Andy Lee and Rebecca Harding Return to Melbourne After New York, Comedian Resumes Mansion Project

Andy Lee cut a casual figure on Saturday, when he was spotted with partner Rebecca Harding, jetting into Melbourne after a New York jaunt.

The funnyman, 43, and Rebecca, 35, were in the Big Apple to pay a visit to Andy’s Aussie-themed Manhattan pub, Old Mates.

With Andy at the helm of the venture, it is backed by an owner’s group that includes the likes of Hamish Blake, tennis star Ash Barty, surfing legend Mick Fanning, Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins and Hollywood A-lister Hugh Jackman.

Andy was dressed for on the long haul flight, wearing a pair of loose-fitting navy blue tracksuit pants.

He also wore a crisp, white long sleeve polo shirt, and a pair of well-worn white sneakers.

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Finishing his flight ensemble, the Hundred host wore a brown and white Cherry LA trucker cap.

Rebecca, meanwhile was similarly attired in a pair of grey track suit pants and a white top that she wore under a thigh-length coat.

Wearing a black headband to keep her locks of her face, Rebecca was also spotted wheeling a silver suitcase and hand luggage.

Andy, meanwhile appeared more interested in his phone, smiling as he scrolled and walked.    

He did not let jet lag get to him either, getting back on the tools at his ambitious Melbourne mansion renovation.

He shared a photo to Instagram on Saturday afternoon that showed him happily posing with construction crew at the build site.

While the workers, who appeared to have been rendering a cement wall looked suitably dirty, Andy, who offered a heart thumbs up, was conspicuously spotless.

‘Me and the boys got the walls done in a day. I certainly don’t want to take all the credit, it was a team effort,’ he captioned the image.

His followers were quick to flood the comments with suggestions that Andy was only there for the ‘photo op.’

‘Good to see the shoes are nice and dirty,’ one offered, commenting on Andy’s pristine footwear.

Another chimed in with a cheeky: ‘Andy rocking up just in time for smoko.’

Hopefully they kept the noise down as Daily Mail Australia exclusively revealed, earlier this month, that some neighbours are less-than-enamoured with the protracted build.

‘It’s noisy. It’s been noisy… It’s frustrating because it’s been going for a year and we’ve still got a couple more years to go,’ one disgruntled person said. 

Though they went on to add the ‘earthworks’ was the noisiest portion of the build, the neighbour said nowadays it has ‘actually settled down quite a bit’.

Andy and Rebecca have grand plans for their Italianate manor, with the planned renovation worth an estimated $5million having begun in 2023. 

The comedian has been hard at work on the derelict Melbourne mansion, called Ravenswood, he bought for $8.5million in 2021, in a Block-style rebuild.

The couple won council approval for their development application back in June 2023.

Plans for the site include adding a second building which will be connected by a tunnel to the original Italianate mansion, which was built around 1876.

Other highlights planned for the 1,950 square metre holding include a home theatre, a gym, a swimming pool and a ‘mega bedroom’.

In a statement to the Herald Sun, Boroondara Council confirmed it had issued a notice of decision to grant a planning permit for the Yarra Grove address.

One neighbour told the Sydney Morning Herald in December the construction cacophony had caused the couple to lose ‘a lot of community goodwill’.

‘The noise is just horrendous,’ the disgruntled neighbour told the publication.

‘Some residents just leave—they go away for a week at a time and come back on the weekend.’