Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf Character of Lord Of The Rings) 'turned down £1million to officiate wedding dressed as Gandalf'

Sir Ian McKellen has proved that money cannot buy you everything.

The veteran actor claims he turned down a lucrative offer to officiate a wedding dressed as his beloved Lord of the Rings character Gandalf because "Gandolf doesn't do weddings".

“I was offered one-and-a-half million dollars to marry a very famous couple in California, which I would perhaps have considered doing but I had to go dressed as Gandalf,” he told the Mail on Sunday. “So I said, ‘I am sorry, Gandalf doesn’t do weddings’.”

Sean Parker and Alexandra Lenas before they married in 2013 (Getty)

Sir Ian said he knew the man behind the offer was a “very rich man” but was unsure of his identity as he was never approached directly.The paper claims the “very rich man” was Silicon Valley’s Sean Parker who has an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion. Parker, who was depicted by Justin Timberlake in the 2010 film The Social Network, co-founded the music streaming service Napster, later joined Facebook as its founding president and currently sits on the board of Spotify. He married his singer/songwriter wife Alexandra Lenas in 2013.The couple married at a ceremony in the sunshine state which was rumoured to cost $10million (approximately £7.5 million). The Lord of the Rings costume designer was hired by the couple and guests – which included actresses Emma Watson and Olivia Munn and the founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey – were given Tolkien costumes to wear throughout the nuptials.