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Laurence Roderick Llewelyn-Bowen (; born 11 March 1965) is an English interior designer and television personality best known for appearing on the BBC programme ''
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''.


Name

He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn", and the components of his name are sometimes misspelled, as "Lawrence". On ''Changing Rooms'', he is occasionally jocularly styled "Lord Laurence", a play on
Laurence Olivier Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage ...
and Llewelyn-Bowen's flamboyance.


Early life and education

Laurence Roderick Bowen was born in 1965 in
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, London, to parents Trefor Llewellyn Bowen and Patricia (née Wilks). His father, an
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at
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and, under the
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, at St James' Hospital,
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, South London, died of
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in 1974, aged 42, when Laurence was nine. He went to primary school at Julians, in Leigham Court Road,
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, where his favourite subject was art, especially needlework. His mother, a teacher, died in 2002. He has a brother called Edward and a sister called Frances. He is of
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descent. According to his website, Llewelyn-Bowen was educated at
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in Dulwich and later graduated from the
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(which became a constituent college of the
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) in 1986 with an unspecified Fine Art degree.


Early career

After graduating, Llewelyn-Bowen worked for the Harefield Group of Companies and the interior design firm Peter Leonard Associates. In 1989 he started his own design consultancy.


Television

Llewelyn-Bowen presented the BBC and
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television series ''
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''. On 14 April 2009 he presented a documentary on
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in the West region in which he went ''In Search of England's Green & Pleasant Land''. The programme explored the threats to the rural way of life from urban creep and the loss of local services. A study of Llewelyn-Bowen's family tree featured in the
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show '' Who Do You Think You Are?'', which was first aired on 29 September 2008. It showed that Llewelyn-Bowen's mother's family had a seafaring history. Between 2009 and 2011 Llewelyn-Bowen appeared on every episode of the ITV show '' House Gift''. Llewelyn-Bowen appeared as a judge on the 2010 series of the ITV reality talent show ''
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'' as a critic alongside Meat Loaf, and classically trained mentors
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and
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. Between 2010 and 2011, Llewelyn-Bowen presented the daytime ITV show ''Auction Party''. Llewelyn-Bowen appeared as a judge on the series of the reality show ''
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'' from 2012 to 2019. The
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series, ''Hidden Houses of Wales'', featured Llewelyn-Bowen as tour guide of historical houses throughout Wales. The programme premiered on 4 January 2010 and ran for two series. The series was licensed to streaming service,
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, in the U.S. and rebranded as ''Hidden Houses'', premiering on the service on 31 December 2016. He features frequently in the BBC programme, '' DIY SOS: The Big Build'' as a designer. In 2017, he joined Australia's
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reality renovation series ''House Rules'' as a new judge. Llewelyn-Bowen will present the upcoming four-part series titled ''Outrageous Homes with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen''.


''Stepping Out''

Llewelyn-Bowen participated in the first series of the ITV entertainment series '' Stepping Out'' with his wife, Jackie. They were eliminated on 21 September 2013, claiming third place. Note: In Week 4, The week's challenge was for each celebrity to dance with someone else's partner in the "Wife Swap" challenge. Llewelyn-Bowen danced once with Jackie and the second time with Oritse's partner AJ.


Guest appearances

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'' (11 February 2006) – Celebrity contestants, won £500,000 for Shooting Star Chase Children's Hospice; originally answered a flawed £1 million question incorrectly and lost £468,000, but were invited back to play a new £1 million question, and walked away with £500,000 (see controversy section below) * ''
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'' (17 July 2010) – Panellist * '' The Alan Titchmarsh Show'' (15 November 2010, 9 November 2011, 13 September 2013) * ''
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'' (3 August 2011) – Guest * '' The Chase: Celebrity Special'' (26 November 2011) – Celebrity contestant, won £20,000 for Shooting Star Chase Children's Hospice * ''
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'' (24 April 2020) - Guest * '' Interior Design Masters'' (25 September 2019, 2 February 2021) - Guest


Radio

In 2008 he began hosting a Sunday morning radio show ''The Sunday Spa'' on Classic FM.


Early 2000s

In 2002 Llewelyn-Bowen made a cameo appearance in the comedy series ''
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'', in which he comes to decorate the garden of one of the characters. He acts as a depressed, smoking, and comically bald version of himself, and is killed by a collapsing wall. In 2004 Llewelyn-Bowen designed the interior of the Inc Bar in Greenwich, England in a former 1830s music hall. The design features Larry's Bar, named after Llewelyn-Bowen and "the Divan", a dimly lit nook, a sort of make-out room. He has also presented a three-part BBC special ''Taste'' (2002), about the history of interior design, and in autumn 2005 he began presenting the weekly BBC1 travel show ''Holiday 2006''. His books include ''Fantasy Rooms: Inspirational Designs from the BBC Series'' (1999), ''Display'' (2001), ''"Home Front": Inside Out'' (2002), ''Design Rules'' (2003) and ''A Pinch of Posh'' (2006) co-written with his wife, Jackie. He has also made a guest appearance on ''Changing Rooms American counterpart, ''
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''. In March 2005 he starred in a one-off
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as a prospective candidate for
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. His party, the Purple Party, "
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" for a restoration of Britain's
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, and several extreme
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measures such as tearing down all buildings that did not conform to their surroundings.


