Friday 25th August 2017
New study reveals what happened next for the Trotters...
Comedy TV channel Gold release research into hit British TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses revealing that Del Boy and Rodney would have struck gold if they had sold their personal and business assets in todays market
Finance expert Jasmine Birtles investigated the duos assets to reveal that the pair would be worth over £3 million today
Their three-bedroom flat in trendy Peckham would be valued at a whopping £850,000, while other assets such as the Ford Capri, three-wheeled 1967 Reliant Regal Supervan III and the garage lock up would fetch up to £55,000 in todays market
The research was specially commissioned by TV channel Gold to celebrate the channels 25th birthday and the new retrospective documentaries David Jason: My Life on Screen and The Story of Only Fools and Horses
Britains most famous TV sitcom wheeler-dealers Del Boy and Rodney would be millionaires in 2017 if they sold their personal and business assets in todays market, new research reveals today.
The study reveals that Del Boy, famous for his optimistic catchphrase this time next year, well be millionaires, along with younger brother Rodney, would be worth over £3 million today, realising their lifelong dream three times over and giving the duo the millionaire lifestyle they always desired.
Research specially commissioned by TV channel Gold to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the channel and a pair of brand new retrospective documentaries David Jason: My Life on Screen and The Story of Only Fools and Horses, reveals that the Only Fools and Horses characters would have made their fortune again by 2017, despite losing a fortune and being declared bankrupt due to bad investments in 2001.
The iconic series ended with the duo gaining and then losing a huge fortune while just managing to keep their flat thanks to a last-minute inheritance from plucky Uncle Albert
Money expert Jasmine Birtles led a team of researchers who totted up the value of all of the known Trotter brothers remaining assets. Financial boffins delved through 60 episodes of Only Fools and Horses, including all seven series from 1981 to 1991 and the Christmas specials for the research.
Del Boy and Rodneys key assets and worth are revealed by finance experts as:
Two pure cut and polished blue diamonds (cufflink size) - £1,000,000 each
The three bed-room flat in Peckham - £850,000
Del Boys lock up in Peckham (Trotters Garage) - £25,000
Dels classic Ford Capri - £25,000
The three-wheeled 1967 Reliant Regal Supervan III - £5,000
Dels Gold D 9 carat necklace - £469
Grandads silver cigarette case from the Zulu War - £150
Dels 1981 Casio wrist watch - £150
Uncle Alberts service medals Star of Italy and Atlantic Star - £57
Inheritance of £145,000 each (£290k) - inland revenue bill of £48,754 - £241,246
TOTAL: £3,097,069
The Trotter brothers three-bedroom flat in Peckham would be valued at £850,000, as the area has become one of Londons trendiest and most desirable places to live. Assets such as the Ford Capri, three-wheeled 1967 Reliant Regal Supervan III and the garage lock up would fetch up to £55,000 in todays market.
Episode To Hull and Back also revealed the duo to be in possession of two absolutely clean, cut blue diamonds, following the pair smuggling thirty diamonds from Amsterdam to Hull, England. While the brothers were arrested by the police, Dels foresight of swapping his cats eye cufflinks for the diamonds saw them scupper off with the two rare stones.
An expert from the luxury and prestigious jewellery store Aspreys revealed that in todays market the diamonds be worth at least a whopping £2 million in total - exposing that the twosome were millionaires all along.
Finance guru Birtles who led the TV channel Gold study said:
If you look at all the accumulated assets Del Boy and Rodney had over the seven series of Only Fools and Horses they would be millionaires today and living the luxury lifestyle they always aspired to.
A three-bedroom flat in Peckham would be worth a fortune in todays market, as the area is fast becoming one of Londons most desirable neighbourhoods. Their other assets such as the lock up, the three-wheeled van and Ford Capri would all fetch a tasty figure if put up for sale.
The most astonishing finding from the research has to be the discovery of the two blue diamonds owned by Del Boy, which would be worth at least £1 million apiece if put up for auction today.
The findings suggest that the duo would have lived happily ever after despite the bankruptcy which followed shortly after they become Millionaires by auctioning a pocket watch at Sothebys for £6.2 million (in the 1996 episode Time on Our Hands).
The new study also surveyed 2,000 Brits to reveal which of the duos hare-brained money-making schemes would have actually been viable business ventures.
Over a third of (38%) Brits voted the Trotter brothers Peckham Spring Water as the number one business idea, clearly seeing Del Boys ability to predict the boom of the health food industry and tapping into the current trend of consumers buying locally sourced food and drink.
Of those surveyed, the majority (34%) said that Peckham Spring Water was the business idea that would most likely make the Trotter brothers millionaires in 2017.
Trotters Canine Welfare and Pop-Up Telescopic Christmas Trees business could have also been a flier in todays fast paced and time poor society according to three in ten Brits (34/30%).
Celebrating the channels 25th birthday, Gold general manager Steve North said,
Del Boy always dreamed of being a millionaire and our research reveals that in todays market his personal and business assets would have made him a mint.
We delved into one of Britains best loved shows to reveal some hidden gems about the Trotter brot
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