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Privacy NoticeJoanna Hardy, a familiar face on Antiques Roadshow, is known for her expertise in jewellery. She’s been with the show for 17 years, valuing precious and sentimental items that often prove to be worth quite a bit. The BBC series regularly welcomes new guests, each bringing intriguing items for appraisal. The constant factor is the team of seasoned experts ready to evaluate these cherished possessions. Naturally, viewers are curious about Joanna’s life off-camera when she’s not assessing the value of jewellery.
Despite her long stint on the show, fans don’t know an awful lot about her personal life
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Joanna Hardy, an expert on Antiques Roadshow, tends to keep her personal life private and seldom discusses her family. However, it’s known that she lives in London with her Australian husband Craig, thought to be in his late 50s, and their fox red labrador named Merlot, reports the Mirror. The length of their marriage isn’t clear, but Joanna has previously mentioned that they met while she was travelling from Sydney to Cape York in Australia. At the time, Craig was working as a park ranger, and Joanna was part of the Girl Guides, as reported by Action Pack Travel. Who is Antiques Roadshow expert Joanna Hardy married to? She shared a captivating story from her 1990s adventures in Australia, where she travelled with three men in a Chevy truck, one of whom would later become her husband. Recounting a memorable fishing trip in the mangrove swamps, she said: “We would tie – ended up being my husband but at the time it was just a mate – and he would be tying red string on the trees because when you would come back on the waterways you’d get completely lost because it would look very different on your return. “So we would follow our red ribbons on the way back so that we could find our truck.”
Joanna Hardy has over 35 years of experience in the jewellery industry
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She also recounted a terrifying incident during a storm, where she had to seek help for Craig and his friends who were stranded. “I just thought, oh my goodness, I was stuck on Punsand Bay on my own in this truck. So I drove off to the nearest Aboriginal outpost and raised an alarm that there were three young men in a rubber ducky bobbing about somewhere in the Torres Strait in a storm. So in the morning, they did send out search parties and they did actually find them. “They managed to just get to the corner of Thursday Island in the mangrove swamps, which was full of crocodiles… They had to keep a fire going to ward off all the crocodiles… On their return to the beach, that’s when Craig and I ran towards each other and embraced. Anyway, he’s now my husband, so there’s that.”Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnAntiques Roadshow
