Wellesley Wild Re-Lists Hollywood Hills House

Mark David

Thu, September 4, 2014 at 6:54 PM UTC

SELLER: Wellesley Wild
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $2,499,000
SIZE: 2,923 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: According to property records and other dribs and drabs on the interweb, writer, producer and occasional voice actor Wellesley Wild has substantially upgraded his residential circumstances — a bit more on that in a minute — and re-listed his turnkey residence in the celeb-approved Nichols Canyon area of Los Angeles (CA) with an asking price of $2,499,000.

In addition to his small screen credits, which include “Family Guy” and “Dads,” the former writer for “The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn” — he often works with Seth MacFarlane — landed in Tinseltown clover with the mega-hit movie “Ted.” Mister Wild is listed as one of the three writers of the upcoming sequel, “Ted 2,” and he co-wrote Seth MacFarlane’s star-studded comedy-western “A Million Ways to Die in the West,” a silver screen spoof Your Mama failed to muster the energy to view but Variety’s film critic Scott Foundas called “a flaccid all-star farce.” Ouch and anyways…

Property records show Mister Wild and his Missus acquired the property in October 2007 for $2.22 million and Your Mama’s digital investigations turned up evidence the property was initially listed in late June (2014) at $2.85, re-priced just price a week later to $2.699 million and adjusted again three weeks later to $2.499 million before it was ever-so-briefly de- and then re-listed at the aforementioned and now familiar $2.499 million.

Listing details show the two-story house, currently configured with 4-5 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms in 2,923 square feet, was originally built in 1964 but has clearly been significantly updated and upgraded over the years. High, street-hugging hedges border and hide a gated, courtyard-style front garden with a tiny patch of grass, an unexpectedly roomy flag stone terrace and a semi-circular raised koi pod with integrated and cleverly cantilevered bench.

Double glass doors open to a roomy foyer and with glass-railed staircase. To the right are a coat closet, powder pooper and convenient kitchen access. To the left, the large, living room area of the L-shaped combination living and dining space is finished and fitted with milk chocolate-colored wood floors, copious windows and French doors and a monumentally scaled limestone sheathed fireplace. (For the record, the fireplace looks in listing images to Your Mama more like concrete faced than limestone but what does this gin saturated property gossip know?)

The chocolate-colored wood floors continue into the otherwise nearly all-white, center island kitchen that’s expensively outfitted with marble countered snow-white Shaker style lower cabinets, glass-fronted upper cupboards — take special note of the stripes painted or papered at the back of the cupboards, and white subway tile back splash. There’s a full suite of high-grade stainless steel appliances including a full-height wine fridge along with a two-stool snack counter and a built-in three-seat dining table.

Upstairs three guest/family bedrooms with lackluster closet space cluster around a good-sized hall bathroom with double-sink vanity while the master suite provides the resident mortgage payers a fitted walk-in closet larger than many Manhattan bedrooms and a spacious private bathroom with two sinks and separate tub and shower set up. The fifth bedroom and a third (hall) bathroom sits directly on top of the attached, front-facing two-car garage and appears in marketing images to have been done up by Mister and Missues Wild — or at least by Staging Lady in a Pink Toyota — as a den/tv lounge with windows that almost reach the floor and touch the ceiling and an entire wall with built-in entertainment unit and bookshelves.

Back downstairs four sets of French doors — one in the living room, two in the dining room and one in the kitchen — open to a broad flagstone terrace, swimming pool and spa surrounded by a thick wall of well-tended and privacy ensuring semi-tropical foliage.

Property records suggest Mister and Missus Wild traded their modern-minded home in the Hollywood Hills for a walled and gated residence high in the Hills of Beverly. Listing details Your Mama turned up show the somewhat sexed up 4,335 square foot traditional has (approx.) four bedrooms and seven bathrooms and was purchased in what appears to have been an off-market deal for $5.6 million.

Listing photos: Shooting LA for Douglas Elliman

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