I'm the Jolly Judge Says Laurence ; Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Is a Busy Man ... As Well As Keeping Up with Family Life at His Manor Home in the Cotswolds Village of Siddington, He's a Judge On Popstar to Operastar, has Written a New Book, Developed a New Paint Range and Is Starring in a New Series of Daytime Show House Gift. Weekend Caught Up with Him

Gloucestershire Echo, The › February 21, 2010

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COTSWOLDS designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is juggling interiors projects with a new found vocation as a judge on reality TV show Popstar To Operastar. Fellow Gloucestershire celebrity Alex James, from Blur, also appeared on the ITV show as a contestant but was the first to be voted off at the start of the series.

The finalists - Darius and Bernie Nolan - were due to go head to head for the title last night. Laurence, who lives in Siddington, near Cirencester, says: "One of the most fantastic things about it is that we're taking pop stars who have a certain fame or celebrity, but we're throwing them into the deep end, because singing opera isn't something you can really busk; you can't blag it.

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I'm the Jolly Judge Says Laurence ; Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Is a Busy Man ... As Well As Keeping Up with Family Life at His Manor Home in the Cotswolds Village of Siddington, He's a Judge On Popstar to Operastar, has Written a New Book, Developed a New Paint Range and Is Starring in a New Series of Daytime Show House Gift. Weekend Caught Up with Him

"If you get it wrong, you physically don't get to the end of the sentence.

"It's an extraordinary opportunity, I think, for today's pop stars to see how ...

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