Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley build their £25million ‘forever home’ next to nudist beach

Cinephile Jason Statham and his supermodel fiancée Rosie Huntington-Whiteley could be quite the eye-catcher as they throw open the curtains on the first morning of their new £25million beach house on the south coast.

Because the Daily Mail can reveal the couple have perhaps unwittingly chosen a 20-acre site for their futuristic new-build ‘forever home’ on naturists’ beach.

Actor Statham (58) and model Miss Huntington-Whiteley (39) are no strangers to nudity, having previously posed in both fashion shoots and film scenes.

Just this week, Rosie cemented her place as a top supermodel on the New York Met Gala red carpet in an off-the-shoulder gown.

It was announced over the weekend that Statham had purchased the site.

The massive home is built in a brutalist architectural style and has five bedrooms, its own private beach, a massive treehouse for eight-year-old Jack and four-year-old Isabella, and even a 42,000-square-foot boating lake and wild swimming pond.

In a separate building behind the main house, a horse stable is being built where Rosie can indulge her passion for horse riding.

And of course, a huge gym is planned for the super fit couple, while there’s also an indoor lap pool; A long and narrow swimming pool designed specifically not for recreation but for fitness training with swimming laps.

Land records show Statham, who has amassed a £90 million fortune from the Fast and Furious franchise and other hits including Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, paid £20 million in January 2024 for the waterfront site, which includes a gatehouse, modernist house under construction and a separate outbuilding. The construction itself is expected to cost a further £5 million to complete.

The house was originally designed by one of the Royal Family’s trusted architects. It was later taken over and converted into a minimalist, modern home to suit Statham’s tastes.

The sprawling single-level U-shaped building is designed around a rigid three-dimensional grid and features a square central courtyard with a lap pool surrounding the fourth side.

Although contemporary in design, the house is built from traditional materials such as clay bricks, cedar shingles, lead and oak.

For the family, this location couldn’t be more idyllic; making it a place one person calls their ‘forever home’.

Its seaside location includes its own 300ft-long private beach, dotted with wooden gutters every 30ft. The conservation haven is next to this and further down the coast; There is also a nature reserve nearby that is popular with bird watchers.

This week, families with children in strollers and those walking their dogs alone have been spotted on the public beach next to the house and on the footpath that runs in front of the new property.

When our correspondent visited the beach next to the house at low tide last week, the only sounds heard were the chirping of birds and the distant whizzing of speedboats.

Meanwhile, wild horses from a nearby national park roamed freely on the beach just outside the new property.

Statham paid £20 million for the waterfront site; civil works are also expected to cost £5 million

Designs of their new homes are shown in plans submitted to local authorities

The property’s immediate neighbors are equally high-profile and wealthy, but the construction of the new house appears to have caused some discomfort among locals who live in less grand homes a little further inland.

There were signs reading ‘NO CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC’ on both sides of the driveway of a house where construction vehicles working on the site regularly passed.

This week, a waiting area for public beach users only was also filled with construction vehicles for new construction.

Burberry, Victoria’s Secrets and Marks & Spencer model Rosie, herself worth £30million, recently talked about moving to a more idyllic life.

The couple, who met in 2010, slowly began to break ties with their old Hollywood lifestyle; They recently sold their £15 million Malibu beach house to spend more time at their other home, a £7.5 million mansion in Chelsea, west London.

But in recent weeks Rosie has revealed that the move here is actually part of a long-term master plan for rural family life in the UK.

She told Australian Vogue that she was preparing for a big change: a move to the English countryside near the New Forest, where horses were finally re-entering the frame.

Speaking of their previously unknown home, Rosie said: ‘There’s an incredible finishing school around the corner.’ Horseback riding was central to her childhood, but living in London and Los Angeles for two decades made it logistically impossible, the magazine reported.

‘I’ve been dreaming of this since I left home,’ he said. ‘There will be children climbing through mud and trees. On weekends, London can feel very destination-focused. ‘I want peace.’

Indeed, even before the beach house was completed, Statham was spotted by locals walking their dogs on the beach with his friend and Lock Stock co-star Vinnie Jones.

One local told the Daily Mail: ‘I had to look twice; It was so surreal. Suddenly Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham and a few dogs passed me. Yep, it looks like Statham and his partner, the model (Rosie), have bought this land and are building a “forever home” of sorts. ‘This is very impressive.’

The appeal of the countryside comes naturally to Rosie. She grew up in the Devon countryside, a life she described in Vogue as ‘rustic, outdoorsy, wild, simple’, adding: ‘Home was a couple of acres of cottage with animals everywhere’.

Rosie told the magazine: ‘There was junk being cleared out in the back kitchen, usually some animals, a bird my mum was trying to resuscitate.’ His family still lives there. ‘Mum has dogs and muddy boots everywhere and this is perfect for them. The house is completely messy. They live an idyllic life; ‘It’s quite bohemian.’

Rosie’s mother was a fitness instructor before working at a local jewelry store, and her father was a contract researcher.

‘We lived within our means; “It was enough for us,” he said. Enough meant pocket money starting at £10 a month and increasing by £1 a year, and that’s what he earned.

‘Every day I clean the horse’s droppings and iron the school uniforms,’ he said, adding that he cooks meals for his siblings after school. ‘This instilled self-sufficiency,’ he thought.

At the age of 14, Rosie started a weekend job as a cleaner at a local hostel, then as a waitress. He wanted his own money. Maybe he wanted out too. ‘I always had a desire to see more,’ he says.

Her bedroom walls were covered not with tape, but with torn fashion editorials, campaigns and behind-the-scenes visuals, as well as make-up and styling details. ‘All my girlfriends had posters of men,’ she says. ‘I had fashion photography.’

There was no Instagram or YouTube back then, and behind-the-scenes access was virtually non-existent. ‘The industry was not transparent unless you knew someone in it,’ he says. ‘It was just a dream from my bedroom.’

She admits that raising her children in a world full of social media, constant advertising, and wealth that their parents did not have raises new questions.

Rosie says that when her mother says no, it means no. ‘Now, when my son says “I want new coaches” and I say no, he asks, “But why?” ‘ he asks.’

He says he tries to instill a sense of gratitude in his children. ‘It’s a good balance; “They’re still little,” she says, adding that her mother told her: “Life isn’t going to hand you everything on a silver platter.”

The issue of naturism can be a controversial one. British Naturism says it’s only natural: ‘Millions of people in the UK and around the world have discovered this wonderful way of life; A national survey by Ipso in 2022 found there were 6.75 million naturists in the UK.

‘There are thousands of resorts and other places serving the community. Many people swim naked, go topless to beaches, and spend time naked at home.

‘There are plenty of beaches for nature lovers on our beautiful coastline, from wide expanses of fine sand close to popular tourist spots to more secluded spots away from the crowds. ‘There’s nothing better on a hot day than getting a head-to-toe tan, taking a skinny dip and enjoying the company of like-minded people on a beautiful beach.’