{"id":145087,"date":"2024-06-15T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/outrageous-homes-laurence-llewelyn-bowen-has-more-fun-than-anyone-else-alive\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T06:33:20","slug":"outrageous-homes-laurence-llewelyn-bowen-has-more-fun-than-anyone-else-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/outrageous-homes-laurence-llewelyn-bowen-has-more-fun-than-anyone-else-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrageous Homes: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has more fun than anyone else alive"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe legendary presenter has an absurd, vampy time noseying around wildly decorated houses in quite possibly the best property show ever. All hail the Llewelyn-Bowennaissance!I am starting to feel sorry for Channel 4, because they are never going to make a property show I like, no matter how many times they try. This is simply because of the economic reality I live in \u2013 I don\u2019t own property and I\u2019m starting to think I never will, thanks woke \u2013 and that makes it grating and tedious to watch other people on TV build houses, or renovate houses, or Grand Design their houses. They tried with George Clarke, but I loathed him. They tried with Kevin McCloud and, while I like and fear Kevin, I hated anyone he ever interacted with on screen (\u201cHeh, yeah: I\u2019m going to do the barn myself\u201d \u2013 go to work!). They did that show where Sarah Beeny lives in the countryside and I quite liked it as long as I didn\u2019t think about it too much. But, fundamentally, I will always struggle to find interesting what someone did with their kitchen.Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, then, a final roll of the dice, who this week takes us around a series of outrageous homes in Outrageous Homes (20 June, 10pm, Channel\u00a04). To qualify as an outrageous home you basically have to decorate in a way that when people come over they say this sentence out loud: \u201cWow, yeah \u2013 you\u2019ve done a lot here, haven\u2019t you?\u201d, and every week we get six of them. Episode one takes us into a \u00a35m mansion made in the eternal honour of Treasure Island; a western-themed garden made out of junk; a groovy homage to the 70s; a make-do-and-mend festival of colour; an almost but not totally mosaicked house; and a semi-frightening house turned aquarium. Llewelyn-Bowen goes to about 60% of these houses, lets a second unit deal with the rest, and has an enormous amount of fun just not really caring about it at all.I, for one, welcome the Llewelyn-Bowennaissance. In the 90s we didn\u2019t really know what to do with him \u2013 smooth model face, ruffled shirt cuffs, calling Shakespeare \u201cthe Bard\u201d: has anyone like this existed before! \u2013 but watching him bully Handy Andy into ruining a succession of people\u2019s living rooms was one of the best things on TV. Then he went low for a bit, did a lot of formats that started with the word Celebrity, grew a resplendent goatee and started posing with his hands really firmly on his hips. But what LLB does, like almost nobody alive, is have an absurd, vampy amount of fun on camera. His iconic \u201cIt\u2019s Larry!\u201d entrance from the reboot of Changing Rooms a couple of years ago is just a taste of what he brings to Outrageous Homes: the first line of voiceover in the series is \u201cHail, glorious people of the United Kingdom!\u201d He describes the show as \u201ca celebratory frolic\u201d through the nation\u2019s front rooms; he keeps making homeowners pose with him in absurd still situations while he throws to an ad break; he does a to-camera piece in a chip shop (why?) which starts with the pleasingly erratic sentence \u201cHobbies: discuss!\u201d. When I was in Year 9 we had a few classes with a substitute teacher who was clearly in the midst of a mental lapse where he no longer cared at all about geography, and Llewelyn-Bowen is bringing a lot of that energy to the screen (that\u2019s a compliment). Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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