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In his life and his relationship

In his life and his relationship

Darren Palmer has been a hot name in the interior design world for years. He’s been a fixture on the block for a decade, he owns his own successful business, and even his personal life is in order with a hot husband and son at home.

We take a look at how it all played out for this low-key, high-energy TV personality.

How did Darren Palmer become famous?

Darren Palmer on the set of The Block
Palmer has been on Australian television screens since 2009. Credit (instagram).

It all started with a reality TV show. After working as an interior designer for years, Palmer applied to compete on HomeMADE in 2009. The concept was similar to an early Block, with teams competing to renovate a house in five days.

Although he did not win, Palmer made it to the finals and thus secured interior design writing contracts. GQ And Home and garden magazines and was eventually approached by Channel 9 producers of The Block.

When did Darren Palmer start working on The Block?

Palmer first appeared as a guest judge on the third season of The Block in 2010. Now 46, he was a recurring judge until becoming a permanent judge in 2013.

He’s now been overseeing room reveals and block breaks for the past decade and has no plans to step away.

Darren Palmer, Shaynna Blaze and Marty Fox on the set of The Block
Darren Palmer works alongside Shaynna Blaze and Marty Fox on this season of The Block. Credit (Instagram).

What is Darren Palmer famous for?

In addition to her celebrity profile, Palmer also owns a successful interiors website selling everything from candles to rugs and art prints to gift sets.

He is also the founder of the Darren Palmer Masterseries, an accredited online interior design course and he consistently manages to fit in large scale residential and corporate projects.

But it’s not all work, work, work, and Palmer said TLC Interiors “nothing was more important” than family.

It consists of her husband, Olivier Duvillard, their son, Hugo as well as fur babies, Frankie and Razzie.

Darren Palmer at home with his husband Olivier Duvillard and their two dogs.
Darren Palmer in their Bondi home with husband Olivier Duvillard and their fur babies. Credit (Instagram).

How long has Darren Palmer been married?

Palmer and Duvillard have a fairytale romance that dates back to 2010. Palmer had just gotten out of a long-term relationship and was reluctant to date Duvillard. But the current CEO of Ultraceuticals Skincare didn’t take no for an answer, and after three attempts, Palmer finally agreed.

“For our date, we met at the gallery across the street from my office and had dinner somewhere in Bondi. I dropped him off at his place and gave him a kiss goodbye and then I knew I was in trouble,” Palmer told the website. To beautify.

Two days later he stayed at Duvillard’s and, in his own words, “never left.”

Selfie of Duvillard and Palmer.
Duvillard asked Palmer out three times before he accepted. Credit (Instagram).

Six weeks after they met, Duvillard proposed and the couple married in Cape Town in 2011 (before same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia), and then in Australia in 2017, when it was legalised.

Palmer says the success of their decade-long marriage lies in communication and having a “really good common language.”

“We spend time on our relationship, we spend time together, we spend time with our son, we spend time with ourselves – that comes way before work,” he said. 9Honey.

The couple works out together, shares a well-stocked beauty cabinet and even wears each other’s clothes.

“We share most of our clothes, except for pants. I’m too short,” Palmer said. Beauticate.

” TThe shoe collection is the most impressive thing. Olivier loves shoes. There are definitely shoes we haven’t worn for years because we had to rediscover them.

Where is Darren Palmer’s house?

Given his profession, nothing would please us more than to take a look at Palmer’s home, especially since it has been recently renovated.

Palmer and Duvillard share a house in Bondi, New South Wales, a few doors down from their friend and fellow designer Barry Du Bois of The living room.

The house was a two-story building when they moved in — a 1930s California bungalow on the ground floor with a 2010 addition upstairs. “As soon as my husband and I walked through the front door, we were like, ‘This is our home,’” Palmer said. Beautiful house.

It has since been expanded from two to three stories, with a more open design and a swimming pool at the rear.

Darren Palmer's newly renovated living room
Palmer shared photos of her newly renovated home on social media. Credit (Instagram).

The couple also own homes in Byron Bay and Hyams Beach on the New South Wales south coast.

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