Changing Rooms TV star and interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen no longer owns his home after signing it over to his two sons-in-law. It comes following a harrowing incident while filming a Netflix show
Interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has signed over his Cotswolds estate to his two sons-in-law after suffering a terrifying near-death experience during the production of a popular Netflix series.
The 60-year-old, who is famed for appearing on BBC’s Changing Rooms, revealed earlier this year that he was struggling with an “end of life crisis” after he was involved in a horror incident while filming Celebrity Bear Hunt. During a water stunt, Laurence lost consciousness after being dragged under a boat, leaving him shaken.
Speaking of the scary ordeal earlier this year, Laurence revealed: “In my head, I was some kind of Marvel superhero. Actually, by the time I got to the raft that I was supposed to swim to, it dawned on me quite quickly, I’m actually Granddaddy Pig and getting onto the raft was never going to happen. I got stuck under the raft. I got tangled up in some equipment and stuff and that’s when the drowning thing kind of happened.
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“But I managed to free myself. I should have stopped at that point and just sort of gathered myself but actually, no, I was then throwing myself into the challenge and then I started blacking out and suddenly, I’ve got Bear on top of me.”
Laurence thought he was suffering a heart attack as he shared: “It wasn’t a pleasant experience at all. I mean, it really, really wasn’t. I was blacking out. I thought I was having a heart attack.
“And having then been pumped full of, I think it’s about three canisters of oxygen, which is wonderful stuff by the way…but it was a very solitary thing. I always felt that I was quite physically resilient. I have regular medicals. I’m perceived as being reasonably fit for what I am but it did feel slightly like a moment of failure.”
Speaking about taking part in Netflix’s Celebrity Bear Hunt, Laurence joked that his wife said he was having a “mid-life crisis”. He confessed: “She feels it’s got midlife crisis written all over it, although, as I keep telling her, I’m too old to have a midlife crisis, this is more like an end of life crisis.
“She’s actually, frankly, incredibly jealous. She would love to do it and has always been mildly irritated that no one’s ever asked her to do something like this.”
Just months after his incident on the show, Laurence, who has an estimated net worth of £8 million, confirmed that he no longer owns his sprawling Cotswold abode where he resides with his family. He told The Sunday Times, “I’m no longer lord of the manor.”
Sharing the reason behind signing over two-thirds of the Cotswold abode, Laurence added: “We’re not going to be those old people sitting on a great big pile of cash. Terribly unhappy, terribly lonely.
“Owning a lot of stuff but not actually having the benefit of it. We are very, very privileged, but we have made this decision. We have manifested this life.”
The TV star and design guru lives in the main house with his wife Jackie, 60, along with their youngest daughter Hermione, 27, her husband, Drew, 28, and their children Romilly, two, and Eleanora, 18 months. Their eldest daughter, Cecile, 30, resides in the converted garage on the same grounds with her husband, Dan, 30, and their children Albion, eight, and Demelza, three.
“Hilariously, Cecile and I aren’t on the deeds, because we inherit it anyway – it’s actually the husbands,” Hermione revealed.
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Source: Mirror
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