Player Neil flashed a smirk as he offered up the word "fapped" which, for the uninitiated, is the past tense of fap - to masturbate. Not much has been disclosed of her early life and childhood. Even her education and qualifications are unknown. But currently, she is enjoying her success and fame as she has established herself as a famed Television star. Many regard the 1970s as the decade that taste forgot. Not Estelle Bilson, though. Her house is a nostalgic homage to the era, filled with glorious original furniture and vintage artefacts. Every Saturday evening, a suburban street in Greater Manchester bears witness to a peculiar sight: at the first-floor bay window of a 1930s semi, top-hatted heads bow over a platter of Victoria sponge slices, silhouetted against the sepia light of a gasoline lamp. Eavesdroppers might even catch the strains of Gilbert and Sullivan issuing from an 1890s gramophone as Michael Koropisz, a 24-year-old portrait artist who goes about his daily life as if he’s a well-to-do Briton of the 1890s, stages a tea party for fellow Victorian enthusiasts. Steve, my partner already owned it and I kinda moved in. However, I did love the house at first sight. It has a lovely warm feeling to it and it is in a lovely neighbourhood. We overlook a park and it feels very village-like for Manchester.’ (image credit: Estelle Bilson)

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Her expertise in her field led her no only to be selected in 2020 to join the esteemed panel of dealers on the popular BBC1 show ‘The Bidding Room’, hosted by national treasure, Nigel Havers, but to also release her first book in March 2023 –’70s House’– A Bold Homage to the Most Daring Decade in Design (published by Kyle Octopus) which has been a bestselling sucess, and available globally. Estelle Bilson Age We have a modern TV - it's a necessity really with a child. We have smartphones and laptops too. We don't live in the 70s, we just like the styling.Fallowfield reached saturation point years ago... the pandemic has exposed the problems we knew were there' I don’t wish I lived in the 50s. I love vintage style, not vintage values. When I’m reading magazines from that period, some of the adverts are so archaic. It’s all about buying the woman in your life a vacuum cleaner for Christmas. But I couldn’t live in modern surroundings, either. This trend for grey at the moment – I can’t bear it. Everything is grey. People are even painting the exterior of their houses grey! I need colour in my life.

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He works for Morgan Evans & Co (where was his first job as a salesroom assistant) and he is now the senior auctioneer and a director of the firm. Everywhere you look there’s a statement or an icon of the era. From the round Keracolor TV and the disco balls that adorn the bathroom to the bold orange curtains, shaggy rugs, plants aplenty, those amazing kitchen tops and tea towels (she sells those you know) and all those amazing furnishings. Some wonderful 1970s art on the walls too. A Tretchikoff on the wall, naturally. (image credit: Estelle Bilson) Estelle was raised by a father who worked as a cabinet maker and antiques dealer. She went to her first auction aged four, where she discovered her passion, but was instructed to sit on her hands in case she accidentally bid on an item.Estelle first became famous for her appearance on the television show The Bidding Room. Moreover, she is known to be one of the dealers of the show ‘The Bidding Room.’ You can find more about her after you watch the TV show. If you’re late, don’t sweat it as some of my best bargains have been at the end of the day when people reduce prices so that they don’t have to take items home. Everything else in her home - from the disco balls in the toilet, to the original magazines near her space-inspired TV set - are all from the 70s. It’s the community that I like,” says Estelle Bilson, 41, a technical designer who shares her love of 1970s living with Stephen De Sarasola and their son, and bases her style on a Good Life -era Penelope Keith. “A woman in the States recently sent me a frosted Christmas bauble because she knows it’s the era I’m into, but we’ve never met.”