CHARLIE MULLINS, 68: ROD STEWART AND MAGGIE FAN
FAMILY: Sons Scott and Samm, daughters Lucy and Alice, ten grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. EDUCATION: Left school at 15 with no qualifications. CAREER: Plumbing apprenticeship, then set up Pimlico Plumbers in 1979.
CAREER HIGH:
Receiving an OBE for services to plumbing from Prince Charles.
CAREER LOW: Almost going bust in the early 90s. FAVOURITE BOOK: Margaret Thatcher’s autobiography.
FILM: Bohemian
Rhapsody.
MUSIC: Rod Stewart. HOBBIES: Going to the gym.
BEST EVER PLUMBING JOB: ‘Working for one of my first celebrity plumbing customers, Michael Winner – I felt I had made it.’ WORST EVER
PLUMBING JOB: Climbing down a manhole to unblock an overflowing drain in the kitchen of a Knightsbridge Chinese restaurant: ‘That day, and the smell, lingers in the memory.’