Uri Geller is the world's most famous bender. And, judging by the purchase he recently made, Uri Geller is also one of the world's richest benders too – he's just bought a house belonging to Elvis.
Not Graceland, obviously – not even Uri Geller can melt enough brains to swing that – but the ranch-style home that Elvis Presley lived in before he moved to Graceland. Why did Uri Geller buy an old Elvis gaff? Why don't you mumble some gibberish about energy and power and numbers in a silly voice – you'd be surprisingly close.
World famous psychic and all-around creepo Uri Geller has just bought the house that official dead celebrity ever Elvis Presley lived in during the late 1950s on eBay for close to half a million quid. Half a million quid? All he ever does is bend spoons, make watches start and appear on the front of newspapers during every World Cup asking people to put their hands on his face and scream a bunch of nonsense into the sky. And he's got half a million quid to spuff away on a dead rockstar's house? How does that work?
Uri Geller – who drives around in a car covered in bent spoons – originally placed a bid on the Elvis house totalling £159,000, but word got out that a piece of rock and roll memorabilia was getting sold for less than the price of a pokey, half-condemned central London bedsit situated next to a crack den, and a bidding war ensued.
Eventually Uri Geller won the Elvis house with a bit of help from New York lawyer Jim Gleason and a jewellery maker named Lisbeth Silvandersson, and placed the winning eBay bid of £481,250. But why did Uri decide on snapping up the Elvis gaff? It's all down to the number 11, as he told The Mirror:
"We're unbelievably pleased. This is a piece of history… As bidding closed, I texted Gleason and it was 11 on my mobile and the radio started playing Elvis. That was Elvis telling me we got the house! We intend to restore it to its old glory. We'd like to bring sick children there for tours."
And if that doesn't work, Uri Geller can always paint the house orange, cover it in a bunch of spoons and yak about Exeter City from inside it until the end of time. For a change.
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URI BUYS ELVIS' 50S HOUSE FOR £480,000 – Mirror
[story by Stuart Heritage]