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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Pools, palm trees and pirates in the boudoir...it's Britain's campest pad
That's a first. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen turns up to inspect a homeowner's decor, in a harlequin jacket, with his goatee dyed black and white like a badger's barnet . . . and he looks underdressed.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen turns up to inspect a homeowner's decor, in a harlequin jacket, with his goatee dyed black and white like a badger's barnet . Swaggering like Peter Wyngarde as Jason King, the campest ladies' man in telly history, Laurence was launching his foray into Outrageous Homes, on Ch4+, the ad-free subscription option on Channel 4's video-on-demand service (it's due to air on Ch4 later this month). With a swimming pool dominating the ground floor, embalmed palm trees reaching up to the vaulted ceiling, and a launching pad for a hot-air balloon on the roof, this home was so outrageous that nothing Loz saw later could compete — not even the terraced house entirely coated in mosaics, nor the cottage with a Wild West ranch in the back garden.
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