The video will start in 8 Cancel

Join thousands of fans who have signed up to our Rangers newsletter. Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

A popular Rangers pub has been bought by a gay sauna.

Bluenose favourite Annie Millers near Glasgow city centre has been purchased by all-male spa complex The Pipeworks.

New owners Andre Graham and Seamus Sweeney intend to use the venue as a feeder bar for their sauna, situated next door.

Annie Millers was one of the city’s most popular hangouts for Rangers fans until it stopped trading in May last year. It was situated in Ropework Lane near the St Enoch Centre and its walls were bedecked in Union flags and Ibrox memorabilia.

The Pipeworks was raided by police in 2010 as part of a crackdown on the sex industry.

(Image: Mark Anderson)

A Rangers fan said: “I don’t think many of the old Annie Millers crowd will be popping in when it reopens.

“Annie Millers was one of Glasgow’s most hardcore Rangers haunts and it was a real shock for a lot of fans when it closed last year.

“A lot of drinkers were hoping that someone might rescue the pub so it could reopen as it was before. This definitely won’t happen now.”

Belfast-based businessmen Graham and Sweeney made history in 2005 when they tied the knot in Britain’s first civil partnership ceremony.

The pair bought The Pipeworks for £425,000 and boast that it is Scotland’s biggest gay men’s health and leisure club.

A £13 entrance fee gives access to a 25-man spa pool, 20-man steam room and 20-man sauna. It is open 24 hours a day at weekends.

Vice squad officers made several arrests after they swooped on the venue in 2010.

Millionaire Graham, 54, is a former executive with Columbia Tristar Films and was a chief executive officer for Sony PlayStation before retiring aged 35.

(Image: Mark Anderson)

He made his fortune creating Belfast’s gay quarter near the city’s St Anne’s Cathedral.

Graham married partner Sweeney, 43, at a nightclub called Kremlin, which they sold for £3million in 2014.

The couple own another gay sauna, also called The Pipeworks, in Belfast.

(Image: EPA)

The purchase of Annie Millers was confirmed by property brokers Christie & Co. Estate agent Josh Hill said: “We wish the new owners the best of luck for the future.”

Graham and Sweeney could not be reached for comment.

The Pipeworks did not respond to our request for a comment.