AMIR Khan is selling his luxury wedding venue after it hosted just a dozen marriages, his neighbours have claimed. The boxer, 37, has put his £11.5 million venue in Bolton on the market just three months after hosting its first ever marriage.
The lavish Dubai-style tower features glass walls, a waterfall and palm trees as well as a helicopter pad. However, locals claim The Balmayna venue is in the wrong place as it lies on a main road next door to car repair shops, a kebab shop and terraced houses which had been plagued by fly-tipping. They claimed the huge venue has flopped.
Retired steelworker Bhoggi Patel, 66, said: “I’ve only seen one wedding there when there were big fireworks. “It has flopped and it must have cost him a lot of money. “We were all surprised he built it here.
I know it’s his home town but he could have chosen somewhere nicer to build it. “When you get married you want some nice gardens to have your picture taken and certainly not by a main road. “I’m not surprised he’s selling up.
He must have lost a fortune. "Residents claim there have been more weddings of late after a slow start." Customer services worker Hijab Sayed, 26, said: “My house backs onto it.
“I can smell the meat when they are barbecuing it and I can look in. “They cook the food outside and then take it in. “There’s been about nine weddings in the last month or so but before that I think there had only been one.
“I’m not that surprised he’s selling. He seem.