David Dickinson
| David Dickinson | |
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Dickinson filming Dickinson's Real Deal in 2010
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| Born |
David Gulesserian 16 August 1941 Cheadle Heath, , Cheshire, England |
| Residence | Bollington, Cheshire, England |
| Occupation | |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Employer |
BBC (1998–2005) ITV (2006–present) |
| Known for |
The Antiques Show (1998–2000) Bargain Hunt (2000–2004) Dickinson's Real Deal (2006–present) The David Dickinson Show (2010) |
| Spouse(s) | Lorne Lesley (1968–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | David-Dickinson.net |
David Dickinson (born David Gulesserian 16 August 1941) is an English antiques expert, television presenter and entrepreneur. Between 2000 and 2004, Dickinson hosted the BBC One antiques show Bargain Hunt, where he was succeeded by Tim Wonnacott. Dickinson left the BBC in 2005 and since 2006, Dickinson has been hosting the ITV daytime show Dickinson's Real Deal. The show sees members of the public bringing antiques and collectables to sell to a dealer or take to the auction.
In 2010, he hosted his own daytime chat show series The David Dickinson Show. It has not returned to TV since then.
David Dickinson was born in Cheadle Heath, , Cheshire, to Eugenie Gulesserian (born 1919 in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire). Eugenie was a member of an Armenian textile trading family, whose father Hrant Gulesserian, had moved from Constantinople to Manchester in 1904. Dickinson had corresponded with his biological mother in her later life in Jersey, but they never met. Dickinson's biological father is unknown.
David was adopted by the Dickinsons, a local couple. Mr Dickinson died when David was 12, and as his adoptive mother worked hard to keep the family together, David was in part brought up by his French adoptive grandmother, Sarah Dickinson. Dickinson began an apprenticeship at an aircraft factory when he was 14, but quickly left to work in the cloth trade in central Manchester. At 19, Dickinson served three years of a four-year prison sentence, the majority spent at Strangeways in Manchester, for mail-order fraud.
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