Mike Melody Wikipedia, Age, Wife, Dickinson’s Real Deal, Illness

Mike Melody Biography – Mike Melody Wiki

Mike Melody is an antiques dealer and the owner of Mike Melody Antiques. He is well known for his work as a TV antiques expert, starting in the early 1980s on ‘The Antiques Show’ with Jill Dando and then on popular shows such as ‘Going for a Song’, ‘Dickinson’s Real Deal’ and ‘Secret Dealers’.

Mike and his wife, Margaret Melody, have been in the antiques and vintage business since the early 1970s. They established Mike Melody Antiques, an antiques business based in the North of England, in 1977. The couple had one of the biggest export /retail antiques shops in the north of England, Melody Antique Galleries, Chester, from 1977 to 2001. The antique dealers sold the business in 2001 and retired. However, the retirement only lasted for 6 months.

Mike now operates at major fairs. With over 50 years in the antiques trade, his selection of antiques is based on originality, colour & patination. Melody Antiques is a member of LAPADA, the largest professional trade association of art & antiques dealers in the UK.

Mike Melody Age

TV antiques dealer Mike Melody was born in Chester, England.

Mike Melody Wife

Dickinson’s Real Deal antiques expert Mike Melody is married to his wife Margaret Melody. They have been in antiques and vintage business since 1977.

Mike Melody Family

Mike Melody and his wife, Margaret Melody, have a daughter, Victoria Melody, an award-winning performance artist and former Miss Brighton. Vic was Miss Brighton 2011 and 2012 [for her show Hair Peace which she performed at Brighton Dome].

Mike Melody Illness

In 2013, Mike Melody was diagnosed with a terminal illness – Motor Neurone Disease – and given five years to live. His daughter Victoria Melody was given the terrible responsibility of organising his funeral (complete with eulogies, a New Orleans jazz procession and a congregation dressed in Blackpool FC tangerine). A year later, however, doctors realised they had misdiagnosed him.

Victoria and Mike went ahead with the funeral anyway in the form of a father-daughter show, Ugly Chief, and Victoria went to Port Talbot to train as a funeral director. Ugly Chief plays out two funerals – the one Victoria planned and the one her dad really wanted. And Mike is guest of honour at both. As the show unfolds, it unpicks the complicated relationship with a parent whose opinion you don’t always agree with.

Mike Melody Dickinson’s Real Deal

Mike Melody is an antiques expert on Dickinson’s Real Deal, presented by David Dickinson.