Flamboyant country rock singer Jade Hurley says he’s devastated by the theft of a $250,000 jewellery collection that’s central to his onstage persona links of london charms.

The entertainer says the collection, which has taken a life time to amass, was not insured.

The jewels were left in his motor home which he parked at his Gold Coast home, opposite the Palm Beach police station links of london sale.

“It’s my whole persona,” Hurley said.

“Johnny O’Keefe told me all those years ago if you want to be a showman and you want to be recognised – do something different.

“He said ‘Why don’t you do a Liberace thing and get into the diamond rings and jewellery Links of London sweetie?’.

“So I did that and it’s taken a whole lifetime career to develop it.

“Conservatively the collection’s worth in excess of a quarter of a million dollars.”

Hurley said he went down from his penthouse on Tuesday afternoon to get something out of the motor home and found it had been ransacked links of london.

“My first thought was for my jewellery so I called my wife Barbara upstairs and asked her if she’d taken it up the day before,” he said.

“She said she thought I’d brought it up and I thought she had.