Monday, June 12, 2023
Whicker's Orient - Alan Whicker (1972) - Shaw Villa
Part of the interview Whicker conducts with Sir Run Run was filmed in and around his villa, located on the backlot of the studio. Judging by the footage, it doesn't look like Shaw used his swimming pool very much even back then. I really hope it is kept for the new development because I do like the 1960s style of the place.
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The pool looks like that because I think Sir Run Run never lived in this villa. I believe it was for entertaining and impressing visiting guests like Whicker. When the man passed, the press was camped outside his home, which was an apartment building nearby. I recognized the building in the pictures they took because some years before he passed, a friend or a friend of a friend lived in a different block (or it might have been the same block) and had invited me over for a BBQ. I distinctly remember him saying Sir Run Run has lived in the same development for ages.
Surprisingly, I don't think this villa has appeared in any TVB series, at least not one that I know of. A TVB aficionado I once asked also does not recall seeing this house in one of their series.
Hi Rodney, thanks for the info. Interesting that he didn't live there. I think I read somewhere that he may or may not have owned a property somewhere between Repulse and Deep water bays, but I can't find where I read it. Phil
Phil, the house you read about was likely 40 Island Road. The occupation dates of the houses on the site now are both early 2004 and were likely built by the same developer. I think I drove by the original house in '99 or possibly a bit earlier.
Ah,so maybe I did hear correctly. Do you know if it was a place he lived in or was just another bit of his property empire?
I think he lived there before he moved to Clearwater Bay. It is strange that someone of his wealth would move from a house to an apartment. The apartment complex is on a dead-end street, which I thought was a no-no in terms of fung shui.
Haven't mooched a land reg search and don't have the details, but it looks like the house was sold in the early 1990s for what now seems a pittance, $30-some million.
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