Local couple revealed as mystery tv bidders

Published on 4th September 2008 in News

TV programmes Good bid, good buy mystery buyer.......may be a mystery to the rest of the country, but Pink Driving School instructor, Kelly Lambert (pictured with her daughter, Summer) is no mystery girl to residents in Rawcliffe Bridge.

A Rawcliffe Bridge couple have been revealed as the mystery bidders who snatched a Hull property from under the noses of would-be developers in a recent episode of the ITV show 'Good bid, good buy'.

Kelly Lambert (33) revealed that she and her husband, Thomas, successfully bought the house in the Anlaby Road area of the city in an auction shown at the end of the programme, although their identities were not revealed.

Kelly, who lives in Paper Mill Road with Thomas and their one-year-old daughter, Summer, explained: "It was the first time we had bought anything at auction, but we would definitely do it again and are now considering further investment opportunities.

"The show gets developers to look at a house and say what they would do with it. However, we had also been to view the house and were bidding for it against the developers when it came up for auction. At the end of the programme, they just said that it had been sold to a 'mystery bidder', which was us!"

The auction and home makeover show, which is presented by property experts Clare Reid and Michael Holmes, guides developers in their search for a suitable property and through the auction process.

In the recently televised episode featuring the house bought by Kelly and Thomas, viewers saw two prospective developers talking about their ideas only to lose out to an unidentified 'mystery' bidder when the property was auctioned.

The auction actually took place in January of this year, when Kelly and Thomas snapped up the house as an investment opportunity. They have since let it out to tenants.