The real star of ITV's Playing Nice... it's an iconic £4million five-bedroom seafront home you can rent for £5,000 a week
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Despite the edge-of-the-seat tension, viewers of James Norton’s latest ITV drama Playing Nice were glued to one thing only - the iconic seafront house which plays home to the show’s villains Miles and Lucy. And the Mail on Sunday can reveal the five-bedroom luxury dwelling, Sand Dunes, is located in a stunning Cornish bay nicknamed ‘Hollywood on Sea’ by locals and is set to be rented out by its new owners for £5,000-plus a week.
![[TV rented out Sand Dunes - the fabulous glass and stone property which has won a clutch of architectural awards from previous owner Lebanese businessman Marzouk al-Bader]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/19/93996083-14274247-image-a-8_1736625252617.jpg)
Celebrities including actors Cate Blanchett and Jason Statham and Coldplay star Chris Martin all have homes in trendy Mawgan Porth on Cornwall’s north coast between Padstow and Newquay. ITV rented out Sand Dunes - the fabulous glass and stone property which has won a clutch of architectural awards from previous owner Lebanese businessman Marzouk al-Bader - to film the chilling baby swap drama in late 2023.
![[The property has panoramic views of the stunning Cornish bay nicknamed ‘Hollywood on Sea’ by locals]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/19/93996071-14274247-image-a-6_1736625238927.jpg)
Rumoured to have fetched over £4 million when Mr Bader sold it a month ago, the house, with its floor to ceiling windows looking out over the cliffs, provided the perfect sinister backdrop for Playing Nice’s super-rich couple played by Downton Abbey star, Jessica Brown-Findlay, and the Mare of Easttown’s James McCardle.
![[James Norton as Pete Riley and Amy Morgan as Jen in ITV's new hit baby swap drama Playing Nice]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/20/93996541-14274247-James_Norton_as_Pete_Riley_and_Amy_Morgan_as_Jen_in_ITV_s_new_hi-m-23_1736626423530.jpg)
It plays host to some key scenes in the atmospheric drama as Miles and Lucy try to claim custody of both babies - their biological child who was mistakenly sent home with less affluent couple Pete and Maddie, played by Norton and screen wife Niamh Algar, and the baby they went home with, Pete and Maddie’s natural child. The babies were mixed up in a fictional hospital blunder.
![[The home's previous owner Mr Bader, 58, developed Sand Dunes from an average 1970's bungalow in 2013 for his young family after ‘falling in love with the community and Cornwall’]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/19/93996069-14274247-image-a-7_1736625245752.jpg)
