Esme Younger is again on our screens for the brand new collection of The Nice British Stitching Bee, which sees beginner sewers compete to impress the style designer and her fellow choose, Patrick Grant, in a bid to be topped Britain’s most sensational seamster.

Whereas followers of the present have beloved watching Esme on their screens since she joined in season 4, how a lot have you learnt about her life away from the cameras? This is all we all know…

Who’s Esme Younger?

Esme is a clothier and tv presenter, who joined the fact programme in 2016. 

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Within the Seventies, Esme, together with fellow vogue designers Judy Dewsbury, Melanie Herberfield, and Willie Walters, based a store in Camden City known as Swanky Modes. 

The label shortly rose to prominence due to superstars Grace Jones and Cher favouring their designs, with their garments showing in magazines and newspapers comparable to Vogue, Nova, Honey, The Sunday Occasions and the V&A Little Black Costume Guide. Their designs have additionally been photographed by famend photographers, together with Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Nick Knight, John Swannell, Neil Kirk.

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Esme, 74, has made costumes for numerous Hollywood movies, including The Seashore, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Romeo & Juliet and Trainspotting.

In an interview with RTE, she revealed that Renee Zellweger’s iconic Tarts and Vicars celebration bunny costume was certainly one of her creations.

“Renee wished the bunny outfit to be tighter as a result of her character wasn’t skinny,” she mentioned, explaining her thought course of behind the outfit. “She actually wished a cleavage, so the costume pushed her breasts up. She might hardly sit down in it as a result of it was so tight.”

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Is Esme Younger married? 

Esme likes to maintain her residence life out of the highlight, and so it isn’t recognized whether or not she is married or has any kids. 

The presenter does have an enormous household, nonetheless, and is the second of 5 kids. She was born in Bedford to folks Brian Pashley Younger and Patricia Josephine Cole. Her father was a profession officer within the RAF, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1944, a Commander of the identical order in 1960, and a Commander of the Order of the Tub in 1972.  Her mom was a secretary who labored as a nurse throughout the Second World Warfare.

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Esme resides in London and has lived in social housing since 1983 – in a one-bedroom flat in Islington, north London, which is rented from the charitable housing belief Peabody. Talking about her residence to The Telegraph final yr, she mentioned: “It’s hire managed and I’ve tenure for the remainder of my life. I additionally personal a seashore hut on the north Kent coast which I purchased for £500 a few years in the past.”

When requested if she has any plans to retire, she mentioned: “I am going to should maintain working till I drop as a result of I haven’t got a non-public pension. I believe my household would assist out if I bought into actual monetary difficulties.”

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