How Bobby George built stunning dart-shaped mansion with 18 bedrooms and three fishing lakes
DARTS icon Bobby George paid homage to the sport he loves when he built his 18-bedroom mansion over 30 years ago.
The King of Bling, 80, constructed his huge home in Ardleigh, a village in Essex, and still lives there now.
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Bobby George built his mansion in the shape of a dart flightCredit: YouTube
He boasts three fishing lakes on the 12-acre groundsCredit: YouTube
George’s sprawling house is unmistakably shaped like a dart flight – a clear nod to his successful career on the exhibition circuit.
The former builder also boasts a pub-style entertainment space, including a bar and snooker table, plus three fishing lakes on the 12-acre grounds.
But George actually wanted his statement home, which he named George Hall, to be bigger.
The two-time BDO World Darts Championship runner-up initially hoped for there to be 28 BEDROOMS before planning authorities warned it would be “over the top”.
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George, who constructed the mansion himself, previously told BBC that he “overdid it” with his original blueprints.
The retired thrower said: “I was younger, and I didn’t have any fear. I built a bathroom first so we could use a bathroom, then a bedroom and a kitchen.
“I finished them and then I finished room after room after room.”
George also keeps a strange souvenir in his home along with plenty of darts memorabilia – his own AMPUTATED toe.
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The keen fisherman had several toes amputated in 1999 due to a painful genetic deformity and kept one in a jar filled with vodka in his bar.
George told SunSport: “It don’t take long to cut your toe off. I watched them do it.
“What they do, they get your toe and they cut round here [the base], right the way round with a scalpel.
“They put a tourniquet on so there’s no blood. Then they cut it down and peel the skin back.
“Then they get, I’ll never forget, like a big pair of nail cutters.
“And they went, boing, ding, it comes off. And then they sew the skin up.
George keeps an amputated toe at his barCredit: The Sun
He is a keen fishermanCredit: YouTube
George is known as the King of BlingCredit: Getty
“He wouldn’t give me the stuff to preserve it. It’s deadly poison, so I can’t do that. I put it in vodka. Been in vodka 26 years.
“It’s curled up a little bit, I think it’s p****d by now.”
George won the prestigious News of the World title in 1979 and 1986, while he was also crowned Essex Masters champion three times.
