Sportswear mogul plans to become movie mogul

Today’s Daily Mirror brings news that will delight Geordies - Mike Ashley plans to sell Newcastle (possibly to this man) and up sticks to California.

After realising that he has the physique of Harvey Weinstein, he has decided to pursue his dream of making movies:

Billionaire Mr Ashley, 45, has spent the past week in the US wining and dining film executives. And he has told pals he is willing to “sell Newcastle tomorrow” if he finds a £250million buyer - and then amazingly wants his own movie studio.

A source close to the Toon tycoon said: “He’s fallen in love with Hollywood and this is something he has been pursuing for more than a year.

“Mike has spent a week speaking to very important movie executives in New York and Miami and is ready to invest.”

The rotund businessman is said to be very serious about his move to the States, and has therefore teamed up with Tinseltown ‘bigwig’ Mike Jefferies to break into the industry and ‘buy his own Paramount Pictures. Jefferies is described by some people as a Hollywood institution, but those people usually haven’t taken a look at his body of work - the only three films he has produced are Goal, Goal 2: Living the Dream and Goal 3.

Spoiler FYI: Mike Jefferies took a break from making epic ground-breaking cinema in 2004, when he attempted to buy Liverpool with former Miramax Executive Stuart Ford.