Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
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Laurence Roderick Llewelyn-Bowen (born 11 March 1965) is a British self-styled "homestyle consultant" and television presenter best known for his appearances on BBC's Changing Rooms and as a judge on the ITV reality show Popstar to Opera Star in 2010.
Early life and education
Laurence Roderick Bowen was born in 1965 in Kensington, London, to parents Trefor Llewellyn Bowen and Patricia (née Wilks). When Laurence was nine years old, his father, an orthopaedic surgeon at Harley Street and under the NHS at St James' Hospital in Balham, South London, died of leukaemia in 1974. He attended primary school at Julians in Leigham Court Road, Streatham, where his favourite subject was art, particularly needlework. In 2002, his mother, a teacher, died. He has a brother named Edward and a sister named Frances. He is of Welsh descent.
Llewelyn-Bowen studied at Alleyn's School in Dulwich and later graduated from the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (which later became a constituent college of the University of the Arts London) in 1986 with an unspecified Fine Art degree.
Early 2000s
In 2002, Llewelyn-Bowen made a cameo appearance in the comedy series The League of Gentlemen, in which he helps to design the garden of one of the characters. He appears as a depressed, smoking, and gruesome bald version of himself, and is killed by a collapsing wall.
In 2004, Llewelyn-Bowen designed the inside of the Inc Bar in Greenwich, England, in a former 1830s music hall. Larry's Bar was named after Llewelyn-Bowen and "the Divan," a dimly lit nook, a sort of make-out room.
He has also appeared on three-part BBC special Taste (2002) about the history of interior design, and in autumn 2005 he joined the weekly BBC1 travel show Holiday 2006. Fantasy Rooms: Inspirational Designs From The BBC Series (1999), "Home Front" (2001), and "A Pinch of Posh (2006) co-written with his wife, Jackie. In addition, he has appeared on Changing Rooms' American counterpart, Trading Spaces.
In March 2005, he appeared in a one-off mockumentary as a potential candidate for Parliament. The Purple Party, his party, "lobbied" for a revival of Britain's heritage, as well as several radical architectural steps, such as the demolition of all buildings that did not comply with their surroundings.
Personal life
Llewelyn-Bowen lived in Kidbrooke, South East London, until 2004. Cecile (born 1995) and Hermione (born 1998), a small village near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, began in April 2007 with three brothers Cecile and their two children.
He and his wife are ambassadors to the UN humanitarian organisation CARE International UK, who visited Bangladesh's cyclone-ravaged areas in February 2008. They are also active supporters of the children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and Shooting Star Children's Hospice.
Llewelyn-Bowen is also a member of MERU, which was co-founded by his father Trefor Llewelyn-Bowen with Bill Bond in 1970.
He lives in Port Isaac, Cornwall, which is widely known as the filming location for the popular television series Doc Martin.
He is related to Emanuel Bowen, the map maker to King George II.
Early career
Llewelyn-Bowen spent time with Harefield Group of Companies and Peter Leonard Associates after graduating. He founded his own design firm in 1989.