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.’