Myf Warhurst has roasted Lleyton Hewitt’s former West Lakes house.
He hasn’t owned it for greater than a decade, however that hasn’t stopped tennis star Lleyton Hewitt’s former West Lakes house from making the headlines once more.
The sporting legend’s former 29 Martin Court docket house was highlighted by TV, radio and podcast star Myf Warhurst within the newest phase of her Bonkers Listings of Australia Fb movies – even thought the property isn’t listed on the market.
She known as out the property for its eccentricities – all of the whereas along with her tongue planted firmly in her cheek.
The property has lengthy drawn each love and criticism for its daring exterior, which has been referred to by locals as wanting like a stormtrooper’s helmet, and its distinctive inside, which is full with a coastal mural and a grotto.
Let’s begin there.
“Is that an indoor rockery slash fountain slash grotto?” Warhurst asks.
“I ought to hope so!
“I imply, the bringing in of the character right here is simply genius, isn’t it? You could possibly be in a rainforest if it weren’t for all that,” she says pointing on the sterile environment of white tiled flooring, white partitions and white ceilings.
She known as out the property for its eccentricities. Image: Fb.
She discovered the murals … attention-grabbing. Image: Fb
Her tongue was planted firmly in her cheek all through the video. Image: Fb
“And look, you could possibly put a hose on the tiles once you’re cleansing up after a celebration and that may simply mimic the sound of the rainforest. I’m already there!”
Warhurst marvels at a Tuscan-esque mural earlier than noticing one other one among a person on the higher degree, unwittingly pointing within the video at his groin.
“And up right here we’ve, – ooh, I’ll get my finger out of there – we’ve bought a person in a loincloth … or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Laborious to inform,” she says.
“He’s jacked although, isn’t he?”
We transfer on to the pool with its Sicilian-style mural, a kitchen she calls out as having “very
Eighties, early ’90s vibes” and a residing and eating space the place “a little bit of color in right here would look superb.”
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We come to a different residing house with pinball machines and a bar with Tron-inspired lighting Warhurst describes as “these lights that you just see typically underneath these vehicles which can be actually low to the bottom – additionally fairly hanging in a home, it appears.”
Then there’s the atrium the place Warhurst spots one other mural, this time of the what seems to be the Greek god Zeus, saying of the house’s unknown proprietor: “Our king loves a robust man,” earlier than reducing to the main bedroom with its crisply made mattress: “and that is clearly our king’s workbench right here.”
The spa guarantees a superb time, Warhurst alludes: “That’s a sunken spa – that’s cuddles and bubbles and also you step in for these,” she says, earlier than suggesting there’ll be none of that stick with it within the double bathe, normally an intimate house, however right here surprisingly divided by a glass partition.
“You possibly can look however you’ll be able to’t contact,” Warhurst says.
The West Lakes property at 29 Martin Court docket as soon as belonged to Lleyton Hewitt.
The previous tennis participant now helps his son within the sport. Image: AP Photograph/Brian Inganga.
Hewitt hasn’t lived within the West Lakes house for years. Image: Mark Stewart.
But it surely’s her tackle one element within the fitness center that’s in all probability Warhurst’s most risque for the episode – an image of a unadorned lady above the door within the fitness center.
“Oh, howdy missus!” she says noticing the bare-breasted magnificence.
“No want for: ‘do you even carry? Issues can be liftin’ on their very own for those who’re that.”
Viewers have been fast to level out the house’s former proprietor, with one responding: “Should you didn’t know that this home was owned by the tennis participant Leyton Hewett and his spouse a couple of years in the past after which he bought it to go and be the Davis Cup captain for the Australia workforce.”
One other shared Myf’s confusion re the house’s interiors.
“Adelaide gal right here – sure knew it was Lleyton’s outdated home simply from the skin! What on earth is occurring inside!!” she wrote.
“Be nonetheless my beating coronary heart! Phrases fail me,” one other wrote.
But not all appeared to like the house’s distinctive aesthetic.
“Cash can’t purchase class,” they wrote.
“Why does it appear to be the helmet out of Area Balls film?” one other requested.
Whereas yet one more posed: “Does this carry anybody else slip-falls and cracked cranium vibes? Had been these individuals introduced up in a hospital?”
However largely the video drew feedback for its tongue-in-cheek poke at how the opposite half stay.
They usually have been right here for it.
“Cuddles and bubbles…… I can’t cease laughing,” one mentioned.
“I stay for these vids, Myf. And I knew it was West Lakes from the get go.”
Rumours have not too long ago swirled concerning Hewitt and his spouse Bec residing in separate nations, with their son Cruz saying the UK “looks like house” because the couple listing their palatial Glenhaven property they snapped up for $10.3 million in 2023, for greater than $14m.
The couple have been married in 2005 and have three youngsters collectively – Mia, Cruz and Ava.

