Outrageous Properties (Channel 4)
That is the primary time it has occurred. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen arrives to examine a house owner's residence furnishings, carrying a harlequin jacket, his beard dyed black and white like a badger's barnet… and searching scantily clad.
Flaunting a Peter Wingard-like function as Jason King, the sexiest women' man in tv historical past, Lawrence was making his debut in Outrageous Holmes on Channel 4+, an ad-free subscription choice on Channel 4's video-on-demand service (it's set to air on Channel 4 later this month).
However when he arrived on the £5million residence on the outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon, described because the UK's reply to the Playboy Mansion, he was utterly gutted.
With a swimming pool on the bottom ground, palm bushes reaching as much as the ceiling, and a launching pad for a scorching air balloon on the roof, the home was so gorgeous that nothing Loz noticed later might match it – not even the terraced home wrapped completely in mosaics, nor the cottage with the Wild West farm within the again backyard.
Sadly, the architect and first proprietor of the Stratford Social gathering Palace has handed away perpetually, though a statue of him nonetheless stands within the courtyard.
It's a primary for Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen – he turns as much as examine the décor of a house owner's residence, carrying a harlequin jacket, his beard dyed black and white like badger hair… and he appears to be like scantily clad.
Writer Felix Dennis, poet {and professional} hedonist, had reportedly spent £100 million on revelry earlier than his demise in 2014.
Felix was first option to current The Apprentice however turned it down as he claimed he didn't like firing folks. The present would have been very completely different beneath his management.
Recalling the misplaced decade of his promiscuous life, he as soon as mentioned, 'My driver at the moment would carry crack cocaine in buckets. There can be 13 or 14 women in the home for 3 days at a time, and none of them would ever preserve their garments on.'
I'm certain you don't see this at Alan Sugar's dinner events.
Don and Derek, who purchased the Dennis mansion, consider that his spirit haunts the place. The bell on the nautical dial generally rings by itself.
Drug-addicted ghosts don't trouble me, however I'll by no means get used to the mannequins in pirate costumes standing round their bunk beds.
In a semi-detached home in Surrey, artwork instructor Kath was taking make-do-and-mend to its limits. Every bit of decor was knitted, crocheted or collaged. All her furnishings was recycled – 'years of expertise from skip-diving and magpieing,' Kath mentioned cheerfully.
The cabinet in her bed room was a recycled fridge-freezer, which she known as her 'electrical cabinet'.
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“I imply, we have now a fridge in our bed room as effectively, but it surely's stuffed with gin,” LLB mentioned.
Not surprisingly, all of the house owners are extroverts. Don has enjoyable floating across the pool on an inflatable peacock whereas consuming champagne.
Estelle, whose house is paying homage to the Seventies, lay in a bath of gold whereas Lawrence talked to her.
Then he made her a banana candle, a candy made by Fanny Cradock. Take the very best candle in Fyffes, wrap it in crushed nuts, put a cherry on the top and drizzle the custard over it. Oh-er, missus!
