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DJ gives Damien Hirst print to charity shop by mistake
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Evening Standard - London
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June 12, 2008
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CHRIS EVANS has sparked a gold rush in two quiet Surrey towns
after revealing live on air that he accidentally donated a Damien
Hirst to a charity shop.
The work, worth tens of thousands of pounds, is a signed print of
a Hirst dot painting. It was supposed to go in a box destined for
the DJ's new Sussex home that he has bought with his third wife,
golfer Natasha Shishmanian.
But instead it went into a box full of cast-offs which Evans
wanted his driver known only as Mark to drop off at a charity
shop.
Evans, 42, told listeners to his Radio 2 show: "When you ...