She has 500 pairs of shoes, 180 handbags and drives a Rolls meet Cheshire’s latest Housewife
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SHE drives a Rolls Royce, owns 500 pairs of shoes and says that “Cheshire is quite pretentious”. This is Ester Dee - the new Real Housewife of Cheshire about to totter onto our TV screens and seriously ruffle feathers among the glamorous stars of the hit show.
Statuesque Czech-born blonde Ester will make her TV debut in the new fifth series of the Real Housewives of Cheshire, which launches on Monday on ITVBe.
She loves to drive around in her Rolls Royce to “check out the competition” in Wilmslow and Hale, has a collection of 180 handbags and 500 pairs of shoes - but says she keeps them all in boxes for fear of damaging any of them.
Flexible Ester can also put both her legs behind her head, says she fancies Dawn Ward’s ex-footballer husband Ashley and has hit back at former Real Housewife Magali Gorre for calling her “more Geordie Shore than Golden Triangle.”
The glamorous full-time mum, 32, is a real chatterbox, and her fellow Real Housewives are apparently struggling to get a word in edgeways when she is about.
She says: “When people see a nice car, they assume it’s going to be a man driving, so it’s refreshing if you get a woman in there.
“I love Cheshire that way. It’s the cars, it’s the flash, it’s the fashion. I love going out in Wilmslow in my Rolls Royce because you get noticed. “If you make sure you look nice, people respond nice, they talk to you nicely, you get a better table. “If I go to Hale Barns, if I wasn’t me, I wouldn’t get a nice table. People engage better with you if you have better things on you. Cheshire is quite pretentious in a way. It’s a good honey pot place. Compared to London it’s got bigger money, bigger places. Cheshire is brilliant for football players, big game players. If you want to do it big, move to Cheshire.” But who is Ester Dee? Born in the Czech Republic as Ester Dohnalova (Dee is her shortened version of that name), she moved to England in 2003 with just £40 in her pocket to start a new life. She became an au pair in London before meeting her partner, Rob Lloyd, 53, in 2008. The couple became an item in 2012 and now have a two-year-old daughter, Bertie, together. Rob, who enjoyed TV fame himself when he appeared on Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire in 2009, also has three grown-up children from two previous marriages.
Rob proposed to Ester with a replica of Princess Diana’s engagement ring by the canal in Chester, where they had previously lived together. But they’ve since moved to a Georgian mansion in Macclesfield, to allow room for Ester’s mother Zdenka, 49, to move it to help look after Bertie.
Ester says: “I’m a full time mother and housewife. It’s a very hard job, my nails get dirty sometimes. I find it amazing the other girls run so many businesses and exercise, I don’t know how they do it. I have a cleaner at home.”
By all accounts, Ester caused quite a stir when she was introduced to the other Real Housewives, Dawn Ward, Leanne Brown, Tanya Bardsley, Ampika Pickston, Lauren Simon, Seema Malhotra and Stacey Forsey, for the first time in January - the first time any of them had ever met her.
But Ester had heard about former Real Housewife Magali Gorre’s comments about her and it is the only time during our conversation you can see the steel behind her eyes.
She says: “I would like to send Magalli a message. I can fit in London, I can fit in Essex, I can fit in Newcastle and I can fit in Cheshire. I’m very flexible, I can put two legs behind my head, and if she can do that, she can come meet me. It was very unfair and I feel very hurt.”
The Real Housewives of Cheshire, ITVBe, on Monday at 10pm.
I love Cheshire that way. It’s the cars, it’s the flash, it’s the fashion Ester Dee