.
Abode Property selling agent Suzanne Hibberd said that the home has a “Hamptons beach house feel” and marketed it as being suited to young families and entertainers.
The price the couple paid sits on the $1.5 million Caringbah South median price, and they have the potential to add a second storey to allow them to take advantage of waters views over Port Hacking.
The 1950s home last traded for $670,000 in 2008.
Tozzi and MacManus returned from Ireland in February last year, two months before the arrival of their first child, daughter Echo Isolde.
The couple married in 2014 in Cronulla, having dated for five years with much of their time together spent in Tristan’s native Ireland and LA.
The pair met in 2011 at a Thai restaurant in LA through mutual friends, who were secretly setting them up. Tozzi didn’t believe MacManus was a ballroom dancer because he was Irish and had tattoos.
The Tozzi name is synonymous with the Sutherland Shire, although the family’s arrival on the Sydney scene came in the 1980s when they set up in Kings Cross, opening the thriving Italian venue, Caffe Roma.
Tozzi embarked on her modelling career when she was eight alongside her sister Cheyenne.
Tahyna hit television screens in 2005 playing the role of Perri Lawe on the ABC drama Blue Water High, which was filmed on Sydney’s northern beaches.
She starred in her first feature film, Beautiful, in 2009, followed by a bit-part in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where she played a mutant rescued by Logan, played by Hugh Jackman.
In 2011 Tahyna starred in the film Trophy Kids alongside David Gallagher and Ryan Eggold with the film winning Best Ensemble Cast at the Breckenridge Festival of Film.
In the same year Tozzi also starred in the psychological thriller Needle.
Along with fellow actor Teresa Palmer, Tozzi had been developing her own film, Track Town. However, there has been no progress update in recent times.
The pair were set to produce, write and star in the 1990s-era road movie, which they describe as a hybrid of The Wackness and Thelma & Louise.
Tristan joined BBC’s Strictly come Dancing in 2014 from US show Dancing With The Stars, where he partnered celebrities including Gladys Knight and Pamela Anderson.
He’s performed on seven seasons across the two shows, spanning five years.
Originally published as Tahyna Tozzi and Tristan MacManus buy Shire home with ‘Hamptons beach house feel’
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