Can Geoffrey bring himself to Boycott Yorkshire puds?
Former cricketer and professional Yorkshireman Geoffrey Boycott is, say friends, poised to turn his back on his native county with a move to the tax-friendly Channel Islands. The 65-year-old one-time batsman has sold Pear Tree Farm, his home in Woolley, near Wakefield, for £1.1 million. He and Rachael, his wife of three years, are now planning to set up home in Jersey, a move prompted by his need to travel worldwide in his capacity as a cricket commentator. Groupie Paxo asked to stop courting favour Admirers of Jeremy Paxman are hoping that his up-close-and-personal contact with the royals – he was among a fawning group of Charles groupies invited to Sandringham while researching his book on the monarchy – does not go to his head. “Look what happened to another one of television’s sharp operators, Jonathan Dimbleby,” says one. “He may have made a lot of money out of his biography of the Prince of Wales, but in the process became one of his slavish supporters.” PS After all the lit
