My wife. I am a lavish present-giver. I love worshipping my wife with beautiful bits and pieces – it is one of my greatest pleasures.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
English interior designer and television personality
United Kingdom · b. 1965
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About
Born in London, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, 57, studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts then gained a master’s degree in painting. He went on to star in the BBC’s DIY show Changing Rooms, which ran from 1996 to 2004. Since 2021, he has fronted the Channel 4 reboot of the show and will host Outrageous Homes With Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, scheduled for release next year. He has his own interior design practice and product range. His new book is More More More: Making Maximalism Work in Your Home and Life. He lives in the Cotswolds with his family.
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I was nearly hit by an enormous gold-fibreglass cherub in a shopping centre. It fell five storeys and smashed into a thousand pieces about 4ft away from me.
The missus. She is the glamour mamma mia at the top of our feudal pyramid. We all live together, so she’s a full-time grandmother and rules the roost. How she steered us through lockdown was extraordinary.
I am crucified by my modesty: it’s terrible.
Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
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