Cristiano Ronaldo Is Buying a £20,000 Wax Figure of Himself for His House

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Cristiano Ronaldo likes the existing wax version of himself so much that he's forking out another £20,000 to have himself replicated in wax form for display in his house. 

The Portuguese superstar was immortalised in wax for a Madrid-based museum back in 2013, and he took quite a liking to it. 

He's hired British wax artist Michael Wade to create a replica of it. 

Wade told the Sun (h/t the Telegraph's Callum Davis): 

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We still had the mould that we'd used to sculpt him in 2013, so this copy was a complete duplicate. And Ronaldo sent us a football kit and his latest boots to make it up to date. 

We left the hair alone, because that's exactly how he wanted it. We put all the hair in, one at a time and then, in Madrid, his hairdresser came along to cut it. 

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Ronaldo oversaw the Madrid sculpture with a particularly keen eye. 

"Cristiano told us to be sure his figure was perfect," Gonzalo Presa, director of the Madrid Wax Museum, told Cadena SER (h/t the Telegraph). "He sent his own hairstylist to brush his figure once a month. 

"The waxwork's hair is completely natural. It is not a wig and it comes from India," Presa noted. 

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[Telegraph]