Most people on daytime television are presenters who learned a subject. Christina Trevanion is the other way round. She trained at Christie’s, went home to Shropshire, started her own auction house from nothing, and only then ended up on the BBC. When she prices a lot in four seconds on Bargain Hunt, that is not a script. That is a working managing partner who does this every week of her life.

Christina Trevanion: Quick Facts

Full name	Christina Helen Johanne Trevanion, née Bebbington
Born	12 June 1981
Age	45
Nationality	British
School	Bishop Heber High School, Malpas, Cheshire
University	Southampton Solent University
Early career	Christie’s
Own firm	Trevanion Auctioneers and Valuers, Whitchurch, Shropshire
Co-founded with	Aaron Dean
Role	Managing partner, auctioneer and valuer
Main shows	Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip, Flog It!, The Travelling Auctioneers
Family	Married, two daughters

Who Is Christina Trevanion?

Christina Helen Johanne Trevanion, born Bebbington on 12 June 1981, is 45 and one of the most familiar faces in British antiques television. She is a working auctioneer and valuer, and the managing partner of her own firm in Shropshire. Viewers know her from BBC daytime, but the saleroom is the day job. She is one of the core group profiled in our guide to the UK antiques TV experts, and among the most qualified of them.

From Cheshire to Christie’s

She was educated at Bishop Heber High School in Malpas, Cheshire, and went on to Southampton Solent University. Her early career was at Christie’s, which is about as serious a training ground as the art and antiques world offers. Working at a major international auction house teaches you cataloguing discipline, condition reporting and the difference between what something is worth and what somebody will pay. She then did something far braver than staying.

Founding Her Own Auction House

She left the safety of a global name and founded Trevanion Auctioneers and Valuers in Whitchurch, Shropshire, originally with Aaron Dean. Starting a regional saleroom from scratch is a genuinely risky thing to do. You need premises, insurance, a client base, cataloguing systems and enough consignments to make an auction viable, all before a single hammer falls. She is now its managing partner, which means the business risk is hers.

What a Regional Saleroom Actually Does

A firm like hers handles probate valuations, house clearances, insurance valuations and general sales, which is a very different business from a London specialist. You are dealing with families, often at difficult moments, sorting through a lifetime of accumulated objects. Most of it is worth very little and occasionally something is worth a great deal. Telling the difference kindly and accurately, in somebody’s front room, is the actual skill.

Her Television Work

She has appeared across the BBC antiques output: Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and Flog It!. She also presents The Travelling Auctioneers alongside Will Kirk and JJ Chalmers, a format commissioned in 2021 in which items are restored and then sold. That range means she has done almost every job the genre offers, from competing expert to lead presenter.

The Travelling Auctioneers

The Travelling Auctioneers is the most interesting thing she does, because it adds restoration to valuation. Members of the public bring items with sentimental value, the team restores them, and then they go to auction. It answers the question every antiques show provokes: what if you actually fixed the thing first? It also puts her in the position of managing expectations, because a restored object does not always sell for what its owner hoped.

How Old Is Christina Trevanion?

She was born on 12 June 1981, so she turned 45 in June 2026. You may see 44 quoted on some sites, which simply means the page has not been updated since before her birthday. That is a common problem with age listings online and a good reason to look for a birth date rather than a number. We give the date so you can check the arithmetic yourself rather than trusting us.

Her Family Life

Christina is married and has two daughters. She has not made her family a feature of her public work, and there is very little on record beyond that, which is a boundary worth respecting rather than working around. Balancing a working saleroom, a filming schedule and small children is a genuinely demanding combination, and one that a great many people watching daytime television will recognise from their own lives.

Why Auctioneering Suits Television

The job is built for the format. An auction has a clock, a number and a winner, all of which television needs and most jobs lack. Add an expert who can explain why a piece matters, and you have a programme. It is the same structure that makes the Bangers and Cash cast work on the classic car side, and why Mathewsons Classic Cars turned a Yorkshire saleroom into appointment viewing.

What Is Her Net Worth?

No verified figure exists, and we will not offer one. She is managing partner of a private auction firm and a working television presenter, neither of which publishes individual earnings. Sites quoting precise sums are extrapolating from nothing. What is genuinely verifiable is more useful anyway: she owns and runs an auction house, which is a real asset built over years, not a number somebody guessed. The same caution applies to Derek Mathewson.

Women in the Auction Room

That has changed enormously. British auctioneering was, for a very long time, an overwhelmingly male profession, particularly at the rostrum. Christina running her own firm, alongside a generation of women now leading valuations on national television, has shifted who a general audience pictures when they think of an auctioneer. That matters for recruitment into a trade that badly needs new entrants.

Where to See Her

She appears regularly across BBC One and BBC Two daytime, with large back catalogues on BBC iPlayer, and her firm holds its own sales in Shropshire. If you want to see what she actually does rather than the televised version, a regional auction is open to anyone and free to attend. Watching a real saleroom for an hour teaches you more about value than a month of watching the programmes.

Probate and the Difficult Valuations

A large slice of a regional saleroom’s work is probate: valuing a household after somebody has died, for inheritance tax and for the family. It is delicate work. Relatives often believe an item is precious because a parent treasured it, and the market frequently disagrees. Delivering that news accurately without being cold is a skill nobody teaches. It is the part of the job that never appears on daytime television, and it is probably the part that matters most.

What Sells at a Shropshire Saleroom

A regional sale is nothing like a glossy London specialist auction. One lot might be a box of assorted kitchenware for fifteen pounds; three lots later something genuinely rare appears because nobody in the family realised what it was. That unpredictability is exactly what makes auctions addictive for buyers, and it is the same appeal that fills the room at Mathewsons Classic Cars and every dealing show from Pawn Stars onwards.

Advice for First-Time Auction Buyers

If watching her has tempted you to bid, a few rules save money. View in person if you can, because photographs hide damage. Read the condition report and assume anything unmentioned is a problem. Work out your absolute limit before the lot comes up and write it down, because rooms have a way of talking people past it. And remember the buyer’s premium and VAT on top. The hammer price is never the price you pay.

Final Thoughts

Christina Trevanion is 45, trained at Christie’s, built her own auction house in Shropshire and then became one of the most recognisable valuers on British television, in roughly that order. That order is the point. Nobody handed her the expertise for a television role. She had it first, and the cameras followed. Watch her price something and you are watching two decades of practice.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Christina Trevanion?

She was born on 12 June 1981, which makes her 45 as of August 2026. Some sites still list 44, which is simply out of date.

What is Christina Trevanion’s auction house?

Trevanion Auctioneers and Valuers in Whitchurch, Shropshire. She originally founded the firm with Aaron Dean and is its managing partner.

Did Christina Trevanion work at Christie’s?

Yes. She worked at Christie’s early in her career before leaving to establish her own auction business in Shropshire.

Which TV shows is Christina Trevanion on?

Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip, Flog It!, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, and she presents The Travelling Auctioneers.

Is Christina Trevanion married?

Yes, she is married and has two daughters. She keeps her family life largely out of her public work.

What is Christina Trevanion’s net worth?

No verified figure exists. Her auction firm is private and presenter pay is not disclosed, so published estimates are guesses.

Disclaimer: This article is for general information and is not valuation advice. Biographical details are drawn from published reference sources and broadcaster credits. We do not publish estimated net worth figures where no verified source exists.