Victoria and David Beckham will soon be rubbing shoulders with Blair Raymond James and Melanie Adams, the masterminds behind Bondi Sands self-tanning – which Kylie Jenner loves

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David and Victoria now have some very successful neighbours in the Cotswolds(Image: Victoria Beckham/Instagram)

David and Victoria Beckham’s new Cotswolds neighbours revealed as business owner loved by Kylie Jenner. Posh and Becks new neighbours bought the plot of land next to them for a staggering £16.5 million.

The celebrity couple have lived at their Cotswolds mansion near Chipping Norton since 2016, buying the pad for £6,150,000. Their countryside estate is close to Soho Farmhouse, an exclusive celebrity club which boasts visitors such as Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Tom Cruise.

But fresh land registry documents now show a 15-acre chunk of land, right next to the Beckhams’ own residence, has been sold to Blair Raymond James and his glamorous wife Melanie Adams, for an eye-watering sum. Blair, who was born in a small country town near Melbourne before moving with his family to the UK in 1986, co-founded and built the world’s top-selling self-tanning brand Bondi Sands, which was sold for $450M (Aus) in 2023.

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David and Victoria have lived in the Cotswolds since 2016(Image: Netflix)

Celebrity clients who love the brand include Kylie, Olivia Attwood and Charlotte Crosby. His struggles saw him overcome being almost penniless, and he lost both parents by the age of 23. Despite this, he has become a self-made multi-millionaire and is now director of Growth Bomb, a ‘miracle’ hair company he created during the pandemic.

Five years after forming the brand the company has already sold more than one million products. The deal to complete the purchase of the land and become the Beckham’s new neighbours was made on September 13, 2024, official documents confirm.

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Blair Raymond James and his wife, Melanie Adams, bought the piece of land for a huge sum(Image: SWNS)

Drone pictures taken last week show no buildings have been built on the land as of yet, with plans for the site unknown at this time. One insider said: “It’s just over 15 acres, including a fallen-down walled garden, but directly next to Chez Beckham.

“Can you put a price on having neighbours like that?” Land Registry documents as part of the deeds for Mr James even references the transfer of the land ‘Upper Park Farm’ from the directors of Great Tew Properties Ltd to the Beckhams when they bought their home in December 2016.

It contained restrictive covenants by the transferor that have since been varied. The deeds also show the recently bought land now owned by Mr James and his wife was transferred from Great Tew Properties Limited to Imperium Trust Company in 2021.

The Beckhams’ own home is nestled in two acres of land with the barn conversion having had extensive renovations. These include a glasshouse, a large pond, an underground wine cellar and an Astroturf football pitch.

The 14,270 sq ft property, which had been a working farm at the site since 1820, includes nine bedrooms, four bathrooms, a movie theatre and even a gym. Outside, the garden has a 12.5 metre by 7.5 metre pool built in one courtyard of the E-shaped house, plus a timber pergola-covered seating area in the other.

Great Tew Properties Limited declined to comment on the sale. Revelations of their new neighbours come after it was revealed the Beckhams were engulfed in a fresh planning row with neighbours over an application for a new access road to their property.

Their representatives say they want to avoid vehicles travelling to the nearby celebrity hotspot Soho Farmhouse, but one neighbour has already lodged an objection. A decision will be made by West Oxfordshire District Council at a later date.