A Bradford-born television presenter, who started her career aged 14, is hosting a new series aiming to reinvent the antiques show format.

Anita Rani, who helped present BBC1’s news coverage of the recent Royal Wedding, has landed her own Channel 4 series, Four Rooms, which she says will tap into that moment we all love on antiques shows – when you find out how much something is worth.

Four antiques dealers bid to buy objects from members of the public. After the dealers have inspected the items, the seller then chooses who to visit, before being made an offer.

“It’s about money, greed and psychology,” said Anita, 33. “The objects aren’t necessarily antiques – we’ve got curiosities, collections, objets d’art.”

The items include Elvis Presley’s golf buggy, a slashed Francis Bacon painting, a nine-foot stuffed polar bear and a bronze bust of Hitler.

Anita, familiar to viewers as a presenter of slots on The One Show, started out with a show on Bradford’s Sunrise Radio when she was just 14.

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