The family of the late football legend George Best has hit back at “nonsensical” claims by his ex-wife Alex that his ghost is haunting her.
Former air stewardess Alex, 49, was in the headlines after telling a TV show that she is still visited by world-famous star George some 17 years after his tragic death.
But the ghoulish claims have upset members of the Best family, including George’s loving sister Barbara and her husband Norman McNarry.
Manchester United icon George died of organ failure, aged just 59, in a London hospital on November 25, 2005, following years of alcohol problems.
His former wife Alex now claims that she has witnessed spooky goings-on at her 200-year-old former farm workers’ cottage in Surrey, England, and she thinks George is responsible.
Alex, who married soccer genius Bestie in 1995 and was divorced from him nine years later in 2004, told the TV cameras: “I’m convinced spirits have come to visit.”
Alex, who appeared in the 2004 edition of TV show I’m A Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here, added: “I think George could have been one of them.”
Alex also said on the Discovery Channel show called Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted that her first-ever spooky experience came a few months after their divorce papers came through in 2005.
She said it happened, on December 3, 2005, which is the day of George’s funeral in Belfast, when she was staying in a hotel in Belfast.
Alex said: “Just as I was leaving through the hotel door the shower turned on full blast. On its own.”
But Norman told the Irish Mirror: “Unfortunately, some people will [believe] that sort of nonsense."
Alex, whose maiden name is Pursey but still uses the surname Best, got a two-year driving ban three years ago for drink-driving after she was caught three times over the legal limit.
The court heard that Alex Best was in a collision with another car while at the wheel of a Mini Clubman in Waterhouse Lane, close to her home in Kingswood, Surrey, in April 2019.