''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' controversy

In January 2006, Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie were offered a place on the
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celebrity couples edition of ''
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'' They appeared on the show managing to reach the £1 million question, before answering it incorrectly and dropping from £500,000 down to £32,000 (a loss of £468,000). For the first time ever,
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allowed Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife to retry the show after the company claimed that the last question "didn't meet their standards". After returning and being shown a different £1 million question, the couple decided not to risk losing £468,000 for the second time and won £500,000 for their chosen charity, The Shooting Star Children's Hospice, of which Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife are both patrons. This amount is the highest amount that any celebrity couple has won on any British edition of ''Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?'' Their new question was about the first man to travel to space twice, and the correct answer to the question was
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. The original, allegedly misleading question was "Translated from the
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, what is the motto of the United States?" The answer given was "
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" which is originally English and has in fact been the motto of the United States since 1956. The intended answer had been "Out of Many, One" which is a translation of the Latin phrase ''
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'', which is found on the Great Seal, however it is not actually the current United States motto. ''E pluribus unum'' had been the de facto motto but was never legally declared as such.


Work since 2007

In 2007 he designed Decodance for
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, featuring six illuminated burlesque beauties. In November 2007 he and his family were depicted in the
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series ''To the Manor Bowen''. Llewelyn-Bowen designed a line of wallpaper in collaboration with the British Home Decor Company Graham & Brown. In 2008 he returned to
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to design Venus Reborn, a theatric tableau with a 15-minute show of sound, light and water effects. In 2009 Llewelyn-Bowen released two ranges of papercrafting products in conjunction with Trimcraft, called Retro Rose and Venaissence. Llewelyn-Bowen was the Creative Director For the 2010
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, designing new illuminations including dinosaurs, vampires and ghouls. Llewelyn-Bowen has been head judge on
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'' The Apartment'' since 2012. Llewelyn-Bowen was also a radio presenter for Classic FM until June 2015 when he was replaced by
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. In November 2014 he designed a Christmas attraction, ''Magical Journey'', at the Belfry Golf Club near
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, which was heavily criticised, receiving hundreds of complaints and the epithet "Tragic Journey" on its opening day; the event closed down in mid-December, and apologies were sent to ticket holders who were advised to contact their banks for refunds. Since 2017 he has appeared on the Australian TV series ''
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'' in seasons 5-8 as one of three judges, co-starring with ''Home Beautiful'' editor in chief Wendy Moore, and award-winning Australian architect Drew Heath. In 2020, Moore and Heath were replaced by interior designer Kyly Clarke and builder Saul Myers. In 2017, he was co-presenter alongside Neville Knott on the Irish TV3 lifestyle program ''Showhouse Showdown'' (Vision Independent Productions) In 2019, he appeared in a comedic advertising campaign for online bathroom retailer Victorian Plumbing in the UK. In 2019, he took part in the BBC series ''
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'' and he became a judge alongside Juliet Ashworth in the Australian programme Instant Hotel. Since 17 August 2021 he has re-appeared as resident designer on the reboot of the popular 90s makeover show Changing Rooms on Channel 4 with new host Anna Richardson. In 2022 he appeared in ''
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'' as part of a group of celebrities with different religious affiliations who travelled in the footsteps of Saint
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. Llewelyn-Bowen participated as a "non-conforming
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".. He switched on the Blackpool Illuminations on 2 September 2022 replacing Johnny Vegas who had to pull out at short notice.


Artisan Furniture

In 2020, Llewelyn-Bowen designed a furniture collection with British furniture manufacturer, wholesaler and dropshipper Artisan Furniture, consisting of handmade, solid wood furniture designs showcasing carving, painted and dark stained furniture pieces. The LUX collection by Llewelyn-Bowen is set to be available for both dropship and
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.


Personal life

Until 2004 Llewelyn-Bowen lived in
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, South East London. He, his wife Jackie and their two daughters, Cecile (born 1995) and Hermione (born 1998), moved to a 17th-century, grade-II listed manor house in Siddington, a small village near
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,
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in April 2007. He and his wife are ambassadors to the aid agency CARE International UK and in February 2008 visited the cyclone-hit areas of Bangladesh. They are also active patrons for children's cancer charity
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and Shooting Star Children's Hospice. Llewelyn-Bowen is also a patron of the children's charity MERU, co-founded by his father Trefor Llewelyn-Bowen with Bill Bond in 1970. He has a home in
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,
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, which is well known as the filming location of the popular television series '' Doc Martin''. He is related to
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, map maker to King George II.
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– House Gift, Season 2, Episode 14, 11 February 2010


References


External links

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