This time right now they’d be millionaires
WHERE IT ALL COMES FROM IS NO LONGER A MYSTERY FOR ONLY FOOLS DUO
LOVELY jubbly – Only Fools and Horses pair Del Boy and Rodney would be millionaires in today’s market, new research has revealed.
Wheeler-dealer Del Boy and dim-witted Rodney’s get- rich- quick schemes made the sitcom a huge hit.
Now a finance expert has concluded that the duo, played by Sir David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, would today be worth over £3million.
Their three-bedroom flat in Peckham – now one of London’s most trendy hotspots – would fetch £850,000.
The duo’s Ford Capri, threewheeled 1967 Reliant Regal and lock-up garage would together be worth £55,000.
And Del Boy had quietly trousered two cut blue diamonds worth £1million each today.
Del Boy was famous for the catchphrase: “This time next year, we’ll be millionaires.”
The show ended with the pair gaining then losing a fortune on a pocket watch but managing to keep their flat thanks to an inheritance from Uncle Albert.
Researchers watched 60 episodes of Only Fools and Horses to work out what Del and Rodders would be worth now.
In To Hull and Back, the pair tried to smuggle 30 diamonds from Amsterdam to Hull.
Although they were arrested, Del swapped his cat’s- eye cufflinks for two of the gems.
Finance expert Jasmine Birtles said: “If you look at all the accumulated assets Del Boy and Rodney had over the seven series of Only Fools and Horses, they would be living the luxury lifestyle they always aspired to.”
A survey of 2000 fans suggested Peckham Spring Water was the duo’s best business idea, predicting the trend for locallysourced food and drink.
TV comedy channel Gold commissioned the research to celebrate their 25th birthday.