Disgraced Stuart Hall swaps his £1million mansion for a council estate semi in a rough area less than a year after his release from prison for child sex offences

As he puffs on a cigar outside his rented council estate semi (right), Stuart Hall's fall from grace could hardly be more evident. 


Eleven months after the disgraced broadcaster (inset, in 1978) was released from prison halfway through a five-year term for child sex offences, he has moved into a modest house in a rough area in the north of England. Hall's move to the £600-a-month three-bedroom home (centre) comes three months after he was released from his bail hostel accommodation. Driving a ten-year-old borrowed Mercedes - a gift from a friend - Hall, 86, is living off half his pension, with his estranged wife, Hazel, 77, understood to be taking the rest. His new home, rented from a friend, contrasts sharply with his opulent former home in the upmarket Cheshire town of Wilmslow (left).