Article: OH-SO TRICKY RICKY; A [pounds sterling]3m pad in New York. A sell out tour. A new best friend 'Bobby' de Niro. No wonder The Office star is pleased with himself. Just don't ask the neighbours . . .

Byline: PAUL SCOTT

BEDECKED in huge designer sunglasses and reclining behind the blacked-out windows of a unashamedly showy stretch limousine, Ricky Gervais has, in recent weeks, been navigating the streets of New York accompanied by his personal 'property finder'.

The brief: to find for the comedian a suitably gracious residence in the fashionable districts of Soho or Tribeca.

These days the demands of the Reading-born labourer's son are exacting. He has decreed that for the [pounds sterling]3 million he has to spend, his new American home must be imposing enough to allow him to entertain his growing band of Hollywood 'mates'.

He has ...

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