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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexi Duggins

‘We get 200 tourists a day’: when your house becomes a TV star

Sarah Jessica Parker peeks through an open doorway in a floral dress with a surprised expression
‘At any hour of the day or night, there are groups of visitors in front of the house taking flash photos’ …Sarah Jessica Parker filming at the apartment she’s helped to make famous. Photograph: Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Half the world recognises the apartment that Carrie Bradshaw lives in. Or the New Jersey mansion where Tony Soprano ate, slept and obsessed over the ducks in his swimming pool. In the 1990s, if you asked a good chunk of the global population where Will Smith lived, they would instantly picture a huge, white abode in Bel Air.

For the real people who call those places home, this can be an issue.

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