David Dickinson Biography
David Dickinson, MBE, is an English antiques merchant and television presenter. Dickinson presented BBC One’s antiques show Bargain Hunt from 2000 until 2004, after which Tim Wonnacott took over. Dickinson left the BBC in 2005 and has hosted ITV’s daytime show Dickinson’s Real Deal since 2006. During the event, members of the public bring antiques and collectibles to sell to dealers or auction.
How old is David Dickinson? – Age
He is 82 years old as of 16 August 2023. He was born in 1941 in Cheadle Heath, Stockport, United Kingdom. His real name is David Gulesserian.
David Dickinson Family – Education
Dickinson started an apprenticeship at an aircraft manufacturer when he was 14, but soon quit to work in the cloth trade in central Manchester. Dickinson, 19, served three years of a four-year jail term for mail-order fraud. The majority of his time was served at Strangeways in Manchester.
David Dickinson Wife – Children
Dickinson met his wife, cabaret performer Lorne Lesley, in a nightclub in the 1960s, and the two married in 1968. Lorne gave David an antique regency mourning band with a rose cut diamond for his wedding. Lorne is of African, Welsh, and Scottish origin and grew up in Tiger Bay, Cardiff. The pair lives in Prestbury, Cheshire. They have two adult children and two grandchildren, Miles and Finley.
David Dickinson Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £2,211,000.
David Dickinson Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches(180.3 cm).
David Dickinson Saturday Night Takeaway
Dickinson appears on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway for the eleventh season in March 2014. The two disguised themselves with prosthetics and artificial accents to trick Dickinson into believing there was a real dispute and subsequent vehicle wreck on the set of his new ‘fake’ show Long Lost Treasures. Dickinson exclaimed, “You two have done me up like a kipper!” after the wind-up and the big reveal from Ant and Dec.
David Dickinson Career
In 1998, an opportunity meeting with a television maker at a grill prompted Dickinson’s television appearance, a two-section narrative for the BBC made about him and his groundwork for a show at Olympia. His dim coloring (frequently inferred to be a phony tan, however he says that it is a result of his Armenian parentage) and various expressions immediately grabbed the watchers’ eye.
Dickinson came to public consideration as a collectibles master on Today and BBC Two’s The Collectibles Show. His vocation break as a TV big name came from introducing Deal Chase on BBC One at lunchtimes which acquired a sharp following among daytime watchers including understudies.
An early evening rendition of Deal Chase was communicated for a couple of years following the outcome of the daytime show. Dickinson left the daytime release of Deal Chase in 2003 and was supplanted by Tim Wonnacott on the daytime opening while Dickinson continued introducing the early evening, superstar and Christmas variants of the show. He proceeded to introduce an unscripted TV drama, Managing Dickinson on BBC One out of 2005 which was dropped after just a single series. Dickinson left the BBC once the early evening releases of Deal Chase were dropped.
Dickinson moved to ITV in 2006 to introduce another daytime collectibles program, Dickinson’s Genuine article which is communicated on daytime work day evenings. Old episodes are habitually rehashed. The show visits areas around the UK and requests that individuals come in and either sell their collectibles and collectables for valuation by a collectibles vendor who might propose to purchase the thing for cash. On the other hand, the members can face a challenge and go to sell in the event that the vendor’s proposition is rejected or no deal is made to purchase the item.
The member gambles with taking a lower cost than presented by the vendor in the event that the item neglects to surpass the seller’s deal or neglects to meet its save. Dickinson’s responsibility is to go about as a middle person to assist the venders with getting the best costs from the sellers or to assist them with the choice about whether to deny the proposition and to take the thing to sell. From 17 May 2010, The David Dickinson Show, a big name theatrical presentation, was communicated on ITV for 10 episodes. In 2017, he introduced David Dickinson’s Name Your Cost for ITV.
In 2002, Dickinson showed up as a visitor in Falling stars joining Group B drove by Ulrika Jonsson with Johnny Vegas. In 2004, Dickinson was one of a few superstars to have their pictures painted in the BBC One TV series Star Representations with Rolf Harris, and, likewise in 2004, he showed up in the principal series of Rigorously Come Moving.
In 2005, Dickinson showed up on the ITV unscripted TV drama I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, where he previously declared that he had involved heroin in his more youthful years. He likewise introduced data spaces for watchers on the most proficient method to offer on satellite shopping station Bid television. He showed up in one episode of the ITV show Heartbeat, playing a collectibles seller.
Dickinson investigated his family foundation in an episode of the third series of the BBC genealogical narrative series Who Do You Assume You Are? broadcast in the UK on 4 October 2006. He had the option to follow family members in both the UK and Istanbul.
On one radio episode of Carbon copies, The Specialist (voiced by Jon Culshaw) called Dickinson to ask him the amount he could get for an attractive center extractor that was accepted to have been possessed by the Specialist when he was played by Jon Pertwee. Dickinson portrayed the extractor as “somewhat of a bobby dazzler”. He played the Ruler in the third episode of The Keith and Paddy Picture Show (“Return of the Jedi”).