Nicholas Cage visits baby unit in Bath

Fri Oct 16 2009 17:57:41

Hollywood star Nicolas Cage has visited his local hospital to support the campaign to build a new baby unit at a time when he is reportedly having trouble with his own bricks and mortar.

The Oscar-winning actor toured the baby unit at Bath's Royal United Hospital and met new parents and their babies. He bought a house in the Somerset village of Baltonsborough, near Glastonbury, three years ago.

Cage, 45, is backing the hospital's Forever Friends Appeal to raise more than £3 million for a new neo-natal intensive care unit.

He bought a "baby brick" to symbolise real bricks for the new unit amid reports that he owed more than six million dollars to the taxman in the US.

The star of Conair and Leaving Las Vegas has had a tax lien placed on his New Orleans properties by the Internal Revenue Service after he failed to pay income tax on his wages dating back to 2007, according to celebrity website TMZ.

Owner of an extensive property portfolio, Cage has reportedly put Midford Castle, near Bath, on the market after buying it for £5 million two years ago and last month sold his £4 million townhouse in Bath's Georgian Circus.

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