LESLIE Phillips' widow is being forced to leave their £4.4million London home - which is to be sold next year. Phillips, who is well known for his “ding dong” and “well, hell-ooo” catchphrases from the Carry On films , died in November 2022 at age 98 , following an illustrious career which spanned eight decades.
He had starred in more than 200 films, TV and radio series, and was also instantly recognisable as the voice of The Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies. His third wife, Zara Carr, had insisted that plum-voiced Leslie, who she married in 2013, always promised that after his death she could stay at their home in West London for the rest of her life. In a moving interview with The Sun , Zara revealed last year that she had been told to get out, with lawyers for her late husband's estate telling her the four-bed property was to be sold.
Now, details of the actor's will - which was drawn up four years before his death - have been revealed. It stipulates that the £4.4million house is to be sold two years and nine months after his death - meaning August 2025 - with the proceeds going into a trust, the Daily Mail reports.
The trust will be split between Phillips' four children from his first marriage - Caroline, Claudia, Andrew and Roger - and Zara, his third wife. Phillips' two sons and two daughters were each left £50,000 in the will, while his 15 grandchildren were each awarded £5,000, reports say. Zara was left £155,000, along with ten of Phillips' belongi.