Hot off the heels of the news that Johnny Depp has moved to London and just bought a house in the nation’s capital, here’s a dumb story about how he caught a helicopter up to a Lincolnshire antiques centre and bought a couple of guitars, a vase and some other quirky items.

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58 year old Robert Miller is the owner of Hemswell Antiques Centre in Lincolnshire – the biggest antiques centre in Europe – and was told to close down the store and expect a very important guest on Friday at 4:30pm, who turned out to be none other than Johnny Depp. He wandered around the store for a bit, tried out a few guitars before picking up three of them, as well as a groovy skull encrusted vase and an easel for good measure too.

Here’s what Miller had to say about the experience:

He just bought a lot of very quirky items. A desk chair, three guitars, paint sets, easels, a few pictures, posters, just a whole range of things for decorative items for his own personal property.

He chose a vase with a skull on it. Guitars obviously. He was very friendly with, best friends with Jeff Beck, he sat and played a few tunes on this guitar I think just for old times’ sake really and then decided to buy three of the guitars that were there.

I think I overheard him talking (about Beck) to one of his colleagues that was with him.

We hosted refreshments for him and he was able to walk around.

It was great because he was his normal self and he was very relaxed and was able to spend time looking at things and playing on the guitars that he wanted to play on.

He felt very at home.

Johnny said to me he spends a lot of time in hotels and places where you can’t really go out because he just gets completely hounded by the general public.

He was overwhelmed, he said he could’ve stayed here all night, but he had to get back because of the flight times into London. He’ll definitely be back.

He interacted with the staff very well, we asked if he’d take a group photograph with the staff, and he allowed that to happen.

One of the two staff who have got children came back later and he did a selfie with them so it made their day.

He was a very sociable person, quite quietly spoken, but very sociable, very friendly and chatty. Not what I expected.

I think it was nice the way he came across and he was interested in what he was looking at.

He felt really comfortable in the environment that he was in, looking at items before his era, and I think he really enjoyed that.

Well that sounds like a delightful time for everyone involved really doesn’t it? But I suppose we’ve all seen Johnny Depp’s rehabilitation tour over the last few months so it’s not that surprising that he’s still pulling stunts like this. Kinda surprised that Robert Miller seems so gushing about it – I would have expected him to have interacted with a hell of a lot of celebrities given the status of his antiques store. Johnny Depp is another level at this point though I suppose.

Anyway, I hope Johnny Depp enjoys all the new items for his new house. Can’t wait for the pics from the housewarming.

For more of the same, check out when Johnny Depp received a standing ovation at the Royal Albert Hall with Jeff Beck. What a night.