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BOLTON, England, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A famous British soccer player has ditched plans to build a house modeled after one on the TV show "Teletubbies" for a mansion shaped like a butterfly.
Soccer legend Gary Neville, 36, gave up on his plan to build his "Teletubbies" home in favor of a futuristic design by the German firm Huf Haus, The Mirror reported.
Neville had fought an 18-month battle to build his Teletubbies house, which resembled the one built into a hillside in the hit children's TV program.
"The new place is totally different to his Teletubbies venture," said one neighbor of Neville's on the West Pennine moors. "People have called it the butterfly house because of its shape."
The new structure is made of glass, wood and other eco-friendly materials, with two roofs jutting out like wings.
"Apparently some of the new building will be underground like the Teletubbies project. No one knows why he had a change of heart as he spent a fortune pushing the plans through," the neighbor said.
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