Charlie Mullins may be the self-styled “most famous plumber in the world” but after just five minutes in his company, we realise there’s a lot more to him than his ability to fix a leaky pipe and service a boiler. The 70-year-old businessman made headlines back in 2021 when he sold Pimlico Plumbers, the company he’d started at the age of 27, for a whopping £145 million. His is a classic rags-to-riches tale. Having spent his early years in Camden, north London, “back when it was a dump”, he moved to the Rockingham council estate in Elephant and Castle. By the age of 10, he was bunking off school to help a local plumber, Bill. Charlie, who got paid 10p a day, says he worked in big houses, “the likes of which I’d never been in before”, and this undoubtedly inspired him to work hard and make something of himself. Fast-forward a few years and an ambitious Charlie, who left school at 15 without any qualifications, had set up Pimlico Plumbers in a London estate agent’s basement. The rest, as they say, is history and when we meet Charlie, he’s relaxing in the kitchen area of his stunning £10 million London penthouse with his fiancée Raquel Reno.
