Inside the life of Antiques Roadshow's Chris Yeo including hidden passions

Antiques Roadshow's Chris Yeo joined the squad successful 2015 and helium has a fascinating history.

Antiques Roadshow is backmost connected BBC One with adept Chris Yeo specialising successful 20th-century plan and craft. He has besides worked arsenic a valuer astatine Clevedon Salerooms successful North Somerset.

His passionateness for antiques began erstwhile helium was conscionable a toddler arsenic helium loved looking astatine furnishings astatine his grandparents' house. As an avid collector, helium started selling antiques erstwhile helium was conscionable 14 years old.

The adept has worked arsenic curator of the Ken Stradling Collection successful Bristol and has a peculiar passionateness for historical architecture.

One of his favourite places to research stunning architecture is Scandinavia and helium enjoys visiting the portion whenever helium can.

He opened up astir his favourite section spots arsenic good arsenic what helium enjoys doing successful his escaped time.

Speaking to Bristol Magazine astir his favourite places to visit, helium said: "I grew up successful Somerset and person lived successful Bristol for 20 years, truthful that’s a pugnacious question.

"For Bristol, it would beryllium Somerset Street successful Kingsdown – an incredibly atmospheric thoroughfare of Georgian houses with spectacular views implicit the metropolis centre.

"In Somerset, it would person to beryllium the lighthouse connected the formation astatine Burnham-on-Sea, wherever I lived arsenic a child.

"If ever I request abstraction to deliberation thing out, I ever caput determination knowing that my mountains volition shrink to molehills the infinitesimal I arrive."

The curator besides expressed immoderate of his hobbies and interests, saying helium was yet capable to commencement speechmaking properly.

He explained: "I’ve collected books each my beingness and ain hundreds but, being precise easy distracted, I seldom got circular to speechmaking them properly.

"So I decided to usage lockdown arsenic an accidental to springiness my books immoderate attraction and amended my attraction skills astatine the aforesaid time."

Chris’s imagination Antiques Roadshow find would beryllium a enactment by creator potter Sam Haile, who helium describes arsenic 1 of the unsung heroes of British ceramics.

Antiques Roadshow airs connected BBC One connected Sundays